Names

Bill Mosienko was a Canadian hockey player of Ukrainian descent and the record holder for the fastest hat trick (21 seconds).

Mykola Anastaziyevsky, a Ukrainian-American artist and art historian.

Emma Andijewska is a Ukrainian artist, writer, and poet. Her oeuvre includes more than 17,000 paintings, more than 40 prose works, 215 sonnets, and many poems. The artist's works are kept in museums and private collections worldwide.

Oleksandr Archipenko was a world-famous Ukrainian-American sculptor, graphic artist, and one of the founders of Cubism in art.

Vasyl Avramenko was a Ukrainian choreographer and the "father of Ukrainian dance" in the diaspora.

Ivan Bahriany (real name Lazoviahin) was a Ukrainian writer, publicist, social and political activist, the founder of "camp prose" in Ukrainian literature, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party (URDP), Vice President of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) in exile, and a representative of the third (political) wave of emigration.

Irene Banach-Twerdochlib was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and master of folk woodblock printing. I

Vasyl Barka was a writer, literary critic, translator, and author of one of the first and most famous works about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, “Zhovtyi kniaz” (The Yellow Prince). He was the first winner of the Antonovych Foundation Award (1981).

Mary Virginia (Marusia) Beck was an American lawyer and politician and an active member of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States. She is known as "The Lady of Many Firsts": the first Ukrainian woman lawyer and journalist in the United States and the first woman to head the Detroit City Council.