Lists of famous or notable people from Ukraine.

• Oksana Baiul, figure skater
• Igor Belanov, footballer
• Oleg Blokhin, footballer
• Valeri Borzov, track & field
• Sergey Bubka, pole vault legend
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, gymnast
• Tatyana Gutsu, gymnast
• Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
• Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
• Yana Klochkova, swimmer
• Inessa Kravets, track & field
• Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen)
• Larisa Latynina, gymnast
• Valeriy Lobanovs'kyi, coach
• Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
• Victor Petrenko, figure skater
• Lilia Podkopayeva, gymnast
• Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player
• Kateryna Serebrians'ka, gymnast
• Andriy Shevchenko, footballer
• Oxana Skaldina, gymnast
• Timur Taimazov, heavy athletics
• Olexandra Tymoshenko, gymnast
• Olena Vitrychenko, gymnast

• Maksym Berezovsky (ca.1745–1777)
• Dmytro Bortniansky (1751–1825)
• Mykola Diletsky
• Oleksander Koshetz
• Mykola Leontovych
• Borys Lyatoshynsky
• Mykola Lysenko
• Kyrylo Stetsenko
• Valentyn Silvestrov
• Myroslav Skoryk
• Artemy Vedel
• Yakiv Yatsynevych

• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Kazimir Malevich
• Levko Revutsky
• Opanas Slastion, folklorist, inventor of modern type of bandura, painter and bandurist, first illustrator of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar", architect

• Grigori Chukhrai, film director
• George Dzundza, actor
• Edward Dmytryk
• Alexander Dovzhenko,movie director,screenplay writer
• Irina Dvorovenko
• Maria Guleghina, opera soprano
• Jill Hennessy
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Milla Jovovich
• Alla Korot
• Mila Kunis
• Ana Layevska, Ukranian-born, Mexican actress
• Anatole Litvak
• Ruslana Lyzhichko, winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest
• Lewis Milestone
• Paul Muni
• David Oistrakh
• Jack Palance, Oscar winning actor
• Sviatoslav Richter
• Isaac Stern
• Yakov Smirnoff

• Anna Akhmatova, poet
• Sholom Aleichem
• Isaac Babel
• Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita
• Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim (He was a Pole born in today's Ukraine)
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxist humanist
• Nikolai Gogol
• Ivan Franko, poet
• Taras Shevchenko, poet
• Lesya Ukrainka, poet
• Olena Teliha,poet

• Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.

• Anatoly Onoprienko

• Leonid Kadeniuk
• Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko, Hero of The Russian Federation
• Yuri Petrovich Gidzenko, Hero of The Russian Federation

• Kryshtof Kosynsky
• Severyn Nalivaiko
• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
• Taras Fedorovych
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky
• Ivan Vyhovsky (1657–1659)
• Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659–1663)
• Pavlo Teteria (1663–1665)
• Petro Doroshenko (1663–1676)
• Ivan Mazepa (1687–1709)
• Ivan Skoropadsky (1709–1722)
• Danylo Apostol (1727–1734)

• Hayim Arlosoroff, Zionist
• Mykola Azarov former Acting Prime Minister
• Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, ethnically Russian, born in Ukraine
• Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist
• Nikita Khruschev, leader of the Soviet Union
• Leonid Kravchuk, president of Ukraine 1991–1994
• Leonid Kuchma, prime minister of Ukraine 1992–1993, President of Ukraine 1994–2005,
• Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), anarchist
• Anastassia Lisowska (Khourrem) (c. 1510–1558), (wife of Suleiman the Magnificent)
• Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist
• Kirill S. Moskalenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian independence fighter.
• Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist
• Leon Trotsky, Marxist thinker and a founder of the Soviet Union
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko
• Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister of the Soviet Union
• Grigori Ivanovich Kulik, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Andrei I. Eremenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Andrei A. Grechko, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Warsaw Pact (1960–67), Defense Minister of The Soviet Union
• Borys Tarasyuk, current foreign minister of Ukraine.
• S.K. Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
• Yuliya Tymoshenko, current prime minister of Ukraine.
• Viktor Yushchenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, current President of Ukraine
• Viktor Yanukovych, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, unsuccessful candidate for President of Ukraine
• Nikolai Podgorny

• Izzy Asper, founder of CanWest Global Communications, Canada's leading international media company.
• Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician
• Sasha Cohen
• Mike Ditka, American football player and coach
• William S. Paley, CBS executive who expanded the company into television.
• Paul Wellstone

• Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), founder of the Theosophical Society
• Hryhori Skovoroda
• Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov) founder of Hasidism
• Nachman of Breslov
• St. John (Maximovitch) of Tobolsk
• St. Peter Moghila
• St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco

• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
• George Gamow
• Sergei Korolev
• Trofim Lysenko
• Igor Sikorsky
• Mykola Kybalchych (nickname), the founder of missile engine theory, executed participant of 19th century anti-Tsar terrorist plot in Russia

• Elena Filatova
• Georgiy Gongadze, journalist murdered in 2000 with alleged involvement of Ukraine's president Leonid Kuchma and other high-ranked statesmen
• Filip Konowal (1888–1959) Ukrainian-Canadian World War I hero, awarded the Victoria Cross

See also: List of Slavs, List of Ukrainian Jews, List of people by nationality, list of people