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What famous people have come from Ukraine?

Asked by flutherother (34855points) March 13th, 2022

Trying to find some positive thoughts beyond the death and destruction.

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Klitschko brothers.
Boxing.

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Brian1946's avatar

Leo “the Lion” Trotsky.

Movie-set, criminally-negligent-homicide victim Halyna Hutchins

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Oksana Baiul, 1993 ladies World Figure Skating Champ and the 1994 Olympic gold medalist.

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Nikolai Gogol, Sergei Prokofiev, Joseph Conrad, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Horowitz

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Leonard Nimoy’s parents

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Louis B. Mayer

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I don’t know. A friend of ours adopted two children from Ukraine.

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Zaku's avatar

not yet mentioned:

Modern:
Alexander Vindman
Semion Mogilevich

Soviets:
Leonid Brezhnev
Semyon Timoshenko

Old-timers:
Oleg of Novgorod
Vladimir the Great
Yaroslav the Wise
Anna Porphyrogenita
Empress Eupraxia of Kiev

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Milla Jovovich.

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