WPanteleimon "Panteley" Fedorovich Belochub, , was a Ukrainian soldier best known as one of the commanders of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, a major belligerent force during the Russian Civil Wars of 1917 – 1921.
WIvan Yakovych Chornousov, also known as Chorny Voron, was a participant in the Russian Civil War on the territories of what is now Kyiv and Poltava in modern Ukraine. He is known for his fight against communists that he believed supported or took part in the establishment of the power of the Soviet government on the territories of the emerging Ukrainian Republic in 1917–23. While some consider him to be a national hero, others consider him to simply be a bandit and murderer. He is a prominent example of the "village otamans" or "greens", local militia leaders, who were characteristic of the time.
WDavidoff is a Swiss premium brand of cigars, cigarettes and smoker's accessories. The Davidoff cigarette brand has been owned by Imperial Brands after purchasing it in 2006. The non-cigarette portion of the Davidoff tobacco brand is owned by Oettinger Davidoff AG, which is based in Basel, Switzerland.
WJohn Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted after being misidentified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. Shortly before his death, he was again tried and convicted as an accessory to 28,000 murders at Sobibor.
WColomba Matylda Gabriel - in religious Janina - was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity. Gabriel studied under the Order of Saint Benedict in Lviv and later became a Benedictine herself while dedicating herself to teaching at her old school before she was forced to relocate to Rome in 1900 where she founded her order and joined a Benedictine branch there.
WValentin Andreevich Galochkin was a prominent Soviet sculptor.
WLew Grade, Baron Grade, OStJ, KC*SS, born Louis Winogradsky, was a British media proprietor and impresario. Originally a dancer, and later a talent agent, Grade's interest in television production began in 1954 when, in partnership, he successfully bid for franchises in the newly created ITV network, which led to the creation of Associated Television (ATV). Having worked for a time in the United States, he was aware of the potential for the sale of television programming to American networks. The Incorporated Television Company was formed with this specific objective in mind. Grade had some success in this field with such series as Gerry Anderson's various Supermarionation series such as Thunderbirds, Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner, and Jim Henson's The Muppet Show. Later, Grade invested in film production, but several expensive box office failures caused him to lose control of ITC, and ultimately resulted in the disestablishment of ATV after it lost its ITV franchise.
WNikifor (Nikolay) Grigoriev, born Nychypir Servetnyk in a small village of Zastavlia, was a paramilitary leader noted for numerous switching of sides during the civil war in Ukraine. He was commonly known as "Otaman Grigoriev", as "Matviy Hryhoriyiv", "Matvey Grigoriev", or "Mykola Grigoriev".
WIvan Yakovych Horbachevsky also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an eminent Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin.
WTerpylo Danylo Ilkovych widely known as Otaman Zelenyy – famous otaman (commander) of Ukrainian peasant insurrection movement on the territories of former territories of Russian Empire, modern Ukraine, first of all Kyiv region during the Civil War for Democracy of 1917–1923 years. One of the brightest examples of the phenomenon known as "village otamans". He and his people from time to time conflicted almost with all major military-political forces of that day Ukraine.
WAgafya "Halyna" or "Galina" Andreyevna Kuzmenko Makhno was a Ukrainian teacher and anarchist, and the wife of Nestor Makhno.
WNestor Ivanovych Makhno, commonly known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine from 1917–21.
WMischa Mischakoff was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s.
WIvan Pului was a Ukrainian physicist and inventor, who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging. His contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century.
WEvgeny Aleksandrovich Radkevich was an Imperial Russian Army general of the infantry and a member of the Russian Empire's Military Council. He saw combat during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and the Russo-Japanese War and served as a commander of Russian field armies during World War I.
WAlexander Frantsevich Ragoza, in Ukrainian Rogoza, was a Minister of Defense of the Ukrainian State. He was also a general of the infantry in the Imperial Russian Army who saw service during World War I.
WDanylo Skoropadsky was a famous Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian monarchist movement in 1948-1957. He was the son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.
WRomán Skrýpin is a Ukrainian media-manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union.
WHnat Stefaniv was a colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army and the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Born in the village of Topoivtsi near Horodenka, Stefaniv rose to the rank of major in the Austro-Hungarian army. In the November retreat of 1918 he was the organizer and commandant of the Zolochiv area in the Western Ukrainian National Republic. From November 9 to December 10. In 1918 he was elevated to the rank of colonel and commanded the Ukrainian Army in Lwów. Under his leadership the Ukrainian forces fought the Polish forces in Lwów, but after the arrival of reinforcement were forced to leave the city November 22. Later he joined the army of the UNR where he commanded the Hutsul regiment, the additional brigade of the rifleman's division and the commander of the cavalry in the First Winter Campaign. In 1920 he became the commander in exile of the Ukrainian armies. In 1920 he went over with a group under General Anton Kraus to Czechoslovakia and there headed the diplomatic mission of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Uzhhorod. Until 1939 he lived in Transcarpathia, then in Vienna, and from 1944 - in Germany, where he died.
WMichael Stroukoff was a Russian-born aircraft designer, who served in the White Army before emigrating to the United States. After spending some time as an architect, he joined the Chase Aircraft Company and designed a number of transport aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Air Force, later starting his own company to perform further aeronautical work.
WVasyl Nahirny was an important Ukrainian architect, social activist and public figure; one of the founders of the Ukrainian cooperative movement.
WRichard Franz Marian Yary (1898–1969) was a Ukrainian nationalist journalist, politician and military figure.
WGregory Zilboorg was a psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry who is remembered for situating psychiatry within a broad sociological and humanistic context in his many writings and lectures.