Famous People From Zhytomyr
- Ossip Bernstein, French chess player
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, born in Radi, Volhynia, educated in Zhytomyr
- Adolpho Bloch, Brazilian entrepreneur, founder of Bloch Editores, Manchete magazine and Rede Manchete
- Tadeusz Borowski, Polish writer
- Anastasiya Chernenko, a professional triathlete
- Jarosław Dąbrowski, Polish-French Paris Commune revolutionary
- Luis Filcer, Ukrainian/Mexican painter
- Samuel Freedman,Canadian judge, Manitoba Chief Justice
- Yakov Gamarnik, Soviet Communist militant and military commander
- Alexander Godin, (1909-?), author of "My Dead Brother Comes to America"
- Aharon David Gordon, Hebrew writer and thinker, founder of the spiritual Zionism, born at Troyaniv, near Zhytomyr, settled in Palestine
- Alex Gottlieb, Hollywood film director and screenwriter
- Moisei Kasyanik, weightlifter
- Feitel (Philip) Kazatzkin/Kaskin, Rabbi who later founded one of the first Synagogues in Philadelphia, PA
- Alexander Kipnis, German then US opera singer (bass)
- Volodymyr Korolenko, Ukrainian writer
- Sergey Korolyov, prominent rocket engineer and designer, the head of the Soviet space program
- Boris Abramovich Kruhliak, Ukrainian historian
- Inessa Lee, singer known as Singing Doll
- Keni Liptzin, Jewish actress in Yiddish theatre
- Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer
- Julian Movchan, Ukrainian writer/journalist
- Leah Nickel, Israeli painter
- Franciszek Niepokolczycki, Polish soldier
- Oleh Olzhych, Ukrainian writer and nationalist militant
- Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Polish actor
- Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist
- Mikhail Rostovtzeff, Russian Archaeologist
- Maryna Shulga, volunteer and AIDS activist
- David Borisovich Sterenberg, Russian painter
- Mykola Stsiborskyi, prominent leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and close ally of Andrii Melnyk
- Vladimir Veksler, a Soviet physicist, pioneer of particle accelerator technology
- Yuliya Yelistratova, a professional triathlete
- Kazimierz Zagórski, (1883 Żytomierz – 1944 Leopoldville, Kongo)- Polish photographer active in central Africa 1924-44, author of the "L'Afrique qui disparait", former Colonel of the tsar Air Force
- Juliusz Zarębski, Polish composer
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