List of Famous people born in Ukraine

Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.

Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown into space three times and has lived on board the Mir and the International Space Station. He has also conducted two career spacewalks. Although he retired on July 15, 2001, he continued his employment by a special contract until Soyuz TM-34 concluded. Since 2004 to May 2009, Gidzenko was the Director of the 3rd department within the TsPK. Since May 2009 he serves as the Deputy Chief of Cosmonaut Training Center TsPK.

Alicja Grześkowiak is a Polish politician who served as Marshal of the Senate of Poland from 21 October 1997 to 18 October 2001. She graduated with a law degree from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 1971, and followed that up with an internship at the University of Rome. In 1990, she became a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. The following year she returned to Nicolaus Copernicus University as a professor, and also stayed on at the Catholic University, teaching in their law department until 2010.

Iana Salenko is a Ukrainian-German ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer at the Berlin State Ballet.