List of Famous people born in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, Ukraine
Olga Kurylenko
Olga Konstiantinivna Kurylenko is a Ukrainian and French actress and model. She was discovered as a model in Moscow at the age of 13. She moved to Paris to pursue a modelling career at the age of 16 and started her acting career in 2005. She found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the film adaptation of the video game Hitman (2007), and then mainstream prominence with the role of Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008). More recently she starred in Stephen S. Campanelli's Momentum (2015), Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013), with Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner (2014), alongside Rowan Atkinson in the spy comedy film Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) and The Room (2019).
Aleksandr Panayotov
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Panayotov is a Ukrainian and Russian pop musician and songwriter who has recorded two albums.
Miroslava Karpovich
Miroslava Olegovna Karpovich is a Russian actress and model. She is best known for her role as Maria Vasnetsova in Daddy's Daughters.
Gosha Kutsenko
Yuriy Georgiyevich Kutsenko, better known as Gosha Kutsenko, is a Russian actor, producer, singer, poet, and screenwriter. In 2008, he joined the United Russia political party. Kutsenko has appeared in high-profile films such as Mama Don't Cry, Antikiller, Night Watch, Lubov-Morkov, and Echelon Conspiracy.
Evhen Cherniak
Evgeny Chernyak is a businessman, listed on Forbes TOP-100, head of the supervisory board of the holding Global Spirits, owner of the brand Khortytsia.
Victoria Bulitko
Victoria Bulitko (Ukrainian: Булітко Вікторія Сергіївна; born 25 January 1983) is a Ukrainian film, television and theater actress.
Vitaliy Vernydub
Vitaliy Vernydub is a professional Ukrainian football defender.
Sergey Glazyev
Sergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, advisor to the president of the Russian Federation on regional economic integration, member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, and, since 2008, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Glazyev was the minister of Foreign Economic Relations in Yeltsin's cabinet and the only member of the Russian government to resign in protest of President Yeltsin's abolition of the Parliament and the Constitution in 1993. Glazyev was a member of the State Duma in 1993-2007, a candidate for the Presidency of the Russian Federation in 2004, and one of the leaders of the electoral block Rodina in 2003-2004.
Yevhen Khacheridi
Yevhen Hryhorovych Khacheridi is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Brest.
Estas Tonne
Estas Tonne is a musician who describes himself as a "modern day troubadour".