List of people from Chernivtsi
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The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці) is home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.
[edit] Natives
- Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), a leading Yiddish linguist
- Aharon Appelfeld (b.1932), a Jewish writer
- Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
- Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), a Jewish German-language writer
- Octav Botnar (1913–1998), a Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
- Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), a Jewish German-language writer
- Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), a Jewish biochemist
- Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), a Jewish jurist
- Moysey Fishbeyn (1947-Present), a Ukrainian poet
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
- Frederick (John) Kiesler (1890–1965), a theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
- Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), a Ukrainian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
- Sasha Malchik
- Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian chess-player and author
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), a Polish surgeon
- Dan Pagis (1930–1986), an Israeli writer
- Traian Popovici (1892–1946), a Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and a Righteous Among the Nations (Chasidey Umoth HaOlam)
- Markus Reiner (1886-1976), one of the founders of rheology
- Gregor von Rezzori (born d'Arezzo; 1914–1998), a German-language writer of Sicilian-Austrian origin
- Ruth Klieger Aliav (born Polishuk; 1914–1979), a female Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
- Joseph Schmidt (born in the vicinity; 1904–1942), a chazzan (tenor)
- Charles K. Bliss, (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
- Josef Burg, (*1912), last surviving Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
- Maria Forescu (1875–1943), Romanian opera singer and movie actress
- Joseph Gregor (1888–1960), dramatist and librettist
- Raimund Friedrich Kaindl, (1866-1930) historian of Bukovina, professor Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz (now the University of Chernivtsi)
- Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) architect and visionary
- Itzig Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
- Carol Miculi (1821, Lemberg –1892), Romanian (and Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian ancestry) pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
- Anton Pawlowski (June 20, 1830 – April 28, 1901), Imperial and Royal Senior Government Building Officer, Commander of the Royal Romanian Order of the Crown, Honorary Master of the Alemannia Student (Duelling) Corps, etc.
- Michail Prodan (1912–2002), forester
- Walther Rode (1876–1934), writer, lawyer
- Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932), conductor and composer
- Elieser Steinbarg (1880–1932), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
- Stefanie von Turetzki (1868–1929), founder of the first girls' grammar school in Austria–Hungary in Czernowitz
- Viorica Ursuleac (1894–1985), Romanian opera singer (dramatic soprano)
- James Immanuel Weissglas (1920–1979), Jewish translator and lyricist
- Zvi Yavetz, (*1925), Israeli ancient historian
- Frederic Zelnik, an important German silent movie director-producer, was born in Czernowitz on May 17, 1885
- Roman Fichman, (1970-), prominent Israeli American Attorney
- Alina Grosu, child singer
- Ben Taskar, an assistant professor of Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
- Maya Glazer (1984-), SuperModel
[edit] Residents
- Gala Galaction, originally Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), Romanian writer
- Friedrich Kleinwächter (1877–1959), economist, who studied in Czernowitz
- Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898–1967), Jewish poet and translator
- Andreas Mikulicz, architect
- Moses Rosenkranz (1904–2003), Jewish poet
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 Professor in Czernowitz
- Alexander Supan, geographer
- Constantin Tomaszczuk, Founder of the University of Czernowitz
- Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Jewish writer and publicist, grew up in Czernowitz and wrote a literary memorial of the Jewish ghetto: The Jews of Barnow
- Antonin Borovec, also Anton Borowetz (1870–1925), Czechoslovakian diplomat in Czernowitz, Founder of the Sozial innovativen Konzeptes für Witwen and Waisen. (Socially Innovative Concept for Widows and Orphans)
- Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobzau, went to school in Czernowitz
- Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boyan, Bukowina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
- Ciprian Porumbescu
- Mihai Eminescu
- Hermann Bahr
- Nathan Birnbaum
- Charles K. Bliss
- Erwin Chargaff
- Yuriy Fedkovych
- Jacob Frank
- Ivan Franko
- Abraham Goldfaden, active here
- Zygmunt Gorgolewski
- Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
- Volodymyr Ivasyuk
- Aron Pumnul
- Joseph Kalmer
- Olha Kobylyanska
- Zvi Laron
- Anastasiya Markovich (1979-), Художница, Lady Painter, Malerin, Artiste Peintre, Schilderes
- Miron Nicolescu, mathematician
- Ion Nistor
- Israel Polack
- Moyshe Altman (1890-1981), Yiddish writer
- Wilhelm Reich
- Eric Roll
- Sofia Rotaru
- Maximilien Rubel
- Hermann Scharf
- Fritz von Scholz
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Nazariy Yaremchuk
- Anna Berezovskaya
- Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
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