North America

Nina Karavanska (née Strokata) was a Ukrainian microbiologist, dissident, co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, member of its Foreign Representation, and public figure who lived and worked in the United States.

Sviatoslav Karavansky was a Ukrainian linguist, translator, public and political figure, dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and a long-term prisoner of Soviet camps; he lived and worked in the United States.

Volodymyr Kedrovsky was a military officer, public and political figure, colonel of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) army, head of the UPR Diplomatic Mission to Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, head of the Ukrainian Service of the Voice of America radio station; a representative of the second wave of emigration—lived and worked in Austria and the United States.

Isydora Kosach-Borysova was a Ukrainian memoirist, teacher, translator, cultural activist, and agronomist. She was a corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) and an honorary member of the Ukrainian Women's Association of America—daughter of Olena Pchilka and younger sister of Lesia Ukrainka.

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.

Lesia Khraplyva-Shchur is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, Plast activist and educator in the diaspora.

Marcia Carolyn Kaptur is an American politician, the first ethnic Ukrainian woman in the U.S. Congress, a representative of the Democratic Party and the state of Ohio, and the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus co-chair. She is the longest-serving congresswoman in Congress (since 1983). Marcy Kaptur is the author of the book “Women of Congress: A Twentieth-century Odyssey” (Washington, DC: Women of Co

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.

Mstyslav (Stepan Skrypnyk) was the first Patriarch of Kyiv and All Ukraine, a Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the United States, Western Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand.