Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Óblast de Poltava

Valery Stepanovich Storozhik is a Soviet and Russian stage, voice and film actor. He was awarded title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995).

Dimitri Tiomkin fue un compositor ruso nacionalizado estadounidense.

Nikolái Víktorovich Podgorni fue un político soviético, Presidente de la URSS entre 1965 y 1977. Su puesto oficial era el de Presidente del Presidium del Soviet Supremo de la URSS.

Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, also known by his Hebrew initials as Rashag, (1897-1989) was an Orthodox rabbi belonging to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. His father was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurary. He was the older son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880-1950), known as Rebbe Rayatz, the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, and the brother-in-law of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. He worked with his father-in-law in communal service in both Russia and Poland and then arrived in the U.S. in 1940, where he continued this work until his death. Gurary had a comprehensive knowledge of Chassidic philosophy and was a devoted follower of his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, and later of his brother-in-law Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Vladímir Antónovich Ivashko fue un político soviético que ocupó brevemente y de forma interina el cargo de Secretario general del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética (PCUS) entre el 24 de agosto de 1991, día de la renuncia de Mijaíl Gorbachov al cargo, y el 29 de agosto del mismo año, fecha de la suspensión del PCUS por parte del Sóviet Supremo.

Vadim Gennadievich Kazachenko is a Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian singer. He had a music career in the 1990s. He was the frontman of the group Freestyle.

Anatoliy Hlibovych Zahorodniy is a Ukrainian theoretical physicist and an organizer of science; an academician of NANU, Vice President (2011-2020) and President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Director of Nikolay Bogolyubov Intitute of Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1990), Professor (1998), Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2005), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2012). He has been a Member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.