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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Valeriy Lobanovskyi
1939 - 2002
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Born 1937
Valentyn Sylvestrov
Born 1937
Misha Mengelberg
1935 - 2017
Eduard Gufeld
1936 - 2002
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Born 1938
Yunna Morits
Born 1937
Friedrich Gorenstein
1932 - 2002
Arkady Arkanov
1933 - 2015
Leonid Kanevsky
Born 1939
Vladislav Illich-Svitych
1934 - 1966
Viktor Kanevskyi
1936 - 2018
Benjamin Fain
1930 - 2013
Naum Z. Shor
1937 - 2006
Yuriy Shcherbak
Born 1934
Anatoly Adamishin
Born 1934
Victor Pikaisen
Born 1933
Konstantin Kobets
1939 - 2012
Oleh Bazylevych
1938 - 2018
Valery Klimov (violinist)
Born 1931
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky
Born 1936
Andriy Biba
Born 1937
Roman Kofman
Born 1936
Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1937)
1937 - 2020
Oleg Lobov
1937 - 2018
Vitaly Korotich
Born 1936
Yuri Rost
Born 1939
Leonid Hrabovsky
Born 1935
Anatolii Goldberg
1930 - 2008
Gregory Eskin
Born 1936
Nikolai Bagley
1937 - 1991
Vadim G. Vizing
1937 - 2017
Irina Zaritskaya
1939 - 2001
Iosif Vitebskiy
Born 1938
Iosif Khriplovich
Born 1937
Mikhail Turovsky
Born 1933
Youri Roubinski
Born 1930
Lesia Dychko
Born 1939
Wiktor Leonidowitsch Scheinis
Born 1931
Woldemar Nelsson
1938 - 2006
Volodymyr Vasylenko
Born 1937
Nina Bichuya
Born 1937
Ihor Yemchuk
1930 - 2008
Rostyslav Dotsenko
1931 - 2012
Nikolai Rasheyev
Born 1935
Vladlen Trostyansky
1935 - 2014
Igor Blaschkow
Born 1936
Vladimiro Tarnawsky
Born 1939
Nadezhda Prokhorovna Masjuk
1930 - 2009
Volodymyr Huba
1938 - 2020
Michael Nudelman
1938 - 2018
Yevgeny Kibkalo
1932 - 2003
Anatoliy Kroshchenko
Born 1937
Leonid Barbier
Born 1937
Lev Aptekar
Born 1936
Yevgeny Sivokon
Born 1937
Yuri Savenko
Born 1938
Viktor Lukašenko
Born 1937
Anatoliy O. Morozov
Born 1939
Misha Brusilovsky
1931 - 2016
Vadim Berezinskii
1935 - 1980
Irina Vysheslavska
Born 1939
Vadim Gladun
Born 1937
George Gogotsi
Born 1930
Nina Svetlanova
Born 1932
Gennady Galkin
1934 - 1985
Mikhail Voronin (fashion designer)
1938 - 2012
Valeriy Khmelko
Born 1939
Wolodymyr Poljatschenko
1938 - 2012
Valeriy Hubenko
1939 - 2000
Arina Krasnova
Born 1938
Lazar Naroditsky
1937 - 2001
Romen Sova
1938 - 2001
Yevhen Kotelnykov
1939 - 2017
Vadim Arkhipchuk
Born 1937
Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko
Born 1935
Vitaliy Hodziatsky
Born 1936
John B. Balinsky
1934 - 1983
Alexander E. Kaplan
1938 - 2019
Anatole Krasnyansky
Born 1930
Ilya Nikkolai
Born 1939
Alla von Buch
Born 1931
Liudmyla Radchenko
Born 1932
Igor Petrenko (athlete)
Born 1938