List of personalities of the city of Kropyvnytskyi
The following list contains people who were born in Kropywnyzkyj (1754–1924 Jelisawetgrad , 1924–1934 Zinovievsk , 1934–1939 Kirowo , 1940–2016 Kirowohrad ) as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Kropyvnytskyi
To 1900
- Afrikan Spir (1837–1890), Russian-Ukrainian philosopher and logician
- Platon Porezki (1846–1907), Russian mathematician, astronomer, logician and philosopher
- Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931), Russian composer, conductor and pianist
- Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), chemist
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880–1951), politician and writer
- Heinrich Neuhaus (1888–1964), pianist
- Maurice Podoloff (1890–1985), American lawyer and sports manager
- Samuel Gardner (1891–1984), American composer
- Arkadi Maslow (1891-1941), politician
- Alexander Rasumny (1891–1972), Russian film director and cameraman
- Benjamin Stolberg (1891–1951), American social scientist and journalist
- Boris Hessen (1893–1936), physicist and science historian
- Jurij Darahan (1894–1926), poet
- Issachar Ber Ryback (1897–1935), Russian-French painter
- Juri Olescha (1899–1960), Russian writer, poet and playwright
1901 to 1950
- Ja'akov Shimshon Shapira (1902–1993), Israeli politician and Minister of Justice
- Mychajlo Bondarenko (1903–1938), Ukrainian-Soviet politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
- Arseni Tarkowski (1907–1989), Soviet poet and translator
- Jefim Levitan (1915–2007), Russian architect
- Tamara Vladimirovna Kovalevskaya (1923–1986), Soviet architect and university professor
- Alexei Suetin (1926–2001), Soviet-Russian grandmaster in chess, author of chess books
- Grigori Gamarnik (1929-2018), Soviet wrestler
- Oleksandr Shcherbyna (* 1931), Soviet walker
From 1951
- Jurij Prokhorenko (* 1951), Soviet-Ukrainian pole vaulter
- Alexander Saldostanow (* 1963), founder and president of the Russian motorcycle and rocker club Nachtwolfe
- Andrei Kantschelskis (* 1969), football player
- Dmitri Utkin (* 1970), Russian mercenary leader
- Oleksandr Symonenko (* 1974), track cyclist
- Roman Penkow (* 1976), Russian music producer and remixer
- Roman Monarow (* 1980), soccer player and coach
- Serhiy Nasarenko (* 1980), football player
- Julija Dowhal (* 1983), weightlifter
- Oleksandr Kwachuk (* 1983), racing cyclist
- Andrij Russol (* 1983), football player
- Andrij Pyatov (* 1984), football player
- Alexander Frenkel (* 1985), German boxer
- Jewhen Konopljanka (* 1989), football player
- Ihor Berezovsky (* 1990), football player
- Dmytro Timashov (born 1996), ice hockey player
People related to Kropyvnytskyi
- Viktor Grigorowitsch (1815–1876), Slavist
- Marko Kropywnyzkyj (1840–1910), actor and theater founder
- Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Soviet politician