18 Notable alumni of
Lviv National Medical University
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Lviv National Medical University is 1713th in the world, 578th in Europe, and 29th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 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
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- futuristresearcherphilosopherpoetsatirist
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Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction 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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- composerwriterradio personalitysingeractor
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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 2 February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, aged 46.
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Viacheslav Chornovil
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- journalistpoliticianhuman rights activist
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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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- biologistphysicianuniversity teacherimmunologist
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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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- politiciansurgeon
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Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is a Ukrainian politician and far-right activist who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist Svoboda political party. Previously, he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.
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Ludwik Rydygier
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- surgeonuniversity teacherpoliticianphysicianmilitary officer
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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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- politicianentrepreneur
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Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyy 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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- politicianjournalist
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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
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- military officer
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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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- armenologisthistorian
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Yaroslav Dashkevych was 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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- politicianpsychiatrist
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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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Belsazar Hacquet
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- naturalistsurgeonmycologistgeologistuniversity teacher
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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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Jakub Karol Parnas
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- biochemistuniversity teacherscientist
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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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Antoni Cieszyński
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- university teachersurgeondentist
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Antoni Cieszyński was a Polish physician, dentist and surgeon.
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Władysław Dobrzaniecki
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- physiciansurgeon
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Władysław Dobrzaniecki was a Polish physician and surgeon.
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Yuriy Kryvoruchko
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- psychiatristpoliticianpublic figurejuristactivist
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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).
