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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in L'viv during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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 chess — 17.1× the global rate.
L'viv under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
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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- Filtered to 1950s Clear ×
Grigory Yavlinsky
Born 1952
Alexandra Marinina
Born 1957
Alexander Beliavsky
Born 1953
Lilia Shevtsova
Born 1951
Oleg Romanishin
Born 1952
Adrian Mikhalchishin
Born 1954
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya
Born 1958
Mark Zak
Born 1959
Solomiia Pavlychko
1958 - 1999
Alexander Dobrokhotov
Born 1950
Felix Levin
Born 1958
Michael Dorfman
Born 1954
Faina Kirschenbaum
Born 1955
Kim Breitburg
Born 1955
Simon Osiashvili
Born 1952
Ihor Shurma
Born 1958
Yaroslav Derega
Born 1955
Anatoli Strokatov
Born 1955
Volodymyr Bezubyak
Born 1957
Evgueni Bogdanov
1952 - 2010
Peter Bezukladnikov
Born 1959
Volodymyr Potulnytskyi
Born 1958
Andriy Veselovsky
Born 1951
Mike Laschev
Born 1953