List of people from Chernivtsi

The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ( _uk. Чернівці) is home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

Natives

*Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), a leading Yiddish linguist
*Aharon Appelfeld (b.1932), a Jewish writer
*Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
*Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), a Jewish German-language writer
*Octav Botnar (1913–1998), a Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
*Paul Celan (born "Antschel"; 1920–1970), a Jewish German-language writer
*Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), a Jewish biochemist
*Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), a Jewish jurist
*Roman Fichman, (1970-), prominent Israeli American Attorney
*Moysey Fishbeyn (1947-), a Ukrainian poet
*Maya Glazer (1984-), supermodel
*Alina Grosu, child singer
*Frederick (John) Kiesler (1890–1965), a theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
*Ruth Klieger Aliav (born "Polishuk"; 1914–1979), a female Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
*Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), a Ukrainian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
*Sasha Malchik
*Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian chess-player and author
*Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), a Polish surgeon
*Dan Pagis (1930–1986), an Israeli writer
*Traian Popovici (1892–1946), a Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and a 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), a German-language writer of Sicilian-Austrian origin
*Joseph Schmidt (born in the vicinity; 1904–1942), a chazzan (tenor)
*Charles K. Bliss, (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
*Josef Burg, (*1912), last surviving Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
*Maria Forescu (1875–1943), Romanian opera singer and movie actress
*Joseph Gregor (1888–1960), dramatist and librettist
*Raimund Friedrich Kaindl, (1866-1930) historian of Bukovina, professor Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz (now the University of Chernivtsi)
*Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) architect and visionary
*Itzig Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
*Carol Miculi (1821, Lemberg –1892), Romanian (and Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian ancestry) pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
*Anton Pawlowski (June 20, 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, etc.
*Michail Prodan (1912–2002), forester
*Walther Rode (1876–1934), writer, lawyer
*Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932), conductor and composer
*Ze'ev Sherf (1904-1984), Israeli Minister of Finance
*Elieser Steinbarg (1880–1932), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
*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)
*James Immanuel Weissglas (1920–1979), Jewish translator and lyricist
*Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
*Zvi Yavetz, (*1925), Israeli ancient historian
*Frederic Zelnik, an important German silent movie director-producer, was born in Czernowitz on May 17, 1885

Residents

* Antonin Borovec, "also" "Anton Borowetz" (1870–1925), Czechoslovakian diplomat in Czernowitz, Founder of the "Sozial innovativen Konzeptes für Witwen and Waisen." (Socially Innovative Concept for Widows and Orphans)
* 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"
* Gala Galaction, "originally" "Grigore Pisculescu" (1879–1961), Romanian writer
* Ion Grămadă
* Friedrich Kleinwächter (1877–1959), economist, who studied in Czernowitz
* Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898–1967), Jewish poet and translator
* Andreas Mikulicz, architect
* Polesiuk-Padan Heinrich (1912-2004)advocate
* Ciprian Porumbescu
* Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobzau, went to school in Czernowitz
* Wojciech Rubinowicz
* Moses Rosenkranz (1904–2003), Jewish poet
* Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942) singer and actor
* Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 Professor in Czernowitz
* Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boyan, Bukowina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
* Alexander Supan, geographer
* Constantin Tomaszczuk, Founder of the University of Czernowitz

* Hermann Bahr
* Nathan Birnbaum
* Charles K. Bliss
* Erwin Chargaff
* Yuriy Fedkovych
* Jacob Frank
* Ivan Franko
* Abraham Goldfaden, active here
* Zygmunt Gorgolewski
* Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
* Volodymyr Ivasyuk
* Aron Pumnul
* Joseph Kalmer
* Olha Kobylyanska
* Zvi Laron
* Anastasiya Markovich (1979-), Художница, Lady Painter, Malerin, Artiste Peintre, Schilderes
* Miron Nicolescu, mathematician
* Ion Nistor
* Israel Polack
* Moyshe Altman (1890-1981), Yiddish writer
* Wilhelm Reich
* Eric Roll
* Sofia Rotaru
* Maximilien Rubel
* Hermann Scharf
* Fritz von Scholz

* Nazariy Yaremchuk
* Anna Berezovskaya
* Grigore Vasiliu Birlic