List of people from Chernivtsi

The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці) is/was home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

Natives

Chernivtsi Theatre

The Palace of Culture

The Chernivtsi University

• Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932), Jewish writer
• Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
• Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Jewish German-language writer
• Elyakim Badian (1925-2000), Israeli politician
• Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
• Ion Bostan (1914–1992), Romanian film director
• Octav Botnar (1913–1998), Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
• Josef Burg (1912–2009), last Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
• Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), Jewish German-language writer
• Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Jewish biochemist
• Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Jewish jurist
• Moysey Fishbeyn (1947-), Ukrainian poet
• Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1866-1930), historian of Bukovina, professor at Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz (now the University of Chernivtsi)
• Frederick John Kiesler (1890–1965), theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
• Ruth Klieger Aliav (born Polishuk; 1914–1979), Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
• Sam Kogan (1946-2004), stage director, actor and founding principal of the Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing in London
• Mila Kunis (b. 1983), actress^[1][2][3]
• Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), Ukrainian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
• Itzik Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
• Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian chess-player and author
• Carol Miculi (1821, Lemberg –1892), Romanian (and Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian ancestry) pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), Polish surgeon
• Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli writer
• Anton Pawlowski (June 11, 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
• Iacob Pistiner, lawyer and Member of the Romanian Parliament in the interwar years
• Traian Popovici (1892–1946), Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and 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), German-language writer of Sicilian-Austrian origin
• Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932), conductor and composer
• Lev Shekhtman (1951–), Russian/American theater director and actor
• Ze'ev Sherf (1904-1984), Israeli Minister of Finance
• 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)
• Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
• Frederic Zelnik (born 1885), important German silent movie director-producer, born in Czernowitz

Residents

• Moyshe Altman (1890-1981), Yiddish writer
• Hermann Bahr
• Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
• Nathan Birnbaum
• Charles K. Bliss
• Erwin Chargaff
• Mihai Eminescu
• 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
• Jacob Frank
• Ivan Franko
• Gala Galaction, originally Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), Romanian writer
• Abraham Goldfaden, active here
• Zygmunt Gorgolewski
• Ion Grămadă
• Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
• Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Joseph Kalmer
• Olha Kobylyanska
• Leonid Kravchuk
• Zvi Laron
• Anastasiya Markovich (1979-), painter
• Miron Nicolescu, mathematician
• Ion Nistor
• Israel Polack
• Ciprian Porumbescu
• Aron Pumnul
• Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobrzanica, went to school in Czernowitz
• Eric Roll
• Sofia Rotaru
• Maximilien Rubel
• Wojciech Rubinowicz
• Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942), singer, actor and cantor
• Fritz von Scholz
• Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 professor in Czernowitz
• Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boiany, Bukowina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
• Vasile Tărâțeanu, journalist and writer
• Nazariy Yaremchuk

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