List of Famous people born in Ukraine
Nataliya Dobrynska
Nataliya Dobrynska is a retired Ukrainian heptathlete. She is the 2008 Olympic champion and also holds the heptathlon best in the shot put. Her indoor pentathlon best of 5013 points is the world record for the event.
Ruslan Pidgornyy
Ruslan Pidhornyy is a Ukrainian professional road bicycle racer, who competed most recently for UCI ProTeam Vacansoleil–DCM. He was born in Vinnytsia.
Volodymyr Dyudya
Volodymyr Dyudya is a Ukrainian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for the Gan Su Sports Lottery Cycling Team. He competes on both road and track. He was born in Bila Tserkva.
Evgeny Bazhanov
Evgeny Petrovich Bazhanov, in Russian: Евгений Петрович Бажанов is the President of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Russian political scientist, historian, lecturer, writer and diplomat.
Volodymyr Ohryzko
Volodymyr Stanislavovych Ohryzko is a Ukrainian diplomat. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine from December 18, 2007 to March 3, 2009, when he was fired by the Ukrainian Parliament. On March 17, 2009 Ohryzko was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council by President Viktor Yushchenko.
Lesya Kalytovska
Lesya Mykhailivna Kalytovska is a Ukrainian professional racing cyclist. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's points race, and the women's individual pursuit, winning a bronze medal in the later. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the national team.
Joel Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics.
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who won a gold medal for the 100-metre relay and a silver medal for the 100-metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was named "Canadian woman athlete of the half-century" in 1949, and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis. She was named Canada's Female Athlete of the First Half-Century (1900–1950). She also was called Bobbie for her "bobbed" haircut. The Bobbie Rosenfeld Award is named in her honour. She was also inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Volodymyr Khandohiy
Volodymyr Dmytrovych Khandohiy is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. Khandohiy was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for six months in 2009.
José Maurer
José Maurer was an Israeli-Argentine actor. He was regarded as one of the greatest figures in Yiddish theatre.