List of people from Chernivtsi

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The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці) is home to many people. The following is a list of people from Chernivtsi.

[edit] Natives

• Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), a leading Yiddish linguist
• Aharon Appelfeld (b.1932), a Jewish writer
• Ninon Ausländer (1895-1966), art historian and wife of Hermann Hesse
• Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), a Jewish German-language writer
• Octav Botnar (1913–1998), a Romanian businessman, philanthropist, billionaire
• Paul Celan (born Antschel; 1920–1970), a Jewish German-language writer
• Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), a Jewish biochemist
• Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), a Jewish jurist
• Moysey Fishbeyn (1947-Present), a Ukrainian poet
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974)
• Frederick (John) Kiesler (1890–1965), a theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect
• Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), a Ukrainian musicologist, composer (Greek Orthodox)
• Sasha Malchik
• Georg Marco (1863–1923), Austrian chess-player and author
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), a Polish surgeon
• Dan Pagis (1930–1986), an Israeli writer
• Traian Popovici (1892–1946), a Romanian lawyer, mayor of this city, and a Righteous Among the Nations (Chasidey Umoth HaOlam)
• Markus Reiner (1886-1976), one of the founders of rheology
• Gregor von Rezzori (born d'Arezzo; 1914–1998), a German-language writer of Sicilian-Austrian origin
• Ruth Klieger Aliav (born Polishuk; 1914–1979), a female Romanian-Israeli Jewish activist
• Joseph Schmidt (born in the vicinity; 1904–1942), a chazzan (tenor)

• Charles K. Bliss, (1897–1985), inventor of Bliss-Symbole
• Josef Burg, (*1912), last surviving Yiddish poet in Czernowitz
• Maria Forescu (1875–1943), Romanian opera singer and movie actress
• Joseph Gregor (1888–1960), dramatist and librettist
• Raimund Friedrich Kaindl, (1866-1930) historian of Bukovina, professor Franz-Josef University, Czernowitz (now the University of Chernivtsi)
• Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) architect and visionary
• Itzig Manger (1901–1969), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
• Carol Miculi (1821, Lemberg –1892), Romanian (and Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian ancestry) pianist and composer, student of Frédéric Chopin
• Anton Pawlowski (June 20, 1830 – April 28, 1901), Imperial and Royal Senior Government Building Officer, Commander of the Royal Romanian Order of the Crown, Honorary Master of the Alemannia Student (Duelling) Corps, etc.
• Michail Prodan (1912–2002), forester
• Walther Rode (1876–1934), writer, lawyer
• Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932), conductor and composer
• Elieser Steinbarg (1880–1932), Jewish writer, who wrote in Yiddish
• Stefanie von Turetzki (1868–1929), founder of the first girls' grammar school in Austria–Hungary in Czernowitz
• Viorica Ursuleac (1894–1985), Romanian opera singer (dramatic soprano)
• James Immanuel Weissglas (1920–1979), Jewish translator and lyricist
• Zvi Yavetz, (*1925), Israeli ancient historian
• Frederic Zelnik, an important German silent movie director-producer, was born in Czernowitz on May 17, 1885
• Roman Fichman, (1970-), prominent Israeli American Attorney
• Alina Grosu, child singer
• Ben Taskar, an assistant professor of Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
• Maya Glazer (1984-), SuperModel

[edit] Residents

• Gala Galaction, originally Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), Romanian writer
• Friedrich Kleinwächter (1877–1959), economist, who studied in Czernowitz
• Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898–1967), Jewish poet and translator
• Andreas Mikulicz, architect
• Moses Rosenkranz (1904–2003), Jewish poet
• Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and Minister of Finance, 1909–1911 Professor in Czernowitz
• Alexander Supan, geographer
• Constantin Tomaszczuk, Founder of the University of Czernowitz
• Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Jewish writer and publicist, grew up in Czernowitz and wrote a literary memorial of the Jewish ghetto: The Jews of Barnow
• Antonin Borovec, also Anton Borowetz (1870–1925), Czechoslovakian diplomat in Czernowitz, Founder of the Sozial innovativen Konzeptes für Witwen and Waisen. (Socially Innovative Concept for Widows and Orphans)
• Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Dobzau, went to school in Czernowitz
• Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), Jewish psychoanalyst and sexologist, born in Boyan, Bukowina, grew up in Czernowitz and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school)
• Ciprian Porumbescu
• Mihai Eminescu
• Hermann Bahr
• Nathan Birnbaum
• Charles K. Bliss
• Erwin Chargaff
• Yuriy Fedkovych
• Jacob Frank
• Ivan Franko
• Abraham Goldfaden, active here
• Zygmunt Gorgolewski
• Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
• Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Aron Pumnul
• Joseph Kalmer
• Olha Kobylyanska
• Zvi Laron
• Anastasiya Markovich (1979-), Художница, Lady Painter, Malerin, Artiste Peintre, Schilderes
• Miron Nicolescu, mathematician
• Ion Nistor
• Israel Polack
• Moyshe Altman (1890-1981), Yiddish writer
• Wilhelm Reich
• Eric Roll
• Sofia Rotaru
• Maximilien Rubel
• Hermann Scharf
• Fritz von Scholz
• Joseph Schumpeter
• Nazariy Yaremchuk
• Anna Berezovskaya
• Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
• [[Polesiuk-Padan Heinrich] (1912-2004)advocate