







The Most Famous
Chess Players from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 38 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 2nd most number of Chess Players.
Top 10 Ukrainian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Ukrainians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Ukrainians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Ukrainians Chess Players.
- #1

David Bronstein
1924 - 2006
HPI 66.0939 langsDavid Bronstein is most famous for his victory over Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1951 World Chess Championship.
- #2

Efim Bogoljubov
1889 - 1952
HPI 66.0835 langsRussian chess player (1889–1952)
- #3

Vassily Ivanchuk
b. 1969
HPI 66.0046 langsUkrainian chess player
- #4

Lyudmila Rudenko
1904 - 1986
HPI 64.5240 langsSoviet chess player
- #5

Salo Flohr
1908 - 1983
HPI 62.5428 langsCzech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)
- #6

Mark Taimanov
1926 - 2016
HPI 62.5032 langsSoviet chess player (1926–2016)
- #7

Isaac Boleslavsky
1919 - 1977
HPI 61.4926 langsSoviet chess player (1919–1977)
- #8

Alexander Beliavsky
b. 1953
HPI 58.9629 langsUkrainian and Slovenian chess player
- #9

Leonid Stein
1934 - 1973
HPI 56.9518 langsSoviet chess player (1934-1973)
- #10

Ossip Bernstein
1882 - 1962
HPI 56.2921 langsRussian-French chess player
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Ukrainians Chess Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1980s(9)
1930s(2)
1920s(2)
1900s(2)
1860s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 13 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.




























