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Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present-day Ukraine, before 20 century borderland region in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (later in Russian Partition and Austrian Partition).
Athletes
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater, Olympic gold [1]
- Alexei Beletski, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian [2]
- Oleksii Bychenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
- Artem Dolgopyat, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Olympic gold ( artistic gymnast - floor) for Israel [3]
- Olena Dvornichenko, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnastics [4]
- Grigoriy Gamarnik, Ukrainian-born Soviet, world wrestling champion (Greco-Roman lightweight), world championship gold and silver
- Samuel Gerson, Ukrainian-born US, Olympic silver wrestling (freestyle featherweight)
- Natalia Gudina, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, Olympian [5]
- Vadym Gutzeit (born 1971), saber fencer, Olympic champion, Youth and Sport Minister of Ukraine [6]
- Pavlo Ishchenko ("Wild Man"), Ukraine/Israel, bantamweight & lightweight boxer, 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist [7]
- Moisei Kas’ianik, Ukrainian-born USSR, world weightlifting champion
- Marina Kravchenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams [8]
- Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer, 4x Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3x world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2x silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
- Grigory Kriss (born 1940), Ukrainian Soviet Olympic épée fencer who won four Olympic medals, including a gold medal
- Tatiana Lysenko, USSR/Ukraine gymnast, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)
- Valeria Maksyuta, Ukraine/Israel gymnast, multiple World Cup medalist, Israeli Olympian, Maccabiah Games champion [9] [10] [11]
- Valentyn Mankin, Soviet/Ukraine, 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)
- Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born USSR, 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
- Andriy Oberemko, soccer/football midfielder ( Mariupol & U21 national team) [12]
- Igor Olshansky, NFL American football defensive end
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
- Katerina Pisetsky, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnast [13]
- Maxim Podoprigora, Ukrainian-born Austrian swimmer
- Ian Rubin, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national rugby league team [14]
- Igor Rybak, Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic weightlifting champion (lightweight)
- David Tyshler (1927–2014), Ukraine-born Soviet sabre fencer, Olympic bronze medalist
- Yulen Uralov (born 1924), Ukrainian Soviet Olympic foil fencer, and USSR champion
- Iosif Vitebskiy (born 1938), Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer, and current US fencing coach
- Alexei Zhitnik, Ukraine-born Russia, hockey defenseman (NHL) [15]
- Aleksandr Kolchinsky, heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic gold.
Politicians
- Mykhailo Dobkin, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast 2010-2014
- Volodymyr Groysman, former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016–2019)
- Hennadiy Kernes, Mayor of Kharkiv 2010–2020
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2014-2015
- Pinhas Krasny, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine [16]
- Vadim Rabinovich, 2014 presidential candidate
- Moisei Rafes, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Abraham Revutsky, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019–present)
- Moishe Zilberfarb, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Alexander Zolotarev, state controller for the General Secretariat
- Yukhym Zvyahilsky, former Prime Minister of Ukraine 1993-1994 and entrepreneur
- Oleksandr Feldman, People's Deputy of Ukraine (2002–present)
- Oleksii Reznikov, 17th Minister of Defence (2021-2023)
Russian/Soviet politicians
- Karl Radek, Soviet politician [17]
- Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician [18]
- Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army, [19] [20] [21] [22] commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs
- Lazar Kaganovich, Stalinist politician and one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Holodomor and Stalinist Great Purge
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician, [23] [24] chekist
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal " Yabloko" party [25] (half Jewish)
- Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician [26] [20] [27]
Israeli politicians
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63) [28] [29] [30]
- Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician [31]
- Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69) [32] [33]
- Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78) [34] [35]
- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74) [36] [37]
- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician [38]
- Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55) [18] [39]
United States politicians
- Kirill Reznik, US Politician, Member, Maryland House of Delegates (2007–Present)
Israeli military persons
- Yaakov Dori, first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949); President of Technion. [40]
- Tzvi Tzur, sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964) [41]
Soldiers and Revolutionaries
- Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary [26] [42]
- Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy [43]
- Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist
- Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy
- Leo Deutsch, revolutionary [44]
- Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S. [45]
- Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary [46]
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion [47] [48]
- Jacob Golos, Soviet spy
- Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky) [49]
- Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy
- Alexander Parvus, revolutionary, [26] [50] major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution
- Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent [51]
- Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary [52]
- Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General)
- Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in the Far East (Major-General) [53]
- V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary [54]
- Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy
- Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II [55]
- Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odesa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921
Other Historical figures
- Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
- Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Shlomo Ganzfried, Rabbi
- Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism
- Isroel Shmulson, architect
- Simon Wiesenthal, holocaust survivor from the Nazi Holocaust, Nazi hunter, writer
- Semion Mogilevich, " boss of all bosses" of the worldwide Russian Mafia, former member of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Business figures
- Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation [56]
- Zino Davidoff
- Bernard Delfont, impresario [57]
- Lew Grade, founder of ATV [58]
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a major Ukrainian business oligarch
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal [59]
- Hryhoriy Surkis, head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentary
- Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire, steelmaker [60]
- Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, Patron of the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog [61] [62]
- Boris Lohzkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine [63]
- Michael Kogan, entrepreneur, founder of Taito
Natural scientists
- Aleksander Akhiezer, physicist
- Matvei Petrovich Bronstein
- Mikhail Gurevich
- Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, developed vaccine against cholera and plague [64] [65]
- Boris Hessen, physicist [66]
- Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist [67]
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
- Veniamin Levich, electrochemist [68]
- Boris Podolsky
- Isaak Pomeranchuk
- Jacob Rabinow
- Anatol Rapoport
- Grigory Shajn
- Iosif Shklovsky
- Vladimir Veksler
- Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist [69]
- Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952) [70]
Mathematicians
- Naum Akhiezer, mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician [71]
- Chudnovsky brothers
- Vladimir Drinfeld
- Felix Gantmacher
- Israel Gelfand
- Alexander Goncharov
- Marc Kac, mathematician
- Naum Krasner
- Mark Krasnosel'skii
- Mark Krein
- Evgenii Landis
- Boris Levin
- Leonid Levin
- Boris Levitan
- Jacob Levitzki
- David Milman
- Vitali Milman
- Pierre Milman
- Mark Naimark
- Moses Schönfinkel
- Samuil Shatunovsky
- Pavel Urysohn
Social scientists
- Solomon Buber, Hebraist [72]
- Ariel Durant, historian,
- Boris Eichenbaum, historian
- Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist
- Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method
- Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian
- Jean Gottmann, geographer [73]
- Zellig Harris
- Jacob Marschak, economist [74]
- Elye Spivak
Musicians
- Sophia Agranovich, pianist [75]
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer
- Mischa Elman, violinist [76]
- Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist [77]
- Samuil Feinberg, composer [78] [79]
- Emil Gilels, pianist [80]
- Maria Grinberg, pianist
- Mordechai Hershman, cantor and singer
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman, violinist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist [81]
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Pokrass brothers, composers
- Mark Reizen, operatic bass
- Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor and composer
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
- Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
- Leo Sirota, pianist [82] [83]
- Isaac Stern, violinist [84]
- Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, lutenist-composer
- Lyubov Uspenskaya, singer
- Yakov Zak, pianist
Fine artists
- Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter
- Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer
- Boris Aronson, painter and designer
- Nudie Cohn, fashion designer
- Sonia Delaunay, painter
- Maya Deren, filmmaker
- Boris Efimov, cartoonist
- Naum Gabo, sculptor
- Boris Iofan, architect
- Ilya Kabakov, conceptualist artist
- Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer
- Jacob Kramer, painter [85]
- Morris Lapidus, architect
- Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Solomon Nikritin
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Leonid Pasternak, painter
- Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
- Olga Rapay-Markish (1929–2012), ceramicist
- Mikhail Turovsky, painter
- Roman Turovsky, painter
Performing artists
- Jacob Adler, actor
- Yosl Cutler, puppeteer
- Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director [86]
- Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway)
- Aleksei Kapler, film artist
- Mila Kunis, actress [87]
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director
- Anatole Litvak, director
- Alla Nazimova, actress
- Otto Preminger, director, producer, actor
- Ingo Preminger, producer, literary agent
- Elena Ralph, model [88]
- Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian [89]
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director, who was elected the President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
Writers and poets
- Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer [90]
- Eli Schechtman, Yiddish writer [91]
- Isaac Babel, writer [28]
- Eduard Bagritsky, poet [28]
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet [28]
- Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer [28]
- Sasha Cherny, poet [92]
- Michael Dorfman, journalist and essayist
- Moysey Fishbein, poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer [32]
- Alexander Galich, playwright poet [93]
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia Ginzburg, writer [93]
- Jacob Gordin, American playwright [93]
- Erol Güney, journalist and translator [94]
- Vasily Grossman, writer [93]
- Ilya Ilf, writer [95]
- Vera Inber, poet [95]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spanish-language writer and filmmaker
- A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Clarice Lispector, writer from Brazil
- Benedikt Livshits, writer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer
- Yunna Morits, poet
- Anatoli Rybakov, writer [96]
- Boris Slutsky, war-time poet
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator [97]
Chess players
- Alexander Beliavsky [98]
- Ossip Bernstein [98]
- Isaac Boleslavsky [98]
- David Bronstein, World Championship challenger [98]
- Iossif Dorfman [99]
- Louis Eisenberg
- Alexander Evensohn [100]
- Efim Geller [101]
- Eduard Gufeld [101]
- Ilya Gurevich [101]
- Mikhail Gurevich [101]
- Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
- Gregory Kaidanov [102]
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky [102]
- Konstantin Lerner [103]
- Moishe Lowtzky [103]
- Vladimir Malaniuk [104]
- Sam Palatnik [105]
- Ernest Pogosyants [105]
- Iosif Pogrebyssky [105]
- Leonid Stein [106]
- Mark Taimanov [107]
- Boris Verlinsky [54]
- Yakov Vilner [54]
See also
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Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present-day Ukraine, before 20 century borderland region in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (later in Russian Partition and Austrian Partition).
Athletes
- Oksana Baiul, figure skater, Olympic gold [1]
- Alexei Beletski, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian [2]
- Oleksii Bychenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, 2016 European silver medallist, Olympian
- Artem Dolgopyat, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Olympic gold ( artistic gymnast - floor) for Israel [3]
- Olena Dvornichenko, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnastics [4]
- Grigoriy Gamarnik, Ukrainian-born Soviet, world wrestling champion (Greco-Roman lightweight), world championship gold and silver
- Samuel Gerson, Ukrainian-born US, Olympic silver wrestling (freestyle featherweight)
- Natalia Gudina, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, Olympian [5]
- Vadym Gutzeit (born 1971), saber fencer, Olympic champion, Youth and Sport Minister of Ukraine [6]
- Pavlo Ishchenko ("Wild Man"), Ukraine/Israel, bantamweight & lightweight boxer, 2x European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist [7]
- Moisei Kas’ianik, Ukrainian-born USSR, world weightlifting champion
- Marina Kravchenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Soviet and Israel national table tennis teams [8]
- Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer, 4x Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3x world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2x silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
- Grigory Kriss (born 1940), Ukrainian Soviet Olympic épée fencer who won four Olympic medals, including a gold medal
- Tatiana Lysenko, USSR/Ukraine gymnast, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)
- Valeria Maksyuta, Ukraine/Israel gymnast, multiple World Cup medalist, Israeli Olympian, Maccabiah Games champion [9] [10] [11]
- Valentyn Mankin, Soviet/Ukraine, 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)
- Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born USSR, 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
- Andriy Oberemko, soccer/football midfielder ( Mariupol & U21 national team) [12]
- Igor Olshansky, NFL American football defensive end
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
- Katerina Pisetsky, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnast [13]
- Maxim Podoprigora, Ukrainian-born Austrian swimmer
- Ian Rubin, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national rugby league team [14]
- Igor Rybak, Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic weightlifting champion (lightweight)
- David Tyshler (1927–2014), Ukraine-born Soviet sabre fencer, Olympic bronze medalist
- Yulen Uralov (born 1924), Ukrainian Soviet Olympic foil fencer, and USSR champion
- Iosif Vitebskiy (born 1938), Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer, and current US fencing coach
- Alexei Zhitnik, Ukraine-born Russia, hockey defenseman (NHL) [15]
- Aleksandr Kolchinsky, heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic gold.
Politicians
- Mykhailo Dobkin, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast 2010-2014
- Volodymyr Groysman, former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016–2019)
- Hennadiy Kernes, Mayor of Kharkiv 2010–2020
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2014-2015
- Pinhas Krasny, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine [16]
- Vadim Rabinovich, 2014 presidential candidate
- Moisei Rafes, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Abraham Revutsky, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019–present)
- Moishe Zilberfarb, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Alexander Zolotarev, state controller for the General Secretariat
- Yukhym Zvyahilsky, former Prime Minister of Ukraine 1993-1994 and entrepreneur
- Oleksandr Feldman, People's Deputy of Ukraine (2002–present)
- Oleksii Reznikov, 17th Minister of Defence (2021-2023)
Russian/Soviet politicians
- Karl Radek, Soviet politician [17]
- Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician [18]
- Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army, [19] [20] [21] [22] commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs
- Lazar Kaganovich, Stalinist politician and one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Holodomor and Stalinist Great Purge
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician, [23] [24] chekist
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal " Yabloko" party [25] (half Jewish)
- Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician [26] [20] [27]
Israeli politicians
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63) [28] [29] [30]
- Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician [31]
- Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69) [32] [33]
- Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78) [34] [35]
- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74) [36] [37]
- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician [38]
- Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55) [18] [39]
United States politicians
- Kirill Reznik, US Politician, Member, Maryland House of Delegates (2007–Present)
Israeli military persons
- Yaakov Dori, first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949); President of Technion. [40]
- Tzvi Tzur, sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964) [41]
Soldiers and Revolutionaries
- Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary [26] [42]
- Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy [43]
- Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist
- Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy
- Leo Deutsch, revolutionary [44]
- Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S. [45]
- Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary [46]
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion [47] [48]
- Jacob Golos, Soviet spy
- Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky) [49]
- Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy
- Alexander Parvus, revolutionary, [26] [50] major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution
- Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent [51]
- Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary [52]
- Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General)
- Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in the Far East (Major-General) [53]
- V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary [54]
- Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy
- Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II [55]
- Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odesa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921
Other Historical figures
- Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
- Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Shlomo Ganzfried, Rabbi
- Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism
- Isroel Shmulson, architect
- Simon Wiesenthal, holocaust survivor from the Nazi Holocaust, Nazi hunter, writer
- Semion Mogilevich, " boss of all bosses" of the worldwide Russian Mafia, former member of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Business figures
- Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation [56]
- Zino Davidoff
- Bernard Delfont, impresario [57]
- Lew Grade, founder of ATV [58]
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a major Ukrainian business oligarch
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal [59]
- Hryhoriy Surkis, head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentary
- Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire, steelmaker [60]
- Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, Patron of the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog [61] [62]
- Boris Lohzkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine [63]
- Michael Kogan, entrepreneur, founder of Taito
Natural scientists
- Aleksander Akhiezer, physicist
- Matvei Petrovich Bronstein
- Mikhail Gurevich
- Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, developed vaccine against cholera and plague [64] [65]
- Boris Hessen, physicist [66]
- Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist [67]
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
- Veniamin Levich, electrochemist [68]
- Boris Podolsky
- Isaak Pomeranchuk
