Notable people
David Bronstein (1924–2006) – leading chess grandmaster and writer
Mother Elżbieta Róża Czacka (1876–1961) – philanthropist and nun, born in Bila Tserkva, and beatified in 2021
Eugene Deslaw (1898–1966) – avant-garde French cinema director, also known for introducing the Boy Scouts to Ukraine
Artur Valeryevich Dmitriev (1968–2026) – two-time Russian Olympic champion, born in Bila Tserkva
Luka Dolinski (1750–1830) – painter, representative of the late Ukrainian Baroque, Rococo and Classicism, educated at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Vitalii Dribnytsia (born 1965), historian, history teacher, co-author of school books and YouTuber
Volodymyr Dyudya (born 1983) – professional Ukrainian cyclist
Kostyantyn Efymenko (born 1975) – president of Biofarma, Chairman of Tribo
Mikhail Eisenstein (1867-1920, born as Moisey Eisenstein) - civil engineer, designer many of the best-known Art Nouveau buildings of Riga, Latvia, and the father of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein
David Goodman, father of Benny Goodman – American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing"
Axel Firsoff (1910–1981) – British astronomer, born in Bila Tserkva
Boris Samoilovich Iampol'skii (1912–1972) – Russian-language writer
Andrzej Klimowicz (1918–1996) – operative for Zegota, the government-supported resistance group, organized to help Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. They are said to have saved tens of thousands from 1942 to 1945.
Les Kurbas (1887–1937) – movie and theater director, co-founder of Soviet theater avant-garde and a prominent figure of the Executed Renaissance
Yuri Linnik (1915–1972) – Soviet mathematician
Tetiana Husarchuk (born 1957) – Ukrainian musicologist
Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709) – Hetman of Zaporizhian Host from 1687 to 1708
Olexandr Medvid' (born 1937) – Soviet Belarusian wrestler
Halyna Nevinchana (born 1957) – painter, writer, journalist
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky (1838–1918) – writer, ethnographer, folklorist, teacher
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974) – World War II Soviet sniper. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history.
Pavlo Popovich (1930–2009) – Soviet astronaut, fourth ever person in outer space, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933) – American cantor
Shaye Shkarovsky (1891–1945) – Yiddish author
Yaakov Steinberg (1887–1947) – Yiddish and Hebrew short-story writer, essayist, critic, and translator
Mikhael Sukernik (1902–1981) – Soviet Russian-Ukrainian chemist who contributed to the development and publication of a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in 1984
Marina Trattner, Swedish lawyer and journalist of Ukrainian descent, an archivist, public figure, and popularizer of history
