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 and are sufficiently notable to merit a Wikipedia article.

Actors and comedians

Nick Adams – actor, screenwriter
Odessa Adlon – actress
Nina Arianda – actress and Tony Award winner
Anthony Atamanuik – actor and comedian
Pat Bilon – actor
Natalie Burn – actress
Matt Czuchry – actor
Dimitri Diatchenko – actor
Diana Domna — actress
Irina Dvorovenko – ballet dancer and actress
George Dzundza – actor
Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent
Taissa Farmiga – actress
Vera Farmiga – actress
John Hodiak – actor
Dustin Hoffman – actor, of Jewish descent
Milla Jovovich – actress, supermodel and musician; born in Kyiv, 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
Olga Lezhneva – actress born in Kharkiv; Ukrainian mother
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
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
Holly Palance – actress
Jack Palance – actor
Ryan Potter - actor
Sasha Roiz – actor, Ukrainian Jewish
Lizabeth Scott – actress, second-generation Ukrainian on both sides
Amy Seimetz – actress
William Shatner – actor
Isaac Liev Schreiber – actor
John Spencer – actor; Ukrainian–American on the maternal side
Anna Sten – actress
Michael Stoyanov – actor
Lusia Strus – actress
Mia Tyler – actress, model
Igor Vovkovinskiy – Ukrainian-American law student, interviewee, and actor, best known for once being the tallest person in the United States, at ; part of Ukraine's stage performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
Zoë Wanamaker – actress, played Susan Harper in the television series My Family; father of Ukrainian Jewish extraction
Jeremy Allen White – actor
Katheryn Winnick – actress
Natalie Wood – actress
Danika Yarosh – actress
Chris Zylka – actor

Film, media, radio, television

Juliya Chernetsky – TV personality
Edward Dmytryk – 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
Vera Farmiga – actress and director
Mila Kunis – actress
Taissa Farmiga – actress
James Gray – director, producer and screenwriter, Jewish-Ukrainian
Basil Iwanyk – Hollywood producer, noted for producing films such as, Clash of the Titans, John Wick, We Are Marshall.
Kim Kamando – radio personality
Taras Kulakov – life hack YouTuber better known as CrazyRussianHacker
Tom Leykis – radio personality
Taras Maksimuk – YouTuber, created "TechRax" channel focused on destructive testing of technology, 7.6 million subscribers as of October 2022.
Andrij Parekh – cinematographer
Matej Silecky – director, professional figure skater
Steven Spielberg – director, producer and screenwriter, of Jewish descent
Gene Stupnitsky – writer and producer
Alex Trebek – television host
DJ Vlad – interviewer, journalist, YouTuber, and former disc jockey, of Jewish descent
Kendra Wilkinson – TV personality
Nikocado Avocado – YouTuber, known for his Mukbangs

Artists and designers

Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor
Nudie Cohn – fashion designer, of Jewish descent
John Eberson – architect best known for his atmospheric theatre style theatres. His most notable surviving theatres include the Palace Theatre, State Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Paramount Theatre and Tampa Theatre.
Paul Himmel – fashion and documentary photographer, of Jewish descent
Jacques Hnizdovsky – stylized realist
Peter Hujar – photographer
Andrei Kushnir – artist painter
Abram Molarsky – impressionist painter, of Jewish descent
Luba Perchyshyn – pysanky maker, teacher, in Minneapolis
Janet Sobel – artist "drip painting"
Jim Steranko – graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator
Bill Tytla – original Disney animator

Chess players

Government and civil servants

Ruth Bader Ginsburg – US Supreme Court Justice
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 to 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
Julia Mullock – Imperial High Princess of Korea
Roman Popadiuk – former US Ambassador to Ukraine
Victoria Spartz – former Indiana state Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 5th district
Ulana Suprun – former acting Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
Timothy Tymkovich – US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Chief Judge
Eugene Vindman – former deputy legal advisor for the United States National Security Council, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th district
Kateryna Yushchenko – former US State Department Official and former First Lady of Ukraine

Engineers and business

David Baszucki – Founder and CEO of the Roblox Corporation, Canadian-born
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
Brianne Kimmel – venture capitalist and angel investor
Jan Koum – founder of WhatsApp, of Jewish descent
Max Levchin – co-founder of PayPal, of Jewish descent
Daniel Milstein – founder and CEO of Gold Star financial group; author of 17 Cents and a Dream
Igor Pasternak – CEO of Aeros
Michael Pocalyko – investment banker
Jay Pritzker – entrepreneur and founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain, of Jewish descent, member of the Pritzker family
Lubomyr Romankiw – inventor; engineer
Vlad Skots – founder and president of USKO Inc., chairman of the Ukrainian-American House
Stephen Timoshenko – engineer, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics
Harold Willens – Jewish businessman, nuclear freeze activist, political donor
Harry Winston – businessman; jeweler
Jacob Millman – Professor, Columbia University, Author, Millman's Theorem

Military officers and war heroes

Jeremy Michael Boorda – US Admiral-Chief of Naval Operations
Myron F. Diduryk – Vietnam War Silver Star recipient
Samuel Jaskilka – General-Assistant Commandant of the US Marine Corps
Nicholas S. H. Krawciw – US Army Major General
Nicholas Minue – World War II Medal of Honor recipient
Nicholas Oresko – World War II Medal of Honor recipient
Alexander Vindman – US Army lieutenant colonel serving as director for European affairs for the NSC

Musicians

Bohdan Andrusyshyn – singer; Ukrainian father
Lydia Artymiw – concert pianist and McKnight professor of piano
Renata Babak – opera singer
Alina Baraz – singer-songwriter, first Ukrainian in her family to be born in America
Leonard Bernstein – composer and conductor who was blacklisted in the 1950s, of Jewish descent
Michael Bolton – pop rock ballad singer and songwriter, of Jewish descent
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
Stanley Drucker – orchestra clarinetist associated with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic
Yelena Dudochkin – soprano
Bob Dylan – singer-songwriter, poet; his Jewish paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire 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
Stan Getz - jazz saxophonist and band leader, popularizer of cool and bossa nova sub-genres
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
George Komsky – solo vocalist
Lenny Kravitz – singer, instrumentalist; the family of his father Sy Kravitz has Ukrainian roots
Julian Kytasty – bandurist, traditional Ukrainian music
Valentina Lisitsa – Ukrainian-born pianist
Matys Brothers – rockabilly musical act
Nathan Milstein – Jewish Ukrainian-born American virtuoso violinist
Peter Ostroushko – violinist and mandolinist
Wally Palmar – musician of The Romantics
Paul Plishka – opera singer
Vyacheslav Polozov – opera singer
Johnny Ramone – musician
Sviatoslav Richter – German Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century
Sam H. Stept – Broadway/Hollywood/big band composer based in America but born in Odessa in 1897
Dorian Rudnytsky – cellist and composer; son of Maria Sokil; father is Ukrainian
Melanie Safka – folk singer, performed at Woodstock
Nicole Scherzinger – pop singer-songwriter, member of The Pussycat Dolls and television music competition judge; of Ukrainian descent on her mother's side
Christine Shevchenko – Ukrainian-born ballerina
Dee Snider – musician, frontman for Twisted Sister
Maria Sokil – soprano singer
Dimitri Tiomkin – film composer
Steven Tyler – singer-songwriter, frontman for Aerosmith
Bruno Mars- singer-songwriter
Peter Wilhousky – composer, educator and conductor
Your Old Droog – rapper

Performers

Vasyl Avramenko – dancer, choreographer
David Copperfield – illusionist/magician, of Jewish descent
Maksim Chmerkovskiy – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
Valentin Chmerkovskiy – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
Serge Lifar – dancer, choreographer, director, writer, dance theoretician
Roma Prima-Bohachevsky – dancer, choreographer and dancer instructor
Karina Smirnoff – dancer and choreographer, known for Dancing with the Stars
Christine Shevchenko – ballet dancer
Igor Youskevitch – ballet dancer

