This is a list of notable people associated with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), a public research university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. Students, alumni and faculty members of the university and all its predecessor institutions including Kyiv Brotherhood School (KBS), Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (KMC), Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA) and Kyiv Theological Academy (KTA) are included in this list.
Many students and professors of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the 17th and 18th centuries pursued many activities except church career. They were often also writers, philosophers, theologicians and educators in a broad sense. This is indicated in the list where appropriate.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Religion
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Sylvestr Kosiv | professor of KMC | Metropolitan of Kiev, writer | |
Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni | student of KMA | Metropolitan of Moldavia (1792); Metropolitan of Kherson and Crimea (1793–1799); Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych (1799–1803); Exarch of Moldo-Wallachia (1806–1812); Metropolitan of Chişinău (1812–1821) | |
Macarius I | student, professor of KTA | Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna | |
Nicodim Munteanu | student of KTA | Patriarch of All Romania | |
Stephen Yavorsky | student of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Ryazan and Murom; first president of the Most Holy Synod; writer | |
Feofan Prokopovich | student, professor, rector of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Novgorod and Velykolutsk,; philosopher; writer | |
Dimitry of Rostov | student of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Rostov | |
Epifany Slavinetsky | student, professor of KMA | Ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church | |
Paisius Velichkovsky | student of KMA | The founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom; writer; philosopher | |
Constantius I | student of KMA | Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1830-1834 | |
Visarion Puiu | student of KTA | Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church | |
Rafail Zaborovsky | student of KMA | Metropolitan of Kiev, Galychyna and All-Rus' | |
Patriarch Adrian | student of KMC | Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia |
Politics
Hetmans of Ukraine
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Ivan Mazepa | student of KMA | Grand Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1687–1708 | |
Pylyp Orlyk | student of KMA | Hetman in exile; author of one of the first state constitutions in Europe | |
Pavlo Polubotok | student of KMA | Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1722-1724 | |
Ivan Samoylovych | student of KMA | Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine, 1672-1687 | |
Ivan Vyhovsky | student of KMA | Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1657-1659 | |
Ivan Skoropadsky | student of KMA | Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1708–1722 | |
Yurii Khmelnytsky | student of KMA | Hetman of Ukraine, 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 |
Other prominent political figures
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Alexander Bezborodko | student of KMA | Grand Chancellor of Russia | |
Dmytro Troshchynskyi | student of KMA | Minister of justice of Russia in 1814 | |
Antin Holovaty | student of KMA | Founder of the Black Sea Cossack Host | |
Serhiy Kvit | professor of NaUKMA | Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine | |
Oleksiy Pavlenko | student of KTU | Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine | |
Serhiy Yefremov | student of KTU | Secretary of International Affairs for Ukraine | |
Mykola Tomenko | professor of NaUKMA | Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada; Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the first cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko | |
Ostap Semerak | student of NaUKMA | Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of 6th convocation; Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | |
Andriy Shevchenko (politician) | student of NaUKMA | Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine | |
Pavlo Sheremeta | professor of NaUKMA | Minister of Economical Development and Trade of Ukraine | |
Iryna Vannykova | student of NaUKMA | Press secretary of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko | |
Pyotr Zavadovsky | student of KMA | Minister of Education in Russia in 1802 |
Arts and music
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi | student of KMA | Architect who worked in the Ukrainian baroque style | |
Maksym Berezovsky | student of KMA | Composer, opera singer and violinist | |
Artemy Vedel | student of KMA | Composer, conductor, singer and violinist | |
Dmytro Bortniansky | student of KMA | Composer, conductor, singer | |
Dmitry Levitzky | student of KMA | Portrait painter | |
Oleksander Koshyts | student of KTA | Composer, choral conductor, arranger |
Literature
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Symeon of Polotsk | student of KMA | Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener who laid the groundwork for the development of modern Russian literature | |
Jovan Rajić | student of KMA | Serbian writer, historian and pedagogue | |
Alexei Mateevici | student of KTA | Moldavian poet | |
Maryna Sokolyan | student of NaUKMA | Contemporary writer |
Natural sciences
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Mikhail Lomonosov | student of KMA | Russian scientist, writer and polymath | |
Iryney Falkovskyi | student, rector of KMA | Mathematician, astronomer, historian, writer; bishop of Chyhyryn, Smolensk and Dorogobuzk |
Humanities and social sciences
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Meletius Smotrytsky | rector, professor of KBS | Linguist, writer; archbishop of Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mstislav | |
Hryhori Skovoroda | student of KMA | Philosopher, poet and singer. | |
Samiylo Velychko | student of KMA | Historian, author of the Cossack Chronicle | |
Pamphil Yurkevych | student, professor of KTA | Philosopher. | |
Innokentiy Gizel | rector, student of KMC | Historian | |
James Mace | professor of NaUKMA | American historian and prominent researcher of Holodomor | |
Maryna Tkachuk | dean, professor of NaUKMA | Historian of philosophy | |
Olena Semeniaka | student of NaUKMA | political activist, academic and philosopher | |
Nadia Parfan | student of NaUKMA | film director and creative producer |
Other
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyi | president, professor of NaUKMA | Initiator of reestablishment; the first president of NaUKMA; Hero of Ukraine | |
Petro Prokopovych | student of KMA | Founder of commercial beekeeping | |
Dmytro Tarabakin | student of NaUKMA | Director, Head of Trading and Domestic Sales of Dragon Capital |
Fictional people
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Andriy Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba | |
Ostap Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba |
Notes
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Sylvestr Kosiv". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- "Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- "Makariy Bulgakov" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- "Patriarhul Nicodim Munteanu" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Stefan Yavorsky". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- "Teofan Prokopovych in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine". Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Dymytrii Rostovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ Briukhovets’kyi, V. et al. (eds). (2001). Kyievo-Mohylians'ka akademiia v imenakh, XVII–XVIII st: Entsyklopedychne vydannia (in Ukrainian). Kiev: Publishing House "Kiev-Mohyla Academy". ISBN 966-518-132-7.
- "Mitropolitul Visarion Puiu" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Rafail Zaborovsky". Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevcenko, eds. "The Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Its Founding, 1632-1982)." Harvard Ukrainian Studies. vol. VIII, no. 1/2. Cambridge, MA, 1985. P. 83.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Mazepa". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Pylyp Orlyk". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Pavlo Polubotok". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Vyhovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Oleksander Bezborodko". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "List of Public Prosecutors of Russia" (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- (in Ukrainian) Agricultural ministry headed by a graduate of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Pavlenko, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (2 December 2014)
- Serhiy Yefremov
- "People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Tomenko" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "People's Deputy of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "NaUKMA alumni 2001" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Maksym Berezovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- "Oleksander Koshyts - famous conductor" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- "Biography of Jovan Rajić" (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2008-03-18. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- "Alexei Mateevici - a saver of the language" (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "NaUKMA - 2002" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2007-09-22.
- "A. I. L'vovich-Kostritsa, Mikhail Lomonosov His Life and Literary Activity" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Hryhorii Skovoroda". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- uk:Юркевич Памфіл Данилович
- "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Innkentii Gizel". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- "James Mace at NaUKMA" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- "Administration of NaUKMA". Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- "Team". Intermarium. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- "Nadia Parfan | Producer, Director, Writer". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
- "President of NaUKMA V.S. Bryukhovetsky" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- "Biography of Petro Prokopovych". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- "Dragon Capital". Archived from the original on 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "Taras Bulba by N. Gogol". Retrieved 2007-09-01.
References
- NaUKMA notable professors and students Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
- Briukhovets’kyi, V. et al. (eds). (2001). Kyievo-Mohylians'ka akademiia v imenakh, XVII–XVIII st: Entsyklopedychne vydannia (in Ukrainian). Kiev: Publishing House "Kiev-Mohyla Academy". ISBN 966-518-132-7.