List of Famous people born in Ukraine

Mykhailo Koval is a Colonel General of Ukraine who until 2014 worked in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. During the 2014 Crimea crisis he was appointed as the Minister of Defence replacing Admiral Ihor Tenyukh who resigned.

Ihor Petrovych Palytsia is a Ukrainian businessmen and politician. From May 2014 till May 2015 he worked as Governor of Odessa Oblast. In November 2015 Palytsia was elected chairman of the Volyn Oblast regional parliament. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia won a seat as an independent candidate. In parliament he joined the For the Future faction.

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Koval is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant coach in Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.

Mikhail Ivanovich Davydov is a Russian doctor and medical scientist. He has received the Russian State Prize Laureate, is an Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Director of the Russian Cancer Research Center, member of the Presidium and Academician of RAS, member and President of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Vadim Perelman is a Ukrainian-born Canadian-American film director. Perelman made his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with House of Sand and Fog, following a successful career as a commercial director. The film, nominated for three Academy Awards, also marks his first screenplay credit. Perelman was drawn to the story, having been shaped by his own immigrant experience.

Ihor Markov is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the Rodina Party and is a former deputy of Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions faction. Markov is wanted in Ukraine in connection with riots in Odessa that took place on 2 September 2007. He was arrested in Italy's Sanremo in August 2015. In February 2016 Italy refused Markov's extradition to Ukraine.

Anna Safroncik is a Ukrainian-born Italian actress and model.

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Ekaterina Yurevna Gubareva is a former minister of foreign affairs of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and wife of Pavel Gubarev.

Yuriy Vilyovych Maksymov is a Ukrainian football coach of Vorskla Poltava and a former midfielder. His career achievements saw him inducted into the Viktor Leonenko Hall of Fame in March 2012.