Notable Alumni of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv [Sorted List]

1. Henryk Vogelfanger

1904-1990 (aged 86)

lawyer actor

Henryk Vogelfänger, stage name Tońko, was a Polish actor. He lived in prewar Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) where he worked as a lawyer. Together with Kazimierz Wajda he was the star of the Polish Radio comedy duo Szczepko and Tońko of Wesoła Lwowska Fala, which was popular in Poland.

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2. Serhiy Vlasenko

1967-. (aged 59)

jurist lawyer politician

Serhiy Vlasenko is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. He has served as an MP since 2008.

3. Omeljan Pritsak

1919-2006 (aged 87)

orientalist university teacher historian philologist linguist

Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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4. Kazimierz Michałowski

1901-1981 (aged 80)

anthropologist egyptologist archaeologist art historian

Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the University of Warsaw as well as the founder of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology. He coined the term "Nubiology" to refer to the study of ancient Nubia.

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5. Stanyslav Liudkevych

1879-1979 (aged 100)

composer conductor musicologist music educator

Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych was a Soviet Ukrainian composer, theorist, teacher and musical activist. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1969) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1979).

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6. Ludvík Aškenazy

1921-1986 (aged 65)

playwright journalist writer science fiction writer prose writer

Ludvík Aškenazy was a Czech-Jewish writer and journalist.

7. Mykola Kniazhytskyi

1968-. (aged 58)

television producer politician journalist

Mykola Leonidovych Kniazhytskyi is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine. He is head of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, co-head of group for interparliamentary relations with the Republic of Poland, and head of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee.

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8. Bolesław Limanowski

1835-1935 (aged 100)

historian politician sociologist

Bolesław Limanowski was a Polish socialist politician, as well as historian and journalist and advocate of Agrarianism. He was one of the first people to promote socialist ideas in Poland.

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9. Yakiv Smolii

1961-. (aged 65)

banker

Yakiv Vasyliovych Smolii is a Ukrainian economist and banker and former chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. He was acting governor of the National Bank from 11 May 2017 (when Valeriia Hontareva resigned) until the Ukrainian parliament elected him governor on 15 March 2018. Smolii was dismissed by the parliament on 3 July 2020 after he had tendered his...

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10. Eugeniusz Romer

1871-1954 (aged 83)

encyclopedist geographer university teacher publisher geopolitical analyst

Eugeniusz Mikołaj Romer was a distinguished Polish geographer, cartographer and geopolitician, whose maps and atlases are still highly valued by experts.

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11. Yevhen Sverstiuk

1928-2014 (aged 86)

man of letters writer literary scholar translator poet

Yevhen Oleksandrovych Sverstiuk was a Ukrainian literary critic, essayist, poet, think tank, philosopher, participant of the sixtiers movement, and political prisoner of the Soviet regime. Sverstiuk studied the work of Nikolai Gogol, Taras Shevchenko, and Ivan Franko. He was the founder and, since 1989 a permanent editor of the Orthodox newspaper Nasha Vira, president of the Ukrainian PEN Club. Doctor...

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12. Olena Kondratiuk

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Olena Kostiantynivna Kondratiuk is a Ukrainian politician, Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation, Member of the Parliament of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th convocations from the “Batkivshchyna” party. Secretary of the VRU Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy of the 8th Convocation, Deputy Member of the Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary...

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13. Kazimierz Twardowski

1866-1938 (aged 72)

mathematician philosopher psychologist university teacher

Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, logician, and rector of the Lwów University. He was initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Twardowski emphasized "small philosophy" or the detailed, systematic analysis of specific problems.

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14. Yulian Bachynsky

1870-1940 (aged 70)

diplomat

Yulian Oleksandrovych Bachynsky was a Ukrainian diplomat. In 1919 he attempted to implement his idea of an independent Ukraine and went to Washington to obtain the US government's recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

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15. Vasily Stepanovich Petrov

1922-2003 (aged 81)

military leader

Vasily Stepanovich Petrov was an officer in the Red Army, and later, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who lost both his hands during the Battle for the Burkin Bridgehead. After becoming a double amputee he continued to serve in World War II. For his actions in the war he was twice been awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and...

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16. Yakiv Holovatsky

1814-1888 (aged 74)

historian professor writer anthropologist linguist

Yakiv Holovatsky or Yakov Golovatsky was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the Ruthenian Triad, one of the most influential Ukrainian literary groups in the Austrian Empire.

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17. Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer

1889-1936 (aged 47)

politician military officer

Gustaw Konstanty Orlicz-Dreszer was a Polish general, and a political and social activist.

18. Leonid Stein

1934-1973 (aged 39)

chess player

Leonid Zakharovych Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era.

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19. Oleksandr Ksenofontov

1968-. (aged 58)

singer record producer manufacturer composer lyricist

Oleksandr Ksenofontov or Xenophontov is a Soviet (prior to 1991) Ukrainian record producer and lyricist. He is the husband of the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, Ruslana. Ksenofontov wrote the lyrics to the winning song, "Wild Dances". They have been married since 28 December 1995. He is also a lead singer of legendary Ukrainian rock group Tea Fan...

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20. Józef Dietl

1804-1878 (aged 74)

politician university teacher urologist pedagogue physician

Józef Dietl was an Austro-Polish physician born to an Austrian father and Polish mother. He studied medicine in Lviv and Vienna. He was a pioneer in balneology, and a professor of Jagiellonian University, elected as its rector in 1861. Dietl described the kidney ailment known as "Dietl's crisis" as well as its treatment.

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21. Aleksander Brückner

1856-1939 (aged 83)

university teacher literary historian slavist linguist lexicographer

Aleksander Brückner was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of the Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles and discovered the oldest extant...

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22. Zirka Menzatyuk

1954-. (aged 72)

journalist writer

Zirka Menzatyuk is a Ukrainian children's book author and journalist; from 1995 the Member of National Writers' Union of Ukraine. She lives and works in Kyiv.

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23. Mark Kac

1914-1984 (aged 70)

mathematician university teacher

Mark Kac was a Polish-American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral geometry, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. In the end, the answer was generally "No," although certain shapes, such as a circular...

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24. Nina Bichuya

1937-. (aged 89)

journalist

Nina Bichuya is a Ukrainian writer who has published several novels and children's works.

25. Bohdan Ihor Antonych

1909-1937 (aged 28)

translator poet literary scholar writer

Bohdan-Ihor Vasyliovych Antonych was a 20th-century Ukrainian poet. In 1934, Antonych received a prize from the Ivan Franko Society of Writers and Journalists for his work Three Signet Rings.

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26. Hanna Hopko

1982-. (aged 44)

environmentalist politician journalist

Hanna Hopko is a Ukrainian civil society leader and politician, a former Member of Parliament and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada. She did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

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27. Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

1787-1860 (aged 73)

military officer

Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki was a Polish general, and commander-in-chief of the November Uprising (1830–1831).

28. Sviatoslav Piskun

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun was 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until President Viktor Yushchenko's dismissed Piskun on 24 May 2007. He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of Georgiy Gongadze and investigation of United Energy Systems of Ukraine.

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29. Andriy Deshchytsya

1965-. (aged 61)

diplomat politician

Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.

30. Kazimierz Puzak

1883-1950 (aged 67)

politician

Kazimierz Pużak was a Polish socialist politician of the interwar period. Active in the Polish Socialist Party, he was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State and Polish resistance, sentenced by the Soviets in the infamous Trial of the Sixteen in 1945.

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31. Yaroslav Hrytsak

1960-. (aged 66)

historian opinion journalist university teacher

Yaroslav Yosypovych Hrytsak is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences and professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University. He is also the director of the Institute for Historical Studies of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

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32. Ihor Yukhnovskyi

1925-2024 (aged 99)

university teacher politician physicist

Ihor Rafailovych Yukhnovskyi was a Ukrainian physicist and politician, and a member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.

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33. Wacław Stachiewicz

1894-1973 (aged 79)

geologist military officer

Wacław Teofil Stachiewicz was a Polish writer, geologist, military commander and general of the Polish Army. A brother to General Julian Stachiewicz and the husband to General Roman Abraham's sister, Stachiewicz was the Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

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34. Roman Abraham

1891-1976 (aged 85)

military personnel military officer jurist

Roman Józef Abraham was a Polish cavalry general, commander of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade during the German and Soviet Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Battle of Bzura commander of Polish cavalry (combined cavalry unit). During the Second Polish Republic, he was Brigadier-General and, for a short period, from 1930 to 1931, Abraham was also a member of the...

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35. Ostap Drozdov

1979-. (aged 47)

television presenter writer journalist

Ostap Petrovych Drozdov is a Ukrainian book author and journalist. He is the host of the program "Drozdov" and the political talk show "Pryamim tekstom" and the author of two books.

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36. Jan Puzyna

1842-1911 (aged 69)

Catholic priest Catholic bishop Catholic deacon politician

Prince Jan Duklan Maurycy Paweł Puzyna de Kosielsko was a Polish Catholic Cardinal who was auxiliary bishop of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) from 1886 to 1895, and the bishop of Kraków from 1895 until his death in 1911. Named a Cardinal in 1901, he was known for his conservative views and authoritarianism.

