List of Ukrainian Americans

This is a list of notable Ukrainian-Americans.

List

*Alexander Archipenko - artist, sculptor [ [http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/A/Archipen.asp] "Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev..."]
*Vasyl Avramenko - dancer/choreographer [ [http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/Dispatcher?mode=600&id=im000543 IMAGES Search Results ] ]
*Neko Case - singer, songwriter, member of The New Pornographers
*Wayne Chrebet - former NFL player
*Juliya Chernetsky - television personality [ [http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=896] "The Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-reared ex-model..."]
*Kvitka Cisyk - soprano singer [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1998/159818.shtml OBITUARY: Kvitka Cisyk, 44, popular singer (04/12/98) ] ]
*Sasha Cohen - Olympic silver medalist figure skater. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/torino/figureskating/2006-02-09-cover-cohen_x.htm] "Alexandra Pauline Cohen, nicknamed Sasha by her Ukrainian-born mother, Galina..."]
*John Demjanjuk - retired auto worker/war crimes defendant [ [http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0993/9309065.html] "Court's acquittal of Ukrainian-American auto worker John Demjanjuk..."]
*Mike Ditka - football coach [ [http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/212/744?PHPSESSID=10e807e494c11a291a7c54f69e10ca5d] "The year before, the Ukrainian American had been named coach of the year by Sporting News and the Associated Press."]
*Steve Ditko - comic book writer [ [http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/213/765] "Ukrainian-American Steve Ditko is acknowledged as one of the all-time great illustrators of comic books."]
*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 [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume7/countries/ukraine.html] "Some Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk..."]
*Katherine Esau - botanist [ [http://www.raaad.org/famrusam.php] "Groundbreaking work in the structure & workings of plants."]
*Vera Farmiga - actress [ [http://www.looksmartfamilymeals.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_9_30/ai_64993864] "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."]
*Anthony Fedorov (1985 - ) singer; finalist on season 5 of "American Idol" [Fedorov - [http://et.tv.yahoo.com/tv/11256/] "Anthony Fedorov -- or the "Ukrainian cowboy," as Ryan introduced him -- sang LONESTAR's "I'm Already There.""]
*George Gamow - astroPhysicist [ [http://www.raaad.org/famrusam.php] ""First suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy."]
*Maya Hayuk - Totally amazing artist
*Agapius Honcharenko - exiled Orthodox priest [ [http://www.brama.com/news/press/990523ukrainapark.html] "ce of the Ukrainian patriot and exile Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko..."]
*Lenny Kravitz- rock musician
*Milla Jovovich - famous actress, supermodel and musician
*Mila Kunis (1983 - ) actress, perhaps best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show" [ [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/greens%20affair%20plan%20with%20culkins%20girlfriend%20falls%20flat] "The AUSTIN POWERS star and Ukrainian beauty Kunis devised a plan to shock the press with revelations of an affair behind Culkin's back..."; born to a Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine]
*Leonard Nimoy - actor [ [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=11456] "The son of a Ukrainian-born barber..."]
*Chuck Palahniuk - famous transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist.
*Jack Palance - actor [ [http://www.brama.com/news/press/991209hollywood.html] "Jack Palance has everyone smiling as he recites stories about growing up Ukrainian in a tough neighborhood."]
*Wally Palmar - musician of The Romantics [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2005/250503.shtml] "Wally Palmar, traversed this virgin landscape...to finally lay his eyes on the Ukrainian homeland"]
*Stepan Popel - chess player [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/449928.shtml International Chess Tournament in Lviv dedicated to memory of champion (10/31/99) ] ]
*Simon Ramo - physicist
*Kirill Reznik - politician - Member, Maryland House of Delegates
* Mike Royko- journalist.
*Dorian Rudnytsky - cellist and composer [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1:79655820/Music+Scene~C~+Dorian+Rudnytskys+%22Costa+Blanca+Suite%22+premieres+in+Spain.html?refid=SEO This article is unavailable - HighBeam Research ] ]
*Richard Sandrak (1992 - ) child body-builder [ [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-03-31/goods_remotecontrol_p.html] "Following in Ahnold's footsteps, 11-year-old Ukrainian body-builder Richard Sandrak sets his sights on Hollywood..."]
*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.
*Igor Sikorsky - helicopter designer [ [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/art-14338 Sikorsky, Igor Ivan - Photograph - Britannica Concise ] ] (quarter Ukrainian)
*Maria Sokil - soprano singer [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/490331.shtml] "honor the memory of famed Ukrainian opera singer Maria Sokil..."]
*John Spencer - actor [ [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2001/230131.shtml] "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."]
*Liv Tyler - actress
*Steven Tyler - singer of Aerosmith
*Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko - wife of Viktor Yushchenko [ [http://www.rol.org.ua/eng/newsitem.cfm?unid=20] "Yushchenko is married to Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko (his second wife). She is a Ukrainian-American born in Chicago, formerly a successful state official within the U.S. State Department."]
*Anna Zatonskih - chess player [ [http://www.uschess.org/news/press/uspr0309.html] "two-time Ukrainian Women's Champion and two-time Olympian WGM Anna Zatonskih..."]

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