List of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy people

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 XVII and XVIII 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

Feofan Prokopovich, rector

Dimitry of Rostov, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
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), and Metropolitan of Chişinău (1812–1821).
Macarius I	student 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	studetn, 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 in 1830-1834.
Visarion Puiu	student of KTA	Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Politics

Hetmans of Ukraine

Ivan Mazepa, student

Pylyp Orlyk, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Ivan Mazepa	student	Grand Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708.
Pylyp Orlyk	student	Ukrainian Hetman in exile, author of one of the first state constitutions in Europe.
Pavlo Polubotok	student	Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine in 1722-1724.
Ivan Samoylovych	student	Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine in 1672-1687.
Ivan Vyhovsky	student	Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks in 1657-1659.
Ivan Skoropadsky	student	Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks in 1708–1722.
Yurii Khmelnytsky	student	Hetman of Ukraine in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681.

Other prominent political figures

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Alexander Bezborodko, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Alexander Bezborodko	student	Grand Chancellor of Russia.
Dmytro Troshchynskyi	student	Minister of justice of Russia in 1814.
Petro Zavadivskyi	student	Minister of education in Russia in 1802.
Antin Holovaty	student	Founder of the Black Sea Cossack Host.
Mykola Tomenko	professor	Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko.
Andriy Shevchenko (politician)	student	Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Iryna Vannykova	student	Press-secretary of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko.

Arts and Music

Dmytro Bortniansky, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi	student	Architect who worked in the Ukrainian baroque style.
Maksym Berezovsky	student	Composer, opera singer and violinist.
Artemy Vedel	student	Composer, conductor, singer and violinist.
Dmytro Bortniansky	student	Composer, conductor, singer.
Dmitry Levitzky	student	Portrait painter.
Oleksander Koshyts	student	Composer, choral conductor, arranger.

Literature

Simeon of Polotsk, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Symeon of Polotsk	student	Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener who laid the groundwork for the development of modern Russian literature.
Jovan Rajić	student	Serbian writer, historian and pedagogue.
Alexei Mateevici	student	Moldavian poet.
Maryna Sokolyan	student	Contemporary Ukrainian writer.

Natural sciences

Mikhail Lomonosov, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
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

Hryhori Skovoroda, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
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 KMC	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.

Other

Petro Prokopovych, student

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyi	president, professor of NaUKMA	Initiator of reestablishment and 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

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Taras Bulba US paperback edition cover

Name	Relationship to the university	Notabilty	Reference
Andriy Bulba	NA	Character in Nikolai Gogol's "Taras Bulba".
Ostap Bulba	NA	Character in Nikolai Gogol's "Taras Bulba".

References

• NaUKMA notable professors and students Template:Uk icon
• Briukhovets’kyi, V. et al (eds). (2001). Kyievo-Mohylians’ka akademiia v imenakh, XVII–XVIII st: Entsyklopedychne vydannia. Kyiv: Publishing House "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". ISBN 966-518-132-7.Template:Uk icon