Famous Ukrainians

Below are listed famous people that are Ukrainian or of Ukrainian extraction. They are all people who have made noteworthy contributions in their respective fields. Detailed biographies are currently being prepared and the list will eventually be expanded to include many more. Ten noteworthy personalities were chosen for this listing.

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Ilya Repin 1844-1930. Artist. His most famous work is "Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan."
George Gamow 1904-1968. Born in Odesa, Ukraine. Physicist and popular science author. One of the earliest advocates of the Big Bang theory.
Igor Sikorsky. 1889-1972. Born in Kyiv. Inventor of the helicopter.
Sergey Korolev. 1907-1966. Inventor of the Sputnik, the first satellite sent into space.
Roberta Bondar. Born 1945, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Canada's first woman in space.
Georgy Voronoi. 1868-1908. Mathematician. The Voronoi Diagram, extensively used in geometry/computer science, is named after him. Sierpinski was his doctoral student.
Volodymyr Drinfeld. Mathematician. Winner of the 1990 Fields' Medal (which is the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize).
Ilya Mechnikov. 1845-1916. A Nobel Prize Laureate (1908) in Physiology and Medicine.
Simon Kuznets. 1901-1985. Born in Kharkiv. Nobel prize winner in 1971 in Economics.
Vladimir Vernadsky. 1863-1945. Geochemist. Founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1918.