title: List of people from Galicia (Eastern Europe): modern period
text: # List of people from Galicia (Eastern Europe): modern period
  
  The following list includes famous people of various nationalities who were born in or resided for a significant period in Galicia (Eastern Europe), part of Ukraine. (18th–20th centuries).
  
  ## A~F
  
  * Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
  * Eliezer Adler, the founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England, born in Stanislau
  * Shmuel Agnon, Jewish writer, the founder of modern Israeli Hebrew literature, born in Buchach
  * Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, philosopher and logician, born in Ternopil
  * Izak Aloni (born Izak Schächter), Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Lviv
  * Antin Angelovych, the first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–14), born in Hryniv, near Bibrka
  * Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38), born in Cracow
  * Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Jewish American writer, raised from the age of five in Buchach
  * Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss), Pakistan's ambassador to UN, born in Lviv
  * Daniel Auster, first Hebrew mayor of Jerusalem, born in Stanislau
  * Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, born in Zavalov, near Pidhaytsi
  * Jacob Avigdor, last Chief Rabbi of Drohobych, born in Tyrawa Wołoska, near Sanok
  * Emanuel Ax, Jewish American pianist, born in Lviv
  * Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel ben Eliezer), the founder of Hasidism
  * Yosef Babad, rabbi and posek, born in Przeworsk
  * Kazimierz Feliks Badeni, Count, Minister-President of Austria (1895–97)
  * Meir Balaban, historian, born in Lviv
  * Adolph Baller, Austrian-American pianist, born in Brody
  * Oswald Balzer, historian, born in Khodoriv, near Zidichov
  * Stefan Banach, eminent mathematician, born in Cracow
  * Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Uhryniv Staryi, near Kalush
  * Iuliu Barasch, physician and writer, born in Brody
  * Kazimierz Bartel, Prime Minister of Poland, born in Lviv
  * Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician, born in Shliakhnyntsi, near Ternopil
  * Eugeniusz Baziak, Archbishop of Lvov and Apostolic Administrator of Cracow, born in Ternopil
  * Józef Bem, Polish general, national hero of Poland and Hungary, born in Tarnów
  * Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
  * Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-British actress, born in Drohobych
  * St. Józef Bilczewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, born in Wilamowice, near Kęty
  * Josef Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy, born in Dukla
  * Michał Bobrzyński, Governor of Galicia (1908–13), born in Cracow
  * Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist, born in Kamianka-Buzka
  * Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, Polish general, born in Rzeszów
  * Naftule Brandwein, klezmer clarinetist, born in Przemyslany
  * Berl Broder (born Berl Margulis), Jewish singer, born in Brody
  * Aleksander Brückner, distinguished Polish slavist and historian of literature, born in Berezhany
  * Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher, lived in Lviv
  * Solomon Buber, Jewish scholar, born in Lviv
  * Nykyta Budka, the first Ukrainian Canadian Greek Catholic bishop, born in Dobromirka
  * Arthur Frank Burns, American economist, born in Stanislau
  * Zvi Hirsch Chajes, Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
  * Oscar Chajes, Austrian-American chess master, born in Brody
  * Georges Charpak, French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1992), born in Dubrovytsia
  * Leon Chwistek, painter, logician, philosopher, born in Cracow
  * Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor, born in Kniaże, near Stanislau
  * Ignacy Daszyński, Polish politician, born in Zbarazh
  * Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian, born in Chrzanów
  * Józef Dominik, Polish chess master, born in Dobczyce
  * Michael Dorfman, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, born in Lviv
  * Albin Dunajewski, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cracow and Cardinal, born in Stanislau
  * Arthur Dunkelblum, Belgian chess master, born in Cracow
  * Karol Durski-Trzaska, general, born in Spas, near Staryi Sambir
  * Elimelech of Lizhensk, great Hasidic rebbe and tzadik
  * Isaac Erter, Hebrew language writer, born in Janischok
  * Józef Feldman, historian, born in Przemyśl
  * Ida Fink, Israeli writer, born in Zbarazh
  * Salo Flohr, Czech-Ukrainian chess master, born in Horodenka
  * Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
  * Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer, born in Nahuevychi, near Drohobych
  * Petro Franko, Ukrainian educator, born in Nahuevychi, near Drohobych
  * Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian writer, born in Chortkiv
  * Aleksander Fredro, Polish writer, born in Surochów, near Jaroslav
  * Amalia Freud (born Amalia Nathansohn), the mother of Sigmund Freud, born in Brody
  * Mikhail Fridman, Russian banker of Jewish descent from Lviv
  * Filip Friedman, historian, born in Lviv
  * Henryk Friedman, chess master from Lviv
  * Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic Rebbe of Ruzhin
  
  ## G~K
  
  * Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poet and songwriter, born in Cracow
  * Abraham Gershon of Kitov, Hasidic rabbi of Kitov and Brody, born in Kuty
  * Agenor Goluchowski, Count, interior minister of Austria (1859–60)
  * Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Count, foreign affairs minister of Austria-Hungary (1895–1906)
  * Maurycy Gottlieb, Jewish painter from Drohobych
  * Leopold Gottlieb, painter from Drohobych
  * Chaim Gross, Austrian-American sculptor, born in Kolomyia
  * Feliks Gross, Polish-American sociologist, born in Cracow
  * Henryk Grossman, Polish-German economist of Jewish descent, born in Cracow
  * Artur Grottger, painter, born in Ottyniowice, near Zhydachiv
  * Kazimierz Górski, coach of Polish national football (soccer) team, born in Lviv
  * Andrzej Kusionowicz Grodyński, Appeal Court Judge born in Gdów
  * Ludwig Gumplowicz, sociologist and lawyer, born in Cracow
  * Wilhelm Habsburg, Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
  * Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist from, born in Dynów.
  * Ben Zion Halberstam, second Bobover Rebbe
  * Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, Hasidic rabbi
  * Naftali Halberstam, fourth Bobover Rebbe
  * Shlomo Halberstam, first Bobover Rebbe
  * Marian Hemar, poet, born in Lviv
  * Zbigniew Herbert, poet, born in Lviv
  * Maxim Hermaniuk, the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg, born in Nove Selo, near Horodok
  * Arthur Hertzberg, Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist, born in Lubaczów
  * Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, the founder of Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty)
  * Jerzy Hoffman, film director, born in Cracow
  * Roald Hoffmann, American chemist (Nobel Prize in 1981), born in Zolochiv
  * Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Chepeli
  * Sydir Holubovych, Ukrainian politician, born in Towsteńskie, near Husiatyn
  * Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska, chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
  * Shimshon Holzman, Israeli painter, born in Sambir
  * Bl. Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian nun, beatified by John Paul II in 2001, born in Lviv
  * Moses Horowitz, playwright and actor of Yiddish theatre, born in Stanislau
  * Schmelke Horowitz, rabbi of Nikolsburg in Moravia, born in Chortkiv
  * Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist, born in Lviv
  * Dmytro Hrytsai, Ukrainian politician and general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Dorozhin, near Sambir
  * Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Cardinal, born in Lviv
  * Abba Hushi, Israeli politician, born in Turka
  * Naftali Herz Imber, Jewish poet who wrote the lyrics of Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel, born in Zolochiv
  * Leopold Infeld, physicist, born in Cracow
  * Karol Irzykowski, writer, literary critic, theorist of film, and chess player, born in Błaszkowa, near Pilzno
  * Vasyl Ivanchuk Ukrainian world class chess player, born in Berezhany
  * Alfred Jansa, Austrian Major-General, born in Stanislau
  * Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv and Cardinal, born in Lviv
  * Max Judd, American chess master, born in Cracow
  * Stepan Kachala, politician and writer, born near Berezhany
  * Jaroslav Kacmarcyk, a head of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic (1918–20), born in Binczarowa
  * Stefan Kaczmarz, mathematician, born in Lviv
  * Tadeusz Kantor, painter, theatre director, born in Wielopole
  * Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv
  * Wojciech Kilar, classical and film music composer, born in Lviv
  * Moise Kisling, painter, born in Cracow
  * Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian diplomat
  * Franciszek Kleeberg, general of the Polish Army, born in Ternopil
  * Józef Klotz, Polish footballer, born in Crakow
  * Dmytro Klyachkivsky, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Zbarazh
  * Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general, commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Lviv
  * Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Zashkiv, near Lviv
  * Zenon Kossak, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Drohobych
  * Bl. Omelyan Kovch, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in Tlumach, near Kosiv
  * Ignacy Krasicki, Prince-Bishop of Ermland and Archbishop of Gniezno, born in Dubiecko, near Przemyśl
  * František Kriegel, Czechoslovak politician, born in Stanislau
  * Walter Krivitsky, Soviet spy, born in Pidvolochysk, near Ternopil
  * Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher, born in Brody
  * Solomiya Krushelnytska, Ukrainian opera singer
  * Ivan Krypiakevych, Ukrainian historian, born in Lviv
  * Volodymyr Kubiyovych, geographer, encyclopedist, politician (Ukrainian Central Committee), born in Neu Sandez
  * Vasyl Kuk, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krasne, near Zolochiv
  * Viktor Kurmanovych, general, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Galician Army, born in Vilshanitsa near Zolochiv
  * Jacek Kuroń, leader of the Solidarity movement, born in Lviv
  