- Jacob Rabinow
- Anatol Rapoport
- Grigory Shajn
- Iosif Shklovsky
- Vladimir Veksler
- Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist [69]
- Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952) [70]
Mathematicians
- Naum Akhiezer, mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician [71]
- Chudnovsky brothers
- Vladimir Drinfeld
- Felix Gantmacher
- Israel Gelfand
- Alexander Goncharov
- Marc Kac, mathematician
- Naum Krasner
- Mark Krasnosel'skii
- Mark Krein
- Evgenii Landis
- Boris Levin
- Leonid Levin
- Boris Levitan
- Jacob Levitzki
- David Milman
- Vitali Milman
- Pierre Milman
- Mark Naimark
- Moses Schönfinkel
- Samuil Shatunovsky
- Pavel Urysohn
Social scientists
- Solomon Buber, Hebraist [72]
- Ariel Durant, historian,
- Boris Eichenbaum, historian
- Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist
- Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method
- Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian
- Jean Gottmann, geographer [73]
- Zellig Harris
- Jacob Marschak, economist [74]
- Elye Spivak
Musicians
- Sophia Agranovich, pianist [75]
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer
- Mischa Elman, violinist [76]
- Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist [77]
- Samuil Feinberg, composer [78] [79]
- Emil Gilels, pianist [80]
- Maria Grinberg, pianist
- Mordechai Hershman, cantor and singer
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman, violinist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist [81]
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Pokrass brothers, composers
- Mark Reizen, operatic bass
- Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor and composer
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
- Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
- Leo Sirota, pianist [82] [83]
- Isaac Stern, violinist [84]
- Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, lutenist-composer
- Lyubov Uspenskaya, singer
- Yakov Zak, pianist
Fine artists
- Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter
- Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer
- Boris Aronson, painter and designer
- Nudie Cohn, fashion designer
- Sonia Delaunay, painter
- Maya Deren, filmmaker
- Boris Efimov, cartoonist
- Naum Gabo, sculptor
- Boris Iofan, architect
- Ilya Kabakov, conceptualist artist
- Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer
- Jacob Kramer, painter [85]
- Morris Lapidus, architect
- Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Solomon Nikritin
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Leonid Pasternak, painter
- Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
- Olga Rapay-Markish (1929–2012), ceramicist
- Mikhail Turovsky, painter
- Roman Turovsky, painter
Performing artists
- Jacob Adler, actor
- Yosl Cutler, puppeteer
- Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director [86]
- Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway)
- Aleksei Kapler, film artist
- Mila Kunis, actress [87]
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director
- Anatole Litvak, director
- Alla Nazimova, actress
- Otto Preminger, director, producer, actor
- Ingo Preminger, producer, literary agent
- Elena Ralph, model [88]
- Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian [89]
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director, who was elected the President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
Writers and poets
- Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer [90]
- Eli Schechtman, Yiddish writer [91]
- Isaac Babel, writer [28]
- Eduard Bagritsky, poet [28]
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet [28]
- Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer [28]
- Sasha Cherny, poet [92]
- Michael Dorfman, journalist and essayist
- Moysey Fishbein, poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer [32]
- Alexander Galich, playwright poet [93]
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia Ginzburg, writer [93]
- Jacob Gordin, American playwright [93]
- Erol Güney, journalist and translator [94]
- Vasily Grossman, writer [93]
- Ilya Ilf, writer [95]
- Vera Inber, poet [95]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spanish-language writer and filmmaker
- A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Clarice Lispector, writer from Brazil
- Benedikt Livshits, writer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer
- Yunna Morits, poet
- Anatoli Rybakov, writer [96]
- Boris Slutsky, war-time poet
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator [97]
Chess players
- Alexander Beliavsky [98]
- Ossip Bernstein [98]
- Isaac Boleslavsky [98]
- David Bronstein, World Championship challenger [98]
- Iossif Dorfman [99]
- Louis Eisenberg
- Alexander Evensohn [100]
- Efim Geller [101]
- Eduard Gufeld [101]
- Ilya Gurevich [101]
- Mikhail Gurevich [101]
- Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
- Gregory Kaidanov [102]
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky [102]
- Konstantin Lerner [103]
- Moishe Lowtzky [103]
- Vladimir Malaniuk [104]
- Sam Palatnik [105]
- Ernest Pogosyants [105]
- Iosif Pogrebyssky [105]
- Leonid Stein [106]
- Mark Taimanov [107]
- Boris Verlinsky [54]
- Yakov Vilner [54]
See also
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