The Famous and Notable Ukrainians List is a list of over five
people
with links discussing their contributions. The people listed were
either born in what are today's boundaries of Ukraine, or were/are of
Ukrainian ancestry. The
emphasis is on people who would be known OUTSIDE Ukraine
within their particular area of specialization. There is no claim that all
the people listed are "ethnically" Ukrainian but they all have some
Ukrainian connection.
This list is maintained by
Dr. Myron Hlynka, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
hlynka@uwindsor.ca
If you are interested in the Mathematics and Statistics program at the
University of Windsor, click
HERE.
The concept for The Famous and Notable Ukrainians Web Page came from the
Montreal
ukemonde (www.ukemonde.com)
of Montreal, from the nomination form of Dr. Roman
Yereniuk for the World's hundred most important Ukrainians, as suggested in
the Ukrainian Voice newspaper in December, 1999, and from an article in
the Spring, 2000 issue
of FORUM: A Ukrainian Review, (Number 101), edited by Andrew
Gregorovich. That article, titled "Hall of Fame of Ukraine," is highly
recommended. (for more information on FORUM, go to
http://www.infoukes.com/forum
There is some order in our
list. It includes sports, art, science, literature, history, music,
politics, movies and TV, religion.
The highly regarded
multi volumed English language
Encyclopedia of
Ukraine
(from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) has been used to
obtain some of the information.
If you find someone interesting in the list below, we recommend that
you perform a search using Google. Most of the people have many web pages which
reference them. Enjoy!
Ruslan Ponomariov. Ukrainian chess player. In
1998, at age 14, he became the youngest Grand Master in history. Born
Horlivka, Ukraine. On January 23, 2002, he won the FIDE World Championship
and became the youngest world champion in chess history (at age 18).
Currently (October, 2007) ranked 21 in the world. http://www.ponomariov.com/?lang=eng
Vasyl Ivanchuk. Ukrainian Chess Player. As of October, 2007,
he
was ranked 2nd in
the world in chess, according to
FIDE rankings.
On Jan 23, 2002, he lost in the finals of
the FIDE World Championship to fellow
Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov for the world title.
http://www.chessgames.com/player/vassily_ivanchuk.html
Sergey (Serhiy) Karyakin. Ukrainian chess player. In August, 2002,
the twelve year old Ukrainian became the youngest grandmaster in
history. Currently (October , 2007) ranked 24 th in the
world.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=310
Wayne Gretzky. Born 1961. Ranked #1 on the list of the top 50
hockey players of all time (according to a TOP 50 list compiled in 1998 by
The Hockey News).
He holds many of the most important NHL
records. Wayne's paternal grandmother was
born in Pidhaitse, Ukraine, and his paternal grandfather was born in
Belarus. The first language that Wayne's father Walter learned at home
in Canada was Ukrainian. In fact, when Walter had a stroke, much of his
memory was temporarily lost and for a time, he found that he could only
speak Ukrainian. Wayne's father Walter seems to believe incorrectly that
his ancestry is Polish/Russian, rather than the correct
Ukrainian/Belarussian ancestry.
Walter's mother did indeed come from
"Poland" in 1928 because West Ukraine was under Polish rule at the time.
Walter's father Tony identified himself as Belarus (according to Walter's
autobiographical book) but Walter misinterprets this to mean "Russian
upper class."
http://www.waynegretzky.com/
Terry Sawchuk. 1929-1970. Born Winnipeg. Perhaps the greatest hockey
goalie ever. He still holds the NHL record for shutouts. He also has the
second highest (after Patrick Roy) total NHL wins among goalies.
See
Shutouts list.
Listed #9 in the
top 50 hockey players of all time (compiled 1998), and is the top listed
goalie. Played
most of his career with the Detroit Red Wings.
http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=p197103#photo
Bill Barilko. 1927-1951. Hockey legend. He scored one of the most
famous goals ever to win the 1951 Stanley Cup for the Toronto Maple
Leafs. He died that same year
in a airplane crash. In the book "Barilko: Without a Trace" (2004), the
author indicates that both of Barilko's parents were born in
Belarus, but other statements in the book indicate that the family
considers itself to be of Ukrainian descent.
http://www.mikeboon.com/billbarilko.html
Andriy Shevchenko. Born 1976 in Kyiv. Formerly one of the top soccer
players in the world. He played for Milan (Italy) and in 2006 signed
with Chelsea in England. He may be the best known
Ukrainian in the world today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Shevchenko
Oleh Blokhin. Ukrainian soccer superstar from the 1970's under
the outstanding coach Valery Lobanovsky (d. 2002), when Kyiv Dynamo had the
best team in Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Blokhin
Igor Olshansky. Ukrainian born football player with the San Diego
Chargers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Olshansky
Other NFL players born in Ukraine are Art Dorfman (1929 Buffalo Bisons)
and Charles Goldenberg (Green Bay Packers, 1933-1945).
Larissa Latynina. Gymnast. Born 1934 in Kherson. She was the
first female athlete to win nine gold medals at the Olympic Games.
In total, Latynina won 18 medals at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics,
more than any Olympian ever.
http://www.intlgymnast.com/legends/latynina.html
Oksana Baiul. Born 1977, in Dnipropetrovske. Olympic Gold Figure
Skater. Her gold medal performance at the 1994 Olympics was the most
dramatic in history, when she eked out a win over Nancy
Kerrigan. Oksana had endured an injury during a crash in practice with
another skater and
Kerrigan had earlier been attacked by thugs (hired by competitor Tonya
Harding) and beaten on her knees. The final decision was a 5-4 split
vote.
http://www.oksanastyle.com/
Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are two of the top boxers in the
world.
Both hold doctoral degrees in sports education.
On April 24, 2004, Vitali defeated Cory Sanders to win the
WBC Heavyweight World championship. He later retired, ran for maor
of Kyiv and came in second. In April, 2006,
Wladimir won the IBF/IBO WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.
http://www.klichko.com
Ukrainian Canadians Randy Ferbey, Orest Meleschuk, Ed Werenich, Ed
Lukowich, Kerry
Burtnyk, and Kathy
Pidzarko have all been world curling champions. See
http://www.curling.com/worldmen.htm
Alison Sydor. Born 1966, Edmonton. Canadian mountain bike specialist.