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37. Gheorghe Asachi

1788-1869 (aged 81)

linguist opinion journalist poet painter engineer

Gheorghe Asachi was a Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged...

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38. Sophia Fedyna

1984-. (aged 42)

deputy television presenter singer politician

Sofiia Romanivna Fedyna is a Ukrainian politician, singer and television presenter currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the party list of European Solidarity since 2019.

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39. Pinchas Lavon

1904-1976 (aged 72)

trade unionist politician

Pinhas Lavon was an Austro-Hungarian–born Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair.

40. Alaiza Pashkievich

1876-1916 (aged 40)

teacher nurse opinion journalist editor public figure

Alaiza Pashkevich was a Belarusian poet and political activist of Belarusian national-democratic rebirth.

41. Karolina Lanckorońska

1898-2002 (aged 104)

medievalist pedagogue university teacher librarian art collector

Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian.

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42. Wincenty Pol

1807-1872 (aged 65)

university teacher geographer writer ethnographer poet

Wincenty Pol was a Polish poet and geographer.

43. German Galushchenko

1973-. (aged 53)

politician

German Valeriiovych Galushchenko is a Ukrainian lawyer who most recently served as the Minister of Justice of Ukraine from 17 July to 19 November 2025. He previously served as the Minister of Energy of Ukraine from 29 April 2021 to 17 July 2025 in the government of Denys Shmyhal. He is also a member of the National Security and Defense...

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44. Franciszek Karpiński

1741-1825 (aged 84)

writer librarian playwright translator poet

Franciszek Karpiński was the leading sentimental Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered as hymns and carols. He is also considered one of the most original Polish writers of the early partitions. In his native Poland he was cherished during the Polish Romantic Period of the early 19th century.

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45. Maciej Rataj

1884-1940 (aged 56)

opinion journalist politician writer journalist classical philologist

Maciej Rataj was a Polish politician, speaker of the Polish Parliament and deputy President of the Republic of Poland, and writer.

46. Bronisław Pieracki

1895-1934 (aged 39)

politician military officer

Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki was a Polish military officer and politician.

47. Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius

1882-1954 (aged 72)

playwright poet politician

Vincas Mickevičius, better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.

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48. Markiian Shashkevych

1811-1843 (aged 32)

poet writer journalist

Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Western Ukraine.

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49. Lyudmila Verbitskaya

1936-2019 (aged 83)

university teacher Russian studies scholar philologist

Lyudmila Verbitskaya was a Russian linguist and teacher. She was the former president of Saint Petersburg State University.

50. Ivan Vakarčuk

1947-2020 (aged 73)

politician university teacher physicist public figure deputy

Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk was a Ukrainian and Soviet physicist, academic leader, and politician, who contributed to science policy and civil society. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. He received the Hero of Ukraine award on 5 March 2007....

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51. Marian Hemar

1901-1972 (aged 71)

playwright lyricist journalist poet songwriter

Marian Hemar, born Marian Hescheles (other pen names: Jan Mariański, and Marian Wallenrod), was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright, comedy writer, and songwriter. Hemar himself stated that before the outbreak of World War II he had already written 1,200 songs, including such widely popular hits as Może kiedyś innym razem (Maybe Some Other Time) and Upić się warto (Let's get...

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52. Taras Chornovil

1964-. (aged 62)

politician political scientist

Taras Viacheslavovych Chornovil is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2000 to 2012. The son of Ukrainian Soviet dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil, Chornovil was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Party of Regions during the Orange Revolution, later becoming an independent in...

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53. Tadeusz Kotarbiński

1886-1981 (aged 95)

university teacher philosopher

Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist.

54. Grigore Ureche

1590-1647 (aged 57)

writer

Grigore Ureche was a Moldavian chronicler who wrote on Moldavian history in his Letopisețul Țării Moldovei (Chronicles of the Land of Moldavia), covering the period from 1359 to 1594.

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55. Ihor Kalynets

1939-2025 (aged 86)

prose writer painter dissident writer poet

Ihor Myronovych Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident.

56. Jan Parandowski

1895-1978 (aged 83)

classical philologist writer translator

Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a break during World War II. He was born in Lwów, (then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine) and died in Warsaw.

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57. Taras Kozak

1972-. (aged 54)

media proprietor entrepreneur politician

Taras Romanovych Kozak is a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, state servant, businessman and media proprietor, and a close associate of the pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk. He was elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a People's Deputy of the 8th convocation for the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party. In 2019, he was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine of 9th convocation...

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58. Bohdan Lepky

1872-1941 (aged 69)

opinion journalist literary historian journalist poet literary critic

Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.

