List of Ukrainian Jews
Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present-day Ukraine.
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Politicians
- Pinhas Krasny, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine [1]
- Moisei Rafes, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Abraham Revutsky, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine
- Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (2019-present)
- Moishe Zilberfarb, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Alexander Zolotarev, state controller for the General Secretariat
- Yukhym Zvyahilsky, former Prime Minister of Ukraine 1993-1994 and entrepreneur
- Volodymyr Groysman, current Prime Minister of Ukraine 2016-since
- Mykhailo Dobkin, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast 2010-2014
- Vadim Rabinovich, 2014 presidential candidate
- Hennadiy Kernes, Mayor of Kharkiv since 2010.
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2014-2015
Russian/Soviet politicians
- Karl Radek, Soviet politician[2]
- Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician[3]
- Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army,[4][5][6][7] commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician,[8][9] chekist
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal "Yabloko" party[10] (half Jewish)
- Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician[11][5][12]
Israeli politicians
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63)[13][14][15]
- Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician[16]
- Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69)[17][18]
- Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78)[19][20]
- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74)[21][22]
- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician[23]
- Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)[3][24]
Israeli military persons
- Yaakov Dori, first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949); President of Technion.[25]
- Tzvi Tzur, sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964)[26]
Soldiers and Revolutionaries
- Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary[11][27]
- Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy [28]
- Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist
- Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy
- Leo Deutsch, revolutionary[29]
- Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S.[30]
- Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary[31]
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion [32][33]
- Jacob Golos, Soviet spy
- Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky) [34]
- Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy
- Alexander Parvus, revolutionary,[11][35] major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution
- Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent [36]
- Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary[37]
- Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General)
- Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in the Far East (Major-General)[38]
- V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary[39]
- Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy
- Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II[40]
- Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odessa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921
Other Historical figures
- Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
- Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Shlomo Ganzfried, Rabbi
- Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism
- Isroel Shmulson, architect
- Simon Wiesenthal, a Nazi hunter
- Sasha Zlobina, community builder
Business figures
- Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation[41]
- Zino Davidoff
- Bernard Delfont, impresario[42]
- Lew Grade, founder of ATV[43]
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a major Ukrainian business oligarch
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal[44]
- Hryhoriy Surkis, head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentary
- Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire, steelmaker[45]
- Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, Patron of the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog[46][47]
- Boris Lohzkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine[48]
Natural scientists
- Aleksander Akhiezer, physicist
- Matvei Petrovich Bronstein
- Mikhail Gurevich
- Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, developed vaccine against cholera and plague[49][50]
- Boris Hessen, physicist[51]
- Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist[52]
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
- Veniamin Levich, electrochemist[53]
- Boris Podolsky
- Isaak Pomeranchuk
- Jacob Rabinow
- Anatol Rapoport
- Grigory Shajn
- Iosif Shklovsky
- Vladimir Veksler
- Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist[54]
- Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)[55]
Mathematicians
- Naum Akhiezer, mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician [56]
- Chudnovsky brothers
- Vladimir Drinfeld
- Felix Gantmacher
- Israel Gelfand
- Alexander Goncharov
- Marc Kac, mathematician
- Naum Krasner
- Mark Krasnosel'skii
- Mark Krein
- Evgenii Landis
- Boris Levin
- Leonid Levin
- Boris Levitan
- Jacob Levitzki
- David Milman
- Vitali Milman
- Pierre Milman
- Mark Naimark
- Moses Schönfinkel
- Samuil Shatunovsky
- Pavel Urysohn
Social scientists
- Solomon Buber, Hebraist[57]
- Ariel Durant, historian,
- Boris Eichenbaum, historian
- Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist
- Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method
- Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian
- Jean Gottmann, geographer[58]
- Zellig Harris
- Jacob Marschak, economist[59]
- Elye Spivak
Musicians
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer
- Mischa Elman, violinist[60]
- Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist[61]
- Samuil Feinberg, composer[62][63]
- Emil Gilels, pianist[64]
- Maria Grinberg, pianist
- Mordechai Hershman, cantor and singer
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Tina Karol, singer[65] (Ukrainian mother and Jewish father[66])
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman, violinist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist[67]
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist (Jewish father)
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Pokrass brothers, composers
- Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor and composer
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
- Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
- Leo Sirota, pianist [68][69]
- Isaac Stern, violinist [70]
- Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, lutenist-composer
- Lyubov Uspenskaya, singer
- Yakov Zak, pianist
Fine artists
- Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter
- Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer
- Boris Aronson, painter & designer
- Nudie Cohn, fashion designer
- Sonia Delaunay, painter
- Maya Deren, filmmaker
- Boris Efimov, cartoonist
- Naum Gabo, sculptor
- Boris Iofan, architect
- Ilya Kabakov, conceptualist artist (Jewish father)
- Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer
- Jacob Kramer, painter[71]
- Morris Lapidus, architect
- Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Solomon Nikritin
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Leonid Pasternak, painter
- Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
- Olga Rapay-Markish (1929–2012), ceramicist
- Mikhail Turovsky, painter
- Roman Turovsky, painter
Performing artists
- Jacob Adler, actor
- Yosl Cutler. puppeteer
- Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director[72]
- Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway)
- Aleksei Kapler, film artist
- Mila Kunis, actress [73]
- Anatole Litvak, director
- Alla Nazimova, actress
- Elena Ralph, model[74]
- Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian[75]
- Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director, who was elected the President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
Writers and poets
- Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer[76]
- Eli Schechtman, Yiddish writer[77]
- Isaac Babel, writer[13]
- Eduard Bagritsky, poet[13]
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet[13]
- Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer[13]
- Sasha Cherny, poet[78]
- Michael Dorfman, journalist and essayist
- Moysey Fishbein, poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer[17]
- Alexander Galich, playwright poet[79]
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia Ginzburg, writer[79]
- Jacob Gordin, American playwright[79]
- Erol Güney, journalist and translator[80]
- Vasily Grossman, writer[79]
- Ilya Ilf, writer[81]
- Vera Inber, poet[81]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spanish-language writer and filmmaker
- A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Clarice Lispector, writer from Brazil
- Benedikt Livshits, writer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer
- Yunna Morits, poet
- Anatoli Rybakov, writer[82]
- Boris Slutsky, war-time poet
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator [83]
Chess players
- Alexander Beliavsky[84]
- Ossip Bernstein[84]
- Isaac Boleslavsky[84]
- David Bronstein, World Championship challenger[84]
- Iossif Dorfman[85]
- Louis Eisenberg
- Alexander Evensohn[86]
- Efim Geller[87]
- Eduard Gufeld[87]
- Ilya Gurevich[87]
- Mikhail Gurevich[87]
- Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
- Gregory Kaidanov[88]
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky[88]
- Konstantin Lerner[89]
- Moishe Lowtzky[89]
- Vladimir Malaniuk[90]
- Sam Palatnik[91]
- Ernest Pogosyants[91]
- Iosif Pogrebyssky[91]
- Leonid Stein[92]
- Mark Taimanov[93]
- Boris Verlinsky[39]
- Yakov Vilner[39]
See also
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
- List of Galician Jews
- List of Jews born in the former Russian Empire
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