Names

Xenia Belmas was a Ukrainian and south african opera and chamber singer (soprano) who has performed on the stages of the world's leading opera houses in Odesa, Milan, Paris, Sydney, and Johannesburg, the founder of the Durban Music School in South Africa, and one of the first ethnic Ukrainians in South Africa.

Volodymyr Bilyaiv was a Ukrainian poet and journalist, public figure, director of the Ukrainian Service of the Voice of America (1991-1998), corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States (1984), and member of the National Wtiter’s Union of Ukraine (1995).

Ivan Bobersky was a Ukrainian teacher, public figure, the first popularizer of Ukrainian physical culture to awaken the people's national consciousness, and an authorized representative of the ZUNR (Western Ukrainian People’s Republic) government in the United States and Canada.

Ivan Buchko was a church and public figure, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; he lived and worked in Italy and the United States.

Nykyta Budka was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the first Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Canada, a theologian, and an educator.

Olexa Bulavytsky was a Ukrainian-American artist, landscape painter, and portraitist.

Mykhailo Chereshnovsky was a Ukrainian-American artist, educator, and public figure.

Hanna Cherin was a Ukrainian and American writer, poet, literary critic, and public figure.

Yevhen Chykalenko was a philanthropist, publisher, journalist, member of the Hromada of Kyiv, and initiator of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives.