The last Congress adopted seven bills for memorials, including one to Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian poet laureate ; ;

* 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet ( d. 1794 )

** Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet

* March 10 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet ( b. 1814 )

* March 9 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet ( d. 1861 )

** Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright ( d. 1823 )

* August 15 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian poet, critic, journalist and political activist ( d. 1916 )

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 ").

Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov ( Russian: Ива ́ н Влади ́ мирович Щегло ́ в ; 16 January 1933 – April 21 1998 ) was a French political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris to Ukrainian father and French mother.

** Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist, iconic figure of Ukrainian culture

Other recipients of the Prize: Mikola Bazhan ( Ukrainian poet ), Sergo Kobuladze ( painter ), Irakli Ochiauri ( sculptor ), Sergo Zakariadze ( actor ), Nino Ramishvili ( dancer ), Iliko Sukhishvili ( dancer ), Ramaz Chkhikvadze ( actor ), Guram Pataraia ( producer ), Tengiz Abuladze ( producer ), Mukhran Machavariani ( poet ), Tamaz Chiladze ( poet ), Chabua Amirejibi ( novelist ), Levan Tsutskiridze ( painter ), etc.

Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, considered a founder of Ukrainian literature, is buried on a hill overlooking the Dnieper in Kaniv, and the city houses a memorial museum dedicated to him.

* Oksana Zabuzhko-contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist

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

Ivan Franko, the renowned Ukrainian poet in the generation after Shevchenko, had this to say of the compilation: " immediately revealed, as it were, a new world of poetry.

* Lesya Ukrainka ( 1871 – 1913 ), Ukrainian poet

Feffer was a prolific poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian.

For instance, " Little Russia " has been preferred by the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in his private diary ( 1857 — 1858 ).

The son of a clerical family, Bandera was an activist, a scout, and eventually the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.

Semyon Gluzman ( b. 1946 ), a Ukrainian psychiatrist, human rights activist and political prisoner

* Hanna Herman, Ukrainian state and political activist

Horodny, who is of Ukrainian descent, first made her name as an activist for the Wilderness Society.

* Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, a Ukrainian national activist, military leader

* Vyacheslav Chornovil, a Ukrainian national activist

Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko (, – March 6, 1951 ) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist and revolutionary, politician and statesman.

Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time revolutionary activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906-1914.

Volodymyr Zatonsky (; Vladimir Petrovich Zatonsky ) ( July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938 ) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences ( since 1929 ).

* Dmitry Pavlychko ( born 1929 ) Ukrainian poet, social and political activist, ambassador of Ukraine in Slovakia and in Poland

* Kyrilo Trilovskiy ( 1864-1941 ) Ukrainian socio-political activist, publisher, poet, journalist, doctor of law, lawyer

* John Franko ( 1856-1916 ) prominent Ukrainian writer, social and political activist, philosopher, scientist.

Pavlo Tychyna (; b,, Pisky, Kozelets uezd, Chernigov Governorate – d. September 16, 1967, Kiev ) was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.

Myroslava Gongadze (, born June 19, 1972 ) is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist now living in the United States.

Douglas Tottle ( b. 1944 ) is a Canadian trade union activist and the author of a book about the Ukrainian famine of 1932 – 1933 ( often referred to as the Holodomor ) entitled Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard.

* Serhiy Yefremov ( 1876 – 1939 ), Ukrainian literary journalist and political activist

He is the grandnephew of the renowned Ukrainian poet and social activist, Ivan Franko, relating to daughter of Franko, Hanna Klyuchko, who has moved to Canada.

* 1976 – Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast

Khoroshkovskiy being the Chairman of SBU got rid of the main competition of Ukrainian TV-giant Inter, the owner of which officially is his wife Olena Khoroshkovskiy, in the face of TVi and Channel 5.

* In 2005, Nataliya Dmytruk, together with another Ukrainian Olena Prytula, were given the annual International John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award of the National Press Club.

Its projects include the creation of a network of modern neonatal centres throughout Ukraine, cooperation programs with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the ANTIAIDS Foundation of his wife Olena Pinchuk, the creation of the Kyiv School of Economics, a cooperation with the Aspen Institute, the opening of the first large scale contemporary art centre in Ukraine PinchukArtCentre, the creation and development of the only Ukrainian private chamber orchestra, the production and promotion of a film with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine, human rights projects with George Soros and support of local Jewish communities.

The Ukrainian writer Adrian Kaschenko ( 1858 – 1921 ) and historian Olena Apanovich note that the final abolition of the Zaporizhian Sich, the historic Cossack stronghold perceived as the bastion of the protection of the Ukrainians and their ways of life, had such a strong symbolic effect that the memories of the event remained for the long time in local folklore.

She was the second child of Ukrainian writer and publisher Olha Drahomanova-Kosach ( better known under her literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka ).

Lesya's mother, a poet, was writing a verse and short stories for children in Ukrainian language under the pseudonym " Olena Pchilka ".

Alarmed by the OUN-M's growing strength in central and eastern Ukraine, the German Nazi authorities swiftly and brutally cracked down on it, arresting and executing many of its members in early 1942, including Volodymyr Bahaziy, and the writer Olena Teliha who had organized led the League of Ukrainian Writers in Kiev.

* Olena Hovorova, Ukrainian athlete, winner of the triple jump bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Ukrainian writers include ( alphabetically ): Emma Andijewska, Yuri Andrukhovych, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, Ivan Bahrianyi ( Lozoviaha ), Mykola Bazhan, V. Domontovych ( Petrov ), Ivan Drach, Ivan Franko, Oles Honchar, Yevhen Hutsalo, Oleksandr Irvanets, Izdryk, Ihor Kalynets, Iryna Kalynets, Mykola Khvylovy ( Fitiliov ), Olha Kobylyanska, Lina Kostenko, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Mykola Kulish, Panteleimon Kulish, Les ' Kurbas, Andriy Malyshko, Maria Matios, Ladia Mohylianska, Panas Myrny ( Rudchenko ), Viktor Neborak, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Oleksandr Oles ( Kandyba ), Joseph Oleskiw, Ihor Pavlyuk, Valerian Pidmohylny, Svitlana Pyrkalo, Maksym Rylsky, Taras Shevchenko, Valeriy Shevchuk, Mykhailo Semenko, Hryhori Skovoroda, Natalka Snyadanko, Maryna Sokolyan, Volodymyr Sosyura, Vasyl Stefanyk, Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Olena Teliha, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, Pavlo Tychyna, Lesya Ukrainka, Iryna Vilde ( Polotniuk ), Sydir Vorobkevych, Marko Vovchok ( Vilinska ), Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Ostap Vyshnia ( Hubenko ), Boris Yampolsky, Oksana Zabuzhko, Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Mykola Zerov, Serhiy Zhadan.

Olena Ivanivna Hovorova (; born 18 September 1973 in Izmail ), also known as Yelena Govorova, is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialised in triple jump competitions.

Olena Krasovska, née Ovcharova (, born 17 August 1976 ) is a Ukrainian hurdler best known for winning a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games with a personal best time of 12. 45 seconds.