People from Sumy Oblast

3rd President of Ukraine

Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Soviet aviator, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1991)

Russian writer and playwright (1878–1927)

Ukrainian & American artist (1882-1967)

Ukrainian footballer (1948–2024)

Ukrainian writer, historian, ethnographer, and translator (1819–1897)

Russian politician (1930–2021)

Ukrainian writer and poet

Soviet military commander (1894-1948)

Ukrainian writer (1889–1956)

Ukrainian artist (1872-1952)

Ukrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)

Russian philosopher (1835-1891)

Holocaust survivor who was killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian painter (1886-1920)

Ukrainian symbolist poet and playwright (1878–1944)

Ukrainian soviet sculptor, actor and film director (1887-1978)

Ukrainian artist (1880-1930)

Russian scientist of Baltic German origin (1826-1894)

Ukrainian writer (1899-1984)

Ukrainian composer, historian and ethnographer (1804–1860)

soviet engineer

Ukrainian writer and politician (1906–1963)

Russian writer (1888–1938)

Ukrainian scientist historian and archaeologist

Ukrainian poet, translator

Russian archaeologist (1840–1924)

Soviet aviator (1907-1941)

Ukrainian diplomat, historian and lawyer (1866-1935)

Ukrainian politician

Ukrainian-born composer and pianist (1884 - 1956)

Soviet Ukrainian politician (1894-1969)

Ukrainian general (1875-1958)

Prince of Galich

Soviet general (1903–1987)

Russian literary critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher (1835-1918)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1899–1943)

Russian revolutionary and populist (1855–1884)

military Commander of 6th Cavalry Division of the Red Army (1897–1949)

Russian linguist

Ukrainian cossack

Retired Soviet Air Force officer (1923-2020)

Ukrainian economist

Hero of the Soviet Union

Soviet commander (1897–1939)

Anton Oleksandrovych Velboi (, ; born 9 June 2000), professionally known as Wellboy, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He participated in the tenth season of the Ukrainian edition of The X Factor in the team of NK. In 2022, he was announced as one of the finalists of Vidbir 2022, competing with his song "Nozzy Bossy" and ultimately ending third.

Ukrainian writer, dissident

Soviet general

Russian doctor (c.1871–1941)

Soviet and Ukrainian lawyer and statesman (1912–1984)

politician

painter and ceramist

narodnik revolutionary (1854–1915)

Ukrainian folklorist (1833–1904)

artist (1928-2015)