49.8419° N, 24.0313° E

L'VIV

Most Famous People Born in L'viv, Ukraine

Notable people
947
Peak decade
1890s
Median birth year
1916
Most distinctive
Chess 17.1×

Three countries, three names — the Habsburg Lemberg, interwar Polish Lwów, and Soviet-then-Ukrainian Lviv all show up inside the same file. The 17.1× chess over-index and the mathematician footprint come almost entirely from the pre-1945 Lwów school of Stefan Banach and Stanislaw Ulam, while Stanisław Lem wrote Solaris here before the city changed hands for the fourth time in his lifetime.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in L'viv during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1890s with 86 notable births.

What L'viv Is Known For

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Football is L'viv's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (92).

L'viv over-indexes on chess17.1× the global rate.

L'viv under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Football92
  2. Politician53
  3. Actor48
  4. Painter44
  5. Writer34
  6. Historian34
  7. Chess33
  8. Composer29
  1. Chess3317.1×
  2. Rabbi109.4×
  3. Mathematician214.4×
  4. Pianist104.0×
  5. Conductor93.7×
  6. Historian343.4×
  7. Wrestler93.0×
  8. Officer172.7×
  1. Politician530.5×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of L'viv's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 42 of 947 notable people

0009 FILM

Andrzej Żuławski

1940 - 2016

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0016 POET

Adam Zagajewski

Born 1945

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0023 PIANIST

Emanuel Ax

Born 1949

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0036 ACTOR

Wojciech Pszoniak

1942 - 2020

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0111 IMMUNOLOGIST

Marc Feldmann

Born 1944

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0135 ACTOR

Andrzej Kotkowski

1940 - 2016

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0170 COMPOSER

Elżbieta Sikora

Born 1943

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0193 WRITER

Iryna Kalynets

1940 - 2012

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0198 CHESS

Marta Litinskaya-Shul

Born 1949

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0238 FOOTBALL

Eduard Kozynkevych

1949 - 1994

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0277 BOXER

Artur Olech

1940 - 2010

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0311 MATHEMATICIAN

Viacheslav Belavkin

1946 - 2012

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0319 DIPLOMAT

Evgeny P. Bazhanov

Born 1946

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0322 FOOTBALL

Ihor Kulchytskyi

Born 1941

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0333 COMPOSER

Gabriela Moyseowicz

Born 1944

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0338 POLO

Vladimir Zhmudsky

Born 1947

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0420 FOOTBALL

Jan Wraży

1943 - 2019

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0433 BOTANIST

Solomon Wasser

Born 1946

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0456 FILM

Jerzy Domaradzki

Born 1943

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0462 ART HISTORIAN

Mariusz Hermansdorfer

1940 - 2018

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0463 ARTIST

Alexander Aksinin

1949 - 1985

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0465 HISTORIAN

Gennady Gorelik

Born 1948

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0480 FOOTBALL

Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi

1947 - 2020

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0523 JOURNALIST

Joanna Nittenberg

Born 1942

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0532 ACTOR

Tatjana Lukina

Born 1949

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0590 SWIMMER

Yuriy Hromak

1948 - 1998

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0638 LAWYER

Yury Biryukov

Born 1948

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0648 POLITICIAN

Henryk Lipszyc

Born 1941

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0660 POLITICIAN

Lech Woszczerowicz

Born 1940

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0707 PHYSICIST

Pyotr Trusov

Born 1948

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0733 CANOE

Pytor Greshta

Born 1949

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0760 FOOTBALL

Roman Zhuravskyi

1948 - 2017

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0819 COMPOSER

Jerzy Husar

Born 1943

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0826 BOXER

Zbigniew Olech

1940 - 2008

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0840 ILLUSTRATOR

Marek Richard Mann

Born 1942

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0841 TRAMPOLÍN

Tatiana Volynkina

1949 - 2008

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0848 SWIMMER

Valentina Yakovleva

Born 1947

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0884 SPORT

Vladislav Krishchishin

1946 - 2001

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0903 COACH

Aleksander Donner

1948 - 2013

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0906 MEDIEVALIST

Zehava Jacoby

1940 - 1999

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0926 ATHLETIC

Lidiya Tsymosh

Born 1942

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0929 ATHLETIC

Iosyp Hamskiy

Born 1949

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