Medal of Honor recipient Nicholas Oresko – World War II Medal of Honor recipient Alexander Vindman - US Army lieutenant colonel serving as Director for European Affairs for the NSC Russ Zajtchuk, MD – Major General, US Army Medical Corp Miroslav "Abrek" Zilberman - Lieutenant, US Naval Aviator, posthumously awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 2010 for saving his aircraft's crew at cost of his own life Musicians Bohdan Andrusyshyn – singer; Ukrainian father Lydia Artymiw – concert pianist and McKnight professor of piano Renata Babak – opera singer Alina Baraz – singer, songwriter, first Ukrainian in her family to be born in America Leonard Bernstein – composer and conductor who was blacklisted in the 1950s, of Jewish descent Michael Bolton – pop rock ballad singer and songwriter, of Jewish descent Neko Case – singer, songwriter, member of The New Pornographers Maksim Chmerkovskiy – Ukrainian-born dancer and choreographer Kvitka Cisyk – soprano singer Andrij Dobriansky – bass-baritone, had the longest career with the Metropolitan Opera of any Ukrainian-born artist Stanley Drucker – orchestra clarinetist associated with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Yelena Dudochkin – soprano Bob Dylan – singer-songwriter, poet; his Jewish paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905 Jackie Evancho – classical crossover singer Bill Evans – jazz musician and composer Marko Farion - bandurist Anthony Fedorov – singer, finalist on season 4 of American Idol G-Eazy – songwriter-rapper Stan Getz - jazz saxophonist and band leader, popularizer of cool and bossa nova sub-genres Vladimir Horowitz – Jewish Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century George Hrab – drummer, singer, songwriter and podcaster; often discusses his Ukrainian heritage on his podcast Eugene Hütz – musician and actor; lead singer of Gogol Bordello George Komsky – solo vocalist Lenny Kravitz – singer, instrumentalist; the family of his father Sy Kravitz has Ukrainian roots Julian Kytasty – bandurist, traditional Ukrainian music Valentina Lisitsa – Ukrainian-born pianist Matys Brothers – rockabilly musical act Nathan Milstein - Jewish Ukrainian-born American virtuoso violinist Peter Ostroushko – violinist and mandolinist Wally Palmar – musician of The Romantics Paul Plishka – opera singer Vyacheslav Polozov – opera singer Sviatoslav Richter – German Ukrainian pianist; widely regarded as one of the most successful pianists of the 20th century Dorian Rudnytsky – cellist and composer;