Notable Alumni of Lviv Polytechnic National University [Sorted List]

1. Czesław Zbierański

1885-1982 (aged 97)

military flight engineer military officer engineer

Czesław Michał Zbierański was a Polish engineer, pioneer of Polish aviation, major of Polish Army. In 1910–1911, with Stanisław Cywiński, he constructed an aircraft with two pairs of wings, the first Polish aircraft constructed partially with metal. In the 1920s, Zbierański was producing cars, motorcycles and rail draisines. He was also a Polonia activist, and founder of an English language...

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2. Karl Schenker

1886-1954 (aged 68)

painter illustrator photographer

Karl Schenker, was an Austrian photographer, illustrator of fashion magazines and painter. The artist, who mainly worked in Berlin, was Jewish and had to emigrate from Germany to London in 1938 and received British citizenship in 1948.

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3. Péter Kónya

1969-. (aged 57)

military personnel politician trade unionist

Péter Kónya is a Hungarian soldier, journalist, trade unionist and politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2014 to 2018. As leader of the Hungarian Solidarity Movement, he was a founding member of the Together party until he quit in October 2015.

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4. Orest Salamakha

1991-2026 (aged 35)

entrepreneur politician

Orest Ihorovych Salamakha was a Ukrainian politician serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 121st electoral district. He was a member of Servant of the People.

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5. Edward Sucharda

1891-1947 (aged 56)

chemist

Edward Sucharda was a renowned Polish chemist and engineer. He was rector of Lwów University of Technology from 1938 to 1939 and vice-rector of Wrocław University of Technology from 1945 to 1947.

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6. Bohdan Dobrzański

1909-1987 (aged 78)

scientist

Bohdan Dobrzański was a Polish soil scientist, agrophysicist, agronomist, academic, and professor at several Warsaw- and Lublin-based universities. As the Rector of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture, he led the formation of the first Chair of Soil Science in Poland. Dobrzański was a pioneer of agrophysics in Poland, a founder and long-time director of the Institute of Agrophysics in...

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7. Stefan Niementowski

1866-1925 (aged 59)

university teacher chemist politician

Stefan Niementowski (August 4, 1866 – July 13, 1925 was a Polish chemist. He discovered the Niementowski quinoline synthesis and the Niementowski quinazoline synthesis. He was a president of Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (1920–22).

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8. Vasyl Hubal

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Vasyl Ivanovych Hubal is a Ukrainian politician. In 2014 to 2015, he was a leading figure in a political life of Zakarpattia.

9. Józef Mączka

1888-1918 (aged 30)

poet military personnel

Józef Mieczysław Mączka was a Polish soldier, poet of the Polish Legions.

10. Alfred Zachariewicz

1871-1937 (aged 66)

architect

Alfred Zachariewicz, was a Polish architect. He was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary on 26 August 1871, as the son of Julian Oktawjan Zachariewicz. He worked in the region of Galicia, mainly in Lviv, designing public and industrial buildings such as the edifices of Izba Handlowo-Przemysłowa, the Bank of Lviv, the Passage of Mikolasch in Lviv, as well as bridges, tenements,...

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11. Kajetan Stefanowicz

1886-1920 (aged 34)

painter artist

Kajetan Stefanowicz was a Polish Art-Nouveau painter and illustrator of Armenian ancestry who served as a Rotmistrz (Cavalry Captain) with the Polish Legions in World War I.

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12. Petro Kravchuk

1962-2022 (aged 60)

politician tractor driver

Petro Kostiantynovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician. A member of Ukraine – Forward!, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2008.

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13. Marcin Kitz

1891-1943 (aged 52)

painter

Marcin Kitz was a Polish-Jewish painter.

14. Andrii Demchuk

1987-. (aged 39)

athlete

Andrii Demchuk is a Ukrainian wheelchair fencer who competes in épée, foil and sabre. He represented Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the gold medal in the men's sabre A event. He also represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Paralympics without winning a medal.

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15. Vladyslav Nosov

1946-. (aged 80)

deputy jurist politician

Vladyslav Vasylyovych Nosov is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and civil servant. He was a co-author of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, the Regulations of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the Constitution of Ukraine. He was the first Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, serving from 25...

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16. Vlodko Kaufman

1957-. (aged 69)

painter performing artist graphic artist curator

Vlodko Kaufman (born March 2, 1957) is a Ukrainian artist of German descent, painter, graphic artist and performer. He is the author of many art projects, and participant in solo and group exhibitions.

