List of Famous people born in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Berl Repetur was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.

Yisrael Kargman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and its successors between 1957 and 1977.

Yitzhak Berman was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1980 until 1981.

Jo Swerling was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter.

Aaron David Gordon, more commonly known as A. D. Gordon, was a Zionist ideologue and the spiritual force behind practical Zionism and Labor Zionism. He founded Hapoel Hatzair, a movement that set the tone for the Zionist movement for many years to come. Influenced by Leo Tolstoy and others, it is said that in effect he made a religion of labor. However, he himself wrote in 1920, "Surely in our day it is possible to live without religion."

Pedotser (1828–1902), also pronounced Pedutser in some Yiddish dialects, was the popular name of Aron-Moyshe Kholodenko, a nineteenth century Klezmer violin virtuoso, composer and bandeader from Berdychiv, Russian Empire. He was one of a number of virtuosic klezmers of the nineteenth century, alongside Yosef Drucker "Stempenyu", Yehiel Goyzman "Alter Chudnover" and Josef Gusikov.

Adolpho Bloch GCIH, born Avram Yossievitch Bloch was one of the most important press and television tycoons in Brazil. Founder of the Bloch Group, he created the weekly magazine Manchete in 1952, and he also established the television network Rede Manchete in 1983.