# 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 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.

## Religion

| Name | Relationship to the university | Notability |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andriy Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba | |
| Ostap Bulba | NA | Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba | |