List of Famous people born in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Nikolay Nekrasov

First Name Nikolay
Died on January 8, 1878

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about peasant Russia made him the hero of liberal and radical circles of Russian intelligentsia, as represented by Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He is credited with introducing into Russian poetry ternary meters and the technique of dramatic monologue. As the editor of several literary journals, notably Sovremennik, Nekrasov was also singularly successful and influential.

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John Demjanjuk

First Name John
Last Name Demjanjuk
Born on April 3, 1920
Died on March 17, 2012 (aged 91)

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted after being misidentified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. Shortly before his death, he was again tried and convicted as an accessory to 28,000 murders at Sobibor.

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Clarice Lispector

Хая Пинхасiвна Лиспектор
First Name Clarice
Born on December 10, 1920
Died on December 9, 1977 (aged 56)

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

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Oleksandr Omelchenko

First Name Oleksandr
Born on August 9, 1938
Died on November 25, 2021 (aged 83)

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko became the mayor of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in 1999. He lost his re-election bid in March 2006. Omelchenko is also a former member of the Verkhovna Rada.

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Volodymyr Groysman

First Name Volodymyr
Born on January 20, 1978 (age 46)

Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman, sometimes transliterated as Volodymyr Borysovych Hroisman, is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 14 April 2016 to 29 August 2019.

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Igor Vovkovinskiy

First Name Igor
Born on September 18, 1982
Died on August 20, 2021 (aged 38)
Height 234 cm | 7'8

Igor Vovkovinskiy is a Ukrainian-American law student, interviewee, and actor, best known for being the current tallest person living in the United States, at 7 feet 8 13 inches (234.5 cm) and weighs 380 lbs (172 kg), overtaking the record from George Bell.

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Olya Polyakova

Ольга Юріївна Полякова
First Name Olya
Born on January 17, 1979 (age 45)

Olha Yuriivna Polyakova is a Ukrainian singer, TV presenter, and comedian known as Super Blonde.

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Oleksiy Honcharuk

First Name Oleksiy
Born on July 7, 1984 (age 39)

Oleksiy Valeriyovych Honcharuk is a Ukrainian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020 following a landslide parliamentary election win. Honcharuk was replaced by Denys Shmyhal during the formation of the Shmyhal Government.

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Boris Bazhanov

First Name Boris
Last Name Bazhanov
Born on August 9, 1900
Died on December 30, 1982 (aged 82)

Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov was a Soviet secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who defected from the Soviet Union on 1 January 1928.

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Roman Kozak

First Name Roman
Last Name Kozak
Born on June 29, 1957
Died on May 28, 2010 (aged 52)

Roman Yefimovich Kozak was a Russian theatre actor and director. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). He was artistic director of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

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