WVasili Afanasyevich Gogol-Yanovsky was an author of a number of theater pieces in Russian and in Ukrainian and father of the writer Nikolai Gogol. He was the landlord of the village of Vasilevka, Poltava oblast and descendant of Ukrainian Cossack noble families of Gogol and Lizogub.
WYaroslav Olexandrovych Halan was a Ukrainian Soviet anti-fascist writer, playwright, publicist, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine since 1924, killed by nationalist insurgents in 1949.
WSemen Stepanovich Hulak-Artemovsky, was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia.
WMyroslav Irchan was born Andriy Babiuk on July 14, 1897 to a poor peasant family in the village of P'yadyky, Kolomyia in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. In 1914, he graduated from the Teacher's Seminary in Lviv. He was a Ukrainian storywriter and playwright who moved for a time from Europe to North America, and continued to write about his European experiences while in the new world. He was also editor of a number of publications in Europe and Canada.
WCount Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist, was a Russian poet, playwright and nobleman of Greek and Ukrainian Cossack origin, who was known as an active critic of serfdom in Russia and as a proponent of restoration of the Zaporozhian host in the region of southern Ukraine.
WLarysa Ivanovna Khorolets is a Ukrainian actress who served as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine. She served in that role in the Ukrainian SSR in 1991, and kept that position upon Ukraine's independence later that year, serving until 1992.
WOlha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian modernist writer and feminist.
WOleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was a Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.
WIvan Petrovych Kotliarevsky was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. Kotlyarevsky was a veteran of the Russo-Turkish War.
WMarko Kropyvnytskyi was a Ukrainian writer, dramaturge, composer, theatre actor and director. Over his career Kropyvnytskyi wrote 40 plays, played in over 500 roles of various repertoire, as well as wrote several songs.
WMykola Gurovich Kulish was a Ukrainian prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I, and Red Army veteran. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
WHryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (1778–1843) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright. Founder of Ukrainian classicist prose. He was born in the vicinity of Kharkiv.
WOleh Lysheha was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and internally exiled. During the period 1972-1988, he was banned from official publication, but in 1989 his first book Great Bridge was published. For "The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha," Lysheha and his co-translator James Brasfield from Penn State University, received the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Lysheha is the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN award.
WPanas Myrny was a famous Ukrainian prose writer and playwright writing in Ukrainian language. He wrote in literary realism creating innovative social novels and stories from the life of the people.
WIvan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky was a well-known Ukrainian writer.
WOleksandr Ivanovych Oles (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.
WPetro Yosypovych Panch was a Ukrainian writer and playwright, one of founders of the Ukrainian Soviet literature. Member of the Soviet Writers' Union and the Writer's Union of Ukraine, former sotnik of the Ukrainian People's Army.
WOlha Petrivna Kosach, better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka, was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, Olga Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Mykhajlo Kosach, Oxana Kosach-Shymanovska, Mykola Kosach, Izydora Kosach-Borysova and Yurij Kosach.
WLes Podervianskyi is a Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer. He is most famous for his absurd, highly satirical, and at times obscene short plays. Their average duration is five to fifteen minutes, with some exceptions. Podervianskyi has a cult following among Kyiv intellectuals.
WTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though the language of his poems was different from the modern Ukrainian language. All his diaries, letters, non-poetic literature, such as a novel, plays, some poems were in Russian. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.
WLiudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska was a Ukrainian writer, translator, and literary critic.
WLesya Ukrainka (born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist.
WHanna Hryhorivna Mashutina, known under her pseudonyms Anna Yablonskaya or Hanna Yablonska, was a Ukrainian playwright and poet, and one of the victims of the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing.
WMyroslav Yahoda, sometime transliterated as Yagoda was a painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist, playwright and set designer. The "Ukrainian Goya" — with true integrity in his diverse art — was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground art scene.
WYevhen Pavlovych Pluzhnyk was a Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator from Eastern Sloboda Ukraine.