Editing Poltava (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Marusya Churay.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Marusia Churai]], postage stamp, 2000]]
[[File:NV Gogol.png|thumb|140px|[[Nikolai Gogol]], 1845]]
[[File:Иван Федорович Паскевич.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Ivan Paskevich]], 1823]]
[[File:Symon Petlura. Photo 1919.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Symon Petlura|Symon Petliura]], 1920s]]
[[File:Alina Treiger1.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Alina Treiger]], 2010]]
* [[Marie Bashkirtseff]] (1858–1884) Parisian painter and diarist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bashkirtseff, Maria Constantinova |volume= 3 |last= Karageorgevitch |first= Bojidar |author-link= Bojidar Karageorgevitch | page = 466 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]] (1884–1963) historian, longest-serving [[President of Israel]] from 1952 to 1963.
* [[Hanka Bielicka]] (1915–2006) a Polish singer and actress, known by the name ''Hanna'' 
* [[Oleksandr Bilash]] (1931–2003) composer of lyric songs, ballads, operas, operettas and oratorios
* [[Sofya Bogomolets]] (1856–1892) a Russian revolutionary and political prisoner.
* [[Boris Brasol]] (1885-1963), lawyer and literary critic and a [[White movement|White Russian]] immigrant to the United States.
* [[Moura Budberg]] (1892–1974), a Russian adventuress and suspected double agent of [[Joint State Political Directorate|OGPU]] & [[MI6]].
* [[Semion_Braude]] (1911-2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer
* [[Nat Carr]] (1886–1944) an American character actor of the silent and early talking picture eras.
* [[Gregori Chmara]] (1878–1970) a stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades.
* [[Marusia Churai]] (1625–1653) a semi-mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer.
* [[Verka Serduchka|Andriy Danylko]] (born 1973) stage name ''Verka Serduchka''; a Ukrainian comedian, actor, and singer.
* [[Sam Dreben]] (1878–1925), a highly decorated soldier in the US Army and a mercenary
* [[Vladimir Gajdarov]] (1893–1978) a Russian film actor and star of Russian and German silent cinema.
* [[Yuliy Ganf]] (1898–1973) a graphic artist, caricaturist, illustrator and poster designer.
* [[Nikolai Gogol]] (1809–1852), a novelist, short story writer and playwright.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich |volume= 12 |last= Shedden-Ralston |first= William Ralston  |author-link= William Ralston Shedden-Ralston | pages = 190&ndash;191 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Gurwitsch]] (1874–1954) biologist and medical scientist; originated [[Morphogenetic field]] theory
* [[Oksana Ivanenko]] (1906-1997) – Ukrainian children's writer and translator
* [[Vladimir Ivashko]] (1932-1994), politician, acting General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Philip Jaffe]] (1895–1980) a left-wing American businessman, editor and author.
* [[Ernst Jedliczka]] (1855–1904) a Russian-German pianist, piano pedagogue, and music critic.
* [[Mykola Karpov]] (1929–2003), Ukrainian playwright.
* [[Dmitri Kessel]] (1902–1995), photojournalist, [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]] 1944–1972 and war correspondent 
* [[Vera Kholodnaya]] (1893–1919) an actress of the early Imperial Russian cinema.
* [[Yuri Kondratyuk]] (1897–1942), astronautics and spaceflight pioneer; foresaw reaching the Moon
* [[Ivan Kotliarevsky]] (1769–1838) a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright and social activist
* [[Anatoly Lunacharsky]] (1875–1933) Russian Marxist revolutionary; Bolshevik Soviet people's [[Commissar]]
* [[Anton Makarenko]] (1888–1939), educator, social worker and writer and top educational theorist
* [[Yuri Levitin]] (1912–1993) a Soviet Russian composer of classical music.
* [[Mykola Lysenko]] (1842–1912) composer, pianist, conductor; founder first Ukrainian classical music school
* [[Mstyslav (Skrypnyk)|Patriarch Mstyslav]] (1898–1993), Ukrainian Orthodox Church [[hierarch]]
* [[Matvei Muranov]] (1873–1959) a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman.
* [[Panas Myrny]] (1849-1920) a Ukrainian prose writer and playwright
* [[Jensen Noen]] (born 1987) a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, cinematographer and writer. 
* [[Oleksiy Onyschenko]] (born 1933) a philosopher, academic and culture theorist
* [[Mikhail Ostrogradsky]] (1801–1862), a Ukrainian mathematician, mechanic and physicist
* [[Olena Pchilka]] (1849–1930), a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer and civil activist.
* [[Ivan Paskevich]] (1782-1856), Ukrainian military leader in Imperial Russian service.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Paskevich, Ivan Fedorovich |volume= 20 | pages = 883&ndash;884 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Symon Petliura]] (1879–1926) a Ukrainian politician, journalist and military leader of Ukraine's struggle for independence following the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917.
* [[Vladimir Picheta]] (1878 – 1947), a Belarusian historian, first rector of the Belarusian State University
* [[Zhanna Prokhorenko]] (1940–2011) a Soviet and Russian actress
* [[Sasha Putrya]] (1977–1989) Ukrainian artist, died aged 11 from [[leukemia]].
* [[Svitlana Pyrkalo]] (born 1976) a London-based writer, journalist and former [[BBC News Ukrainian|BBC]] radio producer
* [[Boris Schwanwitsch]] (1889–1957) a Russian [[entomologist]] who specialised in [[Lepidoptera]]. 
* [[Moshe Zvi Segal (rabbi)|Moshe Zvi Segal]] (1904–1985), rabbi and activist in Israeli organizations, including [[Irgun|Etzel]] and [[Lechi]].
* [[Bert Shefter]] (1902–1999) a film composer who worked primarily in America.
* [[Avraham Shlonsky]] (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor
* [[Hryhorii Skovoroda]] (1722–1794) a Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer
* [[Ivan Steshenko]] (1873–1918), a Ukrainian civic and political activist, writer and Govt. minister.
* [[Maria Tarnowska]] (1877–1949), [[femme fatale]], famously convicted of murder in [[Venice]] in 1910.
* [[Elias Tcherikower]] (1881–1943), a Jewish historian of Judaism and the Jewish people.
* [[Alina Treiger]] (born 1979) the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since WWII.
* [[Yelena Ubiyvovk]] (1918–1942) a partisan and leader of a [[Komsomol]] cell during WWII.
* [[Paisius Velichkovsky]] (1722–1794), [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] [[monk]] and theologian, promoted [[starets]]dom
* [[Nikolai Yaroshenko]] (1846–1898) a Ukrainian painter of portraits, genre paintings and drawings.
=== Sport ===
[[File:Ruslan Rotan2016.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Ruslan Rotan]], 2016]]
* [[Leonid Bartenyev]] (1933–2021) a 100 metre team silver medallist at the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956]] and [[1960 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Viktor Buhaievskyi]] (1939–2009), Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer
* [[Sergei Diyev]] (born 1958) a Russian football manager and former player with over 600 club caps
* [[Serhiy Konovalov]] (born 1972) a football coach and former footballer with 270 club caps and 22 for [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]
* [[Oleksandr Melaschenko]] (born 1978) a football striker with over 320 club caps and 16 for [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]
* [[Ruslan Rotan]] (born 1981) a former professional footballer with 382 club caps and 100 for [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]; now manager of the [[Ukraine national under-21 football team]]
* [[Ivan Shariy]] (born 1957) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer with over 500 club caps