WPeople'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.
WNikolay Victorovich Baskov was born on October 15, 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.
WBohdan 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.
WOksana 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.
WIryna Mykolayivna Bilyk is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and People's Artist of Ukraine.
WIvo Bobul is a Ukrainian singer. Bobul won the People's Artist of Ukraine award in 1998.
WVladimir Vladimirovich Bortko PAR, is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. Member of the State Duma since 2011.
WNatalia Lyubomyrivna Buchynska is a Ukrainian singer.
WVictoria Bulitko (Ukrainian: Булітко Вікторія Сергіївна; born 25 January 1983) is a Ukrainian film, television and theater actress.
WLeonid Fedorovich Bykov was a Ukrainian 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.
WColonel 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.
WGeorgy Ivanovich Drozd was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine (1999).
WHobart Earle is a Venezuelan-born conductor of American descent and People's Artist of Ukraine recipient.
WValery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin. 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.
WOleksiy 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).
WDmytro Hnatyuk was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
WMykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk is a Soviet, Ukrainian singer, popular in the early 1980s.
WYuriy Illienko was a Soviet 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.
WSusana 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".
WLarisa 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.
WPhilipp Bedrosovich 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.
WIosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon was a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.
WLev 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).
WMykola 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.
WIgor 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.
WIvan 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.
WKateryna Igorivna Kukhar is a Ukrainian prima ballerina of the Kyiv National Opera of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine.
WOleksandr-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 the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian avant-garde art. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance.
WKarolina 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.
WBoris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or 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.
WAleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin, in Russian Александр Малинин is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997.
WNatalia Mogilevska - Ukrainian singer, songwriter, composer, actress and TV presenter, producer. National Artist of Ukraine (2004).
WNikolay Vladimiriovich Olyalin was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.
WAleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.
WTaras Petrynenko is a Ukrainian musician, People's Artist of Ukraine.
WVadim Pisarev 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.
WIlya 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).
WRuslana 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.
WLilia Sandulesu is a Ukrainian pop singer. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).
WAleksandr 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).
WAlexander Nikolayevich Serov is a Ukrainian-born Russian popular singer who is best known for early success in the Russian language with the songs of Igor Krutoy. He is no known relation to Alexander Nikolayevich Serov the 19th Century classical composer.
WAnzhelina 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.
WKostiantyn 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.
WOlha 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.
WJan Petrovych Tabachnyk is a Soviet and Ukrainian variety composer, accordionist, politician and entrepreneur.
WHryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka was a Ukrainian composer, choir director, and teacher.
WRoman Hryhorovych Viktyuk was a Ukrainian and Russian theatre director, actor and screenwriter.
WHnat 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).
WMaria Zankovetska was a Ukrainian theater actress. There are some sources that date her birth to August 3, 1860.
WMikhail 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.
WPavlo Mikolajovich Zibrov is a Ukrainian pop singer (baritone), song writer. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). He became notable for his song Khreshchatyk.