Mathematicians

• Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), British mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Vladimir Drinfeld (1954 (age 69–70)), Fields medal laureate
• Anatoly Fomenko (1945 (age 78–79))
• Mark Kac (1914–1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician
• Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk (1925 - 2020)
• Mykhailo Krawtchouk
• Yakiv Kulik
• Volodymyr Marchenko
• Mikhail Ostrogradsky
• Volodymyr Petryshyn
• Platon Poretsky
• Vladimir Potapov
• Anatoly Samoilenko
• Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky (1936–2022), known for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems
• Samuil Shatunovsky (1859–1929), Jewish mathematician
• Anatoliy Skorokhod
• Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko (1825–1912), major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.
• Ivan Śleszyński (1854–9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician
• Pavlo Urysohn (1898–1924), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician
• Josif Shtokalo (1897–1987)
• Naum Z. Shor (1937–2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician
• Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Fields medal laureate, known for her work in sphere packing
• Vadim G. Vizing
• Georgy Voronoy

Physicists/Astronomers

• Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
• Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia
• Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)
• Isaak Khalatnikiv, BKL conjecture in general relativity
• Leo Palatnik, thin film physics
• Ivan Pulyui, scientist working with cathode radiation
• George Yuri Rainich, mathematical physicist, genius

Geographers/Geologists

• Volodymyr Kubijovyč
• Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer, community activists
• Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Biologists

• Aleksandr Bogomolets
• Erwin Chargaff
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Katherine Esau
• Dmitri Ivanovsky
• Trofim Lysenko
• Oleksandr Palladin
• Kostiantyn Sytnyk
• Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist

Chemists

• Anatoly Babko
• Israel Dostrovsky (1918–2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Ivan Horbachevsky
• George Kistiakowsky
• Lev Pisarzhevsky
• Swiatoslaw Trofimenko
• Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist, biochemist
• Selman Waksman (1888–1973), Jewish, Ukrainian-American, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)

Doctors and surgeons

• Nikolai Amosov, heart surgeon
• Alexander Shalimov, surgeon
• Danylo Zabolotny
• Serdyuk Valentin, orthopedic surgeon
• Nicolai L. Volodos, cardiovascular surgeon
• Nikolay Pirogov, inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast

Engineers

Sergei Korolev

• Volodymyr Chelomey, ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer
• Valentyn Hlushko, European engineer
• Mykola Holonyak, first visible diode
• Volodymyr Horbulin, developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of "Kosmos" series
• Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the first human spaceflight
• Mykola Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer
• Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer
• Roman Kroitor
• Volodymyr Mackiw, mining engineer
• Borys Paton
• Yevhen Paton, welding engineer
• Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer, creator of the first helicopter
• Stepan Tymoshenko, father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics

Economists

• Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)
• Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948), Slutsky equation (born in Russian Empire in the territory of Ukraine)
• Ludwig von Mises, founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics (1881–1973. Born in Austria-Hungary, on the territory of present-day Lviv)
• Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), noted economist, visionary and an economic advisor to the Ukrainian government.

Archeologists

• Vikentiy Khvoyka, discovered Trypillia culture
• Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish archeologist and scholar
• Yuriy Shumovskyi

Historians

• Volodymyr Antonovych, historian and folklorist
• Olena Apanovich
• Volodymyr Barvinok
• Dmytro Doroshenko
• Mykhailo Drahomanov, historian, political emigre and folklorist
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky, historian
• Taras Hunczak
• Myron Korduba^[1][2]
• Mykola Kostomarov, literary historian, folklorist
• Oleh Kozerod, political scientist
• Peter Loboda, researcher of ancient Ukrainian numismatics^[3]
• George S. N. Luckyj, literary historian
• Mykhailo Maksymovych, literary historian, folklorist
• Paul Robert Magocsi, chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto
• Oleksander Ohloblyn
• Bohdan Osadchuk, journalist
• Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
• Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist
• Mikołaj Siwicki, historian
• Viktor Suvorov, spy and WWII researcher
• Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archaeologist

Philosophers

• Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and composer

Other academics

• Mykola Andrusiv
• Albert Bandura
• Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
• Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist
• Isydore Hlynka
• Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist
• Viktor Kyrpychov
• Yuri Linnik
• Lubomyr Luciuk, political geographer and community activist
• Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator
• Joseph Oleskiw
• Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident
• Otto Struve, Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer
• Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law
• Sergiy Vilkomir, computer scientist
• Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer

Architects

• Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
• Joseph Karakis
• Musa Konsulova
• Marian Peretyatkovich
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Fashion Designers

• Natalia Fedner

Painters

Kazimir Malevich

• Ivan Aivazovsky, painter, known for his seascapes
• Nathan Altman (1889–1970), Ukrainian-Jewish painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia
• Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
• Svitlana Biedarieva, artist, art historian, curator
• Mykhailo Boychuk
• Robert Brackman
• Mykola Burachek
• David Burliuk, avant-garde painter, Ukrainian freedom thinker
• Volodymyr Burliuk
• Louis Choris
• Sonia Delaunay, avant-garde artist
• Mychajlo Dmytrenko
• Aleksandra Ekster, avant-garde artist
• Nina Genke-Meller, avant-garde artist
• Maurice Gottlieb (1856–1979), Polish-Jewish painter
• Leopold Gottlieb (1883–1934), Polish-Jewish painter
• Mykola Hlushchenko
• Jacques Hnizdovsky
• Alla Horska
• Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, avant-garde stage designer
• Pyotr Konchalovsky, painter
• Fedir Krychevsky
• Vasyl Krychevsky
• Hanna Kryvolap
• Arkhip Kuindzhi
• Boris Lekar, Israeli painter
• Ephraim Moses Lilien, German-Jewish painter
• Anton Losenko
• Kazimir Malevich, avant-garde artist
• Ivan Marchuk, modern painter
• Vadym Meller, avant-garde artist, stage designer
• Mykola Murashko
• Oleksandr Murashko
• Heorhiy Narbut
• Solomon Nikritin, painter, avant-garde artist
• Nykifor, primitivist painter
• Maria Prymachenko
• Mykola Pymonenko
• Vlada Ralko, collage artist
• Kliment Red'ko, painter, avant-garde artist
• Ilya Repin, painter
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), Polish-Jewish painter and writer
• Zinaida Serebriakova, painter
• David Shterenberg, painter from Zhytomyr
• Volodymyr Sichynskyi, architect, graphic artist
• Opanas Slastion, folklorist, designer of modern type of bandura
• Anton Solomoukha
• Ivan Soshenko, painter
• Avigdor Stematsky, Israeli painter from Odesa
• Serhiy Svetoslavsky
• Sergei Sviatchenko (born 1952)
• Vladimir Tatlin, avant-garde artist
• Sonia Terk, avant-garde artist
• Mykhailo Turovsky
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Max Vityk
• Mickola Vorokhta, painter
• Tetyana Yablonska, modern painter
• Yevhen Yehorov, 20th century artist
• Vasiliy Yermilov, avant-garde artist
• Ivan Yizhakevych

Photographers

• Anatoliy Havrylov, Shevchenko National Prize laureate for cinematography
• Nikolai Kozlovsky

Sculptors

• Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and graphic artist
• Lina Condes (born 1980), Ukrainian sculptor and multimedia artist
• Chana Orloff (1888–1968), Ukrainian-Israeli
• Vladimir Tatlin

Performing arts

Actors/Actresses

Mila Jovovich

• Nick Adams
• Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-English Jewish actress
• Elina Bystritskaya
• Olena Chekan
• Taissa Farmiga
• Vera Farmiga
• Luba Goy
• John Hodiak
• Milla Jovovich
• Vera Kholodnaya
• Mariya Khomutova
• Olga Krasko
• Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American-Jewish actress
• Olga Kurylenko
• Vasily Lanovoy
• Ana Layevska
• Mike Mazurki
• Yaroslava Mosiychuk, actress^[4]
• Ivan Mykolaichuk
• Alla Nazimova, (silent film star, born Adelaida Leventon, in Yalta)
• Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahnyuk)
• Zhanna Prokhorenko
• Ivanna Sakhno
• Yakov Smirnoff
• Anna Sten (Anel Sudakevich)
• Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), Polish/American-Jewish actor
• Stav Strashko, actress and model born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
• Bohdan Stupka
• Yuriy Tkach
• Katheryn Winnick
• Natasha Yarovenko
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy. actor, comedian and President of Ukraine since 2019

Film and theatre directors

Kira Muratova

• Roman Balayan, Ukrainian-Armenian film director
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Leonid Bykiv
• Grigori Chukhrai
• Volodymyr Dakhno, Shevchenko National Prize laureate and Cossacks (cartoon series) creator
• Alexander Dovzhenko
• Edward Dmytryk
• Kateryna Gornostai - Ukrainian LGBTQ film director, screenwriter and film editor^[5]
• Les Kurbas
• Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), Ukrainian/American-Jewish film director
• Danylo Lyder
• Paul Mazursky (1930–2014), American-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director
• Kira Muratova
• Larisa Shepitko
• Bohdan Stupka
• Peter Weibel
• Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian documentary director
• Tanu Muino

Bandurists

• Hnat Khotkevych
• Halyna Korin
• Hryhory Kytasty
• Julian Kytasty
• Volodymyr Luciv
• Victor Mishalow

Composers

Mykola Leontovych

• Svitlana Azarova
• Virko Baley
• Vasyl Barvinsky
• Maxim Berezovsky
• Oleksandr Bilash, composer, Hero of Ukraine
• Dmitry Bortniansky
• Marusia Churai
• Nikolay Diletsky
• Isaak Dunayevsky, author of numerous popular Soviet songs
• Lesia Dychko
• Arkady Filippenko
• Reinhold Glière
• Leonid Hrabovsky
• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky
• Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Oleksander Koshetz
• Mykola Leontovych, composed Shchedryk (song) also known as Carol of the Bells
• Zara Levina
• Borys Lyatoshynsky
• Mykola Lysenko
• Ruslana Lyzhichko
• Igor Markevitch
• Yuli Meitus
• Yuriy Oliynyk
• Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Levko Revutsky
• Nikolai Roslavets
• Aleksandr Shymko
• Valentin Silvestrov
• Myroslav Skoryk
• Yevhen Stankovych
• Kyrylo Stetsenko
• Dimitri Tiomkin - film composer
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Artemy Vedel
• Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the National Anthem of Ukraine
• Mykola Vilinsky
• Yakiv Yatsynevych

Pianists

• Simon Barere, pianist
• Yevheniya Barvinska, pianist
• Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
• Shura Cherkassky, pianist
• Emil Gilels, pianist
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Lubka Kolessa, pianist
• Halyna Levytska
• Valentina Lisitsa, pianist
• Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
• Heinrich Neuhaus, pianist
• Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
• Leo Sirota, pianist

Organists

• Roman Krasnovsky, organist, composer
• Paul Stetsenko, organist, choral conductor

Strings

• Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist
• Mischa Elman, violinist
• Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), Ukrainian-Jewish cellist (born in Austrian Galicia)
• Vadim Gluzman, violinist
• Pawlo Humeniuk, violinist / fiddler
• Leonid Kogan, violinist
• Nathan Milstein, violinist
• David Oistrakh, violinist
• Igor Oistrakh, violinist
• Steven Staryk, violinist
• Isaac Stern (1920–2001), American-Jewish, born in Kremenets Poland (now Ukraine), violinist.

