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The following list includes famous people of various nationalities who were born in or resided for a significant period in
Galicia (Eastern Europe) , part of
Ukraine . (18th–20th centuries).
Roman Abraham , general of the Polish Army, born in
Lviv
Eliezer Adler , founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England, born in
Stanislau
Shmuel Agnon , Jewish writer, founder of modern Israeli Hebrew literature, born in
Buchach
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz , philosopher and logician, born in
Ternopil
Izak Aloni (born Izak Schächter), Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Lviv
Antin Angelovych , first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–14), born in Hryniv, near
Bibrka
Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz , Count, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38), born in
Kraków
Alicia Appleman-Jurman , Jewish American writer, raised from the age of five in Buchach
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss), Pakistan's ambassador to UN, born in Lviv
Daniel Auster , first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem, born in Stanislau
Nahman Avigad , Israeli archaeologist, born in Zavalov, near
Pidhaytsi
Jacob Avigdor , last Chief Rabbi of
Drohobych , born in
Tyrawa Wołoska , near
Sanok
Emanuel Ax , Jewish American pianist, born in Lviv
Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer), founder of
Hasidism
Yosef Babad , rabbi and posek, born in
Przeworsk
Kazimierz Feliks Badeni , Count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
Meir Balaban , historian, born in Lviv
Adolph Baller , Austrian-American pianist, born in
Brody
Oswald Balzer , historian, born in Khodoriv, near
Zidichov
Stefan Banach , eminent mathematician, born in Kraków
Stepan Bandera , leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Uhryniv Staryi, near
Kalush
Iuliu Barasch , physician and writer, born in Brody
Kazimierz Bartel , Prime Minister of Poland, born in Lviv
Oleksander Barvinsky , Ukrainian politician, born in Shliakhnyntsi, near
Ternopil
Eugeniusz Baziak , Archbishop of Lvov and Apostolic Administrator of Kraków, born in Ternopil
Józef Bem , Polish general, national hero of Poland and Hungary, born in
Tarnów
Alexander Beliavsky , Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
Elisabeth Bergner , Austrian-British actress, born in
Drohobych
St.
Józef Bilczewski , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, born in Wilamowice near
Kęty
Josef Samuel Bloch , Austrian rabbi and deputy, born in
Dukla
Michał Bobrzyński , Governor of Galicia (1908–13), born in Kraków
Naftali Botwin , revolutionary terrorist, born in
Kamianka-Buzka
Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz , Polish general, born in
Rzeszów
Naftule Brandwein , klezmer clarinetist, born in
Przemyslany
Berl Broder (born Berl Margulis), Jewish singer, born in Brody
Aleksander Brückner , distinguished Polish slavist and historian of literature, born in
Berezhany
Martin Buber , Jewish philosopher, lived in Lviv
Solomon Buber , Jewish scholar, born in Lviv
Nykyta Budka , the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek Catholic bishop, born in
Dobromirka
Arthur Frank Burns , American economist, born in Stanislau
Zvi Hirsch Chajes , Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
Oscar Chajes , Austrian-American chess master, born in Brody
Georges Charpak , French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1992), born in Dubrovytsia
Leon Chwistek , painter, logician, philosopher, born in Kraków
Zbigniew Cybulski , Polish actor, born in Kniaże, near Stanislau
Ignacy Daszyński , Polish politician, born in
Zbarazh
Isaac Deutscher , Polish-British political activist and historian, born in
Chrzanów
Józef Dominik , Polish chess master, born in
Dobczyce
Michael Dorfman , Yiddish and Hebrew writer, born in Lviv
Albin Dunajewski , Roman Catholic Bishop of Kraków and Cardinal, born in Stanislau
Arthur Dunkelblum , Belgian chess master, born in Kraków
Karol Durski-Trzaska , general, born in Spas, near
Staryi Sambir
Elimelech of Lizhensk , great Hasidic rebbe and tzadik
Isaac Erter , Hebrew language writer, born in Janischok
Józef Feldman , historian, born in
Przemyśl
Ida Fink , Israeli writer, born in
Zbarazh
Salo Flohr , Czech-Ukrainian chess master, born in
Horodenka
Jacob Frank , Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
Ivan Franko , Ukrainian writer, born in Nahuevychi near
Drohobych
Petro Franko , Ukrainian educator, born in Nahuevychi near
Drohobych
