Notable People From Dnipropetrovsk
Main page: People from Dnipropetrovsk category- 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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