Oleksa (Ukrainian: Олекса) is a Ukrainian name, a variant of the Slavic name
Alexey or Greek
Alexius
Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios ( el, Αλέξιος, polytonic , "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the later Byzantine Empire. The female form is Alexia ( el, Αλεξία) and its variants such as Alessia ...
. The name may refer to the following notable people:
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Oleksa Dovbush (1700–1745), Ukrainian outlaw
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Oleksa Hirnyk
Oleksa Mykolajovych Hirnyk ( uk, Олекса Миколайович Гiрник, Oleksa Mykolajovyč Hirnyk; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of ...
(1912–1978), Ukrainian Soviet dissident
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Oleksa Lozowchuk Oleksa (Ukrainian: Олекса) is a Ukrainian name, a variant of the Slavic name Alexey or Greek Alexius. The name may refer to the following notable people:
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*Oleksa Dovbush (1700–1745), Ukrainian outlaw
*Oleksa Hirnyk (1912–1978), ...
(born 1976), Canadian composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist
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Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872–1935), Ukrainian painter and art teacher
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Oleksa Storozhenko (1806–1874), Ukrainian writer and anthropologist
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Michael Oleksa
Michael Oleksa is a Russian Orthodox missionary who spent 35 years travelling and speaking about culture and race in Alaska.
Early life and education
Michael Oleksa was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. As an adult, after spending a time at St. V ...
, Russian Orthodox missionary
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Ukrainian masculine given names