Famous Jewish People from Ukraine

Comedian-turned-politician, elected as the 6th president of Ukraine in 2019

Russian revolutionary and double agent who assassinated Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin at the Kyiv Opera House in 1911

Former heavyweight boxing world champion who became the mayor of Kyiv in 2014

Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the Red Army, assassinated in Mexico in 1940 on Stalin's orders

Writer and journalist born in Brody best known for his depiction of Jewish gangsters in "Odessa stories"

Writer and journalist born in Brody best known for his his Austro-Hungarian epic "Radetzky March"

Mystic and healer, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism

Rabbi and great-grandson of the above, founder of the Breslov Hasidic Movement

Jewish man wrongfully accused and framed for the ritual murder of a four-year-old Ukrainian boy in 1911, leading to an anti-Semitic wave in the Russian Empire

4th Prime Minister of Israel and the first female head of government in the Middle East