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 ).
Vadym Gutzeit 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, OlympianArtem 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 silverSamuel 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 championMarina 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 medalTatiana 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 championAndriy Oberemko , soccer/football midfielder (Mariupol & U21 national team)[ 12] Igor Olshansky , NFL American football defensive endZhanna Pintusevich-Block , Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m championKaterina Pisetsky , Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnast[ 13] Maxim Podoprigora , Ukrainian-born Austrian swimmerIan 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 medalistYulen Uralov (born 1924), Ukrainian Soviet Olympic foil fencer, and USSR championIosif Vitebskiy (born 1938), Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer, and current US fencing coachAlexei Zhitnik , Ukraine-born Russia, hockey defenseman (NHL)[ 15] Aleksandr Kolchinsky , heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic gold.President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Mykhailo Dobkin , former governor of Kharkiv Oblast 2010-2014Volodymyr Groysman , former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016–2019)Hennadiy Kernes , Mayor of Kharkiv 2010–2020Ihor Kolomoyskyi , former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2014-2015Pinhas Krasny , Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine [ 16] Vadim Rabinovich , 2014 presidential candidateMoisei 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 entrepreneurOleksandr Feldman , People's Deputy of Ukraine (2002–present)Oleksii Reznikov , 17th Minister of Defence (2021-2023)
[ edit ] 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] 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] Grigory Zinoviev , Soviet politician[ 26] [ 20] [ 27]
Israeli politicians [ edit ]
United States politicians [ edit ] Kirill Reznik , US Politician, Member, Maryland House of Delegates (2007–Present)
Israeli military persons [ edit ]
Soldiers and revolutionaries [ edit ] Pavel Axelrod , Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary[ 26] [ 42] Yakov Blumkin , Soviet spy[ 43] Naftali Botwin , revolutionary terroristMorris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spyLeo 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 spyOlga Kameneva , Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky ) [ 49] Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spyAlexander Parvus , revolutionary,[ 26] [ 50] 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 spyIona 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 1917-1921Michael Dorfman , Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activistYisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov) , Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism Shlomo Ganzfried , RabbiFanny Kaplan , would-be assassin of LeninMenachem Mendel Schneerson , Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism Isroel Shmulson, architect
Simon Wiesenthal , Holocaust survivor , Nazi hunter , writerSemion Mogilevich , "boss of all bosses " of the worldwide Russian Mafia , former member of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Jan Koum , co-founder of WhatsAppLeon Bagrit , pioneer of automation[ 56] Zino Davidoff Bernard Delfont , impresario[ 57] Lew Grade , founder of ATV [ 58] Ihor Kolomoyskyi , a major Ukrainian business oligarchMax Levchin , co-founder of PayPal [ 59] Hryhoriy Surkis , head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine , Ukrainian parliamentaryViktor 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 Kryvyi Rih [ 61] [ 62] Boris Lohzkin , President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine [ 63] Michael Kogan , entrepreneur, founder of Taito Sophia Agranovich , pianist[ 75] Simon Barere , pianistSidor Belarsky ,[ 76] Felix Blumenfeld , pianistShura Cherkassky , pianistMichael Ben David , singerIsaak Dunayevsky , composerMischa Elman , violinist[ 77] Anthony Fedorov , singer, American Idol [ 78] Samuil Feinberg , composer[ 79] [ 80] Emil Gilels , pianist[ 81] Maria Grinberg , pianistEden Golan , singerMordechai Hershman , cantor and singerJascha Horenstein , conductorVladimir Horowitz , pianistLeonid Kogan , violinistMikhail Kopelman , violinistOleg Maisenberg , pianistSamuel Maykapar , composer/pianist[ 82] Nathan Milstein , violinistBenno Moiseiwitsch , pianistDavid Oistrakh , violinistIgor Oistrakh , violinistLeo Ornstein , composerGregor Piatigorsky , cellistPokrass brothers , composersMark Reizen , operatic bassYossele Rosenblatt , cantor and composerHeinrich Schenker , music theoristJoseph Schillinger , composer, music theorist, and composition teacherLeo Sirota , pianist [ 83] [ 84] Isaac Stern , violinist [ 85] Roman Turovsky-Savchuk , lutenist-composerLyubov Uspenskaya , singerDJ Vlad , DJ, producer, interviewer, journalist, and YouTuberYakov Zak , pianistMichael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painterNathan Altman , painter and stage designerBoris Aronson , painter and designerNudie Cohn , fashion designerSonia Delaunay , painterMaya Deren , filmmakerBoris Efimov , cartoonistNaum Gabo , sculptorBoris Iofan , architectIlya Kabakov , conceptualist artistYevgeny Khaldei , photographerJacob Kramer , painter[ 86] Morris Lapidus , architectLouise Nevelson , sculptorSolomon Nikritin Jules Olitski , painterLeonid Pasternak , painterAntoine Pevsner , sculptorOlga Rapay-Markish (1929–2012), ceramicistMikhail Turovsky , painterRoman Turovsky , painterJacob Adler , actorYosl Cutler , puppeteerAbraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director[ 87] Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway)Aleksei Kapler , film artistMila Kunis , actress [ 88] Mark Donskoy , Soviet film directorAnatole Litvak , directorAlla Nazimova , actressOtto Preminger , director, producer, actorIngo Preminger , producer, literary agentElena Ralph , model[ 89] Yakov Smirnoff , American comedian[ 90] Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Ukrainian screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director, who was elected the President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election .Sholom Aleichem , Yiddish-language writer[ 91] Eli Schechtman , Yiddish writer[ 92] Isaac Babel , writer[ 28] Eduard Bagritsky , poet[ 28] Hayyim Nahman Bialik , poet[ 28] Yosef Haim Brenner , Hebrew-language writer[ 28] Sasha Cherny , poet[ 93] Michael Dorfman , journalist and essayistMoysey Fishbein , poetIlya Ehrenburg , writer[ 32] Alexander Galich , playwright poet[ 94] Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writerLydia Ginzburg , writer[ 94] Jacob Gordin , American playwright[ 94] Erol Güney , journalist and translator[ 95] Vasily Grossman , writer[ 94] Ilya Ilf , writer[ 96] Vera Inber , poet[ 96] Alejandro Jodorowsky , Spanish-language writer and filmmakerA.M. Klein , poetPavel Kogan , poetLev Kopelev , author and dissidentClarice Lispector , writer from BrazilBenedikt Livshits , writerNadezhda Mandelstam , writerYunna Morits , poetCharles Neider , writer, editor, Antarctic explorerAnatoli Rybakov , writer[ 97] Boris Slutsky , war-time poetShaul Tchernichovsky , poet and translator [ 98]
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