There are many Ukrainian-Americans in the United States, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Ukrainian American or must have references showing they are Ukrainian American.
Artists and designers
Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor
Nudie Cohn – fashion designerdesigner
Paul Himmel - fashion and documentary photographer
Jacques Hnizdovsky - stylized realist
Andrei Kushnir - artist painter
Abram Molarsky – impressionist painter
Janet Sobel - artist "drip painting"
Bill Tytla - original Disney animators
Jim Steranko - graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator.
Boris Baczynsky
Alexander Onischuk
Sam Palatnik
Stepan Popel
Katerina Rohonyan
Anna Zatonskih
Government and civil servants
Christopher A. Boyko – US District Court Judge
Joseph V. Charyk – former 1st Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
Lev Dobriansky - professor of economics at Georgetown University and anti-communist advocate, he served as United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 1982-1986
Paula Dobriansky – American foreign policy expert; has served in key roles as a diplomat and policy maker in the administrations of five U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican; specialist in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and political-military affairs
Bohdan A. Futey – US Federal Claims Court Judge
Natalie Jaresko - former Ukrainian Minister of Finance
Boris Lushniak – former Acting Surgeon General of the United States
Roman Popadiuk - former US Ambassador to Ukraine
Ulana Suprun - acting Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
Timothy Tymkovich - US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Chief Judge
Kateryna Yushchenko - former US State Department Official and former First Lady of Ukraine
Engineers and business
Bohdan Bejmuk - aerospace engineer
Martin Cooper – "father of the cell phone"
William Dzus – inventor of Dzus turnlock fasteners for aircraft
Paul Eremenko - former Google executive
Jan Koum - founder of WhatsApp
Max Levchin - co-founder of PayPal
Igor Pasternak - CEO of Aeros
Helen Petrouskas - Vice President at Ford Motor Co.
Michael Pocalyko - investment banker
Jay Pritzker - entrepreneur and founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain
Igor Sikorsky – helicopter designer; Russian–Ukrainian on the maternal side
Stephen Timoshenko – engineer, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics
Military officers and war heroes
Jeremy Michael Boorda - US Admiral-Chief of Naval Operations
Myron F. Diduryk - Vietnam War Silver Star recipient
John W. Dutko - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
Samuel Jaskilka – General-Assistant Commandant of the US Marine Corps
Orest L. Kohut - Brigadier General US Air Force
Leonid Kondratiuk - Brigadier General in the Massachusetts Organized Malitia
Walter A. Kostecki M.D. - US Army Medical Corps Major; World War II POW and recipient of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and two Army Commendation Medals
Nicholas S. H. Krawciw – US Army Major General
Stepen M. Mellnik - US Army Brigadier General
Nicholas Minue - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
Nicholas Oresko - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
John Basil Turchin - US Civil War Brigadier General
Russ Zajtchuk, MD - Major General, US Army Medical Corp
Lydia Artymiw - concert pianist and McKnight professor of piano
Renata Babak - opera singer
Leonard Bernstein-Composer and conductor who was one of Hollywoods 10 blacklisted
Neko Case – singer, songwriter, member of The New Pornographers
Kvitka Cisyk – soprano singer
Andrij Dobriansky - bass-baritone, had the longest career with the Metropolitan Opera of any Ukrainian-born artist
Stanley Drucker - orchestra clarinetist associated with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic
Bob Dylan – singer-songwriter, poet; his paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905
Jackie Evancho - classical crossover singer
Bill Evans - jazz musician and composer
Anthony Fedorov – singer, finalist on season 4 of American Idol
G-Eazy - songwriter-rapper
Vladimir Horowitz – Jewish Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century
George Hrab – drummer, singer, songwriter and podcaster; often discusses his Ukrainian heritage on his podcast
Eugene Hütz – musician and actor; lead singer of Gogol Bordello
Lenny Kravitz – singer, instrumentalist; the family of his father Sy Kravitz has Ukrainian roots
Julian Kytasty – bandurist, traditional Ukrainian music
Matys Brothers - rockabilly musical act
Wally Palmar – musician of The Romantics
Paul Plishka - opera singer
Vyacheslav Polozov – opera singer
Sviatoslav Richter – German Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century
Dorian Rudnytsky – cellist and composer; son of Maria Sokil; his father is Ukrainian
Melanie Safka - folk singer, performed at Woodstock
Nicole Scherzinger – singer, songwriter and television music competition judge; of Ukrainian descent on her mother's side
Maria Sokil – soprano singer
Steven Tyler – singer-songwriter, frontman for Aerosmith
