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.

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

 * Natalie Wood – actress Ukrainian father, Russian mother, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
 * Nick Adams – actor
 * Nina Arianda – actress and Tony Award winner
 * Anthony Atamanuik – actor and comedian
 * Pat Bilon – actor
 * Natalie Burn – actress
 * Matt Czuchry – actor
 * George Dzundza – actor
 * Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent
 * Taissa Farmiga – actress
 * Vera Farmiga – actress
 * Drake Glover – actor, mother of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry
 * Legend Glover – actor, mother of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry
 * John Hodiak – actor
 * Dustin Hoffman – actor, of Jewish descent
 * Milla Jovovich – actress, supermodel and musician; born in Kiev, to a Serbian father and a Russian mother
 * Danny Kaye – actor, of Jewish descent
 * 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
 * Walter Matthau – actor, of Jewish descent
 * Mike Mazurki – actor
 * Boris McGiver – actor
 * Alex Meneses – actress
 * Stacie Mistysyn – actress
 * George Montgomery – actor
 * Matthew Montgomery – actor
 * Leonard Nimoy – actor, Ukrainian Jewish
 * Larisa Oleynik – actress, of Ukrainian descent on her father's side
 * Bree Olson – actress and media personality, former pornographic actress
 * 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
 * Amy Seimetz – actress
 * John Spencer – actor; Ukrainian–American on the maternal side
 * 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
 * Jeremy Allen White – actor
 * Danika Yarosh – actress
 * Chris Zylka – actor

Artists and designers

 * Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor
 * Nudie Cohn – fashion designer, of Jewish descent
 * Paul Himmel – fashion and documentary photographer, of Jewish descent
 * Jacques Hnizdovsky – stylized realist
 * Andrei Kushnir – artist painter
 * Abram Molarsky – impressionist painter, of Jewish descent
 * 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 – first Director of the US 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 – American inventor, "father of the cell phone", of Jewish descent
 * William Dzus – inventor of Dzus turnlock fasteners for aircraft
 * Paul Eremenko – former Google executive
 * Nick Holonyak – inventor of the LED
 * Andrew Kay – President and CEO of now defunct Kaypro
 * 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
 * Lubomyr Romankiw – inventor; engineer
 * O. John Skubiak – former President of DeVry University
 * Igor Sikorsky – helicopter designer; Russian–Ukrainian on the maternal side
 * Stephen Timoshenko – engineer, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics
 * Harry Winston – businessman; jeweler
 * Steve Wozniak – co-founder of Apple Inc.

Military officers and war heroes

 * Jeremy Michael Boorda – US Admiral-Chief of Naval Operations
 * Bohdan Danyliw – US Brigadier General and staff judge advocate for the Air Force Systems Command
 * Myron F. Diduryk – Vietnam War Silver Star 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
 * William Lukash M.D. – Rear Admiral and Physician in the Naval Medical Corps; White House Physician for four sitting Presidents, from Lyndon B. Johnson to Jimmy Carter
 * Stephen M. Mellnik – US Army Brigadier General; World War II POW
 * Nicholas Minue – World War II Medal of Honor recipient
 * Nicholas Oresko – World War II Medal of Honor recipient
 * Michael Strank – World War II, flag raiser at Iwo Jima
 * 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
 * Michael Bolton – pop rock ballad singer and songwriter
 * 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
 * Ivan Doroschuk – lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats
 * 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
 * Peter Ostroushko – violinist and mandolinist
 * 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 Assemblyman, State Senator and judge
 * William Gural – former Mayor of Hillside, NJ; Deputy Attorney General of NJ
 * 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
 * Ben Klassen – Republican state legislator, white separatist, and religious leader
 * Nick Kotik – former Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
 * Kathy Kozachenko – former councilwoman Ann Arbor, Michigan
 * Myron Kulas – former Illinois State Assemblyman
 * 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)
 * Stephen A. Mikulak – former New Jersey State Assemblyman
 * 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
 * Victoria Spartz – Indiana State Senator
 * Arlen Spector – former US Senator from Pennsylvania
 * Ted Stuban – former Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
 * Mark Treyger – New York City Councilman
 * Herman Toll – former Pennsylvania Congressman
 * Marcel Wagner – former New Jersey State Assemblyman
 * 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
 * Sergey F. Dezhnyuk—theologian, historian, and political analyst.
 * Jim Cymbala – pastor for over 25 years of the 10,000-member Brooklyn Tabernacle church in New York City
 * Agapius Honcharenko – exiled Orthodox priest
 * Ivan Volansky – priest who organized the first Greek Catholic parish in the United States

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
 * Walt 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; Ukranian Jewish 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
 * Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986) – All-Pro NFL player
 * Wayne Gretzky – NHL ice hockey player of Ukrainian descent; US-Canadian dual citizen
 * Stephen Halaiko – professional boxer
 * Arnold Horween – NFL football player, of Jewish descent
 * Ralph Horween – NFL football player, of Jewish descent
 * Kid Kaplan – boxer
 * Paul Konerko – Major League Baseball player
 * Steve Konowalchuk – NHL ice hockey player
 * Mike Kostiuk - NFL football player
 * Dima Kovalenko – Ukrainian-born American soccer player
 * Lenny Krayzelburg – Ukrainian-born Olympic swimmer
 * Matt Kuchar – professional golfer
 * Bob Kudelski – NHL ice hockey player
 * Denis Kudla – Ukrainian-born professional tennis player
 * Kyle Kuzma – NBA basketball 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 football player and professional wrestler; member of Football Hall of Fame
 * Bronko Nagurski Jr. – Canadian football player
 * 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
 * Richie Scheinblum – Major League Baseball All Star outfielder, of Jewish descent
 * Andy Seminick – Major League Baseball player
 * Art Shamsky (born 1941) – Major League Baseball outfielder and Israel Baseball League manager, of Jewish descent
 * Mike Souchak – professional golfer
 * Eugene Starikov – Ukrainian-born American soccer player
 * 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
 * Phil Weintraub (1907–1987) – Major League Baseball first baseman & outfielder
 * 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





 * Oleg Alekseev – professor of physiology
 * 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
 * Maxwell Finland – scientist, medical researcher, an expert on infectious diseases
 * 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
 * John-Paul Himka – professor of Ukrainian history
 * 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
 * George Shevelov – professor; Ukrainian linguist
 * Frank Sysyn – professor of Ukrainian history
 * 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
 * Arnold Zellner – economist; statistician

Writers and journalists

 * Kiran Chetry – CNN anchor
 * Jerry Cooke – photojournalist
 * Steve Ditko – comic book writer
 * Richard Ellmann – literary critic and biographer
 * Adrian Holovaty – journalist
 * Olena Kalytiak Davis – poet
 * Dzvinia Orlowsky – poet, translator and professor
 * Chuck Palahniuk – transgressive fiction novelist and freelance journalist
 * Anna Politkovskaya – journalist, writer
 * Mike Royko – journalist (Ukrainian father)
 * Michael Smerconish – CNN host
 * Yuriy Tarnawsky – writer and linguist
 * Neale Donald Walsch – author

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, of Jewish descent
 * 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.
 * Taras Maksimuk – Tech destroyer of YouTube, 5.7 million subscribers.
 * 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, of Jewish descent
 * Jackie Stallone – astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone, maternal Jewish descent
 * Gene Stupnitsky – writer and producer
 * Igor Vovkovinskiy – Ukrainian-American law student, interviewee, and actor, best known for being the current tallest living person in the United States, at 7 ft; part of Ukraine's stage performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
 * Kendra Wilkinson – TV personality