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- Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, born in Lviv
- Dov Sadan, scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, born in Brody
- Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, born in Nadvorna
- Adam Stefan Sapieha, Prince, Archbishop of Cracow and Cardinal, born in Krasiczyn
- Juliusz Schauder, mathematician, born in Lviv
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist, born in Vyshnivchyk
- Moses Schorr, rabbi, assyriologist and politician, born in Przemyśl
- Bruno Schulz, poet, novelist and painter, born in Drohobych
- Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, Jewish gaon of Berezhany, born in Zolochiv
- Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- Markiyan Shashkevych, poet and interpreter, born in Pidlissia near Zolochiv
- Andrey Sheptytsky, Count, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
- Clement Sheptytsky, Count, the Archimandrite of the Studite monks, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
- Stanisław Sheptytsky, Count, general of the Polish Army, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
- Hans Shippe, Jewish Chinese writer, journalist and soldier, born in Cracow
- Roman Shukhevych, the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krakovets, near Yavoriv
- Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland and commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces (1939–43), born in Tuszów Narodowy
- Stanisław Skrowaczewski, conductor, born in Lviv
- Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in of Zazdrist, near Terebovlia
- Wacław Sobieski, historian, born in Lviv
- Stanisław Sosabowski, general, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, born in Stanislau
- Jerzy Sosnowski, major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–34) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz, born in Lviv
- Manès Sperber, novelist and psychologist, born in Zabolotiv
- Nissan Spivak, Jewish cantor and composer from Belz
- Hnat Stefaniv, Ukrainian colonel, born in Toporivtsi, near Horodenka
- Vasyl Stefanyk, writer, born in Rusiv, near Kuty
- Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician, born in Jasło
- Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Ternopil
- Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Romanivka, near Terebovlia
- Lee Strasberg, Jewish American director, actor and producer, born in Budaniv
- Julian Stryjkowski, writer, born in Stryj
- Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939), born in Kamienka, near Ternopil
- Franciszek Sulik, chess master, born in Lviv
- Karol Szajnocha, historian, born in Komarno
- Jan Szczepanik, inventor, born in Rudniki, near Mostyska
- Jan Szembek, Count, deputy secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, born in Poręba
- Józef Szujski, historian and politician, born in Tarnów
- Stanisław Tarnowski, historian and politician, born in Dzików
- Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite)
- Oscar Tenner, chess master, born in Lviv
- Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy, born in Nowy Targ
- Metodyj Trochanovskij, Lemko activist, born in Binczarowa
- Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar, born in Lviv
- Adam Ulam, historian, born in Lviv
- Stanisław Ulam, mathematician, co-inventor of the H-bomb, born in Lviv
- Leopold Unger, journalist, born in Lviv
- Ivan Vahylevych, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Yasen, near Stanislav
- Anatole Vakhnianyn, Ukrainian politician and composer, born near Przemyśl
- Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop (body found incorrupt), born in Stanislau
- Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the present National Anthem of Ukraine, born in Jawornik Ruski, near Bircza
- Dmytro Vitovsky, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Medukha
- Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–65), born near Stanislav
- Alexander Wagner, chess theoretician, lived in Stanislau
- Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia)
- Rudolf Weigl, biologist, lived in Lviv
- Friedrich Weinreb, Jewish philosopher, born in Lviv
- Shevah Weiss, Israeli politician, born in Boryslav
- Kazimierz Wierzyński, Polish poet, born in Drohobych
- Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis, born in Buchach
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-American film director, born in Suchá Beskidzka
- Karol Wojtyła, John Paul II, Archbishop of Cracow, and Pope (1978–2005), born in Wadowice
- Zev Wolf, Rabbi of Zbarazh
- Stanisław Wyspiański, poet and painter, born in Cracow
- Volodymyr Yaniv, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, born in Lviv
- Daniel Yanofsky, Canadian chess master, born in Brody
- Richard Yary, Ukrainian politician, born in Rzeszów
- Grigory Yavlinsky Russian politician, born in Lviv
- Kordian Józef Zamorski, general, born near Gorlice
- Gabriela Zapolska, novelist and actress, born in Pidhaytsi
- Velvel Zbarjer, singer, born in Zbarazh
- Casimir Zeglen, inventor, born near Ternopil
- Michael Zohary, botanist, born in Bibrka near Lviv
- Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody
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