Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Óblast de Cherkasy

Jerzy Witold Różycki fue un matemático y criptólogo polaco que trabajó para romper los cifrados nazis de la máquina Enigma.

Hryhoriy Mykytovych Vasiura was originally a senior lieutenant in the Red Army who was captured during the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941 and subsequently volunteered for service in the Schutzmannschaft and the Waffen-SS. Vasiura's wartime activities were not fully revealed until the mid-1980s, when he was convicted as a war criminal by a Soviet military court and executed in 1987 for his role in the Khatyn massacre.

Viacheslav Chornovil fue un periodista, político y activista de derechos humanos ucraniano, y un prominente disidente soviético, siendo detenido en diversas ocasiones en las décadas 70 y 80 por sus posturas políticas. Abogó por la independencia de Ucrania de la Unión Soviética y, cuando esta fue finalmente obtenida en 1991, se presentó como candidato a la presidencia por su partido, el Movimiento Popular de Ucrania, quedando en segundo lugar tras Leonid Kravchuk, y habiendo obtenido la victoria solo en la región de Galicia Ucraniana. Es reconocido como una de las figuras políticas más prominentes de la década de 1980 y principios de 1990 que han allanado el camino de la Ucrania contemporánea a su independencia.

David Cherkassky was Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pictures for the Kievnauchfilm.

Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from European Solidarity. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine since 2000. Former First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada, also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the War in Donbas.

Moiséi Solomónovich Uritski fue un revolucionario ruso de origen judío, líder bolchevique durante la Revolución Rusa de octubre de 1917.

Alexey Viktorovich Galkin is a former Russian GRU officer. A senior lieutenant of the GRU, Alexei Galkin said, whilst being tortured by Chechen separatists, commanded by Abu Movsaev, that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk were organized by a team of twelve GRU officers and ordered by GRU director Valentin Korabelnikov The interview of Galkin was conducted by journalist Robert Young Pelton, who was also interviewing Abu Movsaev, who wrote about it in his book Hunter, Hammer, Heaven, Dangerous Journeys Through Three Worlds Gone Mad. Galkin later escaped from Chechen separatists and stated that he was tortured to produce this confession

Vasyl Mykolayovych Shkliar (Ukrainian: Василь Миколайович Шкляр; born 10 June 1951 in Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion is a Ukrainian writer and political activist. He is one of the most well known and widely read, contemporary Ukrainian authors. Some observers have even named him the “Father of the Ukrainian Bestseller”. The Committee of the Shevchenko National Prize declared him a Shevchenko Prize Laureate in 2011.

Valentin Demianenko –en ucraniano, Валентин Демяненко– es un deportista ucraniano que compite en piragüismo en la modalidad de aguas tranquilas.

Stanislav Valeryevich Sukhina is a Russian football official and a former referee and player.