Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Óblast de Poltava

Volodymyr Starchyk is a former Ukrainian racing cyclist.

Ben-Zion Dinur was a Zionist activist, educator, historian and Israeli politician.

Boris Dmitrievich Grekov was a Russian Imperial and Soviet Russian historian noted for his comprehensive studies of Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1934) and several foreign academies, as well as Director of the Russian History Institute in Moscow.

Mijaíl Vasílievich Ostrogradski, fue un físico y matemático ucraniano.

Vladimir Ivanovich Picheta was a Russian and Soviet historian, first rector of the Belarusian State University, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR since 1928, Honorary Professor of the BSSR (1926), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1939, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1946.

Gregori Chmara fue un actor y director teatral y cinematográfico ruso.

Praskov′ja Georgievna Parchomenko(1886–1970) was a Soviet astronomer who discovered many minor planets between the years of 1930–1940.