Karl Emil Franzos , Austrian writer, born in
Chortkiv
Aleksander Fredro , Polish writer, born in Surochów, near
Jaroslav
Amalia Freud (born Amalia Nathansohn), mother of
Sigmund Freud , born in Brody
Mikhail Fridman , Russian banker of Jewish descent from Lviv
Filip Friedman , historian, born in Lviv
Henryk Friedman , chess master from Lviv
Yisroel Friedman , Hasidic Rebbe of
Ruzhin
Mordechai Gebirtig , Yiddish poet and songwriter, born in
Kraków
Abraham Gershon of Kitov , Hasidic rabbi of Kitov and Brody, born in
Kuty
Agenor Goluchowski , Count, interior minister of Austria (1859–60)
Agenor Maria Gołuchowski , Count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906)
Maurycy Gottlieb , Jewish painter from
Drohobych
Leopold Gottlieb , painter from
Drohobych
Chaim Gross , Austrian-American sculptor, born in
Kolomyia
Feliks Gross , Polish-American sociologist, born in Kraków
Henryk Grossman , Polish-German economist of Jewish descent, born in Kraków
Artur Grottger , painter, born in Ottyniowice, near
Zhydachiv
Kazimierz Górski , coach of Polish national football (soccer) team, born in
Lviv
Andrzej Kusionowicz Grodyński , Appeal Court Judge born in
Gdów
Ludwig Gumplowicz , sociologist and lawyer, born in Kraków
Wilhelm Habsburg , Austrian archduke, colonel of the
Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Yaroslav Halan , Ukrainian playwright and publicist from, born in
Dynów .
Ben Zion Halberstam , second
Bobover
Rebbe
Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, Hasidic rabbi
Naftali Halberstam , fourth Bobover Rebbe
Shlomo Halberstam , first Bobover Rebbe
Marian Hemar , poet, born in Lviv
Zbigniew Herbert , poet, born in Lviv
Maxim Hermaniuk , the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg, born in Nove Selo, near
Horodok
Arthur Hertzberg , Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist, born in
Lubaczów
Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov , the founder of
Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty)
Jerzy Hoffman , film director, born in Kraków
Roald Hoffmann , American chemist (Nobel Prize in 1981), born in
Zolochiv
Yakiv Holovatsky , Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in
Chepeli
Sydir Holubovych , Ukrainian politician, born in Towsteńskie near
Husiatyn
Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska , chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
Shimshon Holzman , Israeli painter, born in
Sambir
Bl.
Josaphata Hordashevska , Ukrainian nun, beatified by John Paul II in 2001, born in Lviv
Moses Horowitz , playwright and actor of Yiddish theatre, born in
Stanislau
Schmelke Horowitz , rabbi of Nikolsburg in Moravia, born in
Chortkiv
Mieczysław Horszowski , pianist, born in Lviv
Dmytro Hrytsai , Ukrainian politician and general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Dorozhin, near
Sambir
Lubomyr Husar , head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Cardinal, born in Lviv
Abba Hushi , Israeli politician, born in
Turka
Naftali Herz Imber , Jewish poet who wrote the lyrics of Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel, born in
Zolochiv
Leopold Infeld , physicist, born in Kraków
Karol Irzykowski , writer, literary critic, theorist of film and chess player, born in Błaszkowa near
Pilzno
Vasyl Ivanchuk Ukrainian world class chess player, born in
Berezhany
Alfred Jansa , Austrian Major-General, born in Stanislau
Marian Jaworski , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv and Cardinal, born in Lviv
Max Judd , American chess master, born in Kraków
Stepan Kachala , politician and writer, born near
Berezhany
Jaroslav Kacmarcyk , a head of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic (1918–20), born in
Binczarowa
Stefan Kaczmarz , mathematician, born in Lviv
Tadeusz Kantor , painter, theatre director, born in Wielopole
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski , general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
Wojciech Kilar , classical and film music composer, born in Lviv
Moise Kisling , painter, born in Kraków
Julian Klaczko , Polish-Austrian diplomat
Franciszek Kleeberg , general of the Polish Army, born in
Ternopil
Józef Klotz , Polish footballer, born in Kraków
Dmytro Klyachkivsky , commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in
Zbarazh
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski , general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Lviv
Yevhen Konovalets , Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Zashkiv, near Lviv
Zenon Kossak , Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in
Drohobych
Bl.