Conductors

• Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973), Ukrainian/American-Jewish conductor
• Oleksander Horilyj (1863-1937), first conductor of the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

Singers

Opera

Solomiya Krushelnytska

• Andrij Dobriansky, bass-baritone
• Borys Hmyria, bass
• Vasyl Slipak, baritone
• Alexander Kipnis, bass
• Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
• Solomiya Krushelnytska, soprano
• Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, soprano
• Nadezhda Petrenko, soprano
• Vyacheslav Polozov, tenor
• Maria Sokil, soprano
• Anatoly Solovyanenko, tenor
• Leonid Skirko, bass, baritone

Other

• Volodymyr (Vlad) DeBriansky, guitarist, producer, composer, songwriter
• Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, actor
• Efim Jourist, composer, accordionist and bajan player
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, pianist, singer, dancer, composer, producer, songwriter
• Leo Ornstein (1895–2002), Ukrainian/American-Jewish composer and pianist.
• Isabelle Rezazadeh, DJ
• George Shakhnevich, accordionist
• Estas Tonne, guitarist

Other performing artists

• Juliya Chernetsky
• Serge Lifar, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century
• Maria Guleghina
• Alla Korot
• Olga Khokhlova, ballet dancer, first wife of Pablo Picasso

Writers

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Joseph Conrad

Oksana Zabuzhko

• Adrian Kashchenko
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, had Ukrainian mother
• Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class writer
• Oleksandra Marynyna
• Amvrosii Metlynsky, poet, writer
• Andrey Kurkov, Ukrainian novelist
• Bohdan Osadchuk
• Chuck Palahniuk, American satirical novelist (Ukrainian father)
• Clarice Lispector
• Daniil Granin, author
• David Bergelson, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish language
• Hryhorii Epik, writer, journalist
• Hryhorii Kosynka
• Hryhoriy Skovoroda, poet, writer, philosopher
• Ilya Ehrenburg Ukrainian-Jewish publicist and writer in Russian language, born in Kyiv
• Ilya Ilf, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
• Irena Karpa, modern Ukrainian writer
• Isaac Babel, Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Russian language, born in Odesa
• Ivan Kotlyarevsky, playwright
• Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
• Ivan Vahylevych
• Jan Potocki, count, Polish writer in French language, born and died in Ukraine
• Joseph Conrad, Polish writer in the English language, born in Berdychiv
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, author of Venus in Furs
• Les Podervianskiy, satirist and playwright, pro-Western and pro-Ukrainian dissident
• Levko Kopeliv, author and dissident
• Markiyan Shashkevych, poet, writer, and interpreter
• Marko Cheremshyna, writer
• Marko Vovchok
• Marya Zaturenska
• Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist in Russian language
• Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Russian humorist
• Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Israeli writer and poet
• Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
• Mykhailo Stelmakh
• Mykola Khvylovy
• Mykola Kulish, dramatist
• Mykola Voronyi
• Mykola Zerov
• Natalia Vlaschenko, Ukrainian journalist, theatrologist, screenwriter, television presenter, playwright, producer, columnist,^[10] publisher and contributing editor
• Natan Ilyich Zabara (1908–1975), Ukrainian-Jewish writer in Yiddish
• Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian writer in Russian language, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi
• Oksana Zabuzhko, modern Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist
• Oles Honchar, author of The Cathedral
• Olha Kobylianska, modernist writer and feminist.
• Olha Kobylyanska
• Ostap Ortwin (1876–1942), Polish-Jewish journalist and literary critic.
• Ostap Vyshnia
• Panteleymon Kulish
• Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist philosopher
• Sam Honigberg, correspondent for The Billboard and publicist
• Shmuel Agnon, Israeli Hebrew writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1966), born in Buchach
• Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian writer in Yiddish language, born in Pereyaslav
• Sofia Yablonska, travel writer, photographer, architect
• Stanisław Lem, Polish science-fiction writer born in the present-day territory of Ukraine
• Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist
• Valerian Pidmohylny, novelist
• Valerian Polishchuk, poet
• Vasily Grossman Ukrainian-Jewish, born in Berdichev in 1905. Dedicated his lives' writing to the three most terrible pages of 20th-century history: the siege of Stalingrad, the Shoah, and the Terror Famine which today is referred to as the Holodomor. Best known for Everything Flows, Life and Fate.
• Vasyl Stefanyk
• Viktor Nekrasov, writer
• Viktor Petrov
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko
• Yakiv Holovatsky
• Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist playwright and publicist, assassinated by nationalist insurgents.
• Yevgeny Grebyonka
• Yevgeny Petrov, Ukrainian humorist in Russian language, co-author of The Twelve Chairs
• Yevhen Hrebinka
• Yevhen Hutsalo
• Yuri Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk
• Yuri Nikitin, Russian science fiction and fantasy writer
• Yuri Nikitin, trampolinist
• Yuri Pokalchuk
• Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko - fantasy fiction writers and Shevchenko National Prize laureate

