List of Famous people born in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine
Anatoly Lysenko
Anatoly Grigorievich Lysenko is a Soviet and Russian television figure, journalist, director, producer. Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. July 18, 2012 was appointed general director of the Public Television of Russia.
Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker was a Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the more popular entertainers in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. She was known by the nickname "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas".
Dmytro Shurov
Dmytro Shurov (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ І́горович Шу́ров; born 31 October 1981) is a Ukrainian pianist and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Pianoboy and as a judge on the Ukrainian X-Factor since the eighth season. He was a pianist in the bands Okean Elzy (2001–2004), Esthetic Education (2004–2008) and Zemfira (2006–2009).
Ion Lazarevich Degen
Ion Lazarevich Degen was a Soviet and Israeli writer, doctor and medical scientist in the field of orthopedics and traumatology. During World War II he served in the armoured troops of the Red Army. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1973.
Andriy Teteruk
Andriy Anatoliyovych Teteruk is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Myrotvorets battalion. In September 2014, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class. Representing People's Front, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Volodymyr Yavorivsky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky was a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician.
Emil Gorovets
Rahmil "Emil" Yacovlevich Gorovets was a famous Soviet Ukrainian singer of Jewish origin, Gorovets standing for Horovitz in Russian. Gorovets' voice in between a tenor and baritone, was bright and had lush tonal coloration and emotional interpretations. Besides his hits in Russian, Ukrainian and Yiddish, he was also known to sing European and American famous hits in Russian.
Anatoliy Matviyenko
Anatoliy Matviyenko was a Ukrainian politician, founder of several political parties in the country. Matviyenko was 6 times elected to the Ukrainian parliament.
Sam Carr
Sam Carr was an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labor-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born Schmil Kogan in Tomashpil, Ukraine in 1906 and immigrated to Canada in 1924, living in Winnipeg and Regina before settling in Montreal in 1925. Carr became an organizer for the Young Communist League with Fred Rose.
Jacobo Timerman
Jacobo Timerman, was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.