Former world champion. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics in
Atlanta. She
has been Canada's female athlete of the year several times. I think she's
of Ukrainian background, but have not been able to confirm this.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2186/index2.htm
Mike Ditka. 1939- . Born Pennsylvania. American football player, coach
and TV commentator. In an autobiography, he refers to his Ukrainian ancestry.
http://www.usdreams.com/Ditka.html
Ivan Piddubny (aka Ivan Poddubny). 1871-1949. Professional wrestler.
"was acclaimed World champion at Paris in 1905 and went undefeated on the
mat for 25 years".
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2000/210017.shtml
Steve Podborski. 1957- . Canadian skier. Olympic Bronze medal in 1980
at Lake Placid. 1982 World Cup Downhill champion. Steve's paternal
grandmother was from Mshanec, Kopychyntsi, Ternopil oblast, Ukraine.
(Thanks to Tom Clarke for information.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Podborski
Lenny Krayzelburg. Ukrainian born American Olympic swimmer who won
three gold medals (two individual and one team) at the 2000 Olympics
in Sydney, Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Krayzelburg
Yana Klochkova of Ukraine won two gold medals in swimming at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. She repeated this feat with two gold
medals in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
http://www.tyr.com/yanaklochkova.php
At the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Ukrainians won several gold medals. Gold medalists include
Elbrus Tedeyev (Men's 66kg Freestyle wrestling)
Natalya Skakun (Women's 63kg Weight lifting)
Yuriy Bilonoh (Men's Shot Put)
Yana Klochkova (Women's 200m Individual Medley Swimming)
Olena Kostevych (Women's 10m Air pistol)
Yana Klochkova (Women's 400m Individual Medley Swimming)
Yuri Nikitin (Men's Trampoline)
Iryna Merleni (Women's wrestling Freestyle 48kg class)
Valeri Goncharov (Gymnastics- Parallel Bars)
Mykola Milchev
of Ukraine shot a perfect
score of 150 to equal the world record, set a new Olympic mark and win the
men's skeet gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Other Athletes.
Timur Taimazov won an Olympic Gold Medal in weight lifting,
Atlanta,
1996.
Serhiy Honchar is a top level Ukrainian cyclist.
Andrei Vedenmeer is a professional climber who was born in Simeis,
near Yalta. He was the 1995, 1996 world champion in speed climbing.
Kateryna Serebryanska won the Olympic gold medal in rhythmic
gymnastics in Atlanta, 1996.
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block is a world class sprinter.
Tamara Press won gold in the women's shotput and silver in the
discuss
at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
ARTISTS
William Kurelek. 1927-1977. Ukrainian Canadian artist.
Some of his paintings have sold for hundreds of thousands of
dollars. His books Prairie Boy's Summer and Prairie Boy's Winter are
Canadian art book best sellers.
http://www.tundrabooks.com/authors/Kurelek_w.html
Joseph Shuster. 1914-1992. Canadian. Co-creator (with Jerry Siegel) of
the comic book character Superman. His mother Ida was born in Kyiv.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster
Andy Warhol. 1928-1987. American (born) pop artist. One of the best
known American artists. His most famous pieces are a portrait of
Marilyn Monroe and a picture of a Campbell's Soup Can. His parents came
from Eastern Slovakia of Rusyn background. Many Rusyns consider
themselves to be Ukrainian while other Rusyns consider themselves to be a
separate ethnic group.
http://www.warhol.org/
Michael Martchenko. 1943- . Born Paris. Ukrainian Canadian illustrator
of children's books, most written by Robert Munsch. Parents will
recognize such titles as "Fifty Below Zero," "Moira's
Birthday," "Thomas' Snowsuit." Ukrainian Canadians will recognize the
titles "Silver Threads," a book about the internment of Ukrainian Canadians
in Canada during WWI written by Marsha Skrypuch, and "Enough," a book
about the 1932-33 Famine Genocide against Ukraine by Stalin and
the Soviet regime, which resulted in up to 7 million deaths.
http://www2.uwindsor.ca/~hlynka/six63.html#anchor1
http://www.annickpress.com/authors/martchenko.asp?author=251&author2=380
Katya Krenina, Ukrainian American illustrator of children's books, including
"The Birds' Gift," "Castle of Cats," and "The Spider's Gift," all written by
Eric Kimmel, on Ukrainian themes.
http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Katya_Krenina.html
Louis Choris (1795-1828). Ukrainian born artist. Sailing on a Russian
exploration ship, he was one of the
early painters of people and places in Hawaii, Alaska,
and California. The only portraits of Hawaian king Kamehameha were
painted by Choris.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/09.html
Louise Nevelson. 1899-1988 Well known American artist and
sculptor. Her work can be found in the Metropolitan and the
Guggenheim Museums in New York, among many other prominent musuems. Born
in Kyiv, Ukraine. She appears on a year 2000 U.S. postage stamp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevelson
Vladimir Tatlin. 1885-1956. Born in Kharkiv. Founded an art
movement called "constructivism," which is related to Malevich's
"suprematism."
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=73240
Yaroslava Surmach Mills. American artist, author and illustrator.
http://www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/revglass/surmach1.htm
Especially well known are Yarolsava's illustrations for the book "The
Mitten" based on a Ukrainian
folktale, retold by Alvin Tressault. (not to be confused with the
other well known version by Jan Brett)
John Jaciw. Canadian graphic artist. He has designed two Canadian
commemorative coins, the logo of the city of Windsor, Ontario, has drawn
hundreds of carttons for the humor magazine Vsesmikh (BCECMIX), and has
done extensive art work the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of
Detroit.
http://www2.uwindsor.ca/~hlynka/ten13.html#anchor1
Edward Burtynsky. Ukrainian Canadian photographer. (1955-)
His exhibits have appeared in major international galleries.
