List of people from Chernivtsi

The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці) is/was home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

Natives
  • Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), Jewish writer
  • Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
  • Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Jewish German-language writer
  • Elyakim Badian (1925-2000), Israeli politician
  • Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
  • Ion Bostan (1914–1992), Romanian film director
  • Octav Botnar (1913–1998), Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
  • Josef Burg (1912–2009), last Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
  • Vasile Cantemir (1794 - 1835), lexicographer
  • Mihai Miron Călinescu (Chernivtsi, 1837-1912, Chernivtsi), priest, teacher, journalist
  • Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), Romanian-born, German-language writer, poet and translator
  • George Drumur (born George Pavelescu ; 1911, Chernivtsi -1992, Timişoara) was a writer, journalist, musicologist and Romanian translator.
  • Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Jewish biochemist
  • Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Jewish jurist
  • Radu Grigorovici (November 20, 1911 – August 2, 2008) was a Romanian physicist
  • Constantin Ritter von Isopescu-Grecul (or cavaler de Isopescu-Grecul; 1871–1938) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian jurist, politician, and journalist
  • Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1866-1930), historian of Bukovina, professor at Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz
  • Frederick John Kiesler (1890–1965), theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
  • Ruth Klieger Aliav (born Polishuk; 1914–1979), Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
  • Sam Kogan (1946-2004), stage director, actor and founding principal of the Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing in London
  • Mila Kunis (b. 1983), actress[1][2][3]
  • Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), Romanian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
  • Itzik Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
  • Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess-player and author
  • Volodymyr Melnykov (b. 1951), Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine.
  • Carol Miculi (1821 –1892, Lemberg), Romanian pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
  • Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), Polish surgeon
  • Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli writer
  • Anton Pawlowski (June 11, 1830 – April 28, 1901), Imperial and Royal Senior Government Building Officer, Commander of the Royal Romanian Order of the Crown, Honorary Master of the Alemannia Student (Duelling) Corps
  • Iacob Pistiner, lawyer and Member of the Romanian Parliament in the interwar years
  • Traian Popovici (1892–1946), Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and Righteous Among the Nations (Chasidey Umoth HaOlam)
  • Markus Reiner (1886-1976), one of the founders of rheology
  • Gregor von Rezzori (born d'Arezzo; 1914–1998), Austrian Romanian German-language writer of Sicilian origin
  • Ludwig Rottenberg (real name: Lazăr) (1864–1932), conductor and composer
  • Ze'ev Sherf (1904-1984), Israeli Minister of Finance
  • Stefanie von Turetzki (1868–1929), founder of the first girls' grammar school in Austria–Hungary in Czernowitz
  • Viorica Ursuleac (1894–1985), Romanian opera singer (dramatic soprano)
  • Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
  • Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
  • Frederic Zelnik (born 1885), important German silent movie director-producer, born in Czernowitz

Residents

References
  1. Ukrainian Jews Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, Bible Discovered
  2. (in Ukrainian) Міла Куніс зіграє у трилері ”Чорний лебідь”, Gazeta.ua (August 13, 2009)
  3. 'EXTRACT' STAR MILA KUNIS ON HER RUSSIAN ROOTS, YouTube
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