Enlightenment responsible for culture and education
� Ivan Paskevich � Ukrainian military leader in the Russian service
� David Peikoff � Canadian-U.S. Deaf Rights advocate, born on March 21, 1900, in Yanoschina, Poltava Province, Russian Empire.
� Oleksandr Bilash � outstanding Ukrainian composer
� Zhanna Prokhorenko � Ukrainian actress
� Sasha Putrya � Ukrainian artist
� Avraham Shlonsky � Israeli poet and editor � Maria Tarnowska (born Maria Nikolaevna O'Rourke) � famous femme fatale, whose trial for murder (Venice, 1910) attracted worldwide media attention.
� Vera Kholodnaya � an outstanding Ukrainian actress, the first star of Russian silent cinema
� Yuri Kondratyuk (born Olexandr Gnatovich Shargei) � a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight who, in the early twentieth century, foresaw ways of reaching the moon.
� Panas Myrny (born Panas Yakovych Rudchenko) � Ukrainian writer (* Panas Myrny's Memorial estate)
� Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky � Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
� Hryhorii Skovoroda � Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer.
� Symon Petliura � Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
� Nikolai Yaroshenko � Russian painter of Ukrainian origin.
� Svetlana Kopchikova � Ukrainian swimmer and 200 m medley champion at the 1985 Summer Universiade.
� Mikhail Zoshchenko � Soviet satirist
