Vitaliy Peskov ( 1944 – 2002, Russian Виталий Песков ) was a famous Russian caricaturist.

Several Russian ice sculptors have won events at the World Ice Art Championships, including Vladimir Zhikhartsev, Sergei Loginov, and Vitaliy Lednev

* Vitaliy Savin, a former Soviet athlete

* Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi – a former Ukrainian footballer and coach.

Also, in Massa ( Italy ) on July 15, 2009, he consecrated Vitaliy Kuzhelnyi, a former priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as a bishop.

Vitaliy Anatolyevich Savin (, born January 23, 1966 in Zhezqazghan, Quaraghandy ) is a former Soviet athlete from Kazakhstan, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Indeed, even the Russian poet of Ukrainian descent Taras Shevchenko despite using the word Ukraine for the area of ancient Rus, never uses the term Ukrainian as an ethnonym in any of his works, but rather uses the terms Kozak or Russian and " Malorussian " (" малороссийский ").

The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko later stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative.

** Artyom Shevchenko, Russian footballer

** Aleksandr Shevchenko, Russian painter

** Dmitriy Igorevich Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower

** Dmitriy Stepanovich Shevchenko, Russian fencer

** Igor Shevchenko, Russian footballer

** Irina Shevchenko, Russian hurdler

* Leonid Shevchenko, Russian football coach

** Maksim Aleksandrovich Shevchenko, Russian footballer

** Olga Shevchenko, Russian ski-orienteering competitor

** Taras Shevchenko ( performer ), Russian performer

** Vladislav Shevchenko, Russian astronomer

** Yegor Shevchenko, Russian footballer

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (, Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko,, Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko ) ( – ) was a Ukrainian poet and artist of the Russian Empire.

Because there was no Ukrainian alphabet Shevchenko also wrote in Russian and left many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.

-August 6, 1823 ) in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire ( now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine ) Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven.

Shevchenko went as a household servant with his Russian aristocrat lord Pavel Engelhardt to Vilnius ( 1828 – 31 ) and then to Saint Petersburg.

Through these men Shevchenko also met the famous painter and professor Karl Briullov, who donated his portrait of the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky as a lottery prize, whose proceeds were used to buy Shevchenko's freedom on May 5, 1838.

In 1844, distressed by the condition of Ukrainian regions in the Russian Empire, Shevchenko decided to capture some of his homeland's historical ruins and cultural monuments in an album of etchings, which he called Picturesque Ukraine.

He also experimented with photography and it is little known that Shevchenko may be considered to have pioneered the art of etching in the Russian Empire ( in 1860 he was awarded the title of Academician in the Imperial Academy of Arts specifically for his achievements in etching.

He saved from Andrea Pirlo and Shevchenko in the ensuing penalty shootout, in an eventual 3 – 2 win: during the shootout, he attempted to distract the Milan players with the " spaghetti legs " tactic that was used by former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar in the 1984 European Cup Final.

Outside of Ukraine, monuments to Shevchenko have been put up in several locations of the former USSR associated with his legacy, both in the Soviet and the post-Soviet times.

Outside of Ukraine and the former USSR, monuments to Shevchenko have been put up in many countries, usually under the initiative of local Ukrainian diasporas.

Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko (, ; born 29 September 1976 ) is a Ukrainian politician and former footballer.

After the victory Shevchenko flew to Kyiv to put his medal by the grave of his former manager.

The OUN also killed moderate Ukrainian figures such as the respected teacher ( and former officer of the military of the West Ukrainian People's Republic ) Ivan Babii, and in 1930 assaulted the head of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Kyryl Studynsky in his office.

In 2004, former advisor of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and then president Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Shevchenko, actually confirmed the existence of a secret in the Moscow Metro.

* September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

** Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

** Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko, Kazahakhtani footballer

* Oleksiy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

* Yevhen Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

Prominent supporters include Nelson Mandela, FIFA, the Dalai Lama, Kakha Kaladze, Andriy Shevchenko, Anna Netrebko, Vincent Kompany, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Cesc Fàbregas, Argentine footballer Javier Zanetti, Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters, French writer & actress Anny Dupérey, Sarah, Duchess of York, English Child Actress Georgie Henley, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Cher, Mike Holmes, June Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash whose memorial fund is towards the work of SOS Children's Villages worldwide.

Famed Ukrainian footballer Andriy Shevchenko joined the party immediately after his retirement in July 2012