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17. Wawrzyniec Dayczak

1882-1968 (aged 86)

architect

Wawrzyniec Dayczak was a Polish architect and independence activist.

18. Janusz Witwicki

1903-1946 (aged 43)

historian architect professor

Janusz Witwicki was a Polish architect and art historian, creator of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.

19. Emilian Czyrniański

1824-1888 (aged 64)

university teacher chemist politician

Emilian Czyrniański (Lemko Rusyn: Емілиян Чырняньскій; January 26, 1824 – April 14, 1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is responsible for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish. One of his grandsons was the highly influential political activist and writer, Józef Retinger.

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20. Andriy Kit

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Andriy Bohdanovych Kit is a Ukrainian politician. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th and 9th convocations.

21. Franciszek Vetulani

1856-1921 (aged 65)

engineer

Franciszek Ksawery Vetulani was a Polish engineer.

22. Aleksander Litwinowicz

1879-1948 (aged 69)

mechanical engineer military officer

Aleksander Litwinowicz was a Polish general who was a member of Polish Independence Organizations before World War I and a member of the Polish Legions during the war. Litwinowicz was promoted to general in 1924. From 1936 to 1939 he was the Second Deputy Minister of War and Chief of Army Administration.

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23. Stefan Bastyr

1890-1920 (aged 30)

military officer fighter pilot mechanical engineer

Stefan Bastyr was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation. He is credited with the first military flight in the history of the Polish Air Force on 5 November 1918, almost a week before Poland officially regained her independence, at the opening stages of the Polish-Ukrainian War.

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24. Hanna Bondar

1975-. (aged 51)

civil servant politician art historian architect

Hanna Viacheslavivna Bondar is a Ukrainian architect and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 220th electoral district. Prior to her election, she was acting chief architect of Kyiv and director of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration from October 2015 to 4 April 2016.

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25. Lev Pidlisetskyi

1977-2021 (aged 44)

politician

Lev Teofilovych Pidlisetskyi was a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. He was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament of the 8th convocation, member of parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Pidlisetskyi did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

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26. Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski

1906-1982 (aged 76)

physicist chemist

Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski was a Polish chemist, physicist and mathematician. An institute in Wrocław, Poland called the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research is named after him.

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27. Franciszek Misztal

1901-1980 (aged 79)

engineer designer

Franciszek Misztal was a Polish aircraft designer.

28. Włodzimierz Stożek

1883-1941 (aged 58)

mathematician university teacher

Włodzimierz Stożek was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics.

29. Jan Jagmin-Sadowski

1895-1977 (aged 82)

military officer

Jan Jagmin-Sadowski, was a general of the Polish Army, having served in World War I as a member of Józef Piłsudski's legions, as well as commanding Polish forces during the invasion of Poland in 1939.

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30. Kazimierz Schally

1895-1967 (aged 72)

military officer

Kazimierz Piotr Schally was a Polish army general. He served as Chief of the Cabinet of President Ignacy Mościcki.

31. Mieczysław Batsch

1900-1977 (aged 77)

mechanical engineer association football player

Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He represented Pogoń Lwów, Oldboye Lwów and the Poland national team.

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32. Władysław Sadłowski

1869-1940 (aged 71)

architect

Władysław Sadłowski was a Polish architect, a representative of historicism and Art Nouveau and a graduate of the Lwów Technical Academy.

33. Kazimierz Vetulani

1889-1941 (aged 52)

engineer

Kazimierz Franciszek Vetulani was a Polish civil engineer, professor at the Lviv Polytechnic, member of the Polish Mathematical Society, author of several dozen papers in the fields of technology and mathematics, as well as in the field of musical scale theory.

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34. Tadeusz Kuchar

1891-1966 (aged 75)

association football coach engineer athletics competitor association football player

Tadeusz Kuchar was a Polish athlete, footballer, swimmer, ice-skater, skier, sports official. Born into a sporting family, he was the brother of Wacław Kuchar.

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35. August Witkowski

1854-1913 (aged 59)

university teacher politician physicist

August Wiktor Witkowski was a Polish physicist, professor and rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

36. Taras Voznyak

1957-. (aged 69)

publisher journalist cultural studies scholar political scientist translator

Taras Voznyak is a Ukrainian culturologist, political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal "Ї", director of the Lviv National Art Gallery, laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize (2021).

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37. Kmit Mykola

1966-. (aged 60)

economist

Mykola Ivanovych Kmit is a Ukrainian politician and the former head of the Lviv Oblast State Administration. He is a president of the Ukrainian football club FC Skala Stryi (originally from Morshyn).

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38. Wacław Szybalski

1921-2020 (aged 99)

scientist university teacher geneticist oncologist physician

Wacław Szybalski was a Polish-American medical researcher, geneticist and professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School.

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39. Oleksii Kaida

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Oleksii Petrovych Kaida is a Ukrainian politician from Svoboda who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 163rd electoral district from 2012 to 2014. Prior to his election, he was Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council from 2009 to 2012.

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40. Stefan Stec

1889-1921 (aged 32)

flying ace military officer engineer

Stefan Stanisław Stec was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of Polish aviation. He is also credited as the originator of the Polish Air Force checkerboard.

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41. Petro Pysarchuk

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Petro Ivanovych Pysarchuk is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2002 to 2012, first from Ukraine's 124th electoral district in Lviv Oblast and later from the proportional list of the Party of Regions.

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42. Andriy Grechylo

1963-. (aged 63)

historian designer heraldist public figure

Andrii Grechylo, is a Ukrainian historian, heraldist and vexillologist. During his career he has published several books and designed hundreds of coats of arms, flags, banners and seals for over 1000 different municipalities and institutions.

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43. Nikolay Olshansky

1939-. (aged 87)

statesperson politician

Nikolay Mikhailovich Olshansky is a Russian politician who served as a senator from Voronezh Oblast from 2011 to 2013.

44. Michael Nudelman

1938-2018 (aged 80)

politician

Michael Nudelman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Aliyah, the National Union, Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima between 1996 and 2009.

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45. Jan Sas Zubrzycki

1860-1935 (aged 75)

historian restorer university teacher architect

Jan Sas Zubrzycki was a Polish architect known for his neo-Gothic designs and for developing the "Vistula style". His most notable work is the grand Governor's Palace in Lviv (1876). In 1920, he was appointed to the Board of the Union of Polish Scientific Societies, representing the Society for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Culture.

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46. Tytus Maksymilian Huber

1872-1950 (aged 78)

mechanical engineer engineer scientist university teacher

Tytus Maksymilian Huber was a Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist. He was a member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundation, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego.

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47. Władysław Orlicz

1903-1990 (aged 87)

mathematician topologist

Władysław Roman Orlicz was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics. His main interests were functional analysis and topology: Orlicz spaces are named after him.

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48. Leontii Voitovych

1951-2023 (aged 72)

historian research fellow medievalist university teacher

Leontii Viktorovich Voitovych was a Ukrainian scientist and historian who held a Doctor of Science (Ukrainian: Доктор наук) degree. He was a research fellow of the department of Middle Ages history at the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) as well as an academic department director of history of Middle Ages and Byzantine studies in...

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49. Ihor Petrashko

1975-. (aged 51)

economist civil servant politician

Ihor Rostyslavovych Petrashko is a US educated economist who served as Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from 17 March 2020, until 18 May 2021.

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50. Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer

1884-1954 (aged 70)

military personnel

Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer was a minister in the interwar Polish government, and a lieutenant general in the Polish Army.

51. Jan Franciszek Czartoryski

1897-1944 (aged 47)

priest architect

Prince Jan Franciszek Czartoryski or Blessed Michał was a Polish noble and a Dominican friar.

52. Oleksiy Skrypnyk

1964-2022 (aged 58)

politician

Oleksiy Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian politician. Appearing third on the party list of Self Reliance party, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Formerly, he was the CEO of Eleks, resigning in November 2014. Skrypnyk did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

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53. Dmytro Dobrodomov

1977-. (aged 49)

journalist politician

Dmytro Yevhenovych Dobrodomov is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 115th electoral district from 2014 to 2019. He is the leader of the political party People's Control. Dobrodomov was a presidential candidate in 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. He withdrew from the election on 7 March 2019 in favour of Anatoliy Hrytsenko.

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54. Oleg Shupliak

1967-. (aged 59)

painter

Oleg Illich Shupliak is a Ukrainian artist living in Berezhany. Son of Nina Shupliak, father of Vitalii Shupliak.

55. Oleksandr Shlapak

1960-. (aged 66)

politician economist

Oleksandr Vіtaliyovych Shlapak is a Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

56. Myroslav Marynovych

1949-. (aged 77)

university teacher human rights defender

Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych is a Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, and former Soviet dissident, and longtime vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The co-founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, Marynovych was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

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57. Ivan Levynskyi

1851-1919 (aged 68)

general contractor entrepreneur pedagogue architect

Ivan Ivanovich Levynskyi was a Ukrainian-German architect, teacher, businessman and public figure.

58. Oleh Kutsyn

1965-2022 (aged 57)

public figure military leader politician

Oleh Ivanovych Kutsyn was a Ukrainian public, political and military figure who was head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party. He was also commander of the 49th Infantry Battalion (commonly known as the Carpathian Sich Battalion), deputy head of the Tiachiv district state administration (2005–2006), and twice elected as a deputy of the Tiachiv City Council.

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59. Volodymyr Melnyk

1952-. (aged 74)

scientist

Volodymyr Petrovych Melnyk is a Ukrainian professor of philosophy who served as rector of the University of Lviv between 2014 and 2025.

60. Mykola Riabchuk

1953-. (aged 73)

political scientist poet writer translator opinion journalist

Mykola Riabchuk is a Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical articles and essays on Ukrainian politics, national identity and analysis of Ukrainian history from postcolonial perspective. Married to Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets.

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61. Sergey Obukhov

1958-. (aged 68)

politician

Sergei Pavlovich Obukhov is a Russian politician. The secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), he was a deputy of the 5th and 6th State Dumas in Moscow. In this capacity, he was also a member of the State Duma Committee for public associations and religious organizations. He returned to the 8th convocation...

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62. Diana Reiter

1902-1943 (aged 41)

architect

Diana Julia Reiter, also known as Diana Reiterówna, was a Polish-Jewish architect. A graduate of Lviv Polytechnic, she was one of the first female architects in Kraków. In 1943, she was killed at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust.

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63. Stefan Bryła

1886-1943 (aged 57)

pedagogue architect civil engineer engineer inventor

Stefan Władysław Bryła was a Polish construction engineer and welding pioneer. He designed and built the first welded road bridge in the world.

64. Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann

1894-1986 (aged 92)

military officer

Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann was a Polish general, military commander and one of the pioneers of armoured warfare in Poland.

65. Władysław Belina-Prażmowski

1888-1938 (aged 50)

politician military officer

Władysław Zygmunt Belina-Prażmowski, was a Polish cavalryman, colonel and politician.

66. Tadeusz Piskor

1889-1951 (aged 62)

military officer

Tadeusz Ludwik Piskor was a Polish Army general.

67. Tatiana Anodina

1939-. (aged 87)

aerospace engineer scientist university teacher

Tatiana Grigorievna Anodina. From 1991 to 2023, she headed of the Interstate Aviation Committee — the civil aviation oversight body in Russia and some other states of the former Soviet Union. A career aviation engineer, she has been leading the Committee since its foundation in 1991.

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68. Tadeusz Sendzimir

1894-1989 (aged 95)

inventor mechanical engineer

Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown. He held 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.

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69. Valentin Gapontsev

1939-2021 (aged 82)

physicist

Valentin P. Gapontsev was a Russian-American laser physicist, billionaire, and the founder, CEO, and chairman of IPG Photonics. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$2.3 billion.

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70. Bolesław Płotnicki

1913-1988 (aged 75)

actor

Bolesław Płotnicki was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1953 and 1983.

71. Jędrzej Moraczewski

1870-1944 (aged 74)

opinion journalist politician railway engineer writer trade unionist

Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski was a Polish socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1918 to 1919. was one of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party. He had previously served as Minister of Communications. Subsequently, from 1925 to 1929, he served as Minister of Public Labour.

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72. 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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73. Petro Franko

1890-1941 (aged 51)

teacher politician writer anthropologist pedagogue

Petro Ivanovych Franko was a Ukrainian educator, pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, scientist, military leader, and politician. Franko was a co-founder of the Plast, a Ukrainian Scouting Organization, and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

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74. Slava Stetsko

1920-2003 (aged 83)

politician

Yaroslava Yosypivna Stetsko, also popularly known as Slava Stetsko, was a Ukrainian politician and a World War II veteran.