59. Andrii Sybiha‎

1975-. (aged 51)

diplomat

Andrii Ivanovych Sybiha is a Ukrainian statesman, diplomat, and jurist who is currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since 5 September 2024. Before that, Sybiha was the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

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60. Volodymyr Viatrovych

1977-. (aged 49)

historian opinion journalist politician

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Viatrovych is a Ukrainian historian, civic activist, and politician.

61. Khrystyna Soloviy

1993-. (aged 33)

singer composer singer-songwriter

Khrystyna Ivanivna Soloviy is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter. Being of partial Lemko descent, she is known for modern rearrangements of Ukrainian folk music and original songwriting. Soloviy was nominated by YUNA two times, being the first artist whose production was carried out by Sviatoslav Vakarchuk.

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62. Ryszard Siwiec

1909-1968 (aged 59)

military personnel teacher philosopher accountant

Ryszard Siwiec was a Polish accountant and former Home Army resistance member who was the first person to die by self-immolation in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Although his act was captured by a motion picture camera, Polish press omitted any mention of the incident, which was successfully suppressed by the authorities. Siwiec prepared his plan alone,...

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63. Les Kurbas

1887-1937 (aged 50)

playwright film director theatrologist actor director

Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas, was a Ukrainian movie and theater director. He is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed, together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors, the Soviet theater avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian avant-garde art....

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64. Leopold Staff

1878-1957 (aged 79)

translator playwright poet writer

Leopold Henryk Staff was a Polish poet; an artist of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Polish PEN Club. Representative of classicism and symbolism in the poetry of Young Poland, he was an author of many philosophical poems...

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65. Hugo Steinhaus

1887-1972 (aged 85)

mathematician university teacher

Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), where he helped establish what later became known as the Lwów School of Mathematics. He is credited with "discovering" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom...

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66. Andriy Bandera

1882-1941 (aged 59)

public figure priest politician

Andriy Mykhailovych Bandera was a Ukrainian chaplain and politician. He was member of the Ukrainian National Rada of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, a veteran of the Polish–Ukrainian War, a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the father of Stepan Bandera.

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67. Jan Łukasiewicz

1878-1956 (aged 78)

computer scientist philosopher university teacher mathematician

Jan Łukasiewicz was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle, offering one of the earliest systems of many-valued logic. Contemporary research on Aristotelian...

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68. Hanna Herman

1959-. (aged 67)

politician writer journalist

Hanna Mykolaivna Herman is a Ukrainian politician, former Member of Parliament of Ukraine, and advisor to former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

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69. Iryna Vereshchuk

1979-. (aged 47)

jurist politician

Iryna Andriivna Vereshchuk is a Ukrainian social activist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. On 4 November 2021, Vereshchuk was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. On 8 September 2024 she was appointed deputy head of Office of the President of Ukraine subjugated to Andriy Yermak.

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70. Heorhii Gongadze

1969-2000 (aged 31)

television presenter film director journalist translator radio personality

Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. The same year, he was kidnapped and murdered near Kyiv. Gongadze was born to a Ukrainian mother and a Georgian father in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union.

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71. Kornel Makuszyński

1884-1953 (aged 69)

children's writer poet writer

Kornel Makuszyński was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature. He was an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the interwar Poland.

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72. Dmytro Pavlychko

1929-2023 (aged 94)

literary critic journalist university teacher translator poet

Dmytro Vasylyovych Pavlychko was a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, and politician.

73. Volodymyr Parasyuk

1987-. (aged 39)

politician

Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk is a Ukrainian military commander and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 27 November 2014 to 29 August 2019. Previously, he served as a member of the Dnipro Battalion and as a protest leader during Euromaidan.

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74. Iryna Fedyshyn

1987-. (aged 39)

singer fashion model

Iryna Petrivna Fedyshyn is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter.

75. MamaRika

1989-. (aged 37)

model singer

Anastasia Oleksandrivna Kochetova, known by her stage name MamaRika and previously Erika, is a Ukrainian singer and actress.

76. Olha Freimut

1982-. (aged 44)

actor fashion model writer model journalist

Olha Freimut is a Ukrainian TV presenter, journalist, writer and model.

77. Oleksii Reznikov

1966-. (aged 60)

lawyer mind gamer politician

Oleksii Yuriiovych Reznikov is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 4 November 2021 until his dismissal on 5 September 2023. Reznikov previously has served in several other positions in the government of Ukraine: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, deputy head of the Kyiv...

