41 Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class

Oleksandr Rafkatovych Abdullin is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.

Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev was a Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, and the Minister of General Machine Building (1965–1983).

Andriy Mykhailovych Bal was a Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.

Mykola Ivanovych Balan is a Ukrainian military official, Lieutenant General, a commander of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Valeriy Oleksіyovich Baranov, served as Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, March – October 2014 and a former People's Deputy of Ukraine.

Leonid Ivanovich Bodnarchuk was a Ukrainian scientist, Correspondent Member of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine since 1999. From 1989 to 2012, he was Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Apiculture "P.I. Prokopovych Institute of beekeeping". In 1997 he received the title of Professor.

Yuriy Petrovich Bohutsky was a Ukrainian politician who served three terms as the Minister of Culture between 1999 and 2007.

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Bondar is a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Member of the parliamentary fraction of OUR UKRAINE - People's Self-Defence. Bondar is a member of Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".

Vladyslav Viktorovych Bukhariev, is a Ukrainian politician and a career intelligence service officer. Bukhariev is a former people's deputy of the Ukrainian parliament who was elected parliament in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In 2019 he served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

Yuriy Volodymyrovych Cheban is a retired Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in C-1 200 metres.

Mykhailo Vasylyovych Chechetov was a Ukrainian politician. He was a former first deputy head of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction; and de facto its Chief Whip. Chechetov committed suicide on February 27, 2015.

Yevhen Alfredovych Chervonenko is a Ukrainian politician and racing driver. He was governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2005 to 2007. Chervonenko previously served as Minister of Transportation and Communication in 2005. Member of Ukrainian parliament of the 4th convocation (2002–2005). He is of Jewish descent.

Refat Abdurakhmanovich Chubarov is a Ukrainian politician and public figure, leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement in Ukraine and worldwide.

Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Vadim Gutzeit is a Ukrainian sabre fencer, who was team Olympic champion in 1992, and won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships. Since 4 March 2020, Huttsait is Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister.

Halyna Vasylivna Yagenska is the People's Teacher of Ukraine (2020), as the winner of National Ukrainian competition "Teacher of the Year". She holds a PhD in Pedagogy awarded in 2012. She was awarded the Order of Merit ІІІ class in 2009 and also the Order of Merit ІІ class (2015).

Vasyl Serhiyovych Hrytsak was the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He became the SBU's acting head on 18 June 2015, replacing Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. The Verkhovna Rada approved his appointment on 2 July. On 22 May 2019 President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Ivan Bakanov the first deputy chairman of the SBU. Following this Hrytsak went on vacation, and Bakanov began to perform his duties. Hrytsak never returned to his post in the SBU and Bakanov was officially appointed his successor on 29 August 2019.

Dmytro Mykolayovych Ianchuk or Yanchuk is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist in the C-2 1000 metres event, the 2015 World bronze medalist in C-2 500 metres, and the 2015 European champion in C-2 1000 m. Ianchuk competes together with Taras Mishchuk.

Larisa Valentinovna Kadochnikova is a Ukrainian and Russian actress. She appeared in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1964 film directed by Sergei Paradjanov, and The Eve of Ivan Kupalo.

Serhiy Vasilyovich Kivalov is Ukrainian politician, jurist, parliamentarian, head of Central Election Commission during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which led to the Orange revolution.

Mykhailo Koval is a Colonel General of Ukraine who until 2014 worked in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. During the 2014 Crimea crisis he was appointed as the Minister of Defence replacing Admiral Ihor Tenyukh who resigned.

Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych is a Ukrainian physicist, lawyer, politician, former member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine, a former Ukrainian member of parliament and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine. He is a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2003). He was one of the founders of the first democratic party in Ukraine in 1989 – People's Movement of Ukraine and considered to be one of the "fathers" of the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.

Mircea Lucescu is a Romanian football manager for Dynamo Kyiv and former player. He is one of the most decorated managers of all time.

Lilia Oleksandrivna Podkopayeva is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast. She is the 1995 world all-around champion, and the 1996 Olympic all-around and floor exercise champion. Often thought of as a complete athlete, Podkopayeva was known for combining power, style, and balletic grace.

Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.

Ada Rogovtseva is a Ukrainian-Soviet actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the National University of Culture. She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in Hail, Mary!.

Serhiy Mykolayovych Shkarlet is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 25 June 2020 he was assigned as the Acting Minister of Education and Science. On 17 December 2020 parliament appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science.

Igor Shurma — is a ukrainian politician and statesman. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV, VIII convocations.

Shypko Andrii Fedorovych is a Ukrainian politician. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIth and VIIIth convocations.

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov, is a leading Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra.

Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films between 1958 and 1999. He was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.

Aleksander Marek Szczygło (listen) was a Polish politician. He was first elected to Polish parliament Sejm in 2001 and subsequently reelected on 25 September 2005 with 19,006 votes in 35th electoral district (Olsztyn). Both times he was a candidate of the Law and Justice party.

Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk is a Ukrainian politician who twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and a former MP who is since December 2019 Ukraine's permanent representative to the Council of Europe.

Serhiy Taruta is a Ukrainian politician and current member of the Ukrainian parliament, Ukrainian businessman, sometimes called an oligarch, founder of Industrial Union of Donbas, former President of FC Metalurh Donetsk, and the former governor of Donetsk Oblast.

Gennadiy Leonidovich Trukhanov is the mayor of Odessa. He has been named as part of a Ukrainian crime syndicate who laundered money through London by buying multi-million pound properties in the city.

Vasyl Petrovych Tsushko is a Ukrainian politician former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, appointed on quote of the Communist Party, and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Tetyana Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people. She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms.

Illia Mykolayovych Yemets is a Ukrainian physician and politician and twice appointed Minister of Healthcare.

Mykhaylo Zagirnyak - Ukrainian scientist in the fields of electromechanics and education administration, Full Member (academician) of National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of education, Doctor of Science (Eng), Professor. Rector of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University.

Vitaly Zhuravsky is a Ukrainian MP elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Party of Regions from the Zhytomyr region.