List of personalities of the city of Kherson
The following list contains people who were born in Kherson as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there, each listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Kherson
To 1900
- Nikolai Utin (1841-1883), Russian revolutionary
- Samuil Maikapar (1867–1938), Russian composer and pianist of Karaic descent
- Emil Cooper (1877–1960), violinist and conductor
- Serafima Gopner (1880–1966), Soviet politician and historian
- Alexander Matwejewitsch Schitomirski (1881–1937), Russian composer
- Oleksij Schowkunenko (1884–1974), painter
- Grigori Adamow (1886–1945), Russian writer
- Jakow Skomorowski (1889–1955), Soviet jazz trumpeter and band leader
- Leonid Brümmer (1889–1971), Soviet painter of German-French descent
- Moshe Sharet (1894–1965), Israeli politician
- Vladimir Orlov (1895–1938), Soviet military
- Jefim Golyscheff (1897–1970), composer and painter
From 1901
- Leonid Fjodorowitsch Vereschtschagin (1909–1977), Ukrainian-Soviet physicist, chemist and university professor
- Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (1917–2017), Romanian liberal politician and Minister of Justice (1991/92)
- Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko (1920–1989), Soviet actor
- Georgi Arbatow (1923-2010), Russian political scientist
- Larissa Latynina (* 1934), Soviet gymnast and Olympic participant
- Yevhen Kucherevskyi (1941–2006), football coach
- Andrei Sabrodski (* 1946), solid-state physicist
- Sergei Stanischew (* 1966), Prime Minister of Bulgaria 2005–2009
- Oleksandr Martschenko (* 1968), rower
- Jurij Maximow (* 1968), football player
- Tetjana Lyssenko (* 1975), gymnast and Olympic champion
- Inna Janowskaja (* 1976), chess player
- Jurij Nikitin (* 1978), trampoline gymnast
- Artem Morosow (* 1980), rower
- Kateryna Handsjuk (1985-2018), civil rights activist
- Julyja Snopowa (* 1985), handball player
- Andrij Prozenko (* 1988), high jumper
- Serhij Polunin (* 1989), ballet dancer
- Max Barskih (* 1990), singer
- Dmytro Michai (* 1990), rower
- Inna Shevchenko (* 1990), FEMEN activist
- Oleksandr Karavaev (* 1992), football player
- Yevhenia Nimtschenko (* 1992), rower
- Viktor Kowalenko (* 1996), football player
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