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List of Ukrainian Americans


There are many Ukrainian-Americans in the United States, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Contents

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.

Actors

  • Nick Adams – actor
  • Nina Arianda - actress and Toni Award winner
  • Pat Bilon – actor
  • Matt Czuchry – actor
  • George Dzundza - actor
  • Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent
  • Taissa Farmiga – actress
  • Vera Farmiga – actress
  • John Hodiak – actor
  • Dustin Hoffman - actor
  • Milla Jovovich – actress, supermodel and musician; born in Kiev, to a Serbian father and a Russian mother
  • Danny Kaye - actor
  • Alla Korot – actress
  • Kiril Kulish – stage actor, Ukrainian Jewish
  • Mila Kunis – actress and voice actress, Ukrainian Jewish
  • Oksana Lada – actress, born in western Ukraine
  • Laryssa Lauret – Broadway, television, and film actress, of Ukrainian descent
  • Traci Lords – actress born Nora Kuzma; her father was of Ukrainian ancestry
  • Mike Mazurki – actor
  • Boris McGiver - actor
  • Alex Meneses – actress
  • George Montgomery – actor
  • Matthew Montgomery - actor
  • Leonard Nimoy – actor, Ukrainian Jewish
  • Larisa Oleynik – actress, of Ukrainian descent on her father's side
  • Kim Ostrenko – theater and movie actress, with significant roles in 16 movies; played Alice Connellan in Dolphin Tale (2011)
  • Holly Palance - actress
  • Jack Palance – actor
  • Lizabeth Scott – actress, second-generation Ukrainian on both sides
  • John Spencer – actor; Ukrainian–American on the maternal side
  • Sylvester Stallone – actor
  • Anna Sten – actress
  • Michael Stoyanov – actor
  • Lusia Strus - actress
  • Zoë Wanamaker – actress, played Susan Harper in the television series My Family; father of Ukrainian Jewish extraction
  • Katheryn Winnick – known for one of the leading roles in Vikings; originally from Canada
  • Danika Yarosh – actress

    • 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.

    • Chess players

  • 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

    • Musicians

  • 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

    • Politicians

  • 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

    • Religious figures

  • 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

    • Sports figures

  • 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

    • Other

  • 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

    • References

    List of Ukrainian Americans Wikipedia
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