Politicians

Mary Beck – former Detroit councilwoman and acting Mayor
Lex Berezhny – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
David E Bonior – former Michigan Congressman and Minority House Whip
Walter Dudycz – former Illinois State Senator
Eliot Engel – New York Congressman
Mike Enzi – US Senator from Wyoming
Maurice Hinchey – former New York Congressman
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
Stephen A. Mikulak – former New Jersey State Assemblyman
Steven Pankow – former Mayor of Buffalo, New York
JB Pritzker - Governor of Illinois
Kirill Reznik – former Maryland State Delegates
Bob Schaffer – former Colorado Congressman
Chuck Schumer – senior US senator from New York
John Shostak – former Connecticut State House of Representative
Victoria Spartz – Indiana Congresswoman and former 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
Inna Vernikov – New York City Councilor
Eugene Vindman – Virginia Congressman
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
Borys Gudziak – reverend and archeparch
Agapius Honcharenko – exiled Orthodox priest
Anton LaVey – author of the Satanic bible
Ivan Volansky – priest who organized the first Greek Catholic parish in the United States

Sports figures

Oksana Baiul - Figure skater, 1994 Olympic Gold Medalist
Orest Banach – German-born soccer goalkeeper
Moe Berg – Major League Baseball catcher and coach
Joel Bolomboy – NBA basketball player
Ivan Borodiak – Argentine-born soccer player
Sasha Chmelevski – NHL ice hockey 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; Ukrainian 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
Jim Drucker – former Commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, former Commissioner of the Arena Football League, and founder of NewKadia Comics
Pete Emelianchik – NFL football player
Harry Fanok – Major League Baseball pitcher
Ruslan Fedotenko – Ukrainian-born NHL ice hockey player, US citizen
Jim Furyk – professional golfer
Yury Gelman – Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
Sam Gerson – Ukrainian-born Olympic wrestler
Sloko Gill – NFL football player
Charles Goldenberg – All-Pro NFL player
Alison Gregorka – Olympic water polo 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
Nick Itkin – Olympic bronze medalist fencer
Chris Jericho – AEW professional wrestler and frontman for Fozzy, mother is of Ukrainian 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
Daphne Martschenko – professional rower; Ukrainian father
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
Greg Pateryn – NHL ice hockey player
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 – 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 – NBA basketball player
Elizabeth Tartakovsky – fencer
Brady Tkachuk – NHL player, son of Keith Tkachuk; Ukrainian descent on both sides
Keith Tkachuk – NHL ice hockey player of Ukrainian descent; US-born citizen
Matthew Tkachuk – NHL player, son of Keith Tkachuk; Ukrainian descent on both sides
Phil Weintraub – 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
Smokey Yunick – NASCAR mechanic and car designer

Scientists and scholars

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
Maria Fischer-Slyzh - doctor of pediatrics, philanthropist
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
John-Paul Himka – professor of Ukrainian history
Taras Hunczak – historian 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 and former chief technology officer of PayPal; founded a number of other technology companies, of Jewish descent.
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
Michael I. Mishchenko – senior scientist at Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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
Sherwin B. Nuland – scholar and author, father of Victoria Nuland
Simon Ramo – physicist; Russian–Ukrainian
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – Captain, USN and NASA astronaut
George Shevelov – professor; Ukrainian linguist
Frank Sysyn – professor of Ukrainian history
Roman Szporluk – historian and political scientist; former director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Sergiy Vilkomir – computer scientist; associate professor at East Carolina University
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

Sy Bartlett – screenwriter and motion picture producer
Kiran Chetry – former CNN anchor
Jerry Cooke – photojournalist
Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko – Ukrainian fantasy fiction writers residing in the United States
Richard Ellmann – literary critic and biographer
Hedwig Gorski - poet and author; mother born in Ukraine
Adrian Holovaty – journalist
Olena Kalytiak Davis – poet
Maria Kuznetsova – novelist
Mariya Livytska – writer
Lera Loeb – writer
Valya Dudycz Lupescu – writer
Dzvinia Orlowsky – poet, translator and professor
Evanka Osmak – sports anchor
Chuck Palahniuk – transgressive fiction novelist and freelance journalist
Anna Politkovskaya – journalist, writer
Margot Roosevelt – journalist
Mike Royko – journalist
Michael Smerconish – CNN host
Yuriy Tarnawsky – writer and linguist
Neale Donald Walsch – author

Other

Vitaly Borker – Internet criminal and cyberbully
John Demjanjuk – retired auto worker/war crimes defendant
Sky Metalwala – Seattle-area child missing since 2011; born to a Ukrainian immigrant mother.
Semion Mogilevich – alleged "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates
Jackie Stallone – astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone, maternal Jewish descent
James J. Maksimuk – CEO, CWF Flooring, Inc. of Palmdale, California, USA