The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 265 Celebrities, 4 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 20th most number of Celebrities behind Mexico, and Philippines.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Celebrities of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Barbara Karinska (1886 - 1983)
With an HPI of 59.12, Barbara Karinska is the most famous Ukrainian Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska (October 3, 1886 – October 18, 1983), was the Oscar-winning costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera and ice spectacles. Over her 50-year career, that began at age 41, Karinska earned legendary status time and again through her continuing collaborations with stage designers including Christian Bérard, André Derain, Irene Sharaff, Raoul Pêne du Bois and Cecil Beaton; performer-producers Louis Jouvet and Sonja Henie; ballet producers René Blum, Colonel de Basil and Serge Denham. Her longest and most renown collaboration was with choreographer George Balanchine for more than seventy ballets — the first known to be “The Celebrated Popoff Porcelain,” a one act ballet for Nikita Balieff's 1929 La Chauve-Souris with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for which Karinska executed the costumes design by Sergey Tchekhonin. She began to design costumes for Balanchine ballets in 1949 with Emmanuel Chabrier's “Bourrèe Fantasque,” for the newly founded New York City Ballet. Their final collaboration was the 1977 "Vienna Waltzes.” Balanchine and Karinska together developed the American (or powder puff) tutu ballet costume[9] which became an international costume standard. With Dorothy Jeakins, she won the 1948 Oscar for color costume design (the first year costume design was divided into color and black & white categories) for Joan of Arc, and was nominated in 1952 for the Samuel Goldwyn musical Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye. She was the first costume designer to win the Capezio Dance Award, in 1962, for costumes "of visual beauty for the spectator and complete delight for the dancer". Karinska divided her time between homes in Manhattan, Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France, the birthplace of Joan of Arc.
2. Justine Pasek (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 47.04, Justine Pasek is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Justine Lissette "Yostin" Pasek Patiño (Spanish pronunciation: [xusˈtin ˈpa.sek]; born 29 August 1979) is a Soviet-born Polish-Panamanian model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2002. Originally the first runner-up at the Miss Universe 2002 competition, Pasek became the first ever runner-up to be crowned the winner after the termination of original winner Oxana Fedorova.
3. Natalia Grace (b. 2003)
With an HPI of 42.17, Natalia Grace is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Natalyah Grace Renee Mans (born Natalia "Natasha" Vadymivna Gava (Ukrainian: Наталія «Наташа» Вадимівна Гава), September 4, 2003; formerly Natalia Lourdes Ciccone and Natalia Grace Barnett) is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism, who was adopted by an American family at the age of seven in 2010, but was allegedly abandoned three years later. Kristine and Michael Barnett, her adoptive parents, claimed that Natalia was an adult, and, in 2012, they successfully sought a court order legally changing her birth year from 2003 to 1989. Via an August 2023 DNA test, a healthcare testing company estimated that Natalia was about twenty-two years old at the time of the test, supporting the contention that she was ten years old when her adoptive parents allegedly abandoned her in an apartment in 2013. Her date of birth has since been legally restored to her 2003 birth year. The Barnetts were later charged with neglect; Michael was acquitted in 2022, and charges against Kristine were dismissed in 2023. Barnett is the subject of two television series, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, a docuseries, and the Hulu dramatization Good American Family.
4. Oxana Malaya (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 41.33, Oxana Malaya is the 4th most famous Ukrainian Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Oksana Oleksandrivna Malaya (Ukrainian: Оксана Олександрівна Малая, born 4 November 1983), better known as Oxana Malaya, is a Ukrainian woman internationally known for her dog-imitating behavior. Malaya has been the subject of documentaries, interviews and tabloid headlines as a feral child "raised by dogs".
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Ukrainian celebrities born between 1886 and 2003. Of these 4, 3 (75.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ukrainian celebrities include Justine Pasek, Natalia Grace, and Oxana Malaya. The most famous deceased Ukrainian celebrities include Barbara Karinska. As of April 2024, 1 new Ukrainian celebrities have been added to Pantheon including Natalia Grace.
Living Ukrainian Celebrities
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Justine Pasek
1979 - Present
HPI: 47.04
Natalia Grace
2003 - Present
HPI: 42.17
Oxana Malaya
1983 - Present
HPI: 41.33
