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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.