page_title: Ivano-Frankivsk
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Ivano-Frankivsk / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Klemens Stefan Sielecki
context_page_description: Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Administratively, it is designated as a city of regional significance within the oblast, and together with a number of rural localities, is incorporated as Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality. Population: 230,929.
  Built in the mid-17th century as a fortress of the Polish Potocki family, Stanisławów was annexed to the Habsburg Empire during the First Partition of Poland in 1772, after which it became the property of the State within the Austrian Empire. The fortress was slowly transformed into one of the most prominent cities at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. After World War I, for several months, it served as a temporary capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Following Peace of Riga, Stanisławów became part of the Second Polish Republic. After the Soviet invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union, only to be occupied by Nazi Germany two years later. With the liberation of Soviet Ukraine in 1944 and the shifting of borders, the Communist regime ran the city for the next four-and-a-half decades.
context_section_description: Eliezer Adler (born 1866), founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England
  Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and writer, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature
  Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), Ukrainian writer
  Daniel Auster (1893–1963), Mayor of Jerusalem
  Menachem Avidom (1908–1995), Israeli composer
  John Banner (1910–1973), Austrian-American actor. Star of Hogan's Heroes
  Naftali Blumenthal (born 1922), Israeli Member of the Knesset
  Maxim Bugzester (1909–1978), Polish painter
  Arthur F. Burns (1904–1987), American-Jewish economist and politician
  Ana Casares, Polish-Argentine actress
  Zbigniew Cybulski (1927–1967), Polish actor
  Yana Demyanchuk (born 1993), Ukrainian gymnast and 2009 European Champion on balance beam
  Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881–1942), Polish general, politician and diplomat
  Albin Dunajewski, Roman Catholic cardinal
  Wiktor Eckhaus (1930–2000), Polish–Dutch mathematician
  Feliks Falk, Polish film director
  Moshe Flimann (1905–1973), Mayor of Haifa
  Fritz Grossmann (1902–1984), art historian and Professor of Art History
  Ludwik Hass (1918–2008), Polish historian
  Moses Horowitz (1844–1910), playwright and actor of Yiddish theatre
  Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa von Tannenau, Austrian general
  GreenJolly, Ukrainian rap band
  Tina Karol (born 1985), Ukrainian singer, actress, and television presenter
  Maria Antonina Kratochwil (1881–1942), nun beatified by Pope John Paul II who tried to save Jews during the Holocaust
  František Kriegel (1908—1979), Czechoslovak politician and physician
  Manfred H. Lachs (1914–1993), Polish diplomat and British jurist
  Oksana Lada, Ukrainian actress
  Chaim David Lippe (1823–1900), Austrian Jewish publisher and bibliographer
  Alfreda Markowska (born 1926), Polish-Romani woman who during World War II saved approximately 50 Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos genocide
  Leo Aryeh Mayer (1895–1959), Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Bernard Mond (1887–1957), Jewish general of the Polish Army
  Itzhak Nener (1919–2012), Israeli jurist
  Yevhen Nakonechny (1931–2006), Ukrainian historian, librarian, library scientist, and linguist
  Daniel Passent, Polish journalist
  Józef Potocki, son of the Polish founder of the city
  Mikhail Prusak, Russian politician
  Horacy Safrin (1899–1980), Polish poet, comedian, author, and translator
  Max Schur (1897–1969), physician
  Anna Seniuk (born 1942), Polish actress
  Stanislav Shcherbatykh (Tryzuby Stas), a representative of the Ukrainian humorous original songs, bard
  Klemens Stefan Sielecki (1903–1980), Polish engineer and technical director of Fablok
  Stanisław Sosabowski, Polish general
  Myroslav Stupar, Ukrainian football referee
  Mordechai Surkis (1908–1995), Israeli politician
  Gabriel Talphir (1901–1990), Israeli poet, art critic, publisher, editor, and translator
  Vasyl Velychkovsky, bishop of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
  Vasyl Virastyuk, Ukrainian strongman athlete 2004 World's Strongest Man
  Taras Voznyak (born 1957), Ukrainian political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal "Ї", director of Lviv National Art Gallery
  Alexander Wagner (1868–1942), Polish chess theoretician
  Ksenia Zsikhotska (born 1989), Professional dancer
caption: Klemens Stefan Sielecki
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