Lviv University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher, mathematician and logician, a pioneer of categorial grammar
• Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University
• Józef Białynia Chołodecki (1852–1934), historian of Lviv.
• Ivan Franko (1856–1916), poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language
• Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), medical doctor and biologist who developed in the 1930s the concept of thought collectives
• Stanisław Głąbiński (1862–1941) politician, professor and rector (1908–1909) of the university, lawyer and writer
• Georgiy R. Gongadze (1969–2000), Georgian and Ukrainian journalist
• Mark Kac, mathematician, pioneer of modern probability theory
• Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938) leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938.
• Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnologist who worked in the Slovene Lands
• Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1881–1981), philosopher, mathematician, logician
• Pinhas Lavon (1904–1976), Israeli politician
• Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), lawyer who introduced the term "genocide", an author of the United Nations' Convention on Genocide
• Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941), mathematician
• Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician
• Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command
• Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist
• Semyon Mogilevich economist and mafia boss
• Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-1937), prominent Ukrainian writer
• Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on classical antiquity
• Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish politician, president
• Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer, folklorist
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), novelist and painter
• Markiyan Shashkevych (1811–1843), poet
• Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1982), mathematician, educator, and humanist
• Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert (1923–2006), mathematician and chemical engineer
• Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus