List of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy people
Seal of Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
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.
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Religion

Feofan Prokopovich, archbishop, philosopher, writer

Dimitry of Rostov, archbishop

Stephen Yavorsky, archbishop
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Kosiv, SylvestrSylvestr Kosiv | professor of KMC | Metropolitan of Kiev, writer | [1] |
Bănulescu-Bodoni, GavrilGavril 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) | [2] |
I, MacariusMacarius I | student, professor of KTA | Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna | [3] |
Munteanu, NicodimNicodim Munteanu | student of KTA | Patriarch of All Romania | [4] |
Yavorsky, StephenStephen Yavorsky | student of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Ryazan and Murom; first president of the Most Holy Synod; writer | [1] |
Prokopovich, FeofanFeofan Prokopovich | student, professor, rector of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Novgorod and Velykolutsk,; philosopher; writer | [5] |
Rostov, Dimitry ofDimitry of Rostov | student of KMA | Metropolitan archbishop of Rostov | [6] |
Slavinetsky, EpifanyEpifany Slavinetsky | student, professor of KMA | Ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church | [7] |
Velichkovsky, PaisiusPaisius Velichkovsky | student of KMA | The founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom; writer; philosopher | [7] |
Constantius I | student of KMA | Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1830-1834 | [7] |
Puiu, VisarionVisarion Puiu | student of KTA | Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church | [8] |
Zaborovsky, RafailRafail Zaborovsky | student of KMA | Metropolitan of Kiev, Galychyna and All-Rus' | [9] |
Adrian, PatriarchPatriarch Adrian | student of KMC | Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia | [10] |
Politics
Hetmans of Ukraine

Ivan Mazepa, Grand Hetman

Pylyp Orlyk, Hetman in exile
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Mazepa, IvanIvan Mazepa | student of KMA | Grand Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1687–1708 | [11] |
Orlyk, PylypPylyp Orlyk | student of KMA | Hetman in exile; author of one of the first state constitutions in Europe | [12] |
Polubotok, PavloPavlo Polubotok | student of KMA | Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1722-1724 | [13] |
Samoylovych, IvanIvan Samoylovych | student of KMA | Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine, 1672-1687 | [7] |
Vyhovsky, IvanIvan Vyhovsky | student of KMA | Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1657-1659 | [14] |
Skoropadsky, IvanIvan Skoropadsky | student of KMA | Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1708–1722 | [7] |
Khmelnytsky, YuriiYurii Khmelnytsky | student of KMA | Hetman of Ukraine, 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 | [7] |
Other prominent political figures
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Alexander Bezborodko, Grand Chancellor of Russia
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Bezborodko, AlexanderAlexander Bezborodko | student of KMA | Grand Chancellor of Russia | [15] |
Troshchynskyi, DmytroDmytro Troshchynskyi | student of KMA | Minister of justice of Russia in 1814 | [16] |
Holovaty, AntinAntin Holovaty | student of KMA | Founder of the Black Sea Cossack Host | [7] |
Kvit, SerhiySerhiy Kvit | professor of NaUKMA | Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine | |
Oleksiy, PavlenkoPavlenko Oleksiy | student of KTU | Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine[17] | |
Yefremov, SerhiySerhiy Yefremov | student of KTU | Secretary of International Affairs for Ukraine | [18] |
Tomenko, MykolaMykola Tomenko | professor of NaUKMA | Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada; Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the first cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko | [19] |
Semerak, OstapOstap Semerak | student of NaUKMA | Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of 6th convocation; Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | |
Shevchenko (politician), AndriyAndriy Shevchenko (politician) | student of NaUKMA | Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine | [20] |
Sheremeta, PavloPavlo Sheremeta | professor of NaUKMA | Minister of Economical Development and Trade of Ukraine | |
Vannykova, IrynaIryna Vannykova | student of NaUKMA | Press secretary of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko | [21] |
Zavadovsky, PyotrPyotr Zavadovsky | student of KMA | Minister of Education in Russia in 1802 | [7] |
Arts and music

Dmytro Bortniansky, composer, conductor, and singer
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Hryhorovych-Barskyi, IvanIvan Hryhorovych-Barskyi | student of KMA | Architect who worked in the Ukrainian baroque style | [22] |
Berezovsky, MaksymMaksym Berezovsky | student of KMA | Composer, opera singer and violinist | [23] |
Vedel, ArtemyArtemy Vedel | student of KMA | Composer, conductor, singer and violinist | [7] |
Bortniansky, DmytroDmytro Bortniansky | student of KMA | Composer, conductor, singer | [7] |
Levitzky, DmitryDmitry Levitzky | student of KMA | Portrait painter | [7] |
Koshyts, OleksanderOleksander Koshyts | student of KTA | Composer, choral conductor, arranger | [24] |
Literature

Symeon of Polotsk, poet, dramatist, and churchman
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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of Polotsk, SymeonSymeon of Polotsk | student of KMA | Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener who laid the groundwork for the development of modern Russian literature | [7] |
Rajić, JovanJovan Rajić | student of KMA | Serbian writer, historian and pedagogue | [25] |
Mateevici, AlexeiAlexei Mateevici | student of KTA | Moldavian poet | [26] |
Sokolyan, MarynaMaryna Sokolyan | student of NaUKMA | Contemporary writer | [27] |
Natural sciences

Mikhail Lomonosov, scientist, writer and polymath
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Lomonosov, MikhailMikhail Lomonosov | student of KMA | Russian scientist, writer and polymath | [28] |
Falkovskyi, IryneyIryney Falkovskyi | student, rector of KMA | Mathematician, astronomer, historian, writer; bishop of Chyhyryn, Smolensk and Dorogobuzk | [7] |
Humanities and social sciences

Hryhori Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and singer
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Smotrytsky, MeletiusMeletius Smotrytsky | rector, professor of KBS | Linguist, writer; archbishop of Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mstislav | [7] |
Skovoroda, HryhoriHryhori Skovoroda | student of KMA | Philosopher, poet and singer. | [29] |
Velychko, SamiyloSamiylo Velychko | student of KMA | Historian, author of the Cossack Chronicle | [7] |
Yurkevych, PamphilPamphil Yurkevych | student, professor of KTA | Philosopher. | [30] |
Gizel, InnokentiyInnokentiy Gizel | rector, student of KMC | Historian | [31] |
Mace, JamesJames Mace | professor of NaUKMA | American historian and prominent researcher of Holodomor | [32] |
Other

Petro Prokopovych, founder of commercial beekeeping
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Bryukhovetskyi, VyacheslavVyacheslav Bryukhovetskyi | president, professor of NaUKMA | Initiator of reestablishment; the first president of NaUKMA; Hero of Ukraine | [33] |
Prokopovych, PetroPetro Prokopovych | student of KMA | Founder of commercial beekeeping | [34] |
Tarabakin, DmytroDmytro Tarabakin | student of NaUKMA | Director, Head of Trading and Domestic Sales of Dragon Capital | [35] |
Fictional people
Name | Relationship to the university | Notability | Reference |
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Bulba, AndriyAndriy Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba | [36] |
Bulba, OstapOstap Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba | [36] |
Notes
- 1 2 "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Sylvestr Kosiv". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ↑ "Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ↑ "Makariy Bulgakov" (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ↑ "Patriarhul Nicodim Munteanu" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ↑ "Teofan Prokopovych in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine". Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Dymytrii Rostovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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". Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-12.(Romanian)
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ (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). Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ↑ "People's Deputy of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko" (in Ukrainian). 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). Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ↑ "Biography of Jovan Rajić" (in Serbian). 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.
- ↑ "President of NaUKMA V.S. Bryukhovetsky" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- ↑ "Biography of Petro Prokopovych". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ↑ "Dragon Capital". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- 1 2 "Taras Bulba by N. Gogol". Retrieved 2007-09-01.
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