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.

Lists of Americans
By US state
By ethnicity or nationality

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Ukrainian American or must have references showing they are Ukrainian American and ko are notable.


Actors

Artists and designers

Chess players

Government and civil servants

Engineers and business

Military officers and war heroes

  • Jeremy Michael Boorda - US Admiral-Chief of Naval Operations
  • Myron F. Diduryk - Vietnam War Silver Star recipient
  • John W. Dutko - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
  • Samuel Jaskilka – General-Assistant Commandant of the US Marine Corps
  • Orest L. Kohut - Brigadier General US Air Force[18][19]
  • Leonid Kondratiuk - Brigadier General in the Massachusetts Organized Malitia[20]
  • Walter A. Kostecki M.D. - US Army Medical Corps Major; World War II POW and recipient of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and two Army Commendation Medals[21]
  • Nicholas S. H. Krawciw – US Army Major General
  • Stepen M. Mellnik - US Army Brigadier General[22]
  • Nicholas Minue - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
  • Nicholas Oresko - World War II Medal of Honor recipient
  • John Basil Turchin - US Civil War Brigadier General[23]

Musicians

Politicians

Religious figures

Sports figures

Igor Olshansky

Scientists and scholars

Alexei Filippenko
Jane Lubchenco
Gregory Mankiw
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper

Writers and journalists

Other

See also

References

  1. ^ Nick Adams, the Ukrainian-American actor. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  2. ^ Yuan, Jada (February 8, 2011). "The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry on Cary's Sex Life and How to Pronounce His Last Name". nymag.com. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
  3. ^ "Official website : Erika Eleniak". Erikeleniaksoofficialsite.com. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ The Ukrainian heritage in America – Walter Dushnyck, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America – Google Books. Books.google.com. September 17, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
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  9. ^ Traci Lords: Underneath It All – Traci Lords, Traci Elizabeth Lords – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  10. ^ "Jack Palance has everyone smiling as he recites stories about growing up Ukrainian in a tough neighborhood". Brama.com. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  11. ^ 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. Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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  14. ^ International Chess Tournament in Lviv dedicated to memory of champion (10/31/99) Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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  16. ^ "Ukrainian American Archives and Museum of Detroit purchases larger building". The Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  17. ^ "Sikorsky, Igor Ivan – Photograph – Britannica Concise". Concise.britannica.com. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  18. ^ "BRIGADIER GENERAL OREST L. KOHUT > U.S. Air Force > Biography Display". www.af.mil. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  19. ^ "Post 101 - Warren, MI - Ukrainian American Veterans". www.uavets.org. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  20. ^ "Love of books turns into lifetime of giving for one alumnus - The Citadel - Charleston, SC". www.citadel.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  21. ^ "Walter Kostecki Biography". philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  22. ^ "Stephen Michael Mellnik (1907 - 1994) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  23. ^ Coleman, Christopher (2014-04-04). "John Basil Turchin: The Russian Thunderbolt". The Late Unpleasantness: A Civil War Blog. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  24. ^ OBITUARY: Kvitka Cisyk, 44, popular singer (04/12/98) Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Anthony Fedorov – or the Ukrainian cowboy, as Ryan introduced him – sang LONESTAR's I'm Already There
  26. ^ "Hutz-pah! | Seven Days". 7dvt.com. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  27. ^ a b Mitchell Peters (August 12, 2011). "Lenny Kravitz Returns With 'Black and White America,' Countless Partnerships". Billboard.
  28. ^ Wally Palmar traversed this virgin landscape... to finally lay his eyes on the Ukrainian homeland Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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  30. ^ "Steven Tyler promises to shake up Moscow during Aerosmith concert". rbth.com. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  31. ^ Walter Dudycz
  32. ^ John S Gonas
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  34. ^ "Stephen J. Jarema, 83, Former Assemblyman". The New York Times. 1988-07-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
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  36. ^ Mike Olienyk
  37. ^ OLKHOVSKIY, Ruslan V. "Build Ukraine". www.artukraine.com. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  38. ^ "Ukrainian-American Councilman Mark Treyger Blasts Russia's "Intimidation"". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  39. ^ Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton - Kathleen Willey - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  40. ^ "ce of the Ukrainian patriot and exile Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko". Brama.com. 1999-05-15. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  41. ^ Mihoces, Gary (2006-02-13). "Alexandra Pauline Cohen, nicknamed Sasha by her Ukrainian-born mother, Galina". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  42. ^ The year before, the Ukrainian American had been named coach of the year by Sporting News and the Associated Press[dead link]
  43. ^ Rory Costello; Harry Fanok (May 28, 2014). "Harry Fanok". sabr.org. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  44. ^ "Matt Kuchar Tries To Explains the PGA to Nancy, Double Bogeys". Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  45. ^ "Former NFL player, city commissioner Steve Romanik dies". NJ.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  46. ^ Following in Ahnold's footsteps, 11-year-old Ukrainian body-builder Richard Sandrak sets his sights on Hollywood
  47. ^ "Flip Saunders". www.nndb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  48. ^ http://www.raaad.org/famrusam.php "Groundbreaking work in the structure & workings of plants."
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  55. ^ Ukrainian-American Steve Ditko is acknowledged as one of the all-time great illustrators of comic books Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  56. ^ http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/Dispatcher?mode=600&id=im000543
  57. ^ The Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-reared ex-model...
  58. ^ "Court's acquittal of Ukrainian-American auto worker John Demjanjuk". Washington-report.org. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  59. ^ Some Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk...
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  63. ^ a b Eurovision Song Contest won by Denmark, BBC News (19 May 2013)
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