| Name |
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Famous For |
| President John Adams |
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2nd president of US (1797-1801); [per researcher Lavrentiy Krupnik; I couldn't find written acknowledgement] |
| Adolf Dassler |
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A young lad nicknamed Adidas who escaped to America just before the Nazi occupation and founded a sportswear company |
| Victor Petrenko |
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1992 Olympic Skating God Medalist |
| Oksana Baiul |
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1994 Olympic Skating Gold Medalist |
| Sergei Bubka |
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World record pole vaulter, won 1988 Seoul Olympic gold shattered pole vault record 35 times |
| Lenny Krayzelburg |
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2000 US Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist |
| Wayne Gretsky |
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NHL Hall of Fame Hockey Player |
| Mike Ditka |
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NFL Coach/ Hall of Fame Player |
| Andy Warhol |
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Famous Pittsburgh modern artist |
| Wally Szczerbiak |
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NBA Basketball play from Pittsburgh PA |
| Vitali Klitschko |
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WBO Heavyweight Boxing Champ; Kyiv city mayor |
| Alex Trebek |
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Host of 'Jeopardy' TV game show, executive producer of other shows, actor |
| Jack Palance |
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Oscar winning actor, in 'Batman', 'City Slickers' many other movies |
| Milla Jovovich |
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L'Oreal supermodel and actress who started in 'The 5th Element' with Bruce Willis, producer, director |
| Mila Kunis |
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Award winning actress, Christan Dior model; Owns Quarantine Wine with Ashton Kutcher |
| Michael Bolton |
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Singer, songwriter, won six American music awards and two Grammy Awards |
| Igor Sikorsky |
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Inventor of the helicopter, won 7 awards, founded Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and developed Pan American Airways ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s |
| Roman Kroitor |
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Founder and inventory of IMAX, award winning filmaker, producer, director, |
| Nicholas Holonyak |
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Inventor of the LED, numerous worldwide awards; holds 41 patents; |
| Yulia Tymoshenko |
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First female Prime Minister in 2005 (again in 2007-2010) and led the Orange Revolution; Forbes' list of most powerful women, world wide recognition for her crown of braids |
| Ani Lorak |
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Ukrainian pop singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and UN Goodwill Ambassador |
| Karina Smirnoff |
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Ballroom dancer, 5 times US National Champion, World Trophy Champion and Asian Open Champion, among others. |
| Vasyl Lomachenko |
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Boxer, world champion in 3 weight classes, 396 wins and 1 loss; |
| Leon Trotsky |
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Marxist, important opposition to Joseph Stalin, killed in 1940 |
| Olga Kurylenko |
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model, actress, best known as a James Bond girl |
| Sophie Tucker |
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Singer, comedian, actress, radio personality, known for her risque songs, 'last of the red hot mamas' , performed in vaudville and Ziegfeld follies |
| Fedir Pirotsky |
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Electric tram inventor; Railway electification system; |
| Dustin Hoffman |
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actor, most famous films: The Graduate; Rain Man; Marathon Man and Meet the Fockers |
| Andriy Shevchenko |
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football player and manager, all time scorer for Ukraine; won various titles in Milan, Ukraine, Italy, and England |
| Sergei Prokofiev |
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Composer and pianist, |
| Volodymyr Zelenskiy |
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comedian, screenwriter, director , producer and then president of Ukraine since 2019 |
| Olena Zelenska |
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First lady of Ukraine, film and theater |
| Vladimir Horowitz |
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classical pianist |
| Jan Koum |
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founder of WhatsApp, billionaire |
| Louis B Mayer |
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Film producer |
| Vladimir the Great |
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Grand Prince of Kiev 9th century; Prince of Novgorod; ruler of the Kievan Rus when Ukraine was great, died 1015 |
| Yaroslav the Wise |
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Prince 0789 AD; died 1054 |
| Bohdan Khmelnytsky |
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Cossack warrior 1595 AD |
| Petro Poroshenko |
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5th president of Ukraine 2014-2019, |
| Nick Adams |
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film and television star of 'The Rebel' (1959-1962), early death from drug overdose |
| Stepan Bandera |
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Ukrainian revolutional leader of OUN, inspiration for Ukrainian freedom from Poland, Germany and Russia; imprisoned by the Nazi army |
| Taras Shevchenko |
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Poet; prose writer, playwright, artist and political figure, Ukrainian revolutionary inspiration, symbolized freedom for Ukraine, died 1871 |
| Alexander Archipenko |
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world famous 'spatial' sculpture; introduced sculpto painting; applied geometry in his sculpting, adopting principles of cubism, graphic artist |
| Lee Strasberg |
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Movie director; The Group Theatre, invented The Method which consists of many psychological and physical exercices meant to break down the actor's barriers between real life and life on stage |
| ? |
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Blind Ukrainian poet in Japan in 1920 by order of the emperor became a national poet of Japan [not verified] |
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