Shevchuk

Shevchuk, Shewchuk, Schewchuk, Ševčuk, Sevcuk, Szewczuk, or Chevchuk (Ukrainian: Шевчук) is a widespread Ukrainian surname. It is derived from the Ukrainian word shvets (Ukrainian: швець), "cobbler/shoemaker", and the suffix -uk, denoting descent. It may refer to the following indivuduals:

Anatoliy Shevchuk, historian of Ukrainian fine art, writer, and translator
Andriy Shevchuk (born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
Anzhelika Shevchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian sprinter
Serhiy Shevchuk (born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
Serhiy Shevchuk (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
Sviatoslav Shevchuk (born 1970), Ukrainian Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Valeriy Shevchuk (born 1939), Ukrainian writer
Vasyl Shevchuk (born 1954), Ukraine’s environment minister in 1998-2000 and 2002–2003
Vladimir Shevchuk (born 1954), Russian footballer and manager
Vyacheslav Shevchuk (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer
Yuri Shevchuk (born 1957), Soviet and Russian singer/songwriter, leader of the band DDT
Yevgeny Shevchuk is the President of Transnistria
Daniel Shewchuk, a Canadian politician
Jack Shewchuk, a NHL defenceman for the Boston Bruins
Jamie Shewchuk, a lacrosse player on the Colorado Mammoth.
Jonathan Shewchuk, a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Murphy O. Shewchuk, a Canadian writer and past National President of the Canadian Authors Association.
Tammy Shewchuk-Dryden (born 1977), Canadian women's ice hockey player

Mirko Szewczuk (1919-1957), German cartoonist of Austrian-Ukrainian origin
Stephen Szewczuk, a national commander of the Ukrainian-American veterans, 1997–2000
Tomasz Szewczuk, a Polish footballer

Related surnames

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler/shoemaker/cordwainer

Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick

Germanic	Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Knef Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers, Schoonmaker from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar

Romance	Sutor DeSutter, De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corviser, Corvisier, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic)

Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Čizmar, Čižmár, Cizmar, Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov, Sapozhnik, Bashmachnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar

Other	"Sandlar" (סנדלר) ("sandal-maker"): HaSandlar, Sandler, Zandler Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia

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