WYurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
WBohdan Ihor Antonych was a 20th-century Ukrainian poet. In 1934 Antonych received third prize honours from the Ivan Franko Society of Writers and Journalists for his work Three Signet Rings.
WMykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Merited Science Specialist of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Merited Art Specialist of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR.
WIvan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
WAlexander Arkadievich Galich was a Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident.
WPavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk was born on May 28, 1971 in Dunaivtsi of Western Podillya, Soviet Union and is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), Academician of the Academy of Political Sciences (Kyiv) and Ukrainian poet. Deputy Director, Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
WLeonid Ivanovych Hlibov was a Ukrainian poet, writer, teacher, and civic figure.
Vasyl Holoborodko is a Ukrainian poet, representative of the "Kyiv school of poetry". His poems are characterized by their magical, naive and Ukrainian fairy-tale-like style. Holoborodko's books were translated into English, Portuguese, Polish and German, spearate poems were also translated in French, Romanian, Croaian, Serbian, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish and Russian.
Yakub, Yakov, Yakiv Holovatsky, also Yakov Golovatsky was a noted Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the Ruthenian Triad, one of the most influential Ukrainian literary groups in the Austrian Empire.
WOleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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.
WVolodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.
WYuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.
WIgor Kaczurowskyj was a Ukrainian poet, translator, novelist and short story writer, literary scholar, university lecturer, journalist.
WIsaac ben Abraham Kaminer was a Jewish-Ukrainian Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician.
WKlym Lavrynovych Polishchuk was a Ukrainian journalist, poet and writer.
WVolodymyr Oleksiyovych Kudryavtsev in the village of Sinelnykove, in the Dnipropetrovsk region) was one of the most popular Ukrainian lyricists of the 1970s and 1980s.
WYurii Lypa – was a Ukrainian writer, poet, social and political leader, translator and medical practitioner.
WVasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Winter Letters and Other Poems, translated by Orest Popovych and, most recently, I want to be Jazz and Rock’n’Roll. He has also published two books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011). Makhno has translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian. His poems and essays have been translated into 25 languages, and he is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry. Makhno currently lives in New York City.
WVolodymyr Melnykov is a Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine.
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.
WTymko (Tomasz) Padura also Padurra was a Ukrainian-Polish Romantic poet of the so-called Ukrainian school, musician-torbanist, and composer-songwriter.
WDmytro Pavlychko is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure.
WIhor Pavlyuk is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker.
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.
WMykhaylo Vasyliovich Semenko was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of Ukrainian futurist poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
WArchduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, later Wilhelm Franz von Habsburg-Lothringen, also known as Vasyl Vyshyvani, was an Austrian archduke, a colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and a poet, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
WSerhiy Viktorovych Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.
WVictor Zhenchenko Віктор Васильович Женченко is an Eastern European poet, translator and singer. Since 1965 he has worked in the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater.