19 Notable alumni of
Lviv National Medical University
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Lviv National Medical University is 1719th in the world, 594th in Europe, and 27th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Lviv National Medical University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Stanisław Lem
- Enrolled in Lviv National Medical University
- Studied in 1939-1941
- Occupations
- philosopherresearcherfuturistessayistscreenwriter
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Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
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Andriy Kuzmenko
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- lyricistrecord producertelevision presenteractorsinger
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Andriy Viktorovych "Kuzma" Kuzmenko was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor. He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989.
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Volodymyr Ivasyuk
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- composersongwritersingerlyricist
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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasiuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.
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Rudolf Weigl
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- physicianbiologistimmunologistuniversity teacher
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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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Oleh Tiahnybok
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- surgeonpolitician
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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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Stepan Khmara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stepan Ilkovych Khmara was a Ukrainian doctor, Soviet dissident and politician.
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Ludwik Rydygier
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachersurgeonmilitary officerphysician
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Ludwik Antoni Rydygier was a Polish surgeon, professor of medicine, rector of the University of Lwów and Brigadier General of the Polish Army. He was one of the most distinguished Polish and worldwide known surgeons in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Maksym Kozytskyi
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyi is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, politician, and Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration as of 5 February 2020.
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Andriy Shkil
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Andriy Vasylovych Shkil is a Ukrainian politician.
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Tetiana Ostashchenko
- Enrolled in Lviv National Medical University
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- physicianpharmacistmilitary officermilitary physician
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Tetiana Mykolaivna Ostashchenko is a Ukrainian military doctor and major general. She was Commander of the Medical Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 2021 until November 2023. She is the first woman in Ukraine's history to command a military branch, first woman to hold the rank of major general as well as brigadier general.
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Yaroslav Dashkevych
- Occupations
- historianarmenologist
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Yaroslav Ivan Romanovych Dashkevych was a Ukrainian historian, archaeographer and Armenologist. He wrote over 1,700 scholarly and publicist works. He was a representative of Hrushevsky's school of history, a victim of Stalinist terror, and a Doctor of Historical Sciences.
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Ihor Shurma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Igor Mykhailovych Shurma is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 5th and 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.
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Oleh Bereziuk
- Enrolled in Lviv National Medical University
- Studied in 1988-1999
- Occupations
- psychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Bereziuk Oleh Romanovych is a Ukrainian politician, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of 8th convocation where he chaired the Parliamentary faction of Samopomich Union, Member of the Ukrainian Association of Psychotherapists. He failed to win reelection for his party in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Jakub Karol Parnas
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- university teacherbiochemistscientist
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Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Embden. He became a Soviet activist after the annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939. He was arrested during the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee affair in 1949 and died in the prison, reportedly of heart attack.
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Belsazar Hacquet
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- chemistbotanistuniversity teachergeologistmycologist
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Belsazar de la Motte Hacquet was a Carniolan physician of French descent in the Enlightenment Era. He was a war surgeon, a surgeon in the mining town of Idrija, and a professor of anatomy and surgery in Laibach (now Ljubljana). He researched the geology and botany of Carniola, Istria, and nearby places, and was the first explorer of the Julian Alps. He also did ethnographical work among the South Slavic peoples, particularly among the Slovene-speaking population. He self-identified primarily as a chemist and introduced the methods of chemical analysis to Carniola.
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Antoni Cieszyński
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- university teacherdentistsurgeon
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Antoni Cieszyński was a Polish physician, dentist and surgeon.
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Władysław Dobrzaniecki
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- surgeonphysician
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Władysław Dobrzaniecki was a Polish physician and surgeon. He is known for his contribution to the study of otorhinolaryngology.
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Yuriy Kryvoruchko
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- politicianpsychiatristactivistjuristpublic figure
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Yuriy Zenoviiovych Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian politician and activist who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 118th electoral district (located in Lviv Oblast from 1998 to 2002, and later as a People's Deputy from the proportional list of the Our Ukraine Bloc from 2005 to 2006.
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Roman Bezpalkiv
- Occupations
- painter
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Roman Bezpalkiv – (15 April 1938, village Hlushyn, Lviv region (Lviv Oblast) – 19 November 2009, Lviv) – was a Ukrainian painter. Genre – painting, sacral art. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1988). Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998).