Poets

Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Ivan Franko

Taras Shevchenko

• Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
• Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
• Eduard Bagritsky
• Mikola Bazhan
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik, modern Hebrew Ukrainian poet, national poet of the State of Israel
• Ivan Drach
• Itzik Feffer, Soviet poet in Yiddish language
• Moysey Fishbeyn, Ukrainian poet in Yiddish language
• Ivan Franko
• Alexander Galich, Soviet bard in Russian language, pro-Western dissident
• Ihor Kalynets
• Mykola Khvylovy
• Lina Kostenko
• Andriy Malyshko
• Oleksandr Oles
• Oleh Olzhych
• Dmytro Pavlychko
• Markiyan Shashkevych
• Vasyl Stus
• Vasyl Symonenko
• Olena Teliha
• Pavlo Tychyna
• Maksym Rylsky
• Taras Shevchenko, founder of modern Ukrainian Literature
• Volodymyr Sosiura
• Vasyl Stus
• Vasyl Symonenko
• Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk
• Lesya Ukrainka
• Volodymyr Yaniv
• Volodymyr Yavorivsky
• Maik Yohansen
• Natan Yonatan, Kyiv-born Israeli poet
• Serhiy Zhadan, modern Ukrainian poet and novelist
• Mykhailo Zharzhailo, Ukrainian poet, performer, and art event organizer^[11]

Ukrainian non-Soviet politicians

Nestor Makhno

• Dmytro Antonovych, minister of naval affairs, and of arts of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918 and 1918–1919)
• Volodymyr Bahaziy, head of Kyiv City Administration under German occupation (October 1941–January 1942)
• Ivan Bahrianyi, president (acting) of the UNR in exile (1965–1967)
• Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B)
• Oleksander Barvinsky, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
• Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine
• Dmytro Dontsov, Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker
• Dmytro Doroshenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hetmanate (1918)
• Sydir Holubovych, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1919)
• Vsevolod Holubovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918)
• Volodymyr Horbulin, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council (1994–1999, 2006)
• Oleksandr Horin, Ambassador to the Netherlands 2011-17
• Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• Ivan Hrynokh, Vice President of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council
• Stepan Klochurak, Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic (1919)
• Yevhen Konovalets, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1938)
• Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (1991–1994)
• Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and politician (Ukrainian Central Committee)
• Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
• Mykola Lebed, head of the Security Service for the UPA
• Serhiy Leshchenko - Ukrainian journalist, politician and public figure^[13]
• Dmytro Levytsky, head of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) (1925–1935)
• Kost Levytsky, Prime Minister of the West Ukrainian National Republic (1918–1919)
• Andriy Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1926–1954).
• Mykola Livytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1967–1989).
• Vyacheslav Lypynsky, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party
• Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists
• Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952)
• Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M)
• Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009)
• Symon Petlura, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• Yevhen Petrushevych, President of the West Ukrainian National Republic
• Mykola Plaviuk, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992)
• Vyacheslav Prokopovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920, 1921, 1926–1939)
• Lev Rebet, Acting Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941)
• Pavlo Shandruk, head of the Ukrainian National Committee in Weimar (1945)
• Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine or head of the Hetmanate (1918)
• Yaroslav Stetsko, Prime Minister of the Independent Ukrainian Republic (1941)
• Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
• Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939)
• Borys Tarasyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000 and 2005–2007)
• Serhiy Tihipko, Minister of Economics (2000)
• Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007–present)
• Anatole Vakhnianyn, leader of the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
• Avhustyn Voloshyn, President of Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, writer
• Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965)
• Nikolaus (Mykola) Wassilko, Ritter von, member of the delegation in Brest-Litowsk, deputy with the rank of a minister at the ZUNR in Vienna (1918–1919), ambassador of Germany and Switzerland (1919–1924)
• Volodymyr Yaniv, member of the Ukrainian National Committee in Kraków (1941)
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007), Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014)
• Serhiy Yefremov, deputy head of the Central Rada (1917)
• Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005–2010)
• Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2002–2004, 2006–2007) and President of Ukraine (2010–2015)

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Golda Meir

Simon Wiesenthal

• Chaim Arlosoroff, Zionist activist, leader of Mapai
• Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel
• Ber Borochov, Zionist activist
• Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
• Ahad Ha'am, Zionist activist
• Abba Hushi, mayor of Haifa
• Volodymyr Jabotynsky, Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism, writer and journalist in Hebrew and Russian language
• Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist, President of Israel
• Abraham Kaufman, leader of Jewish community in China
• Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
• Leo Motzkin, Zionist activist
• Leon Pinsker, Zionist activist, leader of the Hovevei Zion
• Natan Sharansky, Soviet human rights activist and Israeli politician
• Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel
• Shevah Weiss, Israeli lawman and Labor Party politician, speaker of the Knesset
• Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
• Svitlana Zalishchuk - politician, public leader, journalist, and human rights LGBT campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament^[14]

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

• Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Bolshevik leader and diplomat, one of the leaders of the October Revolution
• Yevgenia Bosch, Bolshevik politician, People's Secretary of Internal Affairs (1917–1918)
• Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (1964–1982)
• Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader (1984–1985), Brezhnev's chief of staff
• Boris Shcherbina, a Soviet politician who served as a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1984 to 1989. Supervisor of Soviet crisis management during 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
• Grigory Petrovsky- Old Bolshevik, participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policies such as collectivization.
• Hryhoriy Hrynko – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1930-1937)
• Vlas Chubar – finance minister of the Soviet Union (1937-1938)
• Yakov Malik, the head of the Africa department of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom,
• Vitold Fokin, Soviet politician, Central Planning Commission head, first PM after the Independence
• Yakov Gamarnik, Soviet politician
• Serafima Hopner, Bolshevik politician
• Semyon Ignatyev, Soviet politician
• Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat
• Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician
• Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Bolshevik politician
• Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953–1964), returned Crimea to Ukraine
• Emanuel Kviring, Bolshevik politician
• Anatoly Lunacharsky, first Soviet education minister, Latin alphabet advocate (similar to Atatürk), was sidelined by Stalin
• Solomon Lozovsky, Bolshevik politician
• Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician
• Vitaliy Masol, Central Planning Commission head, third PM after the Independence
• Lev Mekhlis, Soviet politician
• Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965–1977), betrayed Khrushchev and later regretted
• Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist
• Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
• Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik politician
• Vladimir Semichastny, Soviet politician
• Petro Shelest, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1963–1972), betrayed Khrushchev and later regretted
• Mykola Skrypnyk, Bolshevik leader
• Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1972–1989), supported Gorbachev and later regretted
• Valentyna Shevchenko, the only female Chairperson of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada
• Viktor Taratuta, Bolshevik revolutionary
• Leon Trotsky, leading Bolshevik revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
• Moisei Uritsky, Bolshevik revolutionary
• Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik politician
• Grigory Zinoviev, Bolshevik revolutionary

Soviet dissidents

• Vyacheslav Chornovil
• Vasily Grossman
• Mykola Horbal
• Petro Hryhorenko
• Vitaliy Kalynychenko
• Ivan Kandyba
• Lev Kopelev
• Sergei Kovalev
• Yaroslav Lesiv
• Eduard Limonov
• Levko Lukyanenko
• Valeriy Marchenko
• Myroslav Marynovych
• Natan Sharansky
• Danylo Shumuk
• Vasyl Stus
• Nadiya Svitlychna
• Yosyf Zisels

Russian politicians

• Alexander Bezborodko – Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire
• Sergei Kiriyenko, prime minister of Russian Federation
• Dmitry Kozak, minister of regional development of Russia
• Valentina Matviyenko, governor of St Petersburg
• Yevgeny Primakov, prime minister of Russian Federation
• Alexey Razumovsky, count of Imperial Russia
• Sergei Storchak, deputy finance minister of Russia
• Yevgeny Yasin, minister of economy of Russian Federation
• Grigory Yavlinsky, liberal economist and leader of the Russian political party "Yabloko".

Polish politicians

• Henryk Józewski, deputy minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920)
• Jan Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, diplomat (1918–1924)
• Feliks Kon, Bolshevik politician
• Stanislav Kosior, Bolshevik politician
• Herman Lieberman, socialist politician
• Dmitry Manuilsky, Bolshevik politician
• Mieczysław Mickiewicz, minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
• Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
• Adam Daniel Rotfeld, foreign minister of Poland (2005)
• Stanisław Stempowski, minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1920–1922)
• Andrey Vyshinsky, foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1949–1953)
• Wanda Wasilewska, communist politician

Austrian politicians

• Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, known as "Prince Vasyl"
• Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen, Governor of Galicia (1847–1848)

Bulgarian politicians

• Christian Rakovsky, communist politician

Czechoslovak politicians

• František Kriegel, communist politician

German politicians

• Yevgenia Bosch, communist politician
• Emanuel Kwiring, communist politician

Italian politicians

• Angelica Balabanoff, communist politician

American politicians

• Kirill Reznik – Maryland State House of Delegates
• Herman Toll – former Pennsylvania Congressman
• Inna Vernikov - Citycouncilwoman in New York City from Brooklyn

Chinese politicians

• Jakob Rosenfeld

Crimean Tatar politicians

• Noman Çelebicihan
• Ismail Gasprinski
• Mustafa Dzhemilev

Orthodox Christian

• Dymytriy (Yarema), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1993–2000)
• Hilarion of Kyiv, first native Rus metropolitan of Kyiv (c. 1051–c. 1054)
• John of Tobolsk, Orthodox metropolitan of Tobolsk (1711–1715)
• Mother Maria (Skobtsova), Eastern Orthodox nun, martyr
• Mefodiy (Kudryakov), metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2000–present)
• Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1990–1993)
• Theophan Prokopovich, vice-president of the Orthodox Holy Synod
• Patriarch Volodomyr (Romaniuk), Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.
• Dmytrij (Danylo Tuptalo) of Rostov, Orthodox saint
• Vasyl (Lypkivsky), first metropolitan of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1921–1937)
• Stephen Yavorsky, first president of the Orthodox Holy Synod (1721)
• Paisius Velichkovsky, monk, spiritual writer, the founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom.

Greek Catholic

• Antin Angelovych, first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–1814)
• Nykyta Budka, first Ukrainian Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop (1912–1927)
• Maxim Hermaniuk, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg (1956–1992)
• Josaphata Hordashevska, Greek Catholic nun (1869–1919)
• Ivan Hrynokh, Greek Catholic priest, professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome
• Lubomyr Husar, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2001–2005), Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych (2005–2011)
• Gregory Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic bishop of Stanislav, martyr (1947)
• Josafat Kotsylovsky, Greek Catholic bishop of Peremyshl, martyr (1947)
• Omelyan Kovch, Greek Catholic priest of Peremyshliany, martyr (1944)
• Mykhailo Levitsky, cardinal (1856), Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria (1848–1858)
• Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, cardinal, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1984–2000)
• Roman Lysko, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1949)
• Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, Greek Catholic metropolitan of Kyiv (1613–1637)
• Yakym Senkivskyi, Greek Catholic priest, martyr (1941)
• Andriy Sheptytsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1944), political victim of the Soviet Union and was proclaimed as the enemy of the state.
• Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Greek Catholic Exarch of Russia and Siberia (1939), Archimandrite of the Studites (1944), martyr (1951), died in GULAG, victimized by Soviets for being Ukrainian
• Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1944–1984), exited to Siberia and released in xxxx,
• Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (d. 1633)
• Stefan Soroka, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia (2000–2018)
• Vasyl Velychkovsky, Greek Catholic bishop (1963–1973)
• Innokentiy Vynnyckyj, first Greek Catholic bishop of Przemyśl (1691–1700)

