List of people from Chernivtsi
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The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці) is/was home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.
Natives
- Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932), Jewish writer
- Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
- Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Jewish German-language writer
- Elyakim Badian (1925-2000), Israeli politician
- Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
- Ion Bostan (1914–1992), Romanian film director
- Octav Botnar (1913–1998), Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
- Josef Burg (1912–2009), last Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
- Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), Jewish German-language writer
- Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Jewish biochemist
- Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Jewish jurist
- Moysey Fishbeyn (1947-), Ukrainian poet
- Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1866-1930), historian of Bukovina, professor at Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz (now the University of Chernivtsi)
- Frederick John Kiesler (1890–1965), theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
- Ruth Klieger Aliav (born Polishuk; 1914–1979), Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
- Sam Kogan (1946-2004), stage director, actor and founding principal of the Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing in London
- Mila Kunis (b. 1983), actress[1][2][3]
- Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), Ukrainian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
- Itzik Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
- Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian chess-player and author
- Carol Miculi (1821, Lemberg –1892), Romanian (and Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian ancestry) pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), Polish surgeon
- Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli writer
- Anton Pawlowski (June 11, 1830 – April 28, 1901), Imperial and Royal Senior Government Building Officer, Commander of the Royal Romanian Order of the Crown, Honorary Master of the Alemannia Student (Duelling) Corps
- Iacob Pistiner, lawyer and Member of the Romanian Parliament in the interwar years
- Traian Popovici (1892–1946), Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and Righteous Among the Nations (Chasidey Umoth HaOlam)
- Markus Reiner (1886-1976), one of the founders of rheology
- Gregor von Rezzori (born d'Arezzo; 1914–1998), German-language writer of Sicilian-Austrian origin
- Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932), conductor and composer
- Lev Shekhtman (1951–), Russian/American theater director and actor
- Ze'ev Sherf (1904-1984), Israeli Minister of Finance
- Stefanie von Turetzki (1868–1929), founder of the first girls' grammar school in Austria–Hungary in Czernowitz
- Viorica Ursuleac (1894–1985), Romanian opera singer (dramatic soprano)
- Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
- Frederic Zelnik (born 1885), important German silent movie director-producer, born in Czernowitz
Residents
- Moyshe Altman (1890-1981), Yiddish writer
- Hermann Bahr
- Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
- Nathan Birnbaum
- Charles K. Bliss
- Erwin Chargaff
- Mihai Eminescu
- Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Jewish writer and publicist, grew up in Czernowitz and wrote a literary memorial of the Jewish ghetto, The Jews of Barnow
- Jacob Frank
- Ivan Franko
- Gala Galaction, originally Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), Romanian writer
- Abraham Goldfaden, active here
- Zygmunt Gorgolewski
- Ion Grămadă
- Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
- Volodymyr Ivasyuk
- Joseph Kalmer
- Olha Kobylyanska
- Leonid Kravchuk
- Zvi Laron
- Anastasiya Markovich (1979-), painter
- Miron Nicolescu, mathematician
- Ion Nistor
- Israel Polack
- Ciprian Porumbescu
- Aron Pumnul
- Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobrzanica, went to school in Czernowitz
- Eric Roll
- Sofia Rotaru
- Maximilien Rubel
- Wojciech Rubinowicz
- Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942), singer, actor and cantor
- Fritz von Scholz
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 professor in Czernowitz
- Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boiany, Bukowina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
- Vasile Tărâțeanu, journalist and writer
- Nazariy Yaremchuk
References
- ^ Ukrainian Jews, Bible Discovered
- ^ Template:Uk icon Міла Куніс зіграє у трилері ”Чорний лебідь”, Gazeta.ua (August 13, 2009)
- ^ 'EXTRACT' STAR MILA KUNIS ON HER RUSSIAN ROOTS, YouTube