Viktor Ilarionovych Ivchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Іларіонович Івченко) was a Soviet film director and writer. He was the father of another film director, Borys Ivchenko.

Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkov Governorate, on October 9, 1912. In 1933 he graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College and in 1937 - the Kyiv Theater Institute. Ivchenko also was a play director of the Ukrainian Drama Theater of M.Zankovetska (1937–1953) and a film director of the Dovzhenko Film Studios (1953–1972).

Ivchenko was first married to Olha Nozhkina, later - Ninel Myshkova.

He wrote scripts for "Forest Song" (1961) and "Annychka" (1968).

• "Marina's Destiny" (1953)
• "Nazar Stodolya" (1955)
• "There is a such fellow" (1956)
• E.A. — Extraordinary Accident (1958)
• "Ivanna" (1959)
• "Forest Song" (1961)
• "Hello, Hnat!" (1962)
• "Silver coach" (1963)
• "The Viper" (1965)
• "The 10th step" (1967)
• "Frost was falling" (1969)
• "Way to Heart" (1970)
• "Sofia Hrushko" (1971)

He died on September 7, 1972, at the age of 60.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Second prize at the 2nd All-Union film festival in Kiev and the 3rd All-Union film festival in Minsk
• Shevchenko National Prize
• People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960)

In 1953, Ivchenko and Isaak Shmaruk were nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Marina's Destiny".

• Viktor Ivchenko at IMDb
• Viktor Ivchenko at Find a Grave