Omelyan Kovch , Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in Tlumach, near
Kosiv
Ignacy Krasicki , Prince-Bishop of Ermland and Archbishop of Gniezno, born in Dubiecko, near
Przemyśl
František Kriegel , Czechoslovak politician, born in Stanislau
Walter Krivitsky , Soviet spy, born in Pidvolochysk, near Ternopil
Nachman Krochmal , Jewish philosopher, born in
Brody
Solomiya Krushelnytska , Ukrainian opera singer
Ivan Krypiakevych , Ukrainian historian, born in Lviv
Volodymyr Kubiyovych , geographer, encyclopedist, politician (Ukrainian Central Committee), born in
Neu Sandez
Vasyl Kuk , commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krasne near
Zolochiv
Viktor Kurmanovych , general, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Galician Army, born in Vilshanitsa near
Zolochiv
Jacek Kuroń , leader of the Solidarity movement, born in Lviv
Manfred Lachs , Polish diplomat and jurist, born in
Stanislau
Salo Landau , Dutch chess master, born in
Bochnia
Hersch Lauterpacht , British judge, born in
Zhovkva
Pinhas Lavon , Israeli politician, born in
Kopychyntsi
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (de Tusch-Letz), writer, born in
Lviv
Stanisław Lem , writer, born in Lviv
Juliusz Leo , politician and academic, Mayor of Kraków (1904–1918), born in
Stebnik
Bohdan Lepky , Ukrainian poet and writer, born in Krehulets,
Husiatyn district
Hirschel Levin , Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin, born in
Rzeszów
Kost Levitsky , Ukrainian politician, born in
Tysmenytsya
Herman Lieberman , politician, born in
Drohobych
Ephraim Moses Lilien , Jewish photographer, born in
Drohobych
Marta Litinskaya-Shul , chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
Roman Longchamps de Bérier , lawyer, the last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University, born in Lviv
George Stephen Nestor Luckyj , scholar of Ukrainian literature, born in Yanchyn near Lviv
Ignacy Łukasiewicz , inventor (petroleum industry)
Jan Łukasiewicz , logician, born in Lviv
Oleh Luzhnyi , football (soccer) player and coach, born in Lviv
Vyacheslav Lypynsky , politician and historian, born in
Volodymyr-Volynskyi
Bl.
Roman Lysko , Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in
Horodok , near Lviv
Stanisław Maczek , general of the Polish Army, born in Szczerzec, near Lviv
Ephraim Zalman Margolis , Talmudic scholar, born in
Brody
Max Margules , meteorologist, born in Brody
Samuel Hirsch Margulies , Chief Rabbi of Florence, born in
Berezhany
Jan Matejko , painter, born in
Kraków
Stanislaw Mazur , mathematician, born in Lviv
Józef Mehoffer , painter, born in
Ropczyce
Andriy Melnyk , leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born near
Drohobych
Carl Menger , founder of the Austrian School of Economics, born in
Neu Sandez
Adrian Mikhalchishin , Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
Ludwig von Mises , foremost representative of the Austrian School of Economics, born in Lviv
Richard von Mises , mathematical physicist and statistician, born in Lviv
Helena Modjeska , actress, born in Kraków
Ralph Modjeski , engineer, born in
Bochnia
Kalikst Morawski , chess master, born in Boryszkowce, near
Borshchiv
Janusz Morgenstern , film director and producer, born in
Mikulińce , near
Ternopil
Soma Morgenstern , writer and journalist, born in
Budaniv
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , youngest son of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , lived and worked in Lviv
Andrzej Munk , film director, born in Kraków
Lewis Bernstein Namier , British politician and historian, born in Wola Okrzejska
Joseph Saul Nathanson , rabbi and posek, born in
Berezhany
Hryhoriy Nestor , shepherd, born in
Carpathian Mountains
Nikifor (Epifaniusz Drowniak), Ruthenian (Lemko) painter, born in
Krynica
Leopold Okulicki , general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Bratucice, near
Bochnia
Joseph Oleskiw , Ukrainian writer, born in Skvariava Nova, near
Zhovkva
Menachem Oren (Mieczysław Chwojnik), Polish-Israeli chess master and mathematician
