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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Yevgeny Primakov
1929 - 2015
Rolan Bykov
1929 - 1998
Anatoly Kuznetsov
1929 - 1979
Vladimir Shainsky
1925 - 2017
Leonid Bronevoy
1928 - 2017
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
1927 - 2013
Elina Bystritskaya
1928 - 2019
Marcos Moshinsky
1921 - 2009
Mikhail Svetin
1929 - 2015
Svetlana Geier
1923 - 2010
Oleg Karavaychuk
1927 - 2016
Julian Sitkovetsky
1925 - 1958
Rosa Tamarkina
1920 - 1950
Nahum Korzhavin
1925 - 2018
Igal Talmi
Born 1925
Semyon Gudzenko
1922 - 1953
Platon Kostiuk
1924 - 2010
Emmanuel Rashba
Born 1927
Boris Sichkin
1922 - 2002
Yan Frenkel
1920 - 1989
Ilya Darevsky
1924 - 2009
Isaac Lipnitsky
1923 - 1959
Natan Yonatan
1923 - 2004
Pjotr Ionowitsch Jakir
1923 - 1982
Vladimir Shlapentokh
1926 - 2015
Victor Krasin
1929 - 2017
Anatoly Bannik
1921 - 2013
Bill Mazer
1920 - 2013
Lydia T. Black
1925 - 2007
Mikhail Kadets
1923 - 2011
Ihor Shamo
1925 - 1982
George Malakov
1928 - 1979
Valentina Sinkevitch
1926 - 2018
Ninel Krutova
Born 1926
Dmitry Paperno
Born 1929
Volodymyr Korolyuk
1925 - 2020
Yakov Lyubarsky
1929 - 2003
Mariya Borovichenko
1925 - 1943
Buzzy Drootin
1920 - 2000
Heorhiy Zhylin
1925 - 1997
Halyna Zubchenko
1929 - 2000
Michail Alexandrowitsch Karzew
1923 - 1983
Vitali Romanenko
1926 - 2010
Izya Gershtein
1923 - 2013
Michail Alexandrowitsch Kriwoglas
1929 - 1988
Heorhij Dsis
1926 - 2003
Olha Parchomenko
1928 - 2011
Lazar Gosman
Born 1926
Gregory Grossman
1921 - 2014
Tatiana Mamaki
1921 - 2007
Gregory (Afonsky)
1925 - 2008
Heorhij Fuks
1927 - 2008
Zoja Stasjuk
1925 - 2014
Margarete Müller-Henning
1924 - 2015
Petro Chevhun
1926 - 1999
Max Issaakowitsch Reiderman
1924 - 2009
Lidija Herassymtschuk
1922 - 1958
Mark Bloch (linguist)
Born 1924
Igor Iljitsch Bondarenko
1926 - 1964
David Khorol
1920 - 1990
Yulen Uralov
Born 1924
Mykola Fominykh
1927 - 1996
Julian Lwowitsch Schwarzbreim
1920 - 1996
Belle Shenkman
1928 - 1995