75. Yuriy Izdryk

1962-. (aged 64)

translator poet journalist librettist

Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet, actor, and the creator of the conceptual magazine project Chetver (Thursday). He is the author of the novels Wozzeck & Woczkurgia (1996, 1997), Double Leon (2000) and AM™ (2004), as well as the poetry collection Stanislav and his 11 Liberators (1996), several essay and short story collections (including The Island of Krk...

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76. Iryna Lutsenko

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Iryna Stepanivna Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as a Member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2019.

77. Simon Osiashvili

1952-. (aged 74)

programmer actor engineer poet guitarist

Simon Abramovich Osiashvili is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).

78. Victoria Amelina

1986-2023 (aged 37)

programmer writer translator prose writer poet

Viktoriia Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.

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79. 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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80. Vera Kamsha

1962-. (aged 64)

journalist writer

Vera Viktorovna Kamsha is a Russian author of high fantasy and a journalist.

81. 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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82. Kazimierz Bartel

1882-1941 (aged 59)

university teacher mathematician politician

Kazimierz Władysław Bartel was a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930 and a Senator of Poland from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II.

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83. Kazimierz Sosnkowski

1885-1969 (aged 84)

military personnel politician

General Kazimierz Sosnkowski OBE was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect.

84. Andriy Sadovyi

1968-. (aged 58)

public figure entrepreneur politician

Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who has served as the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, since 2006.

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85. Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

1888-1974 (aged 86)

university teacher politician engineer chemist economist

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic.

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86. Vitalii Skakun

1996-2022 (aged 26)

military personnel sapper

Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun was a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who was posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. He sacrificed his life in the Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk while he was still on it to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Southern Ukraine campaign.

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87. Roman Shukhevych

1907-1950 (aged 43)

military personnel resistance fighter politician

Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early...

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88. Denys Shmyhal

1975-. (aged 51)

civil servant economist businessperson politician

Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as the 18th prime minister of Ukraine from 2020 to 2025. He has served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 14 January 2026, previously serving as the minister of defence from 2025 to 2026, as governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast...

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89. Władysław Sikorski

1881-1943 (aged 62)

military personnel politician

Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of Polish independence. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during World War I, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. In the latter war, he...

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90. 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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91. Stanisław Ulam

1909-1984 (aged 75)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish and, later an American mathematician who made important contribution in advancing the understanding of nuclear physics and computer science. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and championed nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and...

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92. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

1895-1966 (aged 71)

event rider military officer politician

Generał Tadeusz Komorowski, better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader. He was appointed commander-in-chief a day before the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising and following World War II, 32nd Prime Minister of Poland, 3rd Polish government-in-exile in London.

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93. Yuriy Lutsenko

1964-. (aged 62)

politician

Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Interior Minister and entered the Armed Forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His most recent position was Prosecutor General of Ukraine (from 12 May 2016 until 29 August 2019). Lutsenko has been a long serving people's deputy in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); first elected in 2002 and...

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94. Józef Beck

1894-1944 (aged 50)

diplomat military personnel politician

Józef Beck was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as foreign minister, diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for his role as Polish foreign minister, largely setting Polish foreign policy, in the 1930s.

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95. Stepan Bandera

1909-1959 (aged 50)

politician partisan

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.

96. Rehina Kharchenko

1990-. (aged 36)

chinovnik politician

Rehina Vladyslavivna Kharchenko is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and jurist who is currently serving as mayor of Zaporizhzhia since 24 April 2024.

97. Gosha Kutsenko

1967-. (aged 59)

stage actor actor television actor public figure film producer

Yuriy Georgiyevich Kutsenko, better known as Gosha Kutsenko (Russian: Гоша Куценко), is a Russian actor, producer, singer, poet, and screenwriter. In 2008, he joined the United Russia political party. Kutsenko has appeared in high-profile films such as Mama Don't Cry, Antikiller, Night Watch, Lubov-Morkov, and Echelon Conspiracy.

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98. Piotr Wilniewczyc

1887-1960 (aged 73)

engineer

Piotr Wilniewczyc was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Mors submachine gun.

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99. 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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100. Władysław Jarocki

1879-1965 (aged 86)

painter explorer traveler university teacher

Władysław Jarocki was a Polish explorer and painter born in Ukraine, then Austria-Hungary. He competed in the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Most of his artwork was concerned with the Polish Highlanders, the Gorals.

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