famous and succesfull people of ukraine

[edit] Biologists/Physicians
Mykola Amosov
Oleksandr Bohomolets
Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1992)
Tatiana Davydova
Bohdan Osadchuk, also journalist
Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
Omeljan Pritsak, orientalist
Wolodymyr Stojko
Viktor Suvorov, WWII researcher (Ukrainian father)
Dmytro Yavornytsky, Cossack historian, archeologist

[edit] Mathematicians
Main article Ukrainian mathematicians
Boris Hnedenko
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk
Mykhailo Krawtchouk
Yakiv Kulik
Volodymyr Marchenko
Marko Naimark
Olha Arsenievna Oleinik
Volodymyr Petryshyn
Alexei Pogorelov
Platon Poretsky
Volodymyr Potapov
Anatoly Samoilenko
Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky
Samuil Shatunovsky
Anatoliy Skorokhod
Josif Shtokalo
Ivan Sleszynski
Pavlo Urysohn
Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko
Volodymyr Veksler

[edit] Philosophers
Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious philosopher
Lev Shestov, Russian existentialist philosopher
Hryhori Skovoroda

[edit] Physicists
Nikolay Bogolyubov, theory of superconductivity, nonlinear mechanics
Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia
George Gamow, liquid drop model of atom nucleus
Abram Ioffe, prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)
Isaak Khalatnikov, BKL conjecture in general relativity
Leo Palatnik, thin film physics


[edit] Other academics
Mykola Andrusov
Albert Bandura
Pavel Petrovich Blonsky
Olgerd Bochkovsky, sociologist
Isydore Hlynka
Nikolai Kholodny
Vikentiy Khvoyka
Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadian folklorist
Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer and encyclopedist
Volodymyr Kunko-Bohoslavetz, linguist/etymologist/philologist [Uk-Ra-ii-Na (Gift of-Sun-and-Moon)], designer, educator
Viktor Kyrpychov
Volodymyr Levytsky
Yuri Linnik
Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator
Georgii Pfeiffer
Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Evhen Tsybulenko (b. 1972), professor of international law
Pavlo Tutkovsky
Fedir Vovk, anthropologist and ethnographer
Robert Kravchuk, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University.

[edit] Artists

[edit] Architects
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
Vladislav Gorodetsky
Marian Peretyatkovich
Volodymyr Sichynskyi

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[edit] Choreographers
Vasyl Avramenko
Yaroslav Chuperchuk
Olexandr Dmytrenko
Leonid Kalinin
Anatoliy Krivokhyzha
Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky
Anatoly Shekera, National Opera House of Ukraine
Mykola Vantukh
Kim Vasylenko
Vasyl Verkhovynets
Pavlo Virsky, Virsky Ukrainian dance company

[edit] Archery
Tetyana Berezhna, archer
Nataliya Burdeyna, archer
Dmytro Hrachov, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
Kateryna Palekha, archer
Viktor Ruban, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
Oleksandr Serdyuk, archer (Olympic bronze - team)
Christopher Ondusky, archer
Megan Ondusky, archer

[edit] Basketball
Viktor Khryapa, basketball player
Slava Medvedenko, basketball player
Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player
Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player

[edit] Boxing
Oleksandr Dimitrenko, boxer
Volodymyr Klychko, boxer
Vitaliy Klychko, boxer
Vladimir Virchis, boxer

[edit] Chess
Lev Alburt, Ukrainian Champion (1972, 1973, 1974)
Izak Aloni, Lviv Champion (1936, 1939)
Boris Alterman
Lev Aptekar
Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian Champion (1945, 1946, 1951, 1955, 1964)
Alexander Beliavsky, Champion of the USSR (1987, and thrice jointly - 1974, 1980, 1990)
Ossip Bernstein, All-Russian Sub-Champion (1903)
Efim Bogoljubow, Champion of the USSR (1924, 1925), FIDE World Champion (1928/29), Challenger for World Championship (1929, 1934)
Fedor Bohatirchuk, Champion of the USSR (1927 - jointly), Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1924) and Champion (1937), Canadian Sub-Champion (1949)
Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian Champion (1938, 1939, 1940)
David Bronstein, Ukrainian Sub-Champion (1940), Champion of the USSR (1948, 1949 - both jointly), Challenger for World Championship (1951),