There are many Ukrainian-Americans in the United States, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. 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 are sufficiently notable to merit a Wikipedia article.
Actors and comedians Nick Adams – actor, screenwriter Odessa Adlon – actress Nina Arianda – actress and Tony Award winner Anthony Atamanuik – actor and comedian Pat Bilon – actor Natalie Burn – actress Matt Czuchry – actor Dimitri Diatchenko – actor Diana Domna — actress Irina Dvorovenko – ballet dancer and actress George Dzundza – actor Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent Taissa Farmiga – actress Vera Farmiga – actressBorn 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 John Hodiak – actor Dustin Hoffman – actor, of Jewish descent Milla Jovovich – actress, supermodel and musician; born in Kyiv, to a Serbian father and a Russian mother Danny Kaye – actor, of Jewish descent Alla Korot – actress Kiril Kulish – stage actor, Ukrainian Jewish Mila Kunis – actress and voice actress, Ukrainian Jewish Oksana Lada – actress, born in western Ukraine Laryssa Lauret – Broadway, television, and film actress, of Ukrainian descent Olga Lezhneva – actress born in Kharkiv; Ukrainian mother Traci Lords – actress born Nora Kuzma; her father was of Ukrainian ancestry Walter Matthau – actor, of Jewish descent Mike Mazurki – actor Boris McGiver – actor Alex Meneses – actress George Montgomery – actor Matthew Montgomery – actor Leonard Nimoy – actor, Ukrainian Jewish Larisa Oleynik – actress, of Ukrainian descent on her father's side Bree Olson – actress and media personality, former pornographic actress Kim Ostrenko – theater and movie actress, with significant roles in 16 movies; played Alice Connellan in Dolphin Tale (2011) Holly Palance – actress Jack Palance – actor Ryan Potter - actor Sasha Roiz – actor, Ukrainian Jewish Lizabeth Scott – actress, second-generation Ukrainian on both sides Amy Seimetz – actress William Shatner – actor Isaac Liev Schreiber – actor John Spencer – actor; Ukrainian–American on the maternal side Anna Sten – actress Michael Stoyanov – actor Lusia Strus – actress Mia Tyler – actress, model Igor Vovkovinskiy – Ukrainian-American law student, interviewee, and actor, best known for once being the tallest person in the United States,Eurovision Song Contest won by Denmark, BBC News (19 May 2013) at ; part of Ukraine's stage performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Zoë Wanamaker – actress, played Susan Harper in the television series My Family; father of Ukrainian Jewish extraction Jeremy Allen White – actor Katheryn Winnick – actress Natalie Wood – actress Danika Yarosh – actress Chris Zylka – actor
Film, media, radio, television Juliya Chernetsky – TV personality 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 ScareSome Ukrainian Canadians have found success in the USA such as Hollywood film director Edward Dmytryk... Andrea Feczko – TV personality Vera Farmiga – actress and director Mila Kunis – actress Taissa Farmiga – actress James Gray – director, producer and screenwriter, (Two lovers, Ad Astra) Jewish-Ukrainian Basil Iwanyk – Hollywood producer, noted for producing films such as, Clash of the Titans, John Wick, We Are Marshall. Kim Kamando – radio personality Taras Kulakov – life hack YouTuber better known as CrazyRussianHacker Tom Leykis – radio personality Andrij Parekh – cinematographer Matej Silecky – director, professional figure skaterhttps://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukrainians-uprooted-as-children-by-world-war-ii-recall-their-journeys-of-survival.html (Retrieved 15 Feb. 2022).https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2018/10/06/new-jersey-film-festival-premieres-matej-sileckys-baba-babee-skazala-grandmother-told-grandmother-this-sunday-october-7-2018/ (Retrieved 15 Feb. 2022)https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/gallery/2017110943888/dancing-on-ice-professional-skaters/3/ (retrieved 15 Feb. 2022) Steven Spielberg – director, producer and screenwriter, of Jewish descent Gene Stupnitsky – writer and producer Alex Trebek – television host DJ Vlad – interviewer, journalist, YouTuber, and former disc jockey, of Jewish descent Kendra Wilkinson – TV personality Nikocado Avocado – YouTuber, known for his Mukbangs
Artists and designers Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor Nudie Cohn – fashion designer, of Jewish descent John Eberson – architect best known for his atmospheric theatre style theatres. His most notable surviving theatres include the Palace Theatre, State Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Paramount Theatre and Tampa Theatre. Paul Himmel – fashion and documentary photographer, of Jewish descent Jacques Hnizdovsky – stylized realist Peter Hujar – photographer Andrei Kushnir – artist painter Abram Molarsky – impressionist painter, of Jewish descent Luba Perchyshyn – pysanky maker, teacher, in Minneapolis Janet Sobel – artist "drip painting" Jim Steranko – graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator Bill Tytla – original Disney animator
Chess players Vassily Ivanchuk Boris Baczynsky Alexander Onischuk Sam Palatnik Stepan Popel Katerina Rohonyan Anna Zatonskih
Government and civil servants Andrew P. Bakaj – former CIA official; U.S. Attorney and lead counsel for the Whisteblower during the Impeachment Inquiry and the subsequent first Impeachment of President Donald Trump. Christopher A. Boyko – US District Court Judge Joseph V. Charyk – first director of the US National Reconnaissance Office Lev Dobriansky – professor of economics at Georgetown University and anti-communist advocate, he served as United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 1982 to 1986 Paula Dobriansky – American foreign policy expert; has served in key roles as a diplomat and policy maker in the administrations of five U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican; specialist in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and political-military affairs Bohdan A. Futey – US Federal Claims Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg – US Supreme Court Justice Natalie Jaresko – former Ukrainian Minister of Finance Boris Lushniak – former Acting Surgeon General of the United States Julia Mullock – Imperial High Princess of Korea Roman Popadiuk – former US Ambassador to Ukraine Victoria Spartz – former Indiana state Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 5th district Ulana Suprun – former acting Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare Timothy Tymkovich – US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Chief Judge Eugene Vindman – former deputy legal advisor for the United States National Security Council, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th district Kateryna Yushchenko – former US State Department Official and former First Lady of Ukraine
Engineers and business David Baszucki – Founder and CEO of the Roblox Corporation, Canadian-born Bohdan Bejmuk – aerospace engineer Martin Cooper – American inventor, "father of the cell phone", of Jewish descent William Dzus – inventor of Dzus turnlock fasteners for aircraft Paul Eremenko – former Google executive Nick Holonyak – inventor of the LED Andrew Kay – President and CEO of now defunct Kaypro Brianne Kimmel – venture capitalist and angel investor Jan Koum – founder of WhatsApp, of Jewish descent Max Levchin – co-founder of PayPal, of Jewish descent Daniel Milstein – founder and CEO of Gold Star financial group; author of 17 Cents and a Dream Igor Pasternak – CEO of Aeros Michael Pocalyko – investment banker Jay Pritzker – entrepreneur and founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain, of Jewish descent, member of the Pritzker family Lubomyr Romankiw – inventor; engineer Vlad Skots – founder and president of USKO Inc., chairman of the Ukrainian-American House Stephen Timoshenko – engineer, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics Harold Willens – Jewish businessman, nuclear freeze activist, political donor Harry Winston – businessman; jeweler Jacob Millman – Professor, Columbia University, Author, Millman's Theorem
Military officers and war heroes Jeremy Michael Boorda – US Admiral-Chief of Naval Operations Myron F. Diduryk – Vietnam War Silver Star recipient Samuel Jaskilka – General-Assistant Commandant of the US Marine Corps Nicholas S. H. Krawciw – US Army Major General Nicholas Minue – World War II Medal of Honor recipient Nicholas Oresko – World War II Medal of Honor recipient Alex Vindman – US Army lieutenant colonel serving as director for European affairs for the NSC
Musicians Bohdan Andrusyshyn – singer; Ukrainian father Lydia Artymiw – concert pianist and McKnight professor of piano Renata Babak – opera singer Alina Baraz – singer-songwriter, first Ukrainian in her family to be born in America Leonard Bernstein – composer and conductor who was blacklisted in the 1950s, of Jewish descent Michael Bolton – pop rock ballad singer and songwriter, of Jewish descent Neko Case – singer-songwriter, member of The New Pornographers Kvitka Cisyk – soprano singer Andrij Dobriansky – bass-baritone, had the longest career with the Metropolitan Opera of any Ukrainian-born artist Stanley Drucker – orchestra clarinetist associated with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Yelena Dudochkin – soprano Bob Dylan – singer-songwriter, poet; his Jewish paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905 Jackie Evancho – classical crossover singer Bill Evans – jazz musician and composer Anthony Fedorov – singer, finalist on season 4 of American IdolAnthony Fedorov – or the Ukrainian cowboy, as Ryan introduced him – sang LONESTAR's I'm Already There G-Eazy – songwriter-rapper Stan Getz - jazz saxophonist and band leader, popularizer of cool and bossa nova sub-genres Vladimir Horowitz – Jewish Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century George Hrab – drummer, singer-songwriter and podcaster; often discusses his Ukrainian heritage on his podcast Eugene Hütz – musician and actor; lead singer of Gogol Bordello George Komsky – solo vocalist Lenny Kravitz – singer, instrumentalist; the family of his father Sy Kravitz has Ukrainian roots Julian Kytasty – bandurist, traditional Ukrainian music Valentina Lisitsa – Ukrainian-born pianist Matys Brothers – rockabilly musical act Nathan Milstein – Jewish Ukrainian-born American virtuoso violinist Peter Ostroushko – violinist and mandolinist Wally Palmar – musician of The Romantics Paul Plishka – opera singer Vyacheslav Polozov – opera singer Johnny Ramone – musician Sviatoslav Richter – German Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century Sam H. Stept – Broadway/Hollywood/big band composer based in America but born in Odessa in 1897 Dorian Rudnytsky – cellist and composer; son of Maria Sokil; father is Ukrainian Melanie Safka – folk singer, performed at Woodstock Nicole Scherzinger – pop singer-songwriter, member of The Pussycat Dolls and television music competition judge; of Ukrainian descent on her mother's side Christine Shevchenko – Ukrainian-born ballerina Dee Snider – musician, frontman for Twisted Sister Maria Sokil – soprano singer Dimitri Tiomkin – film composer