List of Famous people born in Ukraine

Oleksandr Petriv is a Ukrainian Olympic shooter. He won a gold medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Igor Rodnianski is an American mathematician at the Princeton University. He works in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and general relativity.

Pavel Cebanu is a former Moldovan football (soccer) player. He spent his entire career, from 1973 to 1985, at the Moldovan side FC Nistru Chişinău. He was captain for many years and played 341 games scoring 45 goals.

Yuri Nikitin is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban is an Olympic gold medal winning former world number one Ukrainian archer.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kirichenko is a Ukrainian track cyclist. He won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics, competing for the Soviet Union.

Mirosław Hermaszewski is a former Polish cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and retired Polish Air Force officer. He became the first, and to this day remains the only, Polish national in space when he flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978. He was the 89th human to reach outer space.