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
Dr. Mehemed Fehmy Agha (1896-1978). Artist. Photographer. Born in
Ukraine and educated in Kyiv and Paris. Pioneering art director for Vogue,
House & Garden, and Vanity Fair.
http://design.rit.edu/biographies/agha.html
Al Hirshfeld. 1903-2003. American. The greatist line artist of the
20th century. Ukrainian born mother. The name of his daughter Nina
appears in most of his caricatures.
http://www.alhirschfeld.com/bios/alhirschfeld.html
Oleg Antonov. 1906-1984. Airplane designer. Born near Moscow, Russia.
Lived in Kyiv from 1952-1984. The Antonov Design Bureau in Kyiv designs and
manufactures the largest airplanes in the world. On May 7, 2001, the
world's biggest plane successfully completed its first test flight in
Ukraine after being modernized, officials said. The giant An-225 Mriya rose
into the air at the Antonov aviation design bureau's airfield at Hostomel,
near the capital Kyiv, and spent about 30 minutes in flight.
1.
http://www.air-and-space.com/ruslan.htm
2.
http://www.tiaca.org/content/inductees/Oleg_Konstantinovitch_Antonov.asp
George Gamow. 1904-1968. Born in Odesa, Ukraine. Physicist and popular
science author. One of the earliest advocates of the Big Bang theory.
Other famous physicists with Ukrainian connections include
Lev Landau (born in Azerbijan, taught in Ukraine) , Julius
Edgar Lilienfeld, a contributor to the development of x-rays and
transistors.
Roman Kroitor. Born 1926, Yorkton, Saskatchewan. IMAX movie projection
was invented by Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and Bill
Shaw in 1968. The very first presentation produced for the IMAX projection
system was Tiger Child. Roman Kroitor produced and Donald Britton directed
the first film for the IMAX system for the Fuji Pavilion at Expo '70 in
Osaka.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Kroitor
Ivan Pulyui. 1845-1918. Inventor. It seems that Pulyui has a strong
claim that he was the inventor of X-rays, rather than Roentgen,
who is generally given credit.
http://www.histomed.kiev.ua/agapit/ag2/ag02-65e.html
Viktor Bunyakovsky. 1804-1889. Mathematician. Born in Bar, Vinnitsa
oblast. Best known for his discovery of the integral form of the
(Bunyakovsky) Cauchy Schwarz inequality. According to Michael Steele,
Cauchy was first (in 1821) with the summation version, Buyakovsky was
second (in 1859) wiht the integral version, and Schwarz was third, 25
years after Bunyakovsky.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bunyakovsky.html
Mykhailo Krawtchouk. 1892-1942. Creator of Krawtchouk
polynomials. There have
been several mathematical conferences in Ukraine in his honor.
Kravchuk Polynomials Home Page.
Other mathematicians. The site
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/ in Scotland
has a large amount of information on the history of mathematics.
A subsite lists mathematicians born in Ukraine.
Click Here to see list of mathematicians born in Ukraine.
Among the
biographies that can be found there are
Sergei Bernstein (as in Bernstein polynomials),
I.M. Gelfand (functional analysis, Lie algebras),
Mykhailo Ostrogradsky (according to
Mathematics Dictionary (3rd ed.) by James and James, 1968,
the divergence theorem of advanced calculus is sometimes
called Ostrogradsky's theorem and sometimes called Gauss'
theorem; Ostogradsky gave its first published proof),
Anatoli Skorokhod (as in
the
Skorokhod topology in probability),
Pavel Urysohn (as in Urysohn's lemma in topology),
Jan Lukasiewicz (inventor
of reverse Polish notation),
Richard von Mises (Feller credits von
Mises as the creator of the concept of a sample space in
probability). Other mathematicians born in Ukraine include probabilist
Mark Kac(born in Kremenetz, Ukraine, or Krzemieniec in Polish),
Gregory and David Chudnovsky (computation of the digits of pi),
Vladimir Anisimov (specializing in queueing
theory), Myroslaw and Valentyna Gorbachuk.
Among those who taught or studied in Ukraine were
Aleksandr Lyaponov
(as in Lyaponov's Central Limit Theorem; he was a professor of
Kharkiv University from 1885 to 1902),
Vladimir Steklov (as in the Steklov
Institute),
Dmitry Grave (algebraist),
Stefan Banach (as in Banach spaces),
Hugo Steinhaus
(his book Mathematical Snapshots is a classic),
Evgeny Slutzky (as in Slutzky's theorem in Statistics),
Boris Gnedenko (well
known for his research and books in probability),
Jerzy Neyman (of the Neyman Pearson lemma in Statistics; see Amstat
News, Sept., 2001 for an article which mentions Neyman's Ukrainian
connections), and
Waclaw Sierpinski (number theory).
Other mathematicians, like
Anna Nagurney (specializing in operations research), are of
Ukrainian ancestry.
Lviv was the site of a major Polish University up until WWII. We
have yet to ascertain the background of Glivenko (as in the
Glivenko-Cantelli fundamental theorem of probability). But he has a
Ukrainian sounding name.
Milton Friedman. 1912- . Nobel Prize for economics. 1976. His
parents were born in Carpatho Ukraine. The Friedman test of
nonparametric statistics is the non parametric analog of two way
analysis of variance. Remarkably, Friedman created this test in the
1930's while the Kruskal-Wallis test, which is the analog of one way
analysis of variance, did not appear until the 1950's. Apparently,
Friedman needed a particular type of statistical test for his Master's
thesis in Economics, and since
nothing was available, he invented the test that bears his name.
http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1976/friedman-autobio.html
Konstantin Buteyko. 1923-2003. Ukrainian medical doctor. He has
developed a breathing method may be helpful in reducing asthma symptoms.
There is some Australian research to support the method. Buteyko's name
appears frequently on the web.
http://members.westnet.com.au/pkolb/buteyko.htm
Isydore Hlynka. 1909-1983. Biochemist. Winner of the Brabender
and Osborne Medals in Cereal Chemistry. Ukrainian Canadian community
leader. Founding President of the Shevchenko Foundation.
http://www2.uwindsor.ca/~hlynka/isydore.html
Jacob (Yakiv) Parnas. (1884-1949). Born in Mokryany, Drohobych
district. Biochemist. The Emden Meyerhoff Parnas Pathway is a series of
reactions for oxidizing glucose.
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Parnas
Sylvia Fedoruk. Born Saskatchewan. Contributions
in science, sports and politics. She is a medical physicist,
she was a member of a Canadian champion curling team, and she was
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (appointed 1986).
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=151
Nicholas Holonyak. American Inventor of the Light Emitting Diode (LED)
which is used in VCR's, microwave ovens, car brake lights, and traffic
lights. See article in
FORUM magazine (Winter, 1995) for his
Ukrainian background.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/holonyak.html
Gregory Breit. 1899-1981. American physicist. Born Nikolayev,
Ukraine. Developed the use of pulse radio signals which is the basis for radar.
http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/gbreit.html
Katherine Esau. American botanist. 1898-1997. Born Ekaterinoslav
(now Dnipropetrovske), Ukraine. Author of six
texts. Member of the American Academy of Sciences. "She absolutely
dominated the field of plant anatomy and morphology for several
decades," said Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical
Garden.
http://www.botany.org/bsa/misc/esau.html
Harry Wasylyk. Canadian inventor of the the polyethylene
garbage bag in 1950 in Winnipeg. The invention was bought by
Union Carbide which came out with the original commerical
"Glad" garbage bag. Harry Wasylyk was born November 8, 1904 in Narol,
Manitoba to Ivan and Paraskevia Pretula Wasylyk who had emigrated from
Verbowitz, Galicia, Ukraine in 1902.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blGarbageBag.htm
Jacques Bolsey (aka Jacques Bolsky). Developer of a type of movie
camera. Started the Bolsey Camera company. Born in Ukraine. The BOLEX
brand of movie cameras are world famous. (Try a search on BOLEX and
see.)
http://www.alpareflex.com/History.htm
Edward Ginzton. American electrical engineer. Born in Ukraine.
Helped in the development of the klystron tube, a forerunner of radar.
Helped pioneer radio therapy for cancer treatment.
http://www.svec.org/hof/1995.html
Samuel Harris. Dentist. Born in Ukraine.
"Among the first dentists in the US to concentrate his practice
on children, he founded in 1927, the American Society of Dentistry for
Children." Dr. Harris' major gift made possible the creation of the
Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry (dedicated in June,
1996).
http://ipumich.temppublish.com/public/mtoday/alumnotes/display.php
Dr. Alexander Kalina. Ukrainian born inventor and engineer.
Developed the "Kalina cycle" to replace the standard "Rankine
cycle" for a much more efficient energy conversion from coal to
electricity. The Tokyo based company,
EBAREX, is based on this method.
http://www.idalex.com/main.htm
Vladimir Vernadsky. 1863-1945. Geochemist. Founded the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences in 1918. He created the concept of the earth as a
biosphere. He also coined the term "biosphere."
"Biospheres, as a class of objects to study, are defined as an
energetically open, materially closed life systems, natural or
artificial, capable of long term self-renewal under the proper
conditions."
http://www.tstu.ru/eng/kultur/nauka/vernad/vertitul.htm
Harry Messel. 1922- . Canadian born Australian nuclear
physicist. He founded a group of schools in Australia called
"Science Schools" through which passed thousands of Australian and
international young science students. He wrote or edited over 60
books. The Feb. 19. 2001 issue of Ukrainsky Holos/Ukrainian Voice
(p.5) included comments on his Ukrainian ancestry.
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/messel/messel_professor.htm
Dimitry Ivanovsky. 1864-1920. Born in Nizy (perhaps in Ukraine,
perhaps in Russia, I have contradictory information on
this). Microbiologist. He was the first to discover any type of virus in
1892, while studying tobacco plants in Ukraine.
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,44043+1+43075,00.html
Albert Bandura. 1925- . Prominent American psychologist. Born Mundare,
Alberta.
"My mother is Ukrainian and my father is Polish." according to an e-mail
received by this website from Dr. Bandura. Author of the seminal book
"Social Learning Theory."
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/bandurabio.html
Mykola Hohol (Nikolai Gogol). 1809-1852. Famous Ukrainian writer in
the Russian language. His most famous book is Taras Bulba, a story about
the Ukrainian kozaks.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gogol.htm
Ivan Kotlyarevsky. Ukrainian author. Credited with being the father of
the modern Ukrainian language from his famous work Eneida (a kozak parody
of the Virgil's classic story Aeneid). For some excellent art
illustrations of this
work, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kotlyarevsky
Sholom Aleichem. 1859-1916. Born Pereyaslav. Yiddish language author.
The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" is based on one of his stories.
http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/
Honore de Balzac. "The world-celebrated French writer and romanticist,
HONORE de BALZAC, was in Ukraine during the years 1847-1850. He lived in
the village of Verkhivnia near Kiev, in the home of his beloved, Eva
Hanska, whom he married in Berdychiv in 1850, a few months before his
death." (from Ukraine in Foreign Comments and Descriptions)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm
Alexander Pushkin. 1799-1837. Russian author and poet. In May 1820
Pushkin was banished because of his political poems. He was
transferred south to Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine. He was then moved to Kishinev
(Moldova), and in 1823 to Odesa, Ukraine.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/puskin.htm
Paul Celan. 1920-1970. French German poet. Wrote in German. Born
in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. (This city has also had the names
Cernauti when it was part of Romania and Czernowetz when it was part of
Austria.)
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/celan/#bio
Alexander Solzhenitzen. Russian author. His maternal grandfather
Zakhar Shcherbak was ethnic Ukrainian and born in Ukraine.
