List of people from Chernivtsi

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

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

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