Yuriy Vitrenko was born in the city of Kiev on 17 September 1976.
His father, Yuriy Mykolayovytch Vitrenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Миколайович Вітренко; born on 21 September 1947 in the city of Romny, Sumy region), graduated from D. S. Korotchenko Kyiv Economic Institute (currently Kyiv National Economic University) where he majored in economics, specializing in finance and credit, and later acquired his PhD.