List of people from Chernivtsi

The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi. __TOC__ Natives

Sophia Agranovich, American classical concert pianist, Centaur Records recording artist and music educator 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 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 Heorhiy Gina (1932–2025), musician and composer. Rubin Glucksmann (1889–1940), spy for the Soviet Union, father of the French philosopher André Glucksmann, grandfather of MEP Raphaël Glucksmann 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"Ukrainian Jews" , Bible Discovered Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), Romanian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox) Itzik Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian 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 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 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 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

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