Peter Wilhousky - composer, educator and conductor
Your Old Droog - rapper
Mary Beck - former Detroit councilwoman and acting Mayor
David E Bonior – former Michigan Congressman and Minority House Whip
Walter Dudycz - former Illinois State Senator
Mike Enzi - US Senator from Wyoming
John S Gonas - former Indiana State Senator and judge
Maurice Hinchey – former New York Congressman (Ukrainian mother)
Roman Hirniak - former Mayor of Randolph, New Jersey
Martin Howrylak - Michigan State House of Representatives
Stephen J Jarema – former New York State Assemblyman
Gary Johnson - former Governor of New Mexico
Nick Kotik - Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
Kathy Kozachenko - former councilwoman Ann Arbor, Michigan
Chris Lilik - political activist
Lesia Liss - former Michigan State House of Representatives
Michael Luchkovich - Canada's first Member of Parliament of Ukrainian origin (born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania)
Mike Olienyk - former North Dakota State Assemblyman
Steven Pankow - former Mayor of Buffalo, New York
Kirill Reznik – Maryland State House of Delegates
Bob Schaffer - former Colorado Congressman
John Shostak - former Connecticut State House of Representative
Ted Stuban - former Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
Mark Treyger - New York City Councilman
Herman Toll - former Pennsylvania Congressman
Paul Wellstone - former US Senator from Minnesota
Kathleen Willey – major figure in the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones scandals; her father was of Ukrainian descent
Paul Copan – Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, author; President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Jim Cymbala – pastor for over 25 years of the 10,000-member Brooklyn Tabernacle church in New York City
Agapius Honcharenko – exiled Orthodox priest
Joel Bolomboy - NBA basketball player
Wayne Chrebet – NFL football player
Jakob Chychrun - NHL hockey player
Nestor Chylak – Major League Baseball umpire; member of National Baseball Hall of Fame
Gene Chyzowych - US National Soccer Team Coach and member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's Hall of Fame
Sasha Cohen – Olympic silver medalist figure skater; Jewish–Ukrainian on the maternal side
Bill Cristall - Major League Baseball player
Mike Ditka – NFL football player and coach; member of the Football Hall of Fame
Harry Fanok - Major League Baseball pitcher
Ruslan Fedotenko – Ukrainian-born NHL ice hockey player, US citizen
Jim Furyk - professional golfer
Sloko Gill - NFL football player
Wayne Gretzky – NHL ice hockey player of Ukrainian descent; US-Canadian dual citizen
Kid Kaplan – boxer
Paul Konerko - Major League Baseball player
Steve Konowalchuk - NHL ice hockey player
Mike Kostiuk - NFL football player
Dima Kovalenko (born 1977) – soccer player, currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer; born in Kiev
Lenny Krayzelburg – Ukrainian-born Olympic swimmer
Matt Kuchar - professional golfer
Bob Kudelski - NHL ice hockey player
Denis Kudla – Ukrainian-born professional tennis player
Varvara Lepchenko - professional tennis player
Terry Liskevych - US Olympics Volleyball coach
Evan Longoria - Major League Baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays; of Ukrainian descent on maternal side
Steve Melnyk - professional golfer
Charlie Metro - Major League Baseball player
Bronko Nagurski – NFL footbal player and professional wrestler; member of Football Hall of Fame
Igor Olshansky – NFL football defensive end for the Miami Dolphins; born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Oleg Prudius – WWE professional wrestler known as "Vladimir Kozlov"
Steve Romanik - NFL football player
Dmitry Salita – Ukrainian-born American boxer; also called "Star of David"
Richard Sandrak – child bodybuilder
Flip Saunders – head coach for Detroit Pistons and coaches in the NBA
Andy Seminick - Major League Baseball player
Mike Souchak - professional golfer
Wally Szczerbiak – basketball player in the NBA, currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers
Keith Tkachuk – NHL ice hockey player of Ukrainian descent; US-born citizen
Chuck Wepner - professional boxer
George Varoff - pole vaulter and former World Record holder
Ed Vargo - Major League Baseball umpire
Nikolai Volkoff - WWF professional wrestler
Scientists and scholars
Gabriel Almond - professor of political science; founder of Princeton University's, Center of International Studies
Lev Dobriansky – professor of economics at Georgetown University; U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas; anti-communist advocate; known for work with the National Captive Nations Committee, which he initiated during the Eisenhower administration, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, where he served as a chairman
Theodosius Dobzhansky - geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Katherine Esau – botanist
Alexei Filippenko – astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley; developed and runs the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope; ranked as the most cited researcher in space science 1996-2006; won the 2006 US Professor of the Year Award; elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009; frequently featured on the History Channel series The Universe
Konstantin Frank – viticulturist and winemaker, responsible for developing the thriving viticulture and wine industry of New York State, using his experience of growing the Southern European Vitis vinifera varietals in the colder climate of Ukraine
Milton Friedman - economist
George Gamow – astrophysicist; first suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy
Taras Hunczak – historian (Ph. D., professor) and media adviser; expert in East European history and languages
Roman Jackiw - MIT professor of physics
John Kanzius - inventor and radio/TV engineer
George Kistiakowsky - physical chemistry professor, member of the Manhattan Project
Lubomyr Kuzmak – pioneer within the bariatric surgery community, invented the adjustable gastric band
Max Levchin – computer scientist and internet entrepreneur; co-founder (along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) and former chief technology officer of PayPal; founded a number of other technology companies
Jane Lubchenco – environmental scientist and marine ecologist, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sonja Lyubomirsky – professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside researching positive psychology and happiness, an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and the author of The How of Happiness, a book of happiness strategies backed by scientific research
Boris Magasanik - microbiologist and biochemist
Greg Mankiw – macroeconomist; Chairman and Professor of Economics at Harvard University; known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics and publishing the best-selling economics textbook Principles of Economics; chairman 2003-2005 of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush; his was ranked the number one economics blog by US economics professors in a 2011 survey; elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007; with David Card, was elected vice president of the American Economic Association for 2014
Bruce E. Melnick - Commander, USCG and NASA Astronaut
Jeffrey Miron – economist and outspoken libertarian; chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University 1992-1998; currently Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University's Economics Department
Alexander J. Motyl - historian, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
Anna Nagurney – mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management; holds the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Simon Ramo – physicist; Russian–Ukrainian
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – Captain, USN and NASA Astronaut
pl:Roman Szporluk - historian and political scientist; former director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Eugene Volokh – law professor, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law; an academic affiliate of the law firm Mayer Brown; publishes the blog "The Volokh Conspiracy"
Michael J. Yaremchuk – plastic surgeon
Michael I. Yarymovych - Chief Scientist of the US Air Force and NASA Scientist
Writers and journalists
Kiran Chetry - CNN anchor
Jerry Cooke - photojournalist
Steve Ditko – comic book writer
Adrian Holovaty - journalist
Olena Kalytiak Davis - poet
Chuck Palahniuk – transgressive fiction novelist and freelance journalist
Mike Royko - journalist; Ukrainian father
Michael Smerconish – CNN host
Vasyl Avramenko – dancer, choreographer
Roma Prima-Bohachevsky - dancer, choreographer and dancer instructor
Juliya Chernetsky – TV personality
Maksim Chmerkovskiy – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
Valentin Chmerkovskiy – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
David Copperfield - illusionist/magician
John Demjanjuk – retired auto worker/war crimes defendant
Edward Dmytryk (1908–1999) – film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era Red Scare
Andrea Feczko - TV personality
Basil Iwanyk - Hollywood producer, noted for producing films such as, Clash of the Titans, John Wick, We Are Marshall.
Kim Kamando - radio personality
Tom Leykis - radio personality
Sky Metalwala – Seattle-area child missing since 2011; born to a Ukrainian immigrant mother.
Daniel Milstein – founder and CEO of Gold Star financial group; author of 17 Cents and a Dream
Semion Mogilevich – alleged "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates
Julia Mullock - Imperial High Princess of Korea
Andrij Parekh - cinematographer
Karina Smirnoff – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
Steven Spielberg - director, producer and screenwriter
Jackie Stallone – astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone
Igor Vovkovinskiy – Ukrainian-American law student, interviewee, and actor, best known for being the current tallest living person in the United States, at 7 feet 8.33 inches (234.5 cm); part of Ukraine's stage performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
Kendra Wilkinson - TV personality
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