LIST OF UKRAINIAN AMERICANS

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- Ukrainian Institute of America on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan in New York City.
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- Ukrainian Americans, GENERAL. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Ed.

- Ukrainian Americans (Ukrainian: Українські американці, romanized: Ukrayins'ki amerykantsi) are Americans who are of Ukrainian ancestry. According to U.S. census estimates, in 2019 there were 1,009,874 Americans of Ukrainian descent representing 0.3% of the American population. The Ukrainian population of the United States is thus the second largest outside the former Eastern Bloc; only Canada has a larger Ukrainian community under this definition. According to the 2000 U.S. census, the metropolitan areas with the largest numbers of Ukrainian Americans are: NYC with 160,000; Phila. with 60,000; Chicago with 46,000; Detroit with 45,000; Los Angeles with 36,000; Cleveland with 26,000; & Indianapolis with 19,000. - In 2018, the number of Ukrainian Americans surpassed 1 million.

The first Ukrainian immigrant to America, Ivan Bohdan, sailed with John Smith to the Jamestown colony in 1607. Bohdan met Captain Smith during the Long Turkish War of 1593–1606 when the latter had fought the Turks, was captured, and escaped captivity by fleeing through Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and other countries. - Large-scale Ukrainian immigration to America did not begin, however, until the 1880s. - From 1955 to 1965, St. Andrew Memorial Church in NJ was constructed as a memorial honoring victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933. - The largest wave of Ukrainians came in the early 1990s, after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. A large number[quantify] of those emigrating from Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union were Jewish or Protestant. Many Ukrainians of the newest immigration wave settled in large cities and regional centers, forming ethnic enclaves. In addition, many Ukrainian Americans arrived by way of Canada, which has a larger Ukrainian presence.



- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist and composer.

On September 11, 2001, 11 Ukrainian Americans perished in the acts of mass terrorism committed on that day. All of their names were listed & commemorated by Ukrinform, the National News Agency of Ukraine, during the 19th anniversary of the attacks in 2020. Ukrainian Americans living in Northern NJ & the remainder of the Northeastern US have long[quantify] been politically vocal about Ukrainian affairs, often traveling to Wash., D.C. to express their concerns. In Bloomingdale (near Chicago) on Sept. 21, 2015, Filaret, the Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, consecrated the first North American monument to the Euromaidan "Heavenly Hundred".

- Demographics: Ukrainian Institute of America, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC. St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, NJ was constructed as a memorial honoring victims of the Holodomor & serves as the headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. - As of the 2000 U.S. Census, there were 892,922 Americans of full or partial Ukrainian descent. The NYC Metro Area contains by far the largest Ukrainian community in the US, due to historically receiving the highest number of Ukrainian immigrants. - The US states with the largest Ukrainian populations are: NY, 148,700; PA, 122,291; CA, 83,125; NJ, 73,809; OH, 48,908; IL, 47,623. The total number of people born in Ukraine is more than 275,155 residents. - Total population, 1,009,874; 0.31% of US population (2019). - Regions with significant populations: NYC Metro Area; Rust Belt (PA, OH, MI, IN, IL); Midwest (MN, ND); Greater LA Area; AK, WA state, MD, FL, VA, TX, AZ, CO, NC, GA. - More... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Americans#:~:text=According%20to%20U.S.%20census%20estimates,Ukrainian%20community%20under%20this%20definition.
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- Sasha Cohen, Olympic silver medalist figure skater.
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- LIST OF NOTED UKRAINIAN AMERICANS - (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

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. *This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.



- Natalie Wood, actor.

- ACTORS AND COMEDIANS
Nick Adams – actor, screenwriter
Nina Arianda – actress and Tony Award winner
Anthony Atamanuik – actor and comedian
Pat Bilon – actor
Natalie Burn – actress
Matt Czuchry – actor
Irina Dvorovenko – ballet dancer and actress
George Dzundza – actor
Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent
Taissa Farmiga – actress
Vera Farmiga – actressJohn Hodiak – actor
Dustin Hoffman – actor, of Jewish descent
Milla Jovovich – actress, supermodel and musician; born in Kiev, 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 & movie actress, significant roles in 16 movies; played Alice Connellan in Dolphin Tale (2011)
Holly Palance – actress
Jack Palance – actor
Sasha Roiz – actor, Ukrainian Jewish
Lizabeth Scott – actress, second-generation Ukrainian on both sides
Amy Seimetz – actress
John Spencer – actor; Ukrainian–American on the maternal side
Sylvester Stallone – actor, director, screenwriter, and producer; maternal grandfather was of Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry
Anna Sten – actress
Michael Stoyanov – actor
Lusia Strus – actress
Zoë Wanamaker – actress, played Susan Harper in the television series My Family; father of Ukrainian Jewish extraction
Jeremy Allen White – actor
Natalie Wood – actress
Danika Yarosh – actress
Chris Zylka – actor



- Bob Dylan, musician, author, visual artist.

- ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
Alexander Archipenko – artist, sculptor
Nudie Cohn – fashion designer, of Jewish descent
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 animators

- CHESS PLAYERS
Boris Baczynsky
Alexander Onischuk
Sam Palatnik
Stepan Popel
Katerina Rohonyan
Anna Zatonskih



- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Assoc. Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.



- Paul Wellstone, former US Senator from Minnesota.

- GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SERVANTS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – United States Supreme Court Justice
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 U. S. 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. - READ MORE... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_Americans

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1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg!!!!

So many famous Ukranians!



Ty for sharing!

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2. Many talented, gifted & exceptional Americans! We're so fortunate :)

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4. Yes!

We surely are!!!!

[Cha]

3. Wow.. Mahalo.. It's good

to know.

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5. How lucky the US is to have gifted Ukrainians & many other people!

[Cha]

8. Yes, and they can be so proud

to have Ukrainian blood!

I was always fascinated by Natalie Wood and read she was of Russian Ancestry but didn't know about her Ukrainian side.

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15. Same about Natalie Wood, really liked her for years.

[SheltieLover]

6. Kicking again!

[onetexan]

7. + 'Dancing with the Stars' pros - brothers Maksim & Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Maks has done quite a bit of publicity to shed light on the situation on the ground while he was in the UKR during the invasion & alot of US press now that he's back here in the states: https://abc7.com/maksim-chmerkovskiy-ukraine-good-morning-america-abc-news-interview/11629023/

[Cha]

9. Thank You, onetexan..

how crushingly sad for him and everybody in Ukraine.

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[onetexan]

10. in deed, 2 million refugees displaced from their home country, and the senseless death & violence

and destruction of a beautiful sovereign nation. Putin & his conspirators need to be made to pay for all of this.

Hi Cha!

[Cha]

12. Yes, and Payback is going to be

a MF

Speaking of DWTS.. did you know that Zelensky was on Ukraine's version in 2006 and he won?

Link to tweet

Aloha, onetexan! 💙💛

[onetexan]

13. had no idea he's a man of many talents

very suave...esp'ly Love the Charlie chaplan number

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16. Glad to hear that, hopefully more people will be educated

[ShazzieB]

11. Zoe Wanamaker

Zoë Wanamaker – actress, played Susan Harper in the television series My Family; father of Ukrainian Jewish extraction

She also played Madame Hooch in the first Harry Potter film. I've never heard of the television series mentioned here, but I remember her from that movie!

[onetexan]

14. oh i love Zoe W, especially in the Poirot series (seasons 9-13)

the series starring David Suchet. Zoe plays a great sidekick