List of people from Chernivtsi

The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

Natives

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• 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
• Elena Pătrășcanu (1914–2000), Romanian stage designer
• 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

• Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian writer, diplomat and politician ^{[7] [8]}
• Abraham Axelrad (1858–1925), Yiddish theater actor
• 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
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820–1873), first ruler of the United Romanian Principalities ^[9]
• 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
• Abraham Eliezer Eliyahu Ha-Levi Igel (1825–1892), Modern Orthodox rabbi, chief rabbi of Czernowitz and Bukovina
• 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
• Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Romania ^[10]
• 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
• Josef Rosenfeld (1858–1922), Austro-Hungarian and Romanian rabbi
• 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
• Gheorghe Sion (1822–1892), Romanian writer
• 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

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
7. "Vasile Alecsandri, în cărți pentru tronul Moldovei. De ce a refuzat?", Historia, retrieved 2025-11-20
8. "Vasile Alecsandri la Cernăuţi | Curentul International", Curentul International, 2022-12-29, retrieved 2025-11-20
9. "Moldova - 650 ani", Moldova650.asm.md/node/53, retrieved 2025-11-20
10. "Mihail Kogălniceanu: un tradiționalist conservator. Boier luptător împotriva boierimii, latifundiar și industriaș. Ascensiunea unui mare reformator al treburilor publice - Matricea Românească", Matricea Românească, 2019-11-28, retrieved 2025-11-20