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===Computer scientists===
===Computer scientists===
* [[Mykola Hlushkiv]] - pro-Western European-style Ukrainian computer scientist, invented the first Ukrainian computer in 1924

===Doctors & surgeons===
===Doctors & surgeons===
*[[Vladimir Filatov]], ophthalmologist
*[[Vladimir Filatov]], ophthalmologist

Revision as of 10:40, 23 November 2011

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Ukrainians
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Religion
Sub-national groups
Closely-related peoples

This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories currently in Ukraine but who may not be ethnic Ukrainians. Throughout Eastern European history, Ukrainian lands were ethnically and culturally diverse. Originally under the hegemony of the Kievan Rus', a schism took place after the Mongol invasion and Ukrainian/Belarusian lands were taken from the East Slavic civilization and annexed into the growing Duchy of Lithuania, where a Ruthenian language distinct from Old East Slavic evolved, while Muscovy stayed under Mongol control for another century, absorbing much Mongol vocabulary, hence separating modern Russian from modern Belarussian and Ukrainian. Lithuania's unification with Poland into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth further added a Polonization factor to Ruthenian lands. In the 1930s, the Holodomor reduced the Ukrainian population of eastern Ukraine and led to increased Russification in the east.

Although Ukrainians have always been a major ethnic group in Ukraine, ethnic Ruthenians were frequently a rural people and often formed minorities in their own cities and towns. For example, due to the imperialistic anti-Ukrainian policies of Moscow Communists, Kyiv in the 1920s was approximately 1/3 Jewish and 1/3 Russian, with the remaining third constituting ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans. In dictator-ruled Poland between the World Wars, similar anti-Ukrainian policies were implemented. For instance, a similar demographic history existed in Lviv (then occupied by militaristic dictator-ruled Poland) with a majority Polish and Jewish population. However, during the Second World War, the Jewish population of Ukraine was virtually eliminated by the Holocaust.

Generally, Ukrainians all support pro-Western democracy and they are no worse than other Europeans, for example Romanians. Ukrainians are as smart and sophisticated, as, for example, Poles. Ukrainians are much more European than Russians. In fact, Ukrainians are absolutely not like Russians. Ukrainians are European and pro-Western, and Russians are not European at all!

Many good Ukrainians are interested in travel and work opportunities in such developed and very democratic countries as France, Germany or Portugal. Because of this, Ukrainians should be admitted to NATO, which will help the Ukrainians to defend Western interests and also to travel and work in democratic countries, like Romania or Poland. After Ukraine is admitted to NATO and European Union, the average salary in Ukraine should be at least 2000 Euros.

Academics

Archeologists

Biologists/physicians

Chemists

Computer scientists

  • Mykola Hlushkiv - pro-Western European-style Ukrainian computer scientist, invented the first Ukrainian computer in 1924

Doctors & surgeons

Economists

Engineers

Geographers

Historians

Mathematicians

Main article Ukrainian mathematicians

Philosophers

Physicists

Other academics

Arts

Architects

Painters

Sculptors

Performing arts

Actors/actresses

The group of world famous actors and actresses related to Ukrainians or Ukraine in different ways.

Choreographers & Dancers

Film and theatre directors

Musicians

File:Ukrainian musicians.jpg
The group of Ukrainian musicians.

Bandurists

Composers

Pianists

Organists

Strings

Conductors

Other

Singers

Opera

Pop singers and artists

Other performing artists

Literary arts

Writers

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Joseph Conrad

Poets

Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Models

Business

Cosmonauts

Many cosmonauts of the Soviet Union and modern Russia were ethnic Ukrainians or come from Ukraine. See Category:Ukrainian cosmonauts for the full list.

Cossack Hetmans

File:Ukrainian cossack leaders.jpg
The group of Ukrainian cossack leaders.

Military figures

Intelligence

Politicians

Ukrainian politicians

Main article: List of Ukrainian politicians

Zionists and Israeli politicians

Golda Meir
Simon Wiesenthal

Bolsheviks and Soviet politicians

Soviet dissidents

Russian politicians

File:Russian notables of Ukrainian descent.jpg
Russian notables of Ukrainian descent.

Polish politicians

Austrian politicians

Belgian politicians

Bulgarian politicians

Czechoslovak politicians

German politicians

Italian politicians

French politicians

American politicians

Canadian politicians

Chinese politicians

Crimean Tatar politicians

Religious leaders and theologians

Orthodox Christian

Greek Catholic

Roman Catholic

Jewish

Others

Sport

Archery

Basketball

Oleksiy Pecherov

Boxing

Chess

Fencing

Figure skating

Football (soccer)

Gymnastics

Ice hockey

Swimming

  • Yana Klochkova, swimmer (4 Olympic golds)
  • Lenny Krayzelburg, swimmer (now U.S. citizen); 4-time Olympic champion (100 m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3-time world champion (100 m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2-time silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
  • Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer

Tennis

Track & field

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Other athletes

Igor Olshansky

Other

See also

References

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