WValeriy Oleksіyovich Baranov, served as Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, March – October 2014 and a former People's Deputy of Ukraine.
WValeriy Pylypovych Borzov is a former Soviet sprinter. He is a two-time Olympian, a former president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, and Minister for Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
WPavlo Mykolaiyovych Burlakov is a Ukrainian politician and miner. In 2010–14 he served as the First Vice Prime Minister of Crimea and ex oficio served as Prime Minister of Crimea upon the abrupt death of Vasyl Dzharty.
WViacheslav Chornovil was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views. A long-time advocate of Ukrainian independence, he was one of the most prominent political figures of the late 1980s and early 1990s who paved the path of the contemporary Ukraine to its independence.
WIvan Fedorovych Drach was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist.
WMajor General Vasyl Vasylovych Durdynets is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine during a short period in July 1997.
WIvan Holovchenko was a Ukrainian militsiya general.
WAlexei Illarionovoich Kirichenko was a Soviet politician. Between 1957 and 1960, he was a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the second-highest ranking official within the party after Nikita Khrushchev.
WAnatoliy Matviyenko was a Ukrainian politician, founder of several political parties in the country. Matviyenko was 6 times elected to the Ukrainian parliament.
WStanislav Nikolaevich Nikolaenko is a Ukrainian politician. Acting Rector of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Leader of United Left and Peasants.
WVitaliy Mykolayovych Oluiko is a Ukrainian politician, former member of the Verkhovna Rada.
WVladimir Yefimovich Semichastny was a Soviet politician, who served as Chairman of the KGB from November 1961 to May 1967. A protégé of Alexander Shelepin, he rose through the ranks of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol).
WSerhiy Leonidovych Tihipko or Sergiy Tigipko is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who has been Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequently served as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2002 to 2004. He ran unsuccessfully for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election and participated in the 2014 presidential election, in which he placed fifth with 5.23 percent of the vote. Tihipko is also former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Social Policy.
WOleksandr Mykolaiovych Tkachenko is a Ukrainian politician, a senior member of the Ukrainian Parliament, currently elected by Communist Party list. Between July 7, 1998, and January 21, 2000, Tkachenko was the Chairman of the Parliament.
WValeriy Tsybukh is a Soviet and Ukrainian politician and diplomat. From 1998 to 2005 he headed state agency that is in charge of tourism in Ukraine.
WVadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach.
WOleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov is a Ukrainian parliamentarian and politician. A former governor of the Luhansk Oblast, from 2010 until 2014 he was Party of Regions's faction leader in the Verkhovna Rada. On 14 February 2015 Yefremov was detained on suspicion of "abuse of power under aggravating circumstances". This arrest was effectively ended when his bail expired on 1 November 2015. Yefremov was again detained on 30 July 2016 on suspicion of violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity by helping to create the Luhansk People's Republic and misappropriation of property.
WOleksandr Oleksiovich Zinchenko was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership, business in Russia and Ukraine, participation in the pro-Leonid Kuchma Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), survival of cancer and joining the anti-Kuchma opposition.