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 in the United States is 354,832. There are 408,504 people who identify as Ukrainian. Many of them were born in the United States. Only about 20% are actual immigrants. About a third of people of Ukrainian origin speak Ukrainian. Almost 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
Richard Levins (d. 2016), scientist (ecologist)
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
Barbra Streisand (b. 1942), singer
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
Vladimir Kozlov (b. 1979), wrestler
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
Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist
Related pages
List of people with Ukrainian ancestry
References
Ethnic groups in the United States