Oleksa (Ukrainian: Олекса) is a Ukrainian name, a variant of the Slavic name
Alexey
Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin ...
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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 ...
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Oleksa Dovbush
Oleksa Dovbush ( uk, Олекса Довбуш) (born 1700, Pechenizhyn Kolomyia— died 24 August 1745) was a famous Ukrainian outlaw, leader of opryshky, who became a folk hero, often compared to Robin Hood.
Biography
Oleksa was born in the ...
(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 (born 1976), Canadian composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist
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Oleksa Novakivskyi
Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodyvka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935, Lviv) was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher; ...
(1872–1935), Ukrainian painter and art teacher
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Oleksa Storozhenko
Oleksa Storozhenko (24 November 1806, Lysohory, Chernihiv Oblast, Chernihiv region, Ukraine – 6 November 1874, Berestia, Belarus) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian writer, anthropologist and playwright.
Storozhenko began writing in the 1850s. Many of hi ...
(1806–1874), Ukrainian writer and anthropologist
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Michael Oleksa, Russian Orthodox missionary
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Ukrainian masculine given names