Ukrainian Americans

A Ukrainian American is a citizen of the United States with ancestors from Ukraine. There have been Ukrainian people living in North America since the early 1600s. There are about one million Ukrainian Americans and many live in the North East and the West of the United States, in states like New York, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, Illinois and Washington.

Numbers
The number of Ukrainians and people of Ukrainian origin is about 976,314 people; That is what the website data.census.gov said in 2021. A lot of them were born in the United States, and only about 20% are direct immigrants. About a third of people of Ukrainian origin speak Ukrainian and about 143 thousand (15%) use it in everyday life.

States with the largest number of people using the Ukrainian language in the family (2006—2008):

 New York — 22,462
 California — 17,350
 Washington, DC — 17,175
 Illinois — 12,043
 Pennsylvania — 10,188
 New Jersey — 10,078
 Ohio — 9,112
 Oregon — 5,261
 Florida — 5 141
 Michigan — 4,523
 Connecticut — 3,190
 Massachusetts — 2,963
 Georgia — 2,464
 North Carolina — 1 996
 Wisconsin — 1,771
 Maryland — 1,683
 Minnesota — 1,674
 South Carolina — 1,126
 Texas — 1,157
 Virginia — 1,056
 Colorado — 1,046
 Tennessee — 1,046

Famous Ukrainian Americans 

 Igor Sikorsky (d. 1972), designer of helicopters and airplanes
 Joe Schuster (d. 1992), one of the authors of comics about Superman
Anna Politkovskaya (d. 2006), journalist, writer.
Nicholas Oresko (d. 2013), war hero
 Steve Ditko (d. 2018) comic book writer
 Jackie Stallone (d. 2020), astrologer
 Igor Vovkovinskiy (d. 2021), once the tallest living American
 Dustin Hoffman (b. 1937), actor
Bob Dylan (b. 1941) singer-songwriter, poet
 George Dzundza (b. 1945), actor
 Semion Mogilevich (b. 1946) – alleged criminal
 Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) movie director, producer, screenwriter
 Sylvester Stallone (b. 1946) actor, director, screenwriter, producer
Steven Tyler (b. 1948), singer in Aerosmith, songwriter
 David Copperfield (b. 1956), illusionist/magician
Michael Bolton (b. 1953), singer and songwriter
 Sergiy Vilkomir (b. 1956), computer scientist
 N.Gregory Mankiw (b. 1958), economist
 David Duchovny (b. 1960), movie actor
Wayne Gretzky (b. 1961), US-Canadian ice hockey player  
 Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962), novelist, journalist
Michael Smerconish (b. 1962), CNN host
 Ulana Suprun (b. 1963), former acting Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare 
Lenny Kravitz (b. 1964), singer, instrumentalist
 Milla Jovovich (b. 1975), movie actress
 Jan Koum (1976), founder of WhatsApp
 Olga Kurylenko (b. 1979), French film actress
 Mila Kunis (b. 1983), movie actress
 Kendra Wilkinson (b. 1985), TV personality
 Chris Zylka (b. 1985), actor
 Traci Lords – actress born Nora Kuzma; her father was of Ukrainian ancestry
 Vera Farmiga – actress
 Taissa Farmiga – actress
 Erika Eleniak – actress, father is of Ukrainian descent
 Matt Czuchry – actor
 Walter Matthau – actor
 Leonard Nimoy – actor
 Jack Palance – actor
 Natalie Wood – actress
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg – United States Supreme Court Justice
Leonard Bernstein – composer and conductor who was one of Hollywoods 10 blacklisted, of Jewish descent
Jackie Evancho – classical crossover singer
Bill Evans – jazz musician and composer
G-Eazy – songwriter-rapper
Stan Getz - jazz saxophonist and band leader, popularizer of cool and bossa nova sub-genres
Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
Melanie Safka – folk singer, performed at Woodstock
Nicole Scherzinger – singer, songwriter and television music competition judge; of Ukrainian descent on her mother's side
Eliot Engel - New York Congressman
Gary Johnson – former Governor of New Mexico
Chuck Schumer - senior US senator from New York
Victoria Spartz – Indiana State Senator 
Paul Wellstone – former US Senator from Minnesota
 Theodosius Dobzhansky – geneticist and evolutionary biologist
 Milton Friedman – economist
 George Gamow – astrophysicist; first suggested hydrogen fusion as source of solar energy
 Simon Ramo – physicist; Russian–Ukrainian

References

Ethnic groups in the United States