Roman Catholic

• Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Archbishop of Lviv (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38)
• Eugeniusz Baziak, Archbishop of Lviv and Apostolic Administrator of Cracow (1944–1962)
• Józef Bilczewski, Archbishop of Lviv (1900–1923)
• Marian Jaworski, Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (1991–2008)
• Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi (1757–1798)
• Władysław Aleksander Łubieński, Archbishop of Lviv (1758–1759), Primate of Poland (1759–1767), and Interrex (1763–1764)
• Mieczysław Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv (2008–present)
• Adam Naruszewicz, Titular Bishop of Smolensk (1775–1788), Suffragan Bishop of Lutsk (1788–1790) and Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk (1790–1796)
• Bogusław Radoszewski, Bishop of Kyiv (Latin rite, 1618–1633), Bishop of Lutsk (1633–1638)
• Kajetan Sołtyk, Bishop of Kyiv (1756–1759), then Bishop of Cracow (1759–1788)
• Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kyiv (1759–1774)

Jewish

• Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych
• Moshe Reuven Azman, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine (2005-present)
• Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kyiv (1992–present)
• Solomon Buber, Talmudic scholar
• Jacob Frank, Jewish religious reformer who combined Judaism and Christianity
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes, talmudic scholar
• Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, Hasidic rabbi
• Israel ben Eliezer, founder of Hasidism
• Malbim, rabbi and preacher
• Nachman of Breslov, Hasidic leader
• Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (Shir), rabbi of Ternopil (1837–40) and Prague (1840–67)
• Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty) (1817–55)
• Yehoshua Rokeach, second rebbe of Belz (1857–1894)
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach, the third rebbe of Belz (1894–1926)
• Aharon Rokeach, fourth rebbe of Belz (1926–57)
• Mordechai Rokeach, rabbi, father of the fifth rebbe of Belz
• Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, rabbi
• Yoel Sirkis, great rabbi, one of Achronim
• Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Hasidic leader
• Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody

Others

• Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
• Sima Babovich, Hakham of the Crimean Karaite
• Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
• Olga Dibrova, Ukrainian diplomat
• Abraham Firkovich, leader of the Crimean Karaites
• Seraya Shapshal, chief Hakham of the Crimean Karaite and Lithuanian Karaite communities
• Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite, 1901–1938)

Archery

• Tetyana Berezhna, archer
• Nataliya Burdeyna, archer
• Dmytro Hrachov, archer (Olympic bronze – team)
• Kateryna Palekha, archer
• Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic champion)
• Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze – team)

Basketball

Oleksiy Pecherov

• Alexander Belostenny, Olympic medalist
• Viacheslav Kravtsov, basketball player
• Oleksiy "Alex" Len, basketball player drafted 5th by the Phoenix Suns in 2013
• Stanislav Medvedenko, basketball player that won two NBA Finals championships in 2001 and 2002
• Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, college basketball player of the Kansas Jayhawks
• Igor Nesterenko (born 1990), Israeli-Ukrainian basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player selected 18th by the Washington Wizards in 2006
• Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player drafted 12th by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996
• Jerome Randle, American-Ukrainian basketball club BC Žalgiris player
• Alexander Volkov, basketball player selected 134th by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986

Boxing

• Vasyl Lomachenko, boxer
• Oleksandr Usyk, boxer
• Taras Bidenko, boxer
• Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), boxer, featherweight world champion
• Wladimir Klitschko, boxer champion
• Vitali Klitschko, boxer champion
• Yuriy Nuzhnenko, boxer champion
• Volodymyr Sydorenko, boxer champion
• Volodymyr Virchis, boxer

Chess

• Lev Alburt, Ukrainian Champion (1972, 1973, 1974)
• Izak Aloni, Lviv Champion (1936, 1939)
• Boris Alterman
• Lev Aptekar
• Vladimir Baklan, Ukrainian Champion (1997, 1998)
• Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian Champion (1945, 1946, 1951, 1955, 1964)
• Alexander Beliavsky, Champion of the USSR (1987, and thrice jointly – 1974, 1980, 1990)
• Ossip Bernstein, All-Russian Sub-Champion (1903)
• Efim Bogoljubow, Champion of the USSR (1924, 1925), FIDE World Champion (1928/29), Challenger for World Championship (1929, 1934)
• Fedor Bohatirchuk, Champion of the USSR (1927 – jointly), Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1924) and Champion (1937), Canadian Sub-Champion (1949)
• Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian Champion (1938, 1939, 1940)
• David Bronstein, Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1940), Champion of the USSR (1948, 1949 – both jointly), Challenger for World Championship (1951),
• Oscar Chajes
• Alexander Chernin, Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly)
• Josif Dorfman, Champion of the USSR (1977 – jointly)
• Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky, Kyiv Champion (1900, 1902, 1903, 1906)
• Louis Eisenberg
• Alexander Evensohn, Kyiv Champion (1914)
• Salo Flohr, winner of the 1957 Ukrainian Championship (off contest)
• Maurice Fox
• Henryk Friedman, seven-times Lviv Champion (1926–1934)
• Efim Geller, Ukrainian Champion (1950, 1957, 1958, 1959), Champion of the USSR (1955, 1979)
• Edward Gerstenfeld
• Vitali Golod, Ukrainian Champion (1991)
• Vladimir Grabinsky
• Eduard Gufeld
• Ilya Gurevich
• Mykhailo Gurevich, Ukrainian Champion (1984), Champion of the USSR (1985 – jointly)
• Alexander Huzman
• Vasyl Ivanchuk, Champion of Europe (2004)
• Stefan Izbinsky
• Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
• Abram Khavin, Champion of Western Ukraine (1940), Ukrainian Champion (1954)
• Artur Kogan
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Kyiv Champion five consecutive times (1932–1936)
• Irina Krush
• Gennady Kuzmin, Ukrainian Champion (1969, 1989, 1999 – all jointly), Sub-Champion of the USSR (1973)
• Kateryna Lahno
• Konstantin Lerner, Ukrainian Champion (1978, 1982)
• Naum Levin
• Paul List, Odesa Champion (1908)
• Marta Litinskaya-Shul, World Senior Women Chess Champion (2002)
• Isaac Lipnitsky, Ukrainian Champion (1949, 1956)
• Moishe Lowtzky
• Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian Champion (1980, 1981, 1986)
• Adrian Mikhalchishin
• Anna Muzychuk
• Illia Nyzhnyk
• Alexander Onischuk
• Sam Palatnik
• Ruslan Ponomariov, FIDE World Champion (2002)
• Stepan Popel, Champion of Lviv (1930), Western Ukraine (1943 – jointly), Paris (1951, 1953, 1954) and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada)
• Ignatz von Popiel, Lviv Sub-Champion (1925)
• Vsevolod Rauzer, Ukrainian Champion (1927, 1933 – jointly)
• Oleg Romanishin, European Junior Champion (1973)
• Jakob Rosanes
• Nicolas Rossolimo
• Iosif Rudakovsky
• Ludmila Rudenko, Women's World Champion (1950–1953)
• Nikoly Rudnev
• Yuri Sakharov, Ukrainian Champion (1966, 1968)
• Vladimir Savon, Ukrainian Champion (1969 – jointly), Champion of the USSR (1971)
• Lidia Semenova
• Alexey Sokolsky, Ukrainian Champion (1947, 1948)
• Victor Soultanbeieff
• Leonid Stein, Ukrainian Champion (1960, 1962), Champion of the USSR (1963, 1965, 1966)
• Mark Taimanov, Champion of the USSR (1956)
• Vladimir Tukmakov, Ukrainian Champion (1970)
• Boris Verlinsky, Ukrainian Champion (1926), Champion of the USSR (1929)
• Yakov Vilner, Ukrainian Champion (1924, 1925, 1928)
• Daniel Yanofsky
• Abram Zamikhovsky, Ukrainian Champion (1931)
• Anna Zatonskih

Fencing

Vadym Gutzeit

Grigory Kriss

• Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
• Vadim Gutzeit, saber fencer, Olympic champion, Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.^[15]
• Serhiy Kravchuk, épée fencer, Olympic bronze
• Grigory Kriss, épée fencer, Olympic champion, 2-time silver
• Olena Kryvytska (born 1987), 3-time world bronze
• David Tyshler, saber fencer, Olympic bronze
• Yulen Uralov, foil fencer, Olympian
• Iosif Vitebskiy, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10-time national champion, world champion
• Olga Zhovnir, saber fencer

Figure skating

• Oksana Baiul, figure skater (Olympic gold)
• Oleksii Bychenko (born 1988), Ukrainian-born Israeli figure skater, Olympian
• Alexei Beletski, Israeli ice dancer, Olympian
• Natalia Gudina, Israeli figure skater, Olympian
• Viktor Petrenko, figure skater (Olympic gold, World Championship gold)
• Aliona Savchenko, German figure skater
• Michael Shmerkin, Israeli figure skater^[16]
• Adel Tankova (born 2000), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic figure skater

Football (soccer)

Andriy Shevchenko

• Oleksandr Aliev, footballer
• Igor Belanov, footballer, Ballon d'or (1986)
• Oleg Blokhin, footballer, Ballon d'or (1975)
• Leonid Buryak, footballer, midfielder, Olympic bronze, coach
• Walter Chyzowych, footballer, football coach
• Ivan Getsko, footballer
• Oleksandr Horshkov, footballer
• Timerlan Huseinov, footballer
• Oleg Iachtchouk, footballer
• Yuri Kalitvintsev, footballer
• Serhiy Kandaurov, footballer
• Vitaliy Kosovsky, footballer
• Dema Kovalenko, footballer
• Leo Krupnik (born 1979), American-Israeli footballer, football coach
• Viktor Leonenko, footballer
• Yevgeny Levchenko, footballer
• Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, football coach
• Yevhen Lutsenko, footballer
• Oleh Luzhnyi, footballer
• Dov Markus (born 1946), American-Israeli footballer, born in Ukraine
• Yuri Maximov, footballer
• Artem Milevskyi, footballer
• Volodymyr Mykytyn, footballer
• Serhiy Nazarenko, footballer
• Andriy Oberemko, footballer, midfielder (Illichivets & U21 national team)^[17]
• Dmytro Parfenov, footballer
• Yevhen Pokhlebayev, footballer
• Andriy Polunin, footballer
• Serhiy Popov, footballer
• Serhii Rebrov, footballer
• Serhiy Serebrennikov, footballer
• Serhiy Scherbakov, footballer
• Andriy Shevchenko, footballer, Ballon d'or (2004)
• Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, footballer
• Serhiy Skachenko, footballer
• Viktor Skrypnyk, footballer
• Oleh Suslov, footballer
• Oleksandr Holovko, footballer
• Andriy Husin, footballer
• Maksym Kalynychenko, footballer
• Ruslan Rotan, footballer
• Oleg Salenko, footballer
• Hryhoriy Surkis, president of the Football Federation of Ukraine till 2012
• Anatoliy Tymoschuk, footballer
• Vladyslav Vashchuk, footballer
• Andriy Voronin, footballer
• Andriy Yarmolenko, footballer
• Artem Yashkin, footballer
• Serhiy Zeldi, footballer
• Oleksandr Zinchenko, footballer
• Roman Yaremchuk, footballer, striker

