60 Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine

People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts.

Nikolay Victorovich Baskov was born on 15 October 1976, in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular music styles. His honors include commendations as Meritorious Artist and People's Artist of the Russian Federation, as well as People's Artist of Ukraine.

Bohdan Beniuk is a Ukrainian actor of theater and cinema, politician, People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Along with Anatoliy Khostikoiev, he is a creator of the Theatrical company Beniuk and Khostikoiev.

Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir, née Rozumkevych, is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1994), former People's Deputy of Ukraine and in 2005 Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.

Iryna Mykolayivna Bilyk is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and People's Artist of Ukraine.

Ivo Bobul is a Ukrainian singer. Bobul won the People's Artist of Ukraine award in 1998.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko PAR, is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. Member of the State Duma since 2011.

Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy was a Soviet and Russian actor. Though primarily a stage actor in the Lenkom Theatre, Bronevoy also made occasional appearances in films. He was awarded a People's Artist of the USSR in 1987 and won the Nika Award in March 2008.

Amvrosy Maksymilianovych Buchma was a Soviet and Ukrainian stage and film actor, director and pedagogue. He stepped onto the stage professionally for the first time in 1905 with the Ruska Besida Theatre.

Natalia Lyubomyrivna Buchynska is a Ukrainian singer.

Victoria Bulitko (Ukrainian: Булітко Вікторія Сергіївна; born 25 January 1983) is a Ukrainian film, television and theater actress.

Maria Burmaka is a Ukrainian singer, musician, and songwriter in the genres of rock, pop, folk, and world music.

Leonid Fedorovich Bykov was a Soviet actor, film director, and script writer. He received the "Honored Artist of the RSFSR" title in 1965 and the "People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR" title in 1974.

Hryhorii Mykolaiovych Chapkis was a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer. He was laureate of three international competitions. He became a People's Artist of Ukraine in February 2010. Previously he was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).

Colonel Volodymyr Anatolievich Dashkovsky also known as Vladimir Dashkovsky is a Ukrainian military conductor and composer who serves as the Senior Military Director of the Military Music Department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (MMD-GSAFU) based in Kyiv.

Georgy Ivanovich Drozd was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine (1999).

Hobart Earle is a Venezuelan-born conductor of American descent and People's Artist of Ukraine recipient.

Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.

Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov is Ukrainian and a Soviet film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).

Dmytro Hnatyuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk is a Soviet, Ukrainian singer, popular in the early 1980s.

Yuriy Illienko was a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1965 and 2002. His 1970 film The White Bird Marked with Black was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize.

Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova, better known by her stage name Jamala, is a Ukrainian singer, actress and songwriter. She represented Ukraine and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden with her song "1944". In 2017, 2018 and 2019 she was a judge at Vidbir, Ukraine's National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Larisa Valentinovna Kadochnikova is a Ukrainian and Russian actress. She appeared in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1964 film directed by Sergei Paradjanov, and The Eve of Ivan Kupalo.

Philipp Bedros Kirkorov PAR is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five-time winner of the "Best Selling Russian Artist" title at the World Music Awards ceremonies.

Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon was a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.

Prokip Kolisnyk was a Slovak academic painter. Works of Kolisnyk are in the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art. Kolisnyk worked at the University of Prešov.

Lev Mykolajovych Kolodub , was a Ukrainian composer and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1973), People's Artist of Ukraine(1993). Recipient of Shevchenko National Prize (2010). Head of Ukrainian Music Foundation (1988—1994) Kyiv branch of National Union of Composers of Ukraine (1994—1999).

Mykola Koval is a Belorussian-born operatic baritone. He was born in Brest Region and studied solo singing in Minsk Conservatory and then in Moscow Conservatory. Since 1981, she has been a singer at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre. People's Artist of Ukraine. Since 1995, she has been a professor of Kiev University of National Culture and Art.

Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky was a Soviet and Russian lyric tenor and one of the most well known stars of Russian opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. People's Artist of the USSR (1940) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1980).

Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi, is a Ukrainian and Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter. Krutoy was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1989. He is also "Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation", People's Artist of Russia and People's Artist of Ukraine.

Ivan Iovych Kuchuhura-Kucherenko was a Ukrainian minstrel (kobzar) and one of the most influential kobzars of the early 20th century. For his artistry he was awarded the title "People's artist of Ukraine" in 1919 and later "People's Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" in 1926.

Kateryna Igorivna Kukhar is a Ukrainian prima ballerina of the Kyiv National Opera of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine.

Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas, a Ukrainian movie and theater director, is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed, together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors, the Soviet theater avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian avant-garde art. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance.

Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1972) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1985).

Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek, popularly known as Ani Lorak, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and former UN Goodwill Ambassador. Having received Ukraine's most prestigious and honorary title, the People's Artist of Ukraine, Lorak has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential women in her country, as well as ranked one of the most beautiful women from Eastern Europe. Ani Lorak reported the highest income of all singers in Ukraine in 2014.

Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997.

Natalia Oleksiyivna Mohylevska, née Mohyla, also known by her stage name Nataliya Mogilevskaya, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, composer, actress and TV presenter, producer. National Artist of Ukraine (2004).

Nikolay Vladimiriovich Olyalin was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.

Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

Taras Petrynenko is a Ukrainian musician, People's Artist of Ukraine.

Vadym Pysarev is a famous Ukrainian dancer, People's Artist of Ukraine, Art Director of Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko, founder and director of international festival World Ballet Stars.

Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. People's Artist of Ukraine (2013).

Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. She is also a former MP serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament for the Our Ukraine Party. Ruslana was the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Ukraine in 2004-2005. She is recognized as the most successful Ukrainian female solo artist internationally and was included in the top 10 most influential women of 2013 by the Forbes magazine. The U.S. Secretary of State honored her with the International Women of Courage Award in March 2014. She has been named an honorary citizen of her hometown L'viv and was nominated to receive the title Hero of Ukraine.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serdyuk, also known as Les Serdyuk ; October 14, 1940 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – May 26, 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Серов; born 24 March 1954 in Kovalivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine

Anzhelina Alekseevna Shvachka is a Ukrainian operatic mezzo-soprano singer. She is a leading soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, where she started in 1997.

Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films between 1958 and 1999. He was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.

Olha Sumska is a Ukrainian actress of theater and cinema, television hostess, recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the People's Artist of Ukraine (2009). In 2006 she attempted to run for a mayor of Kyiv.

Jan Petrovych Tabachnyk is a Soviet and Ukrainian variety composer, accordionist, politician and entrepreneur.

Volodymyr Dmytrovych Talashko is a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. Organizer Leonid Bykov Foundation. People's Artist of Ukraine (2002).

Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and choir director.

Roman Hryhorovych Viktyuk was a Ukrainian and Russian theatre director, actor and screenwriter.

Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky (1905–1975), PAU, was a Soviet and Ukrainian dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and founder of the P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, whose work in Ukrainian dance was groundbreaking and influenced generations of dancers.

Nazariy Nazarovych Yaremchuk was a Hutsul Ukrainian singer, born in the village of Rivnya, Chernivtsi Oblast.

Hnat Petrovych Yura was a Soviet and Ukrainian director, actor of theatre and film, pedagogue. He directed two films, and appeared on screen six times during the Soviet era. Yura received titles of professor (1946), People's Actor of Ukraine (1930), and People's Actor of the Soviet Union (1940).

Maria Zankovetska was a Ukrainian theater actress. There are some sources that date her birth to August 3, 1860.

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky was a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist and performer of Jewish origin, best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.

Pavlo Mikolajovich Zibrov is a Ukrainian pop singer (baritone), song writer. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). He became notable for his song Khreshchatyk.