Famous People with Name Symon

Symon Budny            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Symon Budny: (c.1530 – 1593) was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian. Published in polish language the Old Testament and New Testament with commentaries and notes (1570,1574,1589), which was the first approach of the world literature to the radical rationalist critique of the Gospels.

Symon Vasilyevich Petlura            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Symon Vasilyevich Petlura: was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the Russian Civil War, he was briefly Head of the Ukrainian State. In 1926 Petlura was assassinated in Paris. Petlura was born on May 10th, 1879, in Poltava, Ukraine, the son of Vasyl Petlura and Olha Marchenko, urban dwellers of Cossack extraction. Cossack, as opposed to peasant, heritage allowed certain privileges regarding land ownership, taxes and access to education in the Russian Empire, of which Ukraine was then part.