List of Ukrainian Americans
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This is a list of famous Ukrainian-Americans.
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- Alexander Archipenko - artist, sculptor[1]
- Vasyl Avramenko - dancer/choreographer[2]
- Juliya Chernetsky - television personality[3]
- Kvitka Cisyk - soprano singer[4]
- John Demjanjuk - retired auto worker/war crimes defendant[5]
- Mike Ditka - football coach[6]
- Steve Ditko - comic book writer[7]
- Edward Dmytryk (1908 - 1999) film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare[8]
- Katherine Esau - botanist[9]
- Vera Farmiga - actress[10]
- Anthony Fedorov (1985 - ) singer; finalist on season 5 of American Idol[11]
- George Gamow - astroPhysicist[12]
- Agapius Honcharenko - exiled Orthodox priest[13]
- Milla Jovovich - actress[14]
- Mila Kunis (1983 - ) actress, perhaps best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show[15]
- Alla Nazimova - actress[16]
- Leonard Nimoy - actor[17]
- Jack Palance - actor[18]
- Wally Palmar - musician of The Romantics[19]
- Stepan Popel - chess player[20]
- Dorian Rudnytsky - cellist and composer[21]
- Richard Sandrak (1992 - ) child body-builder[22]
- Igor Sikorsky - helicopter designer[23]
- Maria Sokil - soprano singer[24]
- John Spencer - actor[25]
- Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko - wife of Viktor Yushchenko[26]
- Anna Zatonskih - chess player[27]
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- ^ [1] "Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev..."
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3] "The Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-reared ex-model..."
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- ^ [5] "Court's acquittal of Ukrainian-American auto worker John Demjanjuk..."
- ^ [6] "The year before, the Ukrainian American had been named coach of the year by Sporting News and the Associated Press."
- ^ [7] "Ukrainian-American Steve Ditko is acknowledged as one of the all-time great illustrators of comic books."
- ^ [8] "Some Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk..."
- ^ [9] "Groundbreaking work in the structure & workings of plants."
- ^ [10] "Born and raised in New Jersey's insulated Ukrainian community, where she "went to Ukrainian Catholic school, was in the Ukrainian Girl Scouts, and did Ukrainian folk dancing in the Catskills during summers," Farmiga did not learn English until she was six."
- ^ Fedorov - [11] "Anthony Fedorov -- or the "Ukrainian cowboy," as Ryan introduced him -- sang LONESTAR's "I'm Already There.""
- ^ [12]""First suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy.
- ^ [13] "ce of the Ukrainian patriot and exile Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko..."
- ^ [14] "The Ukrainian-born FIFTH ELEMENT star is a keen guitarist and hopes her new financial security will afford her time to hone her musical abilities."
- ^ [15] "The AUSTIN POWERS star and Ukrainian beauty Kunis devised a plan to shock the press with revelations of an affair behind Culkin's back..."; born to a Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine
- ^ [16] "Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress"
- ^ [17] "The son of a Ukrainian-born barber..."
- ^ [18] "Jack Palance has everyone smiling as he recites stories about growing up Ukrainian in a tough neighborhood."
- ^ [19] "Wally Palmar, traversed this virgin landscape...to finally lay his eyes on the Ukrainian homeland"
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- ^ [22] "Following in Ahnold's footsteps, 11-year-old Ukrainian body-builder Richard Sandrak sets his sights on Hollywood..."
- ^ [23]
- ^ [24] "honor the memory of famed Ukrainian opera singer Maria Sokil..."
- ^ [25] "following last Sunday's matinee performance and enthusiastically declared "Yes, I'm half Ukrainian."... he was Ukrainian on his mother's side. "My mother's maiden name was Bincarowski - I have no idea where the family came from in Ukraine - and my father's Irish. I think there may have been some Czech (ancestry) in my father's family - on his father's side - but I only found that out in the last six-seven years."
- ^ [26] "Yushchenko is married to Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko (his second wife). She is a Ukrainian-American born in Chicago, formerly a successful state official within the U.S. State Department."
- ^ [27] "two-time Ukrainian Women's Champion and two-time Olympian WGM Anna Zatonskih..."
