List of people from Chernivtsi

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "List of people from Chernivtsi" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

## Natives

[edit]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

* Sophia Agranovich, American classical concert pianist, Centaur Records recording artist and music educator[1][2]
* 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
* Dmitry Bandura is a scientist, co-inventor of Mass cytometry
* Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), inventor of Blissymbols
* Kasper Blond (1889–1964), Jewish surgeon, author, and inventor
* Klara Blum (1904–1971), Jewish German-language writer in Austria, the Soviet Union, and China
* Aurica Bojescu, Ukrainian Romanian lawyer, minority rights activist and politician
* Ion Bostan (1914–1992), Romanian film director
* Octav Botnar (1913–1998), Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
* Josef Burg (1912–2009), last Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
* Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), Romanian-born, German-language writer, poet and translator
* Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Jewish biochemist
* Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Jewish jurist
* Natalia Fedner (born 1983), American fashion designer, inventor and actress
* Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak (1895–1960), German operatic and concert lyrical tenor[3]
* Heorhiy Gina (1932–2025), musician and composer.
* Radu Grigorovici (1911–2008), Romanian physicist
* Alexandru N. Hurmuzachi (1869–1946), Romanian politician
* Constantin N. Hurmuzachi (1863–1937), Romanian biologist
* Doxuță Hurmuzachi (1845–1931), Romanian jurist and politician
* Constantin Ritter von Isopescu-Grecul (or cavaler de Isopescu-Grecul; 1871–1938), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian jurist, politician and journalist
* Frederick John Kiesler (1890–1965), theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
* Ruth Klüger-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 (born 1983), actress[4][5][6]
* 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 (born 1951), Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine
* Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), Polish surgeon
* Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli writer
* Iacob Pistiner (1882–1930), lawyer and Member of the Romanian Parliament in the interwar years
* Traian Popovici (1892–1946), Romanian lawyer, mayor of Chernivtsi and Righteous Among the Nations
* 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
* Viorica Ursuleac (1894–1985), Romanian opera singer (dramatic soprano)
* Richard M. Weiner (1930–2020), Romanian, later German theoretical physicist
* Mariya Yaremchuk, (born 1993), Ukrainian pop singer
* Arseniy Yatsenyuk (born 1974), lawyer, politician and Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016
* Constantin Zablovschi (1882–1967), Romanian engineer
* Frederic Zelnik (1885–1950), important German silent movie director-producer, born in Czernowitz

## Residents

[edit]

* Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), Austrian writer, playwright, director and critic
* Grigore Vasiliu Birlic (1905–1970), Romanian actor of theater and cinema
* Nathan Birnbaum (1864–1937), Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist
* Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), the most famous and influential Romanian poet
* Iancu Flondor (1865–1924), Austro-Hungarian-born ethnic Romanian activist who advocated Bukovina's union with the Kingdom of Romania
* Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Jewish writer and publicist, grew up in Czernowitz and wrote a literary memorial of the Jewish ghetto, The Jews of Barnow
* Gala Galaction, originally Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), Romanian writer
* Ion Grămadă (1886–1917), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, historian and journalist
* Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi (1812–1874), Romanian historian, politician
* Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949–1979), Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet
* Joseph Kalmer (1898–1959), Austrian writer, poet and translator
* Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942), Ukrainian modernist writer and feminist
* Zvi Laron (born 1927), Israeli pediatric endocrinologist
* Anastasiya Markovich (born 1979), Ukrainian painter
* Miron Nicolescu (1903–1975), Romanian mathematician
* Ion Nistor (1876–1962), Romanian historian and politician
* Alexander von Petrino (1824–1899), Romanian Austro-Hungarian politician
* Israel Polack (1909–1993), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian, Chilean and Israeli textile industrialist
* Ciprian Porumbescu (1853–1883), Romanian composer
* Aron Pumnul (1818–1866), Romanian philologist and teacher, national and revolutionary activist in Transylvania and Bukovina
* Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobrzanica, went to school in Czernowitz
* Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu (1865–1938), Romanian teacher, writer and women's rights activist
* Eric Roll (1907–2005), British academic economist, public servant and banker
* Sofia Rotaru (born 1947), pop singer
* Maximilien Rubel (1905–1996), Marxist historian and council communist
* Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889–1974), Polish theoretical physicist
* Josef Schmidt (1904–1942), singer, actor and cantor
* Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 professor in Czernowitz
* Eliezer Steinbarg (Shtaynbarg; 1880–1932), Romanian teacher and Yiddish poetic fabulist
* Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boiany, Bukovina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
* Vasile Tărâțeanu (1945–2022), journalist and writer
* Nazariy Yaremchuk (1951–1995), Hutsul Ukrainian singer

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Sophia Agranovich". Steinway & Sons. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
2. ^ "Interview with Sophia Agranovich". mainlypiano.com. July 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
3. ^ Kutsch, K.-J.; Riemens, Leo (2012). "Gerlach-Rusnak, Rudolf". Großes Sängerlexikon (in German) (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 1700\. ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
4. ^ "Ukrainian Jews" Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, Bible Discovered
5. ^ "Міла Куніс зіграє у трилері 'Чорний лебідь'" [Mila Kunis will play in the thriller Black Swan]. Gazeta.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 August 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
6. ^ Extract star Mila Kunis on her Russian roots on YouTube