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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- Filtered to 1950s Clear ×
Oleh Blokhin
Born 1952
Sergei Makovetsky
Born 1958
Nikita Petrov
Born 1957
Alexander Tatarsky
1950 - 2007
Mykola Pavlov
Born 1954
Nataliya Vitrenko
Born 1951
Aleksandr Kolchinsky
1955 - 2002
Elena Kostioukovitch
Born 1958
Valeriy Zuyev
1952 - 2016
Vadim Brodski
Born 1950
Lyubov Uspenskaya
Born 1954
Igor Gruppman
Born 1956
Alexandra Hildebrandt
Born 1959
Irina Deriugina
Born 1958
Ari Laptev
Born 1950
Larysa Karlova
Born 1958
Vladimir Martynenko
Born 1957
Anatoliy Mazaraki
Born 1950
Vitaly Bergelson
Born 1950
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
Born 1953
Yury Panchenko
Born 1959
Volodymyr Semynozhenko
Born 1950
Vladimir Okhotnik
Born 1950
Taras Petrynenko
Born 1953
Anatoly Pisarenko
Born 1958
Serhiy Morozov
Born 1950
Sergey Nikolskiy
Born 1950
Igor Kovalyov
Born 1954
Leonid Fedun
Born 1955
Iryna Palchykova
Born 1959
Sergei Udovik
Born 1956
Olha Zubaryeva
Born 1958
Les Podervianskyi
Born 1952
Volodymyr Ohryzko
Born 1956
Ihor Surkis
Born 1958
Volodymyr Yelchenko
Born 1959
Elena Tereshina
Born 1959
Mykhailo Brodskyy
Born 1959
Olena Golub
Born 1951
Tetyana Hlushchenko
Born 1956
Andrey Kharitonov
1959 - 2019
Sergei Chepik
1953 - 2011
Leonid Gofshtein
1953 - 2015
Yuri Kondratiev
Born 1953
Victor Vechersky
Born 1958
Boris Levit-Broun
Born 1950
Gregory Chudnovsky
Born 1952
Vladyslav Akimenko
Born 1953
Andrei Zagdansky
Born 1956
Oleksandr Seukand
Born 1950
Viktor Kokoshyn
Born 1957
Igor Sergei Klinki
Born 1959
Viktor Shokin
Born 1952
Igor Yegorov
Born 1958
Peter Fishman
Born 1955
Andriy Mykhaylyk
Born 1957
Lydia Galochkina
Born 1956
Volodymyr Lanovyi
Born 1952
Oleksandr Petrakov
Born 1957
Matvei Vaisberg
Born 1958
Mark Khaisman
Born 1958
Oleksandr Bondar
Born 1955
Ihor Mityukov
Born 1952
Oleh Shamshur
Born 1956
Alexander Kostetsky
1954 - 2010
Ihor Sahach
Born 1956
Igor Shparlinski
Born 1956
Oleg Molenko
Born 1954
Natalia Gusejewa
Born 1952
Mykhailo Reznik
Born 1950
Sergey Zhinkarenko
Born 1959
Viktor Kaspruk
Born 1955
Andrey Varlamov
Born 1954
Sergei Gorlatch
Born 1957
Vladimir Turkevich
Born 1958
Nicholas Zalevsky
Born 1951
Natalia Krushelnítskaya
Born 1959
Alexander Sosnowski
Born 1955
Valeriy Asadchev
Born 1953
Yevgeniy Prokopov
Born 1950
Alexander Pogrebinsky
Born 1951
Mark Safjanowski
Born 1950
Kost Novytsky
Born 1950
Sergiy V. Kulyk
Born 1958
Sergey Solovyov (mathematician)
Born 1955
Vadim Dombrovskiy
Born 1958
Taras Filenko
Born 1958
Oleksandr Yakovlyev
Born 1957
Klavdiya Studennikova
Born 1958