Oleksa

Oleksa (Ukrainian: Олекса) is a Ukrainian masculine given name, a variant of the Slavic name Alexey, which is derived from the Greek Alexius. Notable individuals with the name include:

Given name

• Oleksa Almaziv (1886–1936), Ukrainian military officer
• Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (1820–1882), Ukrainian tile painter

• Oleksa Dovbush (1700–1745), Ukrainian outlaw
• Oleksa Hirnyk (1912–1978), Ukrainian Soviet dissident
• Oleksa Lozowchuk (born 1976), Canadian composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist
• Oleksa Nehrebets'kyi (born 1955), Ukrainian television editor
• Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872–1935), Ukrainian painter and art teacher
• Oleksa Shatkivsky (1908–1979), Ukrainian artist
• Oleksa Storozhenko (1806–1874), Ukrainian writer and anthropologist
• Oleksa Volianskyi (1862–1947), Ukrainian priest and ethnographer

Surname

• Michael Oleksa, Russian Orthodox missionary