Nikolai Ostrovsky. 1904-1936. Ukrainian born supposed author of
Communist propaganda novel "How the Steel was Tempered." I was surprised to
learn from a Chinese student that this novel is very popular in
China.
http://www.sovlit.com/bios/ostrovsky.html
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Russian language author. Author of The
Cherry Orchard and The Seagull. Born in Taganrog (Tahanrih). This city was
part of Ukraine from 1918 until 1924 when it became part of Russia.
http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/
Sam Spewack. 1899-1971. Born in Ukraine. Co-author with wife Bella,
of the play "Kiss me, Kate" on which Cole Porter's musical is based.
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=8603
Marsha Skrypuch.
Five of her books "Silver
Threads,"
"Enough," "Hope's War," "Kobzars' Children," "Prisoners in the
Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk,
Spirit Lake 1914" have Ukrainian Canadian themes.
http://www.calla.com
Mike Royko. 1932-1997. Chicago Tribune reporter. Winner of the Pulitzer
Prize. Author of "Boss," about Chicago mayor John Daly. His father was born
in Dolyna, Ukraine and his mother was born in Warsaw, Poland.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/29/royko/
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (aka Bogdan Chmielnicki in Polish). Ukrainian kozak
hetman. Rebelled against Polish rule of Ukraine 1648. Signed 1654 Treaty of
Pereyslav with Muscovy, which resulted in tragedy for Ukraine. He was
the subject of the famous novel With Fire and Sword by Polish author Henryk
Sienkiewicz. This book was turned into a Classic Comic and made into
the most expensive Polish made movie of all time (1999). Generally
Khmelnytsky is a hero to Ukrainians for his breaking Ukraine free from
the Poles, but he is despised for his allowing Ukraine to fall under
Russian rule. He is considered to be a villain by Poles and Jews.
http://www.lvivbest.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-144-page-1.html
George Kolshitsky. Born Sambir. He is credited with introducing
coffee to Europe (from Turkey). He was a participant in the
Turkish seige of Vienna in 1863, from which he learned about coffee.
http://www.bluebottlecoffee.net/who_we_are_story.html
Agapius Honcharenko. 1832-1916. "The first nationally
conscious" Ukrainian in the United States." He published the newspaper
"The Alaska Herald" 1868-1872 in Russian with a Ukrainian supplement.
He died on the "Ukraina" ranch, in Hayward, California, now a
California memorial memorial site.
http://www.donaldlaird.com/landmarks/counties/1000-1100/1025.html
Sidney Reilly, ("Ace of Spies.") His real name was Sigmund Georgievich
Rosenblum and he was born near Odesa, Ukraine in 1874. He is considered
to be greatest spy ever and was the basis of the character James Bond.
http://www.britannica.com/seo/s/sidney-george-reilly/
Johann/John Lhotsky. 1795-1866. Botanist and physician. Born in
Lviv. He made major explorations in Australia, including being the first
European explorer to reach the Benambra area in 1834.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020100b.htm
MUSIC (conductors)
Olexander Koshetz. 1875-1944. Choir director. Composer. He helped
popularize Ukrainian music outside Ukraine. At one time, a performance
of his Ukrainian National Chorus performance held the world record
for audience attendance other than a
sporting event. It is said that George Gershwin heard the choir in New
York City and that his song Summertime is based on a Ukrainian lullaby
heard in the performance titled "Oy khodyt' son."
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1997/249714.shtml
Artur Rodzinski. 1894-1958. Born in Croatia. Grew up in Lviv. Conductor
of The Los Angeles Philharmonic (1929-1933). Conductor
and Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra (1933-1943). Conductor and
Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (1943-47).
http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,3,1,4,4
Lawrence Welk. 1903-1992. American band leader. Born in North
Dakota. His family is of German background
from the Odesa area, according to the web site below. The Lawrence Welk
Show was the longest-running musical variety show in television
history, 16 years on ABC and 11 more years in syndication.
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/lawrence_welk/welk3.html
Semen Hulak Artemovsky. 1813-1873. Composer of opera "Zaporozhetz za
dunayem" (Kozaks beyod the Danube), one of the finest light operas ever
composed, and deserving to be much better known. Some information on
him can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhets_za_Dunayem
Mykola Leontovich. 1877-1921. Composer. Best known for his arrangement
of Shchedryk, which became known in North America as "Carol of the Bells."
For several midi versions of the carol, visit
http://www.midiworld.com/cmc/xmas.html
Peter Tchaikovsky. 1840-1893. Born in Russia to a Ukrainian father
and a French mother. His Symphony #2 is nicknamed "Ukrainian Symphony"
becuase of its use of Ukrainian folk themes. He wrote an opera "Mazepa"
based on Pushkin's poem. His family owned estates in Ukraine and he collected
Ukrainian folk music.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5648/Tchaikovsky.htm
Leonard Bernstein. 1918-1990. American Composer, conductor.
"The only musicians [his father] Sam had known had been klezmers --
impoverished, itinerant entertainers in his native Ukraine."
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/
Elmer Bernstein. 1922- . Academy Award and Emmy winning American film
composer. Composed the scores as The Man With The Golden Arm,
The Magnificent Seven, Thoroughly Modern Millie, True Grit. His mother
Selma Feinstein was born in Ukraine.
http://www.elmerbernstein.com/bio/bio.html
Bela Bartok. Hungarian composer. 1881-1945. Hungarian composer. Lived
Nagyszollow (now Vinogradov, Ukraine) 1889-1894 where he wrote
his earliest compositions.
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bartok.html
Dmitri Tiomkin. 1899-1979. Born Kremenchuk, Ukraine. American
film composer. Academy award for score of movie High Noon, also best
song from that movie "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" (1952). Two other
Academy Awards for score to movies "The High and the Mighty" (1953) and
"The Old Man and the Sea" (1958). A U.S.A. postage
stamp was issued in his honor. (1999)
http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/
Stepan Rak. 1945- . Prolific Czech composer and guitarist. "...
identifies the village Chust in Ukraine as the place where the newborn
infant, who was later christened as Stepan Rak, was found by
Soviet soldiers in a bomb-wrecked house."
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/music/main.htm#bio
George Gershwin. 1898-1937. American composer. His song "Summertime"
has an opening which resembles the Ukrainian lullaby "Oy khodyt' son." He
also composed "Cossack Love Song" which has an even stronger resemblence to
the Ukrainian fold song "Ikhav kozak za Dunai." George's brother
Ira Gershwin
(1896-1983), was a talented lyricist, who wrote the lrics
for dozens of well known favorites including "Summertime." Both
borthers were born in New York into a family which came from Ukraine.
http://www.americancomposers.org/gershwin.htm
Vernon Duke. 1903-1969. American composer. Original name was
Vladimir Dukelsky. Born near Pskov Russia, Grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine.
He coposed the music to the song "April in Paris" and "Taking a Chance on
Love," among many others.
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=64
Marusia Churai. (lived in the seveteenth century). Supposedly the
composer of the very famous Ukrainian song "Oty ne
khody Hrytsiu" whose melody was used in the American popular song
"Yes My Darling Daughter" the first hit of singer Dinah Shore in 1939.
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1998/129821.shtml
Kvitka Cisyk. American singer. Well known for Ford's "Have you driven
a Ford -- lately?" She also sang the film version of the song "You
Light up my Life."
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0759241.html
Chantal Kreviazuk. Singer. Year 2000 Juno Award winner for best female
performer and for the best Pop/Adult album. The Juno Awards are Canada's
music awards. An article appearing in The National Post on March 11
says "Of Ukrainian ancestry on both sides, Ms. Kreviazuk has romantic
memories of her maternal grandparents playing violin and harmonica
together."
http://www.chantalkreviazuk.com/
Randy Bachman. 1943- . Canadian singer with bands "The Guess Who" and
"Bachman-Turner Overdrive." He is Ukrainian on his mother's side (his
mother's maiden name is Dobrinsky). Brother Robbie obviously has the same
background.
http://www.randybachman.net/
Joey Gregorash. Canadian singer, songwriter, producer. Juno Award
(Canadian entertainment award) for
outstanding male vocal performance in 1971. Gold record for "Together"
(1987). Still active in music.
http://www.joeygregorash.ca
Paul Brandt. Canadian country and western singer. Winner of
Year 2000 Juno award for the top Canadian Country singer.
http://www.paulbrandt.com/
Salomea Krushelnytska. 1873-1952. Famous opera singer. It is said that
her performance of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madam Butterfly at Brescia in
1904, turned a failing opera into a success.
http://www.orpheusandlyra.com/Krushelnytska.html
Stepan Pasicznyk. "Ludwig." Formerly with the famous British band "The
Ukrainians" (including Pete Solowka, Roman Remeynes, Len Liggins)
Stepan is currently with a British group called "The Ukes."
http://www.the-ukrainian.co.uk
Pavlo Virsky. 1905-1975. Ukrainian dancer and dance director.
The Virsky Ukrainian Dancers are among the best in the world.
There is a biography of Pavlo Virsky in Ukrainian and English at the
Virsky web site below. Also a great slide show with music.
http://virsky.com/
Serge Lifar. 1905-1986. Dancer and choreographer, who revitalized the
Paris Opera Ballet and was the primary figure of modern French
ballet. Born
in Kyiv.
http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/4941.html
Vladimir Malakhov. Born Kryvyy Rih, Ukraine, 1969. One of the best
male ballet dancers in the world. A principle dancer with the American
ballet theater. Moved to Moscow at age 10 to study at the Bolshoi Ballet
Theater.
http://www.primeart.gr/uk/ARTISTS/malakhov.htm
Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Belotserkovsky. This husband and wife team
are current major stars with the American Ballet Theatre, and are
among the top ballet pairs in the world.
http://irinamaxballet.com/
Milla Jovovich. American actress, born in Ukraine. She starred in
movies such as The Fifth Element, Joan of Arc. She has one CD titled In The
Glade. http://www.millaJ.com
George Montgomery. American actor and artist. 1916-2000. "Born in
Brady, Montana, George Montgomery Letz was the youngest of 15 children born
to Ukrainian immigrant parents and grew up on a sprawling ranch where he
honed real-life cowboy skills."(from an obituary on yahoo.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Montgomery
Vera Farmiga. Ukrainian American actress. One of her lead roles is in
the 2006 Martin Scorcese movie "The Departed."
http://www.jenexmedia.com/vera/
Edward Dmytryk. 1908-1999. Ukrainian American author and movie director
of such movies as "The Caine Mutiny." He was jalied for contempt for not answering the court about his
communist party activities. After jail, he realized that he had been duped into joining the
communist party and he identified other party members. The communists he identified and
the procommunist community in Hollywood and the press never forgave him. Film critic
Roger Ebert was one of those who unfairly condemned Dmytryk.
http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/July-99/Film-director-Edward-Dmytryk.htm
Alexander Dovzhenko. 1894-1956. Film producer and Director. His movie
"Zemlya" ("Earth") (a Soviet propaganda film about collectivization of
farms in Ukraine) is considered one of the
most artistic ever made.
http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/liber001.htm
Anatole Litvak (1902-1974). American movie director, screenwriter.
Born Kyiv. His movie "Snake Pit" (1948) makes Piero Scaruffi's List
of the 1000 Best Movies of all Times.
http://www.nndb.com/people/314/000078080/
Halya Kuchmij. Canadian film director. She directed "Laughter in My
Soul" (about Jacob Maydannak), "The Strongest Man in the World" (A Genie
Award winning film about Michael Swistun), "The Fullness of Time" (about
Alexander Szpak).
http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/i/11/biography.html
Steven Speilberg. American movie producer. All four grandparents
were
from Ukraine. In 2006, he visited Ukraine for the showing of the film
"Spell Your Name," a documentary he coproduced with Viktor Pinchuk,
about Babiy Yar, a site outside Kiev where the Nazis slaughtered more
than 33,000 Jews in two days in September 1941. Later, non Jewish
Ukrainains were murdered there by the Nazis, to bring the total to
200,000. Among them was the Ukrainian poet Olena Teliha, who perished
at Babiy Yar with her husband February 21, 1942.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000229/
Richard W. Haines. Movie Director. ("Soft Money"2004; "Unsavory
Characters" 2001; "Run for Cover" 1995; "Space Avenger" 1991, etc.)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354286/bio
Alex Trebek. Host of TV information quiz show "Jeopardy." Born in
Sudbury, Ontario of a Ukrainian Canadian father and a French Canadian
mother. Click on "Behind the Answers" in the link below to get a bio of
Alex Trebek.
http://www.spe.sony.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/
Danny Kaye. 1913-1987. American movie star. Born Brooklyn,
NY. "He was born David Daniel Kaminsky, the son of an immigrant Ukrainian
tailor." In the movie The Inspector General, he sings the "Lutche Bulo"
section of the Ukrainian song "Yikhaw Kozak za Dunay."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/kaye_d.html
Walter Matthau. 1920-2000. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky in New York.
American actor whose father was a peddler in Kyiv before coming to
the United States. In the movie House Calls, he played a Ukrainian American
medical doctor.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2000/0701/breaking22.htm
Paul Muni. 1895-1967. American actor of the 1930's. Academy
award for Best Actor in The Story of Louis Pasteur. Born in Lviv,
Ukraine.
http://www.fau.edu/library/br109.htm
Some other well known actors/actresses include
Mimi Kuzyk (Winnipeg born regular on Hill Street Blues),
George Dzundza (Ukrainian American actor born in Germany, starred
in movie "The Deer Hunter"),
Anna Sten (1908-1993, Born in Kyiv. American movie actress in the
1930's),
Tamara Gorski (Winnipeg born actress on Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys TV show, and on the miniseries HAVEN),
Mila Kunis
(Kyiv born American actress on the TV show
"That 70's Show."),
Alla Korot (Odesa born actress on ALL MY CHILDREN),
Elisabeth Bergner (German actress from the 1930's, born in Drohobych,
nominated (did not win) for Academy Award for best actress in Escape Me
Never, 1935),
Xenia Desni, Ukrainian born French silent movie actress.
1894-1954. Seems to have been quite popular (lots of postcards - check
e-bay),
Tamara Desni, daughter of Xenia Desni.
Viktor Yushchenko. President of Ukraine. 2005-?
On November 21, 2004,
there was an election in
Ukraine for President. Yushchenko's opponents tried to poison him,
to run him off the road in his car. Through massive fraud, Viktor
Yanukovych claimed victory in the November 21 election. A re-election
on December 26, 2004, rightfully gave Viktor Yuschenko the presidency of
Ukraine.
http://www.president.gov.ua/en
David Bonior. Michigan. Former Congressman David E. Bonior served as
Democratic Whip, which is the second-ranking elected position in the House
Democratic Leadership. He is the highest ranking person of
Ukrainian ancestry ever in U.S. politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Bonior
Mary Beck. 1908-2005. Long time Detroit council woman, and Ukrainian
American
community activist. An interesting web site below includes a
transcript of an interview with a small but interesting
reference to Mary Beck. Search on Beck in the site below.
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/
Joseph Lieberman. Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in the
U.S. 2000 election. According to the Ukrainian Weekly (October 15, 2000,
p.3), Lieberman said
that he traces his family background back to Chernivtsi in Ukraine.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/07/lieberman.bio/
Senator Arlen Specter. "My father come to this country when he was 18, in 1911,
from a village called Batchkerina in Ukraine."
http://www.senate.gov/~specter/
Ron Unz. He unsuccessfully ran for the GOP nomination for Governor of
California. He successfully pushed for Proposition 227, which abolished
bilingual education in California. He is the grandson of immigrants from
Ukraine. He made a fortune in the computer industry.
http://www.onenation.org/0798/071698o.html
Glen Murray. Former mayor of Winnipeg. of Ukrainian ancestry on
his mother's side, he grew up in the Ukrainian community in Montreal.
In the Winnipeg website below, note the colors of the Winnipeg flag,
and the description.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Murray_%28politician%29
Paul Yuzyk. 1913-1986. Canadian senator, historian and Ukrainian
Canadian community leader. Author of numerous books on Ukrainian
Canadian history.
http://www.yuzyk.com/index.shtml
Ernie Eves. Former premier of Ontario. his party lost power in the
October 2, 2003 election. He is of Ukrainian background on his
mother's side as mentioned in his political brochure "Ernie: Because
We've
Come So Far." In his concession speech, he again mentioned his
mother's Ukrainian background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Eves
Other Canadian politicians of note include
Michael Luchkovich (first Ukrainian Canadian Member of Parliament),
Vera Danyluk, Mayor of Mount Royal (Quebec) and former chair of the
Montreal Urban Community,
Michael Patrick (mayor of Windsor 1955-64),
Laurence Decore (former mayor of Edmonton),
Norman Cafik
(minister of multiculturalism in the Trudeau government),
Dr. Harvie Andre (long time Alberta MP and minister in
the Mulroney government).
Saint Andrew. One of the original apostles of Christ. Legend says that
he visited Kyiv and preached the gospel. He is the patron saint of
Ukraine and Scotland.
http://www.crosslink.net/~hrycak/histucc.html
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. 1831-1891. Born Ekaterinoslav
(Dnipropetrovske), Ukraine. "Principal founder of the Theosophical Society,
largely responsible for introducing Eastern religious philosophy to the
Western world." In May, 2000, there were 13,000 web pages referencing her
on AltaVista!
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/bio-hpb.htm
Robert Cizik. Retired CEO of Cooper Industries, Inc. Cizik led
Cooper from a company with revenues of 300 million dollars annually to
a company with revenues of 5 billion dollars annually.
http://www.koppers.com/htm/OurCo_Lead_Cizik.html
Lewis Selznick. 1870-1933. Born in Kyiv. Hollywood movie distributor.
Father of David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind producer).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783681/bio
Jay Pritzker. Died 1999. Founder of the Hyatt hotel chain
and one of the richest men in the USA. "His penniless grandfather
arrived in Chicago in 1881 from ... Kiev."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker
Helen Petrauskas. 1944-2006. Born in Lviv, Ukraine. Ford Motor Company
vice president of Environmental and Safety Engineering. She
"instrumental in introducing airbags as standard equipment in cars."
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/03/11/000365.html
Izzy Asper. 1932-2003. Canadian businessman. Owned CanWest Global TV
network. "Both
my grandmother, Golda Zwet (nee Barsky) and my grandfather,
Ben-Zion Zwet, an orthodox Rabbi, were born in the Ukraine in 1882 and 1879
respectively."
http://www.canada.com/national/features/asper/index.html
Gerald Fedchun. President of the APMA (Automotive Parts Manufacturing
Association) of Canada, a organization representing companies that do
billions of dollars in business. He has also been involved with the
Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.apma.ca/
Fran Rodgers. Founder and CEO of Work Family Directions, a consulting
firm for making the workplace more family friendly. In one article there
was a reference to her "Ukrainian grandmother."
http://www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=3304
Lew Grade. 1906-1998. Chair of ITV. Louis Winogradsky was born on 25th
December 1906 in Tokmak, a small village near the city of Odessa. He was
One of the most important people in the history of British television. He
was the first producer of Jim Henson's The Muppet Show, which had been
rejected by three American networks. The larger-than-life mogul was
associated with The Muppets, The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Robin
Hood, William Tell, The Buccaneers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Grade
Max Levchin. Co-founder of PayPal, a popular method of paying
for items purchased over the web.
http://www.levchin.com/
Jacob "Jack" Liebowitz. 1900-2000. Comic book publisher. Born
Proskurov, Ukraine. Co-founder of DC Comics, which published
Superman and Batman, as well as All American Comics which published
Wonder Woman.
http://www.markjuddery.com/html/tributes/2000_jacob_liebowitz.html
EDUCATION
Michael Zin. Former Dean of Business, University of Windsor. Co-author
of the best selling university accounting text "Fundamental Accounting
Principles: Canadian Edition".
Constantine Andrusyshen. 1906-1983. Author and translator. Ukrainian
English Dictionary. Translations (with Watson Kirkconnell): Ukrainian
Poets. The Poetical Works of Taras Shevchenko
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cius/ukrcan/ucp-press/dut-gra.htm
George Vernadsky. 1887-1973. American historian. Author of Bohdan,
Hetman of Ukraine (1944). Author of major books on the History of
Russia. Son of Vladimir Vernadsky, founder of the Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vernadsky
Noam Chomsky. American linguist, author, social radical. "His father,
William, a Hebrew scholar, had emigrated from a small village in the
Ukraine".
http://www.chomsky.info/
Danylo Struk. 1940-1999. Ukrainian literature
scholar. Author of a Ukrainian grammar.
Editor of the English language 5 volume Ukrainian Encyclopedia.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cius/eu/eu-struk.htm
CANADIAN AUTHORS (note listed elsewhere)
Orest Subtelny. Author of major History of Ukraine, and other books.
Lubomyr Luciuk. Author of Searching for Place and other books.
Roma Franko. Translator of Ukrainian literature books into
English.
Savella Stechishin. Canadian author of Traditional Ukrainian Cookery,
a book that has gone into over twenty printings - the most popular
book ever published by Trident Press in Winnipeg.
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1998/069813.shtml
"LIST NUMBER 2". We have created a companion
list
to the "Famous Ukrainians List." The people on the second list are
generally not as well known. But
there achievements may be just as exceptional (or more so) as those on the
first list. Entering the "List Number 2" above will provide links to these
people. A summary list appears below.
The "Famous Ukrainians"
list is getting too long so a second list will allow some flexibility.
List 2 includes:
Johnny Gottselig. Hockey player.
Andrei Medvedev. Tennis player.
Greg Rusedski. Tennis player
Andy Boychuk. Ukrainian Canadian distance runner.
Jerome Drayton. Canadian distance runner.
Eduard Gufeld 1936-2002. Chess player, author.
Bill Werbeniuk. Canadian world level snooker player.
Vlad Eshenko. Canadian Wheelchair Basketball HALL OF FAME.
Terry Evanshen. Canadian football player.
Vasyl Virastyuk. Contender for title of World's Strongest Man.
Vladimir Borovikovsky. Artist.
Frederick Kiesler. Artist architect.
John Jaciw. Graphic Artist.
John Eberson. Theatre Designer.
Bruce Friedle. American artist.
Hovhannes (Ivan) Aivazovsky. Artist.
Arthur Fellig. Amercian photogrpaher.
Zellig Harris. Mathematical linguist.
Oleh Hornykiewicz. Medical Researcher.
Boris Sidis. Psychologist.
William James Sidis. Prodigy.
Samuel Abraham Corson. Animal psychiatrist.
Abram Besicovitch. Mathematician.
Abram Joffe. Physicist.
Grigoriy Neujmin. Ukrainian astronomer
Ivan Semenenko. British inventor.
Ivan Semeniuk. Canadian astronomy journalist for the Discovery
Channel.
Moses Gomberg. Chemist.
Louis Diamond. American hematogist.
Nicholas Krawciw. Retired US Army General.
Arnold Dyck. Writer.
Vladimir Bobri. Guitarist, author, composer, illustrator.
Wojciech Kilar. Film composer.
Leo Ornstein. Pianist and composer.
Lydia Artymiw. Pianist.
Mark Taimanov and Lyubov Bruk. Piano Duo. Mark (chess
grandmaster).
JewishGen Shtet Links: Ukraine. Some of the regions, towns and cities
have lists of famous Jewish Ukrainians. For example, try Volhynia and
Suchostav.
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/ukraine.html
For a list of people nominated by readers of this list
(Yukhym Mykhailiv, Vasyl Chaplenko, Elias Shklanka, Steve Kushneriuk,
John (Jack) Seneshen, William (Bill) Seneshen, Leo Sabulsky),
go to
Readers' Choice.
