Category
page 1People from Poltava Oblast
Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Hryhorii Skovoroda
Ukrainian philosopher (1722–1794)
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
Mykola Pidhornyi
Soviet politician (1903-1983)
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)
Mykola Lysenko
Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist (1842–1912)
Georgy Gapon
Russian priest (1870-1906)
Georgy Beregovoy
Soviet cosmonaut (1921-1995)
Isaak Dunayevsky
Soviet composer (1900–1955)
Sydir Kovpak
Soviet general (1887–1967)
Ivan Martinov
Russian botanist and philologist (1771-1833)
Mykola Zerov
Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literature scholar (1890–1937)
Yevgeny Grebyonka
Russian and Ukrainian poet (1812-1848)
Mykhailo Semenko
Ukrainian writer and poet (1892-1937)
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
Ukrainian writer (1924-2009)
Danylo Apostol
Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks
Vasyl Symonenko
Ukrainian poet (1935–1963)
Nikolai Zarudny
Ukrainian/Russian ornithologist (1859–1919)
Ippolit Bogdanovich
Russian poet (1743–1803)
Wladimir Burliuk
Ukrainian artist (1886-1917)
Vadym Hetman
Ukrainian statesman and banker
Leonid Hlibov
Ukrainian writer (1827–1893)
Vasily Kapnist
Ukrainian and Russian noble and poet
Heorhii Maiboroda
Ukrainian composer (1913–1992)
Viktor Kochubey
Russian noble
Sam Gerson
Olympic wrestler
Vasyl Barka
Ukrainian writer (1908–2003)
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks
Anatolii Zahorodnii
Ukrainian physicist
Maria Dahl
Ukrainian born German zoologist (1872-1972)
Evdokia Reshetnik
Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist
Oleksander Shulhyn
Ukrainian diplomat (1889-1960)
Fedir Pirotsky
Ukrainian engineer and inventor (1845-1898)
Leonid Pozen
Russian artist (1849-1921)
Yurii Mitropolskiy
Ukrainian mathematician (1916–2008)
Yevhen Adamtsevych
Ukrainian bandurist and kobzar (1904–1972)
Fedir Vovk
Ukrainian anthropologist (1847-1918)
Borys Mykolaiovych Martos
Ukrainian politician (1879-1977)
Nikifor Kalchenko
Ukrainian politician (1906–1989)
Raisa Kyrychenko
Ukrainian singer (1943–2005)
Oleksandr Bilash
Ukrainian composer (1931-2003)
Platon Maiboroda
Ukrainian composer (1918-1989)
Kost Lavro
Ukrainian artist
Orest Levytsky
Ukrainian historian, writer (1848-1922)
Natalia Panchenko
Polish-Ukrainian activist
Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk
Ukrainian writer, poet (1920-1961)
Aleksei Butovsky
Russian general and sports official
Pavel Antseborenko
Soviet soldier (1925-1944)
Serhiy Kaplin
politician
Leonid Novokhatko
politician
Mikhail Krichevsky
Soviet scientist and inventor, last surviving Ukrainian World War I veteran
Josef Rabbinowicz
Russian writer (1817–1869)
Pyotr Kapnist
Russian diplomat (1839-1904)
Vasyl' Shakhrai
Ukrainian politician
Mariia Starytska
Ukrainian actress (1865-1930)
Mykhailo Kravchenko
Ukrainian kobzar and folk musician (1858–1917)
Ivan Maistrenko
Ukrainian revolutionary (1899–1984)
Valery Storozhik
Soviet and Russian actor
Ivan Bokyi
Ukrainian journalist (1942–2020)