Stepan Khmara

Stepan Ilkovych Khmara (; 12 October 1937 – 21 February 2024) was a Ukrainian doctor, Soviet dissident and politician.

As a student of the Lviv State Medical Institute Khmara was involved in the underground Samizdat-movement that published Soviet Union's banned literature. In 1987 he returned to Ukraine and in 1988 became one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. and again from 2002 to 2006. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election he failed to return to parliament since he stood for the party Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch that did not win seats.

In 2004 Khmara was one of the faces of the Orange Revolution that supported Viktor Yushchenko. On 25 February 2024 Khmara's public funeral procesion was held on Kyiv's main square Maidan Nezalezhnosti. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.