  ## L~O
  
  * Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat and jurist, born in Stanislau
  * Salo Landau, Dutch chess master, born in Bochnia
  * Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge, born in Zhovkva
  * Pinhas Lavon, Israeli politician, born in Kopychyntsi
  * Stanisław Jerzy Lec (de Tusch-Letz), writer, born in Lviv
  * Stanisław Lem, writer, born in Lviv
  * Juliusz Leo, politician and academic, Mayor of Cracow (1904–18), born in Stebnik, near Drohobych
  * Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and writer, born in Krehulets, Husiatyn district
  * Hirschel Levin, Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin, born in Rzeszów
  * Kost Levitsky, Ukrainian politician, born in Tysmenytsya
  * Herman Lieberman, politician, born in Drohobych
  * Ephraim Moses Lilien, Jewish photographer, born in Drohobych
  * Marta Litinskaya-Shul, chess woman grandmaster, born in Lviv
  * Roman Longchamps de Bérier, lawyer, the last rector of the Jan Kazimierz University, born in Lviv
  * George Stephen Nestor Luckyj, scholar of Ukrainian literature, born in Yanchyn, near Lviv
  * Ignacy Łukasiewicz, inventor (petroleum industry)
  * Jan Łukasiewicz, logician, born in Lviv
  * Oleh Luzhnyi, football (soccer) player and coach, born in Lviv
  * Vyacheslav Lypynsky, politician and historian, born in Volodymyr-Volynskyi
  * Bl. Roman Lysko, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, born in Horodok, near Lviv
  * Stanisław Maczek, general of the Polish Army, born in Szczerzec, near Lviv
  * Ephraim Zalman Margolis, Talmudic scholar, born in Brody
  * Max Margules, meteorologist, born in Brody
  * Samuel Hirsch Margulies, Chief Rabbi of Florence, born in Berezhany
  * Jan Matejko, painter, born in Cracow
  * Stanislaw Mazur, mathematician, born in Lviv
  * Józef Mehoffer, painter, born in Ropczyce
  * Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born near Drohobych
  * Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of Economics, born in Neu Sandez
  * Adrian Mikhalchishin, Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master, born in Lviv
  * Ludwig von Mises, foremost representative of the Austrian School of Economics, born in Lviv
  * Richard von Mises, mathematical physicist and statistician, born in Lviv
  * Helena Modjeska, actress, born in Cracow
  * Ralph Modjeski, engineer, born in Bochnia
  * Kalikst Morawski, chess master, born in Boryszkowce, near Borshchiv
  * Janusz Morgenstern, film director and producer, born in Mikulińce, near Ternopil
  * Soma Morgenstern, writer and journalist, born in Budaniv
  * Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lived and worked in Lviv
  * Andrzej Munk, film director, born in Cracow
  * Lewis Bernstein Namier, British politician and historian, born in Wola Okrzejska
  * Joseph Saul Nathanson, rabbi and posek, born in Berezhany
  * Hryhoriy Nestor, shepherd, born in Carpathian Mountains
  * Nikifor (Epifaniusz Drowniak), Ruthenian (Lemko) painter, born in Krynica
  * Leopold Okulicki, general, last commander-in-chief of the Home Army, born in Bratucice, near Bochnia
  * Joseph Oleskiw, Ukrainian writer, born in Skvariava Nova, near Zhovkva
  * Menachem Oren (Mieczysław Chwojnik), Polish-Israeli chess master and mathematician
  * Władysław Orlicz, mathematician from Okocim
  * Ostap Ortwin, literary critic, born in Tłumacz, near Stanislau
  * Bohdan Osadchuk, historian and journalist, born in Kolomyia
  * Stanisław Ostrowski, third President of Poland in exile (1972–79), born in Lviv
  * Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, Count, founder of the Ossolineum, born in Wola Mielecka, near Mielec
  
