Notable members
Faculty members, scholars and scientists of Kiev University have made a worthy contribution to the development of science and social-political thinking in Ukraine. The list is long and comprises, among others:
prominent historians and philologists: M. Maxymovych, M. Kostomarov, V. Antonovych, I. Luchytskiy, M. Drahomanov, V. Perets, O. Beletskiy, A. Krymskiy, Ye. Tarle; lawyers K. Nevolin, M. Ivanishev, M. Vladimirskiy-Budanov, O. Kystyakovskiy; the economist M. Ziber;
mathematicians V. Yermakov, D. Grave, M. Bohomolov;
specialists in mechanics I. Rakhmaninov, H. Suslov, P. Voronets; physicists M. Avenarius, M. Shiller, Y. Kossohonov, E. Lashkariov; chemists A. Babko, A. Holub, A. Kipriakov, S. Reformatskiy; geologists K. Feofilaktov, V. Chirvinskiy, M. Andrusov, P. Tutkovskiy; botanists I. Shmalhausen, S. Navashyn, K. Purievych, O. Fomin, M. Kholodniy; zoologists K. Kesler, O. Kovalevskiy, O. Severtsov, O. Korotnev; the biochemist O. Palladin;
specialists in medicine V. Bets, M. Sklifosofskiy, F. Yanovskiy, V. Obraztsov, M. Strazhesko, to name but a few.
Among the graduates of Kiev University one finds a considerable number of prominent figures of the Ukrainian arts: the playwright Mykhailo Starytskiy, the poet Maxym Rylskiy, the composer Mykola Lysenko and other.