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78. Sviatoslav Vakarchuk

1975-. (aged 51)

economist physicist composer singer activist

Sviatoslav Ivanovych "Slava" Vakarchuk is a Ukrainian musician, politician, public activist, and soldier. He is the lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, a rock band in Ukraine. Vakarchuk is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine, and the founder of the Voice (in May 2019).

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79. Bohdan Stupka

1941-2012 (aged 71)

stage actor politician pedagogue actor film actor

Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka was a Ukrainian actor and minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian parents. In 2001, he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Our Own.

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80. Bruno Schulz

1892-1942 (aged 50)

literary critic painter writer draftsperson graphic artist

Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and...

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81. Yevhen Konovalets

1891-1938 (aged 47)

military personnel politician

Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets was a Ukrainian military commander and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He is best known for his role in the Ukrainian War of Independence as leader of the Sich Riflemen and as the leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) from its foundation in 1929 to his assassination in 1938 by the NKVD. Konovalets...

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82. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

1909-1966 (aged 57)

aphorist poet writer

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists of the 20th century, known for lyric poetry and ironic philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.

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83. Stanisław Maczek

1892-1994 (aged 102)

bartender military officer

Lieutenant General Stanisław Władysław Maczek was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions. A veteran of World War I, the Polish–Ukrainian and Polish–Soviet wars, Maczek was the commander of Poland's only major armoured formation...

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84. Iryna Farion

1964-2024 (aged 60)

linguist language activist university teacher philologist politician

Iryna Dmytrivna Farion was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014. She served as a political member of Svoboda in 2005 until her assassination in 2024. She was a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic's Institute of Humanitarian and Social Sciences.

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85. Stepan Kubiv

1962-. (aged 64)

banker economist politician

Stepan Ivanovych Kubiv is a Ukrainian politician who was a former First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and simultaneously Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from April 2016 to August 2019. He is also a former acting chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.

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86. Lilija Hrynevyč

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Liliia Mykhailivna Hrynevych is a Ukrainian educator, politician and civil servant, a Member of the Parliaments of the 7th and 8th Convocation from December 2012 to April 2016. From April 2016 to August 2019 —the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; the first woman-Minister of Education and Science in the period of the Ukrainian independence. She has a PhD...

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87. Volodymyr Omelyan

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Omelyan is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. He is a former Ukraine's infrastructure minister in the government of Volodymyr Groysman.

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88. Andrii Parubii

1971-2025 (aged 54)

politician

Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy was a Ukrainian politician and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2007 until his assassination in 2025, and served as its chairman from 2016 to 2019.

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89. Oleh Tiahnybok

1968-. (aged 58)

surgeon politician

Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is a Ukrainian politician and far-right activist who is the leader of the Svoboda political party. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, representing Lviv Oblast, and from 2012 to 2014 on the proportional list of Svoboda. Previously, he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.

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90. Maksym Kozytskyi

1981-. (aged 45)

entrepreneur politician

Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyi is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, politician, and Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration as of 5 February 2020.

91. Andrii Melnyk

1975-. (aged 51)

diplomat politician

Andriy Yaroslavovych Melnyk is a Ukrainian diplomat who has served as the Ukrainian ambassador to Brazil since June 2023. He previously held the position of deputy minister of foreign affairs from November 2022 to July 2023 and Ukrainian ambassador to Germany from December 2014 to October 2022.

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92. Jan Karski

1914-2000 (aged 86)

teacher jurist writer

Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto...

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93. Władysław Tatarkiewicz

1886-1980 (aged 94)

art historian philosopher

Władysław Tatarkiewicz was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist.

94. Rudolf Weigl

1883-1957 (aged 74)

physician biologist immunologist university teacher

Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939.

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95. Stefan Banach

1892-1945 (aged 53)

mathematician university teacher

Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires (Theory of Linear Operations), the first monograph on the general theory...

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96. Zbigniew Herbert

1924-1998 (aged 74)

essayist writer playwright author poet

Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled Chord of Light was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed...

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97. Roman Ingarden

1893-1970 (aged 77)

aesthetician philosopher university teacher writer

Roman Witold Ingarden was a Polish philosopher who worked in aesthetics, ontology, and phenomenology.

98. Adam Stefan Sapieha

1867-1951 (aged 84)

Catholic deacon Catholic priest politician Catholic bishop theologian

Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Sapieha was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a senator of the Second Polish Republic. In 1946, Pope Pius XII made him a cardinal.

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99. Ivan Franko

1856-1916 (aged 60)

journalist literary critic translator of Adam Mickiewicz economist playwright

Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.

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100. Josyf Slipyj

1892-1984 (aged 92)

Catholic deacon Catholic bishop Catholic priest

Josyf Slipyi was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.