  ## P~R
  
  * Jan Parandowski, writer, essayist, and translator, born in Lviv
  * Jakub Karol Parnas, biochemist, born in Mokriany, near Drohobych
  * Yevhen Petrushevych, President of Western Ukrainian People's Republic, born in Busk
  * Volodymyr Petryshyn, mathematician, born in Liashky Murovani, Lviv
  * Simhah Pinsker, archeologist, born in Ternopil
  * Oskar Piotrowski, chess master, lived in Lviv
  * Mykola Plaviuk, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–92), born in Russiv, near Stanislav
  * Rudolf Pöch, Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Ternopil
  * Stepan Popel, chess master, born in Komarniki, near Turka
  * Ignatz von Popiel, chess master, born in Drohobych
  * Alfred Józef Potocki, Count, Minister-President of Austria (1870–71), born in Łańcut
  * Omeljan Pritsak, Ukrainian historian and orientalist, born in Luka near Sambir
  * Włodzimierz Puchalski, photographer and film director, born in Mostki Wielkie, near Lviv
  * Ivan Pulyui, Ukrainian physicist and inventor, born in Hrymailiv
  * Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Prince, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Lvov and Bishop of Cracow, Cardinal, born in Gwoździec
  * Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Swiss mathematician, born in Brody
  * Isidor Isaac Rabi, Austrian-American physicist (Nobel Prize in 1944), born in Rymanów
  * Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician, born in Lviv
  * Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (Shir), born in Lviv
  * Alfred Redl, Austrian counter-intelligence officer, born in Lviv
  * Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst, born in Dobrzanica, a village near Peremyshliany
  * Józef Retinger, Polish-Austrian-Mexican-British political adviser, born in Cracow
  * Emanuel Ringelblum, Polish Jewish historian, born in Buchach
  * Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz
  * Yehoshua Rokeach, second Rebbe of Belz
  * Yissachar Dov Rokeach, third Rebbe of Belz
  * Aharon Rokeach, fourth Rebbe of Belz
  * Mordechai Rokeach, Rav of the town of Bilgoray, born in Belz
  * Oleg Romanishin, chess master, born in Lviv
  * Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician, born in Brody
  * Jakob Rosenfeld, Chinese general, born in Lviv
  * Erna Rosenstein, painter and poet, born in Lviv
  * Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, economist, born in Cracow
  * Henry Roth, American writer, born in Tysmenitz near Stanislau
  * Joseph Roth, Austrian writer of Jewish descent, born in Brody
  * Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish minister of foreign affairs, born in Peremyshliany
  * Tadeusz Rozwadowski, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, born in Babin, near Kalush
  * Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist, born in Cracow
  * Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, Ukrainian Canadian linguist, born in Przemyśl
  * Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish marshal and commander-in-chief, born in Berezhany
  
  ## S~Z
  
  * Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, born in Lviv
  * Dov Sadan, scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, born in Brody
  * Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, born in Nadvorna
  * Adam Stefan Sapieha, Prince, Archbishop of Cracow and Cardinal, born in Krasiczyn
  * Juliusz Schauder, mathematician, born in Lviv
  * Heinrich Schenker, music theorist, born in Vyshnivchyk
  * Moses Schorr, rabbi, assyriologist and politician, born in Przemyśl
  * Bruno Schulz, poet, novelist and painter, born in Drohobych
  * Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, Jewish gaon of Berezhany, born in Zolochiv
  * Marcella Sembrich, born in 1858 in Wisniewczyk, in Austrian Galicia, now part of Ukraine. A consummate musician, she was a major figure in the operatic world.
  * Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
  * Markiyan Shashkevych, poet and interpreter, born in Pidlissia near Zolochiv
  * Andrey Sheptytsky, Count, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
  * Clement Sheptytsky, Count, the Archimandrite of the Studite monks, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
  * Stanisław Sheptytsky, Count, general of the Polish Army, born in Prylbychi, near Lviv
  * Roman Shukhevych, the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, born in Krakovets, near Yavoriv
  * Władysław Sikorski, general, Prime Minister of Poland and commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces (1939–43), born in Tuszów Narodowy
  * Stanisław Skrowaczewski, conductor, born in Lviv
  * Josyf Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, born in of Zazdrist, near Terebovlia
  * Wacław Sobieski, historian, born in Lviv
  * Stanisław Sosabowski, general, commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, born in Stanislau
  * Jerzy Sosnowski, major, Polish spy in Germany (1926–34) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz, born in Lviv
  * Manès Sperber, novelist and psychologist, born in Zabolotiv
  * Nissan Spivak, Jewish cantor and composer from Belz
  * Hnat Stefaniv, Ukrainian colonel, born in Toporivtsi, near Horodenka
  * Vasyl Stefanyk, writer, born in Rusiv, near Kuty
  * Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician, born in Jasło
  * Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Ternopil
  * Slava Stetsko, leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, born in Romanivka, near Terebovlia
  * Lee Strasberg, Jewish American director, actor and producer, born in Budaniv
  * Julian Stryjkowski, writer, born in Stryj
  * Kyryl Studynsky, head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine (1939), born in Kamienka, near Ternopil
  * Franciszek Sulik, chess master, born in Lviv
  * Karol Szajnocha, historian, born in Komarno
  * Jan Szczepanik, inventor, born in Rudniki, near Mostyska
  * Jan Szembek, Count, deputy secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, born in Poręba
  * Józef Szujski, historian and politician, born in Tarnów
  * Stanisław Tarnowski, historian and politician, born in Dzików
  * Józef Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian rite)
  * Oscar Tenner, chess master, born in Lviv
  * Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy, born in Nowy Targ
  * Metodyj Trochanovskij, Lemko activist, born in Binczarowa
  * Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Hebrew scholar, born in Lviv
  * Adam Ulam, historian, born in Lviv
  * Stanisław Ulam, mathematician, co-inventor of the H-bomb, born in Lviv
  * Leopold Unger, journalist, born in Lviv
  * Ivan Vahylevych, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, born in Yasen, near Stanislav
  * Anatole Vakhnianyn, Ukrainian politician and composer, born near Przemyśl
  * Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop (body found incorrupt), born in Stanislau
  * Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer of the present National Anthem of Ukraine, born in Jawornik Ruski, near Bircza
  * Dmytro Vitovsky, Ukrainian politician and military leader, born in Medukha
  * Stepan Vytvytskyi, President of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–65), born near Stanislav
  * Alexander Wagner, chess theoretician, lived in Stanislau
  * Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia)
  * Rudolf Weigl, biologist, lived in Lviv
  * Friedrich Weinreb, Jewish philosopher, born in Lviv
  * Shevah Weiss, Israeli politician, born in Boryslav
  * Kazimierz Wierzyński, Polish poet, born in Drohobych
  * Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis, born in Buchach
  * Billy Wilder, Austrian-American film director, born in Suchá Beskidzka
  * Karol Wojtyła, John Paul II, Archbishop of Cracow, and Pope (1978–2005), born in Wadowice
  * Zev Wolf of Zbaraz, Rabbi of Zbarazh
  * Stanisław Wyspiański, poet and painter, born in Cracow
  * Volodymyr Yaniv, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, born in Lviv
  * Daniel Yanofsky, Canadian chess master, born in Brody
  * Richard Yary, Ukrainian politician, born in Rzeszów
  * Grigory Yavlinsky Russian politician, born in Lviv
  * Kordian Józef Zamorski, general, born near Gorlice
  * Gabriela Zapolska, novelist and actress, born in Pidhaytsi
  * Velvel Zbarjer, singer, born in Zbarazh
  * Casimir Zeglen, inventor, born near Ternopil
  * Michael Zohary, botanist, born in Bibrka near Lviv
  * Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome who converted to Roman Catholicism, born in Brody
  