List of Famous people born in Ukraine
Oleh Nemchinov
Oleh Mykolayovych Nemchinov is a Ukrainian civil servant and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Iryna Koliadenko
Iryna Volodymyrivna Koliadenko is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Ihor Yukhnovskyi
Ihor Yukhnovskyi is a Ukrainian physicist and politician, and a member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.
Sergey Bocharnikov
Sergey Vadimovich Bocharnikov is a Belarusian biathlete who competes internationally.
Olha Bohomolets
Olha Bohomolets, MD is a Ukrainian physician, singer and songwriter, Honoured Doctor of Ukraine, the founder and chief doctor of the Institute of Dermatology and Cosmetology.
Yuriy Stets
Yuriy Yaroslavovych Stets is a Ukrainian journalist and politician. He was appointed to the post of Minister of Information Policy at the formation of the Second Yatsenyuk Government on 2 December 2014. He resigned one year later because he felt he had "met all the targets". He withdrew his letter of resignation on 4 February 2016, and continued in the post. On 31 May 2017 Stets wrote a letter of resignation for health reasons and went on sick leave the same day. Eventually Stets stayed on as Minister until on 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government was installed. This government abolished the whole Ministry of Information Policy altogether.
Pavlo Lazarenko
Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko is a former Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister who in August 2006 was convicted and sentenced to prison in the United States for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion. According to United Nations, approximately US$200 million was embezzled by Lazarenko during 1996–97 from the government of Ukraine.
Artem Putivtsev
Artem Putivtsev is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza.
Joel Bolomboy
Joel Bolomboy is a Russian professional basketball player for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats, where he was named Big Sky Conference Player of the Year in 2016. He was born in Ukraine but received Russian citizenship in 2018.
Roman Sushchenko
Roman Sushchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and artist. He was arrested in Russia on spying charges in 2016 and sentenced in 2018; his detention and sentence have been criticized by a number of Ukrainian and international agencies. Sushchenko was released in September 2019.