List of personalities of the city of Poltava
The following list contains people who were born in Poltava and 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 Poltava
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To 1900
- Ivan Kotlyarevsky (1769–1838), poet
- Ivan Paskewitsch (1782–1856), Count Eriwanski, Prince of Warsaw, Russian Field Marshal General
- Nikolai Gneditsch (1784–1833), Russian poet and translator
- Michail Ostrogradski (1801–1862), mathematician
- Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Waradinow (1817–1886), lawyer
- Wassili Bilbassow (1837–1904), historian and publicist
- Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846–1898), Russian painter
- Mykola Pylchykow (1857–1908), Ukrainian physicist, university professor and inventor
- Wassili Leonidowitsch Omeljanski (1867–1928), microbiologist
- Lev Chintschuk (1868–1944), Soviet diplomat
- Ivan Steschenko (1873–1918), translator, writer and politician
- Alexander Gurwitsch (1874–1954), Russian physician and biologist, is considered to be the founder of today's biophotonics
- Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875–1933), Russian People's Commissar for Education ( NARKOMPROS )
- Gregori Chmara (1878–1970), actor
- Symon Petljura (1879–1926), politician
- Elias Tcherikower (1881–1943), historian
- Jizchak Ben Zwi (1884–1963), Israeli politician
- Aharon Reuveni (1886–1971), Israeli writer
- Samuel Slavson (1890–1981), American engineer, journalist, teacher
- Moura Budberg (1891–1974), Russian baroness, lover of famous men like Maxim Gorky, suspected of being a spy
- Vladimir Gaidarov (1893–1976), Russian actor
- Juri Kondratjuk (1897–1942), Ukrainian and Soviet engineer, space theorist
- Arieh Elhanani (1898–1985), architect, graphic artist and sculptor
- Mstyslaw (1898–1993), Ukrainian church leader (real name: Stepan Skrypnyk)
1901 to 1950
- Michał Kondracki (1902–1984), Polish composer
- Dmitri Iwanenko (1904–1994), Russian physicist
- Semen Braude (1911–2003), physicist and radio astronomer
- Karel Liška (1914–1987), Czech painter
- Igor Lopatin (1923–2012), Ukrainian-Belarusian biologist and zoologist
- Volodymyr Iwaschko (1932–1994), Soviet-Ukrainian politician
- Leonid Bartenjew (* 1933), Soviet athlete
- Volodymyr Savchenko (1933-2005), science fiction author
- Shanna Prokhorenko (1940–2011), Russian actress
- Tamara Pangelowa (* 1943), Soviet medium and long-distance runner
- Mark Aizikovitch (1946–2013), German-Ukrainian klezmer singer and actor
From 1951
- Toma Birmontienė (* 1956), Lithuanian judge at the Constitutional Court
- Leonid Koschara (* 1963), diplomat and politician
- Viktorija Verhynina (* 1971), long jumper
- Verka Serduchka (* 1973), musician and cabaret artist
- Alina Treiger (* 1979), German liberal rabbi
- Ruslan Rotan (* 1981), football player
- Serhiy Lyubchenko (* 1984), handball player
- Denis Kaliberda (* 1990), German volleyball player
- Bogdana Anisova (* 1992), volleyball player
- Oleksandr Chyschnjak (* 1995), boxer
Poltava related persons
- Nikolai Repnin-Volkonsky (1778–1845), Lieutenant General in the Russian Army; Governor of Poltava
- Ivan Saizew (1805–1887), Russian painter; taught painting and founded the women's high school in Poltava
- Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature; lived in Poltava from 1892 to 1895
- Anton Makarenko (1888–1939), Soviet educator; studied in Poltava