Gymnastics

• Anna Bessonova, gymnast
• Iryna Deriugina, gymnast
• Artem Dolgopyat (born 1997), Israeli artistic gymnast (second in world championships)
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast (2 Olympic golds; all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5-time silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus)
• Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Yuri Nikitin, gymnast
• Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Larisa Latynina, gymnast (9 Olympic golds)
• Karina Lykhvar, Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast
• Tatiana Lysenko, gymnast, 2-time Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)
• Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Oxana Skaldina, gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast (Olympic gold)
• Olena Vitrychenko, Individual Rhythmic Gymnast (Olympic bronze)
• Roman Zozulya, gymnast

Ice hockey

• Ruslan Fedotenko, ice hockey player
• Dmitri Khristich, ice hockey player
• Orest Kindrachuk, ice hockey player
• Eric Nesterenko, ice hockey player
• Mikhail Nemirovsky (born 1974), Canadian-German ice hockey player
• Alexei Ponikarovsky, hockey player
• Ivan Pravilov (1963–2012), ice hockey coach, arrested for sexual abuse of teenage student, committed suicide by hanging in prison
• Denis Shvidki, ice hockey player
• Kostiantyn Simchuk, ice hockey player
• Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey player
• Vitaly Vishnevsky, ice hockey player
• Nikolai Zherdev, ice hockey player
• Alexei Zhitnik, ice hockey player

Swimming

• Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
• Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen); 4-time Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3-time world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2-time silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
• Maryna Piddubna, Paralympic swimmer^[18]
• Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer

Tennis

Julia Glushko

• Yulia Beygelzimer, tennis player
• Alona Bondarenko, tennis player
• Kateryna Bondarenko, tennis player
• Gail Brodsky (born 1991), American tennis player
• Olga Fridman (born 1998), Ukrainian-Israeli tennis player
• Julia Glushko (born 1990), Ukrainian-born Israeli tennis player
• Mariya Koryttseva, tennis player
• Viktoriya Kutuzova, tennis player
• Andriy Medvedev, tennis player
• Tatiana Perebiynis, tennis player
• Elina Svitolina, tennis player (winner of 2020 Olympic Bronze Medal Women's Singles)
• Olga Savchuk, tennis player
• Julia Vakulenko, tennis player
• Dayana Yastremska, tennis player
• Maryna Zanevska, tennis player (winner of the 2009 US Open - Girls' Doubles)

Track & field

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Olesya Povh

• Aleksandr Bagach, shot putter
• Valeriy Borzov, sprinter (2 Olympic golds)
• Serhiy Bubka, pole vault legend (Olympic gold), numerous world records
• Vasiliy Bubka, also a pole vaulter, older brother of Sergey/Serhiy
• Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
• Inessa Kravets, jumper (world record in triple jump)
• Volodymyr Kuts, long-distance runner (2 Olympic golds)
• Serhiy Lebid, long-distance runner (8-time winner of European Cross Country championships)
• Faina Melnik, discus thrower (Olympic gold)
• Zhanna Pintusevych-Blok, sprinter (World Championship gold); world 100-m & 200-m champion
• Olesya Povh, sprinter (Olympic bronze, world bronze)
• Tamara & Irina Press, sister athletes (5 Olympic golds in total)
• Viktoriya Styopina, high jumper
• Viktor Tsybulenko, javelin (Olympic gold, Olympic bronze)

Weightlifting

• Grigory Novak, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion
• Igor Rybak, Olympic champion (lightweight)
• Timur Taymazov, world and Olympic records
• Eduard Weitz, Israeli Olympic weightlifter

Wrestling

Grigoriy Gamarnik

• Alexander Davidovich, Israeli Olympic wrestler
• Vasyl Fedoryshyn, Olympic silver (freestyle 60 kg); world championship silver & bronze
• Grigory Gamarnik, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight)
• Samuel Gerson, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight)
• Boris Michail Gurevich (1937–2020), Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight)
• Oleg Ladik (born 1971), Ukrainian-born Canadian Olympic wrestler
• Yakov Punkin, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight)
• Nik Zagranitchni, Israeli Olympic wrestler

Other athletes

Igor Olshansky

• Vladislav Bykanov (born 1989), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic short track speed skater
• Valentina Chepiga (born 1962), IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Olga Danilov (born 1973), Israeli Olympic speed skater
• Fedor Emelianenko, mixed martial arts fighter
• Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986), American All-Pro National Football League player
• Leonid Kolumbet, Olympic cycling medalist
• Marina Kravchenko, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams^[19]
• Artur Kyshenko, K-1 kickboxing champion
• Yevhen Lapinsky, Olympic champion volleyball player
• Valentin Mankin, sailor (3 Olympic golds); only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class)
• Igor Olshansky, American football player, DL (Miami Dolphins)
• Olyeg Olyeksandrovich Prudius aka Vladimir Kozlov, pro wrestler
• Sergy Rikhter (born 1989), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
• Ian Rubin, Russia national rugby league team^[20]
• Vasyl Virastyuk, world's strongest man competition (1st place 2004)
• Igor Vovchanchyn, mixed martial arts fighter
• Yaroslav Vynokur, billiards player (World Champion)