19 Notable alumni of
Lviv National Medical University
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Lviv National Medical University is 1687th in the world, 577th in Europe, and 28th 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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Andriy Kuzmenko
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- rock singerphysicianpoetdentistlyricist
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Andriy Viktorovych "Kuzma" Kuzmenko was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor, Hero of Ukraine (2020). He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989. He died in a traffic collision on 2nd of February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, aged 46.
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Viacheslav Chornovil
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- human rights activistliterary criticopinion journalistpoliticianjournalist
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Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s for his political views. From 1992 onwards, Chornovil was one of the leaders of Rukh, the People's Movement of Ukraine, which was the first opposition party in democratic Ukraine, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Chas-Time (Chas) from 1995. One of the most prominent political figures of the 1980s and 1990s, Chornovil paved the way for contemporary Ukraine to regain its independence.
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Rudolf Weigl
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- university teacherphysicianbiologistimmunologist
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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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Volodymyr Ivasyuk
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- lyricistcomposersongwritersinger
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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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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
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- politician
- Biography
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Stepan Ilkovych Khmara was a Ukrainian doctor, Soviet dissident and politician.
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Ludwik Rydygier
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- military officerphysicianpoliticianuniversity teachersurgeon
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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
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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
- military physicianphysicianpharmacistmilitary officer
- Biography
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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
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- historianarmenologist
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Yaroslav Dashkevych was a Ukrainian historian, archaeographer, armenologist. He wrote over 1700 scientific and publicist works. Dashkevych was a representative of Hrushevsky school of history and a victim of Stalinist terror. He was a Doctor of Historical Sciences.
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Oleh Bereziuk
- Enrolled in Lviv National Medical University
- Studied in 1988-1999
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- psychiatristpolitician
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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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Ihor Shurma
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- politician
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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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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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- anatomistchemistbotanistuniversity teachergeologist
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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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- surgeonuniversity teacherdentist
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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.
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Yuriy Kryvoruchko
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- public figurepoliticianpsychiatristactivistjurist
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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
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- 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).
