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Notable People From Dnipropetrovsk

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  • Oksana Baiul — figure skating Olympic Gold Medalist in 1994
  • Helena Blavatsky — founder of Theosophical Society
  • Dnepropetrovsk maniacs serial killers, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuck.
  • Marina Maximillian Blumin — Singer/Songwriter and Kokhav Nolad contestant
  • Katherine Esau — botanist
  • Kyrylo Fesenko — NBA basketball player
  • Ilya Kabakov — contemporary artist
  • Leonid Kogan — violinist
  • Victor Kravchenko — Soviet dissident
  • Inessa Kravets — long jumper and triple jumper (holds women's record in triple jump)
  • Leonid Kuchma — President of Ukraine in 1994–2005
  • Pavlo Lazarenko — Prime Minister of Ukraine in 1996-97
  • Leonid Levin — computer scientist
  • Igor Morozov (singer) — Russian-Ukrainian opera singer, soloist of Moscow's Bolshoi-Theatre, "People's Artist of Russia"
  • Mikhail Nekrich — musician
  • Igor Olshansky — NFL defensive tackle
  • Viktor Petrov - Ukrainian historian and writer also known under his pen names Domontovych and Ber
  • Gregor Piatigorsky — cellist
  • Viktor Pinchuk — Ukrainian business oligarch
  • Sergei Prokofiev — composer
  • Inna Ryzhykh - professional triathlete
  • Boris Sagal – American television and film director, born there.
  • Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — "Lubavitcher Rebbe" headed the Worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Movement. Posthumously awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.
  • Moses Schönfinkel — logician and mathematician
  • Oleg Tverdokhleb — Athlete – 400 metre hurdles
  • Yulia Tymoshenko — Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005 and 2007–10

See also List of mayors and political chiefs of the Dnipropetrovsk city administration.

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