50.4500° N, 30.5237° E
KIEV
Most Famous People Born in Kiev, Ukraine
- Notable people
- 1,654
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1963
- Most distinctive
- Skater 9.8×
A Rus' capital that has been reinvented every few centuries and still carries every layer in the bench. Kiev's distinctive professions are figure skaters, chess masters, fencers, gymnasts, and pianists — the legacy of a long Soviet athletic and conservatory school — alongside the princes and princesses of the 10th- and 11th-century Rurikid dynasty. Bulgakov, Malevich, Golda Meir, Vladimir Horowitz, and Igor Sikorsky all belong to this bench, born within a few decades of each other in a city that then scattered them.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kiev during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Kiev Is Known For
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Football is Kiev's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (243).
Kiev over-indexes on skater — 9.8× the global rate.
Kiev under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Kiev's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
1891 - 1940
Golda Meir
1898 - 1978
Ilya Ehrenburg
1891 - 1967
Levi Eshkol
1895 - 1969
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
1894 - 1980
Mikhail Koltsov
1898 - 1940
Georgy Pyatakov
1890 - 1937
Boris Souvarine
1895 - 1984
Maksym Rylsky
1895 - 1964
Jascha Horenstein
1898 - 1973
André Grabar
1896 - 1990
Victor Tourjansky
1891 - 1976
Alexander Ostrowski
1893 - 1986
Eddie Gottlieb
1898 - 1979
Alexander Brailowsky
1896 - 1976
Jacob Marschak
1898 - 1977
Al Sherman
1897 - 1973
Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus
1894 - 1975
Fedir Bohatyrchuk
1892 - 1984
Dmitry Pokrass
1899 - 1978
Nina Koshetz
1891 - 1965
Oleksander Ohloblyn
1899 - 1992
Dajos Béla
1897 - 1978
Boris Mirkin-Getzevich
1892 - 1955
Xenia Desni
1894 - 1954
Michel Michelet
1894 - 1995
Henryk Józewski
1892 - 1981
Galina Kouzmenko
1896 - 1978
Yosef Lishansky
1890 - 1917
Abraham Mintchine
1898 - 1931
Valery Glivenko
1896 - 1940
Yuri Fayer
1890 - 1971
Grunya Sukhareva
1891 - 1981
Naum Slutzky
1894 - 1965
Senya Fleshin
1894 - 1981
Gregory Zilboorg
1890 - 1959
Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky
1898 - 1977
Alla Tarasova
1898 - 1973
Eugène Deslaw
1898 - 1966
Valentina (fashion designer)
1899 - 1989
Shoshana Persitz
1892 - 1969
Albert Rudomine
1892 - 1975
Efim Schachmeister
1894 - 1944
Alexandre Fasini
1892 - 1942
Louis Waldman
1892 - 1982
Vladimir Kolpakchi
1899 - 1961
Leib Glantz
1898 - 1964
Alexander Evenson
1892 - 1919
Jacques Bogopolsky
1895 - 1962
Samuel Pokrass
1897 - 1939
Nikolaï Foregger
1892 - 1939
Nathalie Parain
1897 - 1958
Aleksej Jelačić
1892 - 1941
Yevgraf Kruten
1890 - 1917
Nadija Surowzowa
1896 - 1985
Tetyana Kardynalovska
1899 - 1993
Anatol Petrytsky
1895 - 1964
Arnold Alexandrowitsch Alschwang
1898 - 1960
Fabian Garin
1895 - 1990
Pierre Grabar
1898 - 1986
Bracha Peli
1892 - 1986
George Perlman
1897 - 2000
Sergei Jakowlewitsch Schuk
1892 - 1957
Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii
1891 - 1966
Leo Sheljuzhko
1890 - 1969
Tamara Ramsay
1895 - 1985
Aron Baron
1891 - 1937
Georgi Alexandrowitsch Astachow
1897 - 1942
Yelena Visiúlina
1898 - 1972
Isaac Païles
1895 - 1978
Rose Witcop
1890 - 1932
Victor Tchetchet
1891 - 1974
Nicolas Wacker
1897 - 1987
Klara Segałowicz
1897 - 1943
Isaac Pougatch
1897 - 1988
Dave Apollon
1898 - 1972
Mikhail Kogan
1893 - 1951
Ivan Naumovich Dubovoy
1896 - 1938
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
1890 - 1980
Boris Pastoukhoff
1894 - 1974
Jack Chefe
1894 - 1975
Klavdiya Latysheva
1897 - 1956
Isaak Kreisberg
1898 - 1919
Anton Sereda
1890 - 1961
Mark Siegelberg
1895 - 1986
Boris Evgenyevich Votchal
1895 - 1971
Leonid Khizhinsky
1896 - 1972
Josef Kowner
1895 - 1967