The Most Famous People from Ukraine
Top 54 of 54 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Zelenskyy far ahead, two Hollywood actresses next on Ukraine's list
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The August 2026 origin list for Ukraine puts its wartime president more than six points clear of Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis, with boxers, footballers and four former presidents behind.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the most famous person born in Ukraine, and in August 2026 nobody else is close. The former entertainer who has been president since 2019 scores 21.4, and the next two names, Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis, are tied at 14.9. Both are American actresses of Ukrainian birth, one known for Leeloo in The Fifth Element and the Resident Evil films, the other for comedy and drama across two decades of Hollywood.
The list is entirely living. All 54 people measured are alive, so no figure from the Soviet or imperial past appears, and the table is a portrait of the present. Four former presidents hold places: Petro Poroshenko fifth at 12.3, Viktor Yanukovych ninth, Viktor Yushchenko twelfth, and, in the prime minister's role, Yulia Tymoshenko tenth. Vitali Klitschko, eighth at 11.8, is both a former heavyweight champion and the mayor of Kyiv.
Sport is the other pillar. Oleksandr Usyk, the undisputed heavyweight champion, is fourth at 12.9. Andriy Shevchenko, the striker widely regarded as the greatest Ukrainian footballer and now a football administrator, is sixth at 12. Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk, two of the country's leading tennis players, are seventh and eleventh. Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali's brother, is fourteenth, and Oleksandr Zinchenko, the versatile defender and midfielder, fifteenth.
Olga Kurylenko, thirteenth, is a Ukrainian-French actress and a third screen export. As an origin list this one measures where people were born; Jovovich, Kunis and Kurylenko built their careers abroad, and the rankings gather them under the Ukrainian tag alongside the men and women who stayed.
About this list
This list ranks people from Ukraine by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for August 2026: the top 54 of 54 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 54 of the 54 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy come Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Ukraine
Ukraine is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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"Volodymyr Zelenskyy, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Ukraine", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org