Władysław Orlicz , mathematician from
Okocim
Ostap Ortwin , literary critic, born in Tłumacz, near Stanislau]
Bohdan Osadchuk , historian and journalist, born in
Kolomyia
Stanisław Ostrowski , third President of Poland in exile (1972–79), born in Lviv
Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński , Count, founder of the Ossolineum, born in Wola Mielecka, near
Mielec
Jan Parandowski , writer, essayist, and translator, born in
Lviv
Jakub Karol Parnas , biochemist, born in
Mokriany , near
Drohobych
Yevhen Petrushevych , President of
Western Ukrainian People's Republic , born in
Busk
Volodymyr Petryshyn , mathematician, born in Liashky Murovani, Lviv
Simhah Pinsker , archeologist, born in
Ternopil
Oskar Piotrowski , chess master, lived in Lviv
Mykola Plaviuk , President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–92), born in Russiv, near
Stanislav
Rudolf Pöch , Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Ternopil
Stepan Popel , chess master, born in Komarniki, near
Turka
Ignatz von Popiel , chess master, born in
Drohobych
Alfred Józef Potocki , Count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–71), born in
Łańcut
Omeljan Pritsak , Ukrainian historian and orientalist, born in Luka near
Sambir
Włodzimierz Puchalski , photographer and film director, born in Mostki Wielkie, near Lviv
Ivan Pulyui , Ukrainian physicist and inventor, born in
Hrymailiv
Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko , Prince, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Lvov and Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal, born in Gwoździec
Joseph Ludwig Raabe , Swiss mathematician, born in
Brody
Isidor Isaac Rabi , Austrian-American physicist (Nobel Prize in 1944), born in
Rymanów
Karl Radek , Bolshevik politician, born in Lviv
Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (Shir), born in Lviv
Alfred Redl , Austrian counter-intelligence officer, born in Lviv
Wilhelm Reich , Austrian psychoanalyst, born in
Dobrzanica , a village near
Peremyshliany
Józef Retinger , Polish-Austrian-Mexican-British political adviser, born in
Kraków
Emanuel Ringelblum , Polish Jewish historian, born in
Buchach
Shalom Rokeach , first
Rebbe of
Belz
Yehoshua Rokeach , second Rebbe of
Belz
Yissachar Dov Rokeach , third Rebbe of
Belz
Aharon Rokeach , fourth Rebbe of
Belz
Mordechai Rokeach , Rav of the town of Bilgoray, born in
Belz
Oleg Romanishin , chess master, born in Lviv
Jakob Rosanes , German mathematician, born in Brody
Jakob Rosenfeld , Chinese general, born in Lviv
Erna Rosenstein , painter and poet, born in Lviv
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan , economist, born in Kraków
Henry Roth , American writer, born in Tysmenitz near
Stanislau
Joseph Roth , Austrian writer of Jewish descent, born in Brody
Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Polish minister of foreign affairs, born in
Peremyshliany
Tadeusz Rozwadowski , Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, born in Babin, near
Kalush
Helena Rubinstein , cosmetics industrialist, born in Kraków
Jaroslav Rudnyckyj , Ukrainian Canadian linguist, born in
Przemyśl
Edward Rydz-Śmigły , Polish marshal and commander-in-chief, born in
Berezhany
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer, born in
Lviv
Dov Sadan , scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, born in
Brody
Manfred Sakel , neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, born in
Nadvorna
Adam Stefan Sapieha , Prince, Archbishop of Kraków and Cardinal, born in
Krasiczyn
Juliusz Schauder , mathematician, born in Lviv
Heinrich Schenker , music theorist, born in
Vyshnivchyk
Moses Schorr , rabbi, assyriologist and politician, born in
Przemyśl
Bruno Schulz , poet, novelist and painter, born in
Drohobych
Sholom Mordechai Schwadron , Jewish gaon of Berezhany, born in
Zolochiv
Marcella Sembrich , born in 1858 in Wisniewczyk, in Austrian Galicia, now part of Ukraine. A consummate musician, she was a major figure in the operatic world.
Meir Shapiro , Hasidic rabbi and
rosh yeshiva
Markiyan Shashkevych , poet and interpreter, born in Pidlissia near
Zolochiv
Andrey Sheptytsky , Count, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
Clement Sheptytsky , Count, Archimandrite of the Studite monks, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
Stanisław Sheptytsky , Count, general of the Polish Army, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
Roman Shukhevych , the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krakovets, near
Yavoriv
Władysław Sikorski , general, Prime Minister of Poland and commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces (1939–43), born in
Tuszów Narodowy
Stanisław Skrowaczewski , conductor, born in Lviv
Josyf Slipyj , head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in of Zazdrist, near
Terebovlia
Wacław Sobieski , historian, born in Lviv
Stanisław Sosabowski , general, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, born in
Stanislau
Jerzy Sosnowski , major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–34) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz, born in Lviv
Manès Sperber , novelist and psychologist, born in
Zabolotiv
Nissan Spivak , Jewish cantor and composer from
Belz
Hnat Stefaniv , Ukrainian colonel, born in Toporivtsi, near
Horodenka
Vasyl Stefanyk , writer, born in Rusiv, near
Kuty
Hugo Steinhaus , mathematician, born in
Jasło
Yaroslav Stetsko , leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in
Ternopil
Slava Stetsko , leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Romanivka, near
Terebovlia
Lee Strasberg , Jewish American director, actor and producer, born in
Budaniv
Julian Stryjkowski , writer, born in
Stryj
Kyryl Studynsky , head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939), born in Kamienka near Ternopil
Franciszek Sulik , chess master, born in Lviv
Karol Szajnocha , historian, born in
Komarno
Jan Szczepanik , inventor, born in Rudniki, near
Mostyska
Jan Szembek , Count, deputy secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, born in
Poręba
Józef Szujski , historian and politician, born in
Tarnów
Stanisław Tarnowski , historian and politician, born in
Dzików
Józef Teodorowicz , Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite)
Oscar Tenner , chess master, born in Lviv
Leopold Trepper , Soviet spy, born in
Nowy Targ
Metodyj Trochanovskij , Lemko activist, born in
Binczarowa
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai , Hebrew scholar, born in Lviv
Adam Ulam , historian, born in Lviv
Stanisław Ulam , mathematician, co-inventor of the H-bomb, born in Lviv
Leopold Unger , journalist, born in Lviv
Ivan Vahylevych , Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Yasen near
Stanislav
Anatole Vakhnianyn , Ukrainian politician and composer, born near
Przemyśl
Bl.
Vasyl Velychkovsky , Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop (body found incorrupt), born in Stanislau
Mykhailo Verbytsky , composer of the present National Anthem of Ukraine, born in Jawornik Ruski, near
Bircza
Dmytro Vitovsky , Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Medukha
Stepan Vytvytskyi , President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–65), born near Stanislav
Alexander Wagner , chess theoretician, lived in Stanislau
Dov Berish Weidenfeld , Chief Rabbi of Tchebin (
Trzebinia )
Rudolf Weigl , biologist, lived in Lviv
Friedrich Weinreb , Jewish philosopher, born in Lviv
Shevah Weiss , Israeli politician, born in
Boryslav
Kazimierz Wierzyński , Polish poet, born in
Drohobych
Simon Wiesenthal , hunter of Nazis, born in
Buchach
Billy Wilder , Austrian-American film director, born in
Suchá Beskidzka
Karol Wojtyła ,
John Paul II , Archbishop of Kraków, and
Pope (1978–2005), born in
Wadowice
Zev Wolf of Zbaraz , Rabbi of
Zbarazh
Stanisław Wyspiański , poet and painter, born in
Kraków
Volodymyr Yaniv , professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, born in Lviv
Daniel Yanofsky , Canadian chess master, born in Brody
Richard Yary , Ukrainian politician, born in
Rzeszów
Grigory Yavlinsky Russian politician, born in Lviv
Kordian Józef Zamorski , general, born near
Gorlice
Gabriela Zapolska , novelist and actress, born in
Pidhaytsi
Velvel Zbarjer , singer, born in
Zbarazh
Casimir Zeglen , inventor, born near
Ternopil
Michael Zohary , botanist, born in
Bibrka near Lviv
Israel Zolli , Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody