List of personalities of the city of Chernihiv

The following list contains people who were born in Chernihiv as well as those who lived and worked there from time to time, each listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Chernihiv

To 1900

• Stepan Ivanovich Dawydow (1777-1825), Russian composer
• Ossip Maximowitsch Bodjanski (1808–1877), Russian-Ukrainian Slavist , writer and historian
• Leonid Hlibow (1827-1893), writer
• Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken (1831–1912), Russian ambassador
• Adolf von Mess (1875–1916), German classical philologist
• Anselika Issaakowna Balabanowa (1878–1965), Jewish socialist politician and publicist
• Fyodor Dus-Chotimirski (1879–1965), Ukrainian-Soviet chess master
• Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Antonov-Ovsejenko (1883–1938), Soviet fellow commander in chief and diplomat
• Jakob Davidowitsch Tamarkin (1888–1945), Ukrainian-American mathematician
• Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos (1892–1941), Soviet general of Ukrainian descent
• Nicolas Rashevsky (1899–1972), Russian-American biomathematist

1901 to 1950

• Marko Woronyj (1904–1937), Ukrainian writer and translator
• Seema Weatherwax (1905–2006), Russian-American photographer
• Anatoli Naumowitsch Rybakow (1911–1998), Russian writer
• Lidija Lukivna Semenjuk (1918–2001), Soviet-Ukrainian architect
• Nicolas Barrera (1919–2006), Russian painter
• Anatoli Michailowitsch Sagalewitsch (* 1938), Russian submarine designer and marine researcher
• Inna Burdutschenko (1939–1960), Soviet actress
• Walentyna Karachentseva (* 1940), Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer
• Volodymyr Sawon (1940-2005), chess master and trainer

From 1951

• Oleksandr Batjuk (* 1960), cross-country skier
• Oleh Lyaschko (* 1972), politician
• Nina Lemesch (* 1973), biathlete
• Tatiana Melamed (* 1974), Ukrainian-German chess player
• Oksana Chwostenko (* 1977), biathlete
• Ljudmyla Pekur (* 1981), football player
• Roman Pryma (* 1981), biathlete
• Valery Sokolenko (* 1982), football player
• Ruslan Boryssenko (born 1983), ice hockey player
• Oleksandr Batjuk (* 1984), biathlete
• Anna Romanowa (* 1985), manager and politician
• Artem Pryma (* 1987), biathlete
• Serhiy Semenov (* 1988), biathlete
• Dmytro Mytrofanow (* 1989), boxer
• Olha Bibik (* 1990), track and field athlete
• Olha Skrypak (* 1990), long-distance runner