List of Ukrainian Americans
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This is a list of notable Ukrainian-Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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[edit] List
[edit] Actors
- Nick Adams (actor), actor[1]
- Pat Bilon – actor
- Matt Czuchry – actor[2]
- Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent [22]
- Vera Farmiga – actress[3]
- Steven Spielberg
- John Hodiak – actor[4]
- Milla Jovovich – famous actress, supermodel and musician
- Mila Kunis – actress and voice actress
- Kiril Kulish – stage actor [5]
- Traci Lords – an actress born Nora Kuzma; her father is of Ukrainian ancestry. [6]
- Larisa Oleynik – actress
- Bree Olson – pornographic actress
- Kim Ostrenko - an American theater and movie actress, with significant roles in 16 movies, most recently playing Alice Connellan in Dolphin Tale (2011).
- Jack Palance – actor[7]
- John Spencer – actor (on the maternal side Ukrainian – American)[8]
- John Strong - pornographic actor
[edit] Artists and Designers
- Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor[9]
[edit] Chess players
- Stepan Popel – chess player[10]
- Anna Zatonskih – chess player[11]
[edit] Government / Civil servants
- Christopher A. Boyko – United States federal judge
- Paula Dobriansky - an American foreign policy expert who has served in key roles as a diplomat and policy maker in the administrations of five U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican. She is a specialist in the areas of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as political-military affairs.
[edit] Engineers
- Igor Sikorsky – helicopter designer (on the maternal side Russian – Ukrainian)[12]
[edit] Military officers
- Lieut. Charles Archetko – Naval Officer, one of 7 brothers from Rochester, NY representing the largest known Ukrainian-American representation in WWII by a single Family [13]
- Samuel Jaskilka – former Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
[edit] Musicians
- Neko Case – singer, songwriter, member of The New Pornographers
- Kvitka Cisyk – soprano singer[14]
- Bob Dylan - singer-songwriter, poet. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905.
- Anthony Fedorov (1985 – ) singer; finalist on season 4 of American Idol[15]
- Eugene Hütz – musician and actor; lead singer of Gogol Bordello[16]
- Wally Palmar – musician of The Romantics[17]
- Vyacheslav Polozov - Opera singer
- Maria Sokil – soprano singer[18]
- Cole Weintraub – musician, actor, author, playwright [19]
- Dorian Rudnytsky – cellist and composer (son of Maria Sokil, his father's Ukrainian)[20]
- Julian Kytasty - bandurist, traditional Ukrainian music
[edit] Politicians
- Jarek Kubicki,[21] US-American Polish-Ukrainian politician, supporter of pro-Western Ukraine and the Orange Revolution
- Kirill Reznik – politician – Member, Maryland House of Delegates
- Kathleen Willey – major figure in the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones scandals. Her father was of Ukrainian descent [23].
[edit] Religious figures
- Paul Copan – a Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
- Jim Cymbala – pastor for over 25 years of the 10,000-member Brooklyn Tabernacle church in Brooklyn, NY.
- Agapius Honcharenko – exiled Orthodox priest[22]
[edit] Sports stars
- Wayne Chrebet – former NFL player
- Sasha Cohen – Olympic silver medalist figure skater (on the maternal side Jewish – Ukrainian).[23]
- Mike Ditka – football player and coach[24]
- Wayne Gretzky - ice hockey player of Ukrainian descent; US-Canadian dual citizen
- Ruslan Fedotenko – Ukrainian-born ice hockey player, US citizen
- Igor Olshansky- (born 1982 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) – football defensive end for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
- Dima Kovalenko – (Dmytro "Dema"Kovalenko, born August 28, 1977 in Kiev) – soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
- Dmitry Salita – Ukrainian born American boxer.Also called Star of David.
- Richard Sandrak (1992 – ) child bodybuilder[25]
- Flip Saunders – head coach for Detroit Pistons and coaches in the NBA
- Wally Szczerbiak – basketball player in the NBA and currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Oleg Prudius – professional wrestler known as Vladimir Kozlov
[edit] Scientists and Scholars
- Lev Dobriansky - was a professor of economics at Georgetown University, U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas and anti-communist advocate. He is known for his work with the National Captive Nations Committee, which he initiated during the Eisenhower Administration, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, at which he served as a chairman.
- Katherine Esau – botanist[26]
- George Gamow – astrophysicist[27]
- Taras Hunczak – historian (Ph. D./Professor) and media adviser; expert in the East European history and languages
- Jane Lubchenco - environmental scientist and marine ecologist, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Anna Nagurney - mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management; holds the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Simon Ramo – physicist (Russian – Ukrainian)
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, astronaut and a naval officer.
- Michael J. Yaremchuk famous plastic surgeon
[edit] Writers and Journalists
- Steve Ditko – comic book writer[28]
- Chuck Palahniuk – famous transgressive fiction novelist and freelance journalist.
- Mike Royko- journalist (his father's Ukrainian).
[edit] Other
- Semion Mogilevich alleged "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates, Semion Mogilevich Wikipedia
- Vasyl Avramenko – dancer/choreographer[29]
- Juliya Chernetsky – television personality[30]
- John Demjanjuk – retired auto worker/war crimes defendant[31]
- Edward Dmytryk (1908–1999), film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare[32]
- Viktoria Foxx – beauty queen and socialite
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ^ [1] "Nick Adams, the Ukrainian-American actor..."
- ^ "The Good Wife’s Matt Czuchry on Cary’s Sex Life and How to Pronounce His Last Name". nymag.com. February 8, 2011. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/the_good_wifes_matt_czuchry_on.html. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
- ^ [2] "Born and raised in New Jersey's insulated Ukrainian community, where she "went to Ukrainian Catholic school, was in the Ukrainian Girl Scouts, and did Ukrainian folk dancing in the Catskills during summers," Farmiga did not learn English until she was six."
- ^ "The Ukrainian heritage in America – Walter Dushnyck, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America – Google Books". Books.google.com. September 17, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=Iu51AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ukrainian-American%22+%22Nick+Adams%22&dq=%22Ukrainian-American%22+%22Nick+Adams%22&hl=en&ei=kYERTa3iIYP_8Abh0ZGEDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- ^ [3][dead link]
- ^ "Traci Lords: Underneath It All – Traci Lords, Traci Elizabeth Lords – Google Books". Books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=-hTz_mt3vIQC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=traci+lords+ukrainian&source=bl&ots=a6w_LGSC9D&sig=AwDHE0IgpOl2rYF3aEppm5P19Yc&hl=en&ei=TCGqTfT8J-ns0gHlouD4CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- ^ [4] "Jack Palance has everyone smiling as he recites stories about growing up Ukrainian in a tough neighborhood."
- ^ [5] "following last Sunday's matinee performance and enthusiastically declared "Yes, I'm half Ukrainian."... he was Ukrainian on his mother's side. "My mother's maiden name was Bincarowski – I have no idea where the family came from in Ukraine – and my father's Irish. I think there may have been some Czech (ancestry) in my father's family – on his father's side – but I only found that out in the last six-seven years."
- ^ [6] "Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev..."
- ^ International Chess Tournament in Lviv dedicated to memory of champion (10/31/99)[dead link]
- ^ [7] "two-time Ukrainian Women's Champion and two-time Olympian WGM Anna Zatonskih..."
- ^ "Sikorsky, Igor Ivan – Photograph – Britannica Concise". Concise.britannica.com. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/art-14338. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- ^ [8] "Seven Rochester Brothers in Service – The Ukrainian Weekly"
- ^ OBITUARY: Kvitka Cisyk, 44, popular singer (04/12/98)[dead link]
- ^ Fedorov – [9] "Anthony Fedorov – or the "Ukrainian cowboy," as Ryan introduced him – sang LONESTAR's "I'm Already There.""
- ^ "Hutz-pah! | Seven Days". 7dvt.com. http://www.7dvt.com/2005/hutz-pah. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- ^ [10] "Wally Palmar, traversed this virgin landscape...to finally lay his eyes on the Ukrainian homeland"
- ^ [11] "honor the memory of famed Ukrainian opera singer Maria Sokil..."
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2873912/
- ^ This article is unavailable – HighBeam Research
- ^ "Jarek Kubicki, помошник Радника Волі США на Украйин". jarek-kubicki-1.livejournal.com. http://jarek-kubicki-1.livejournal.com/. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
- ^ [12] "ce of the Ukrainian patriot and exile Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko..."
- ^ [13] "Alexandra Pauline Cohen, nicknamed Sasha by her Ukrainian-born mother, Galina..."
- ^ [14] "The year before, the Ukrainian American had been named coach of the year by Sporting News and the Associated Press."
- ^ [15] "Following in Ahnold's footsteps, 11-year-old Ukrainian body-builder Richard Sandrak sets his sights on Hollywood..."
- ^ [16] "Groundbreaking work in the structure & workings of plants."
- ^ [17]""First suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy.
- ^ [18] "Ukrainian-American Steve Ditko is acknowledged as one of the all-time great illustrators of comic books."
- ^ http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/Dispatcher?mode=600&id=im000543
- ^ [19] "The Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-reared ex-model..."
- ^ [20] "Court's acquittal of Ukrainian-American auto worker John Demjanjuk..."
- ^ [21] "Some Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk..."
