Cossack Leaders
- Predslav Lyantskoronsky (1506–1512), not an actual hetman, he was a starosta of Khmilnyk
- Ostap Dashkevych (1506–1536), not an actual hetman, he was a starosta in charge of a defense force approved by the Sejm near Cherkasy. Dashkevych offered to create a defense force on the banks of the Lower Dnieper
- Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1550–1564), the first recorded Hetman of Zaporizhia, first who created a Cossack garrison at the Nyz Dnieprovski (Lower Dnieper) on the island of Khortytsia in 1552
- Bohdan Ruzhynsky, member of Volhynia princedom, a leader who was sponsored by Moscow
- Ivan Svirgovsky (1567–1574)
- Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578), leader
- Ivan Orishevsky (1579–1591)
- Bogdan Mikoshinsky (1586–1594)
- Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593), otaman led the 1590 uprising after Janusz Ostrogski confiscated his lands near Bila Tserkva that were awarded to him by the Sejm
- Hryhory Loboda (1593–1596), Hetman of Zaporizhia
- Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596), an Ostrogski recruit who fought against the Kosiński Uprising, led his own uprising in Podolie and Volhynia independent from Hryhory Loboda
- Lubny massacre, a massacre that was conducted by the Polish army led by Hetman Zolkiewski. After that battle cossack movement was greatly reduced within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Krempski, Hetman of Zaporizhia, was elected during the siege near Lubny and later managed to escape with a small number of other cossacks
- Vasylevych, Hetman of Zaporizhia
- Nechkovsky, Hetman of Zaporizhia
- Tykhin Baybuza (1597-1598), Hetman of Zaporizhia
- Samiylo Kishka (1599–1601), Hetman of Zaporizhia, managed to reinstate the rights of cossacks in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Petro Konashevych (Sahaidachny) led successful campaigns against the Tatars and the Turks, aided the Polish army at Moscow in 1618 and at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621. He also saw Cossack interests in the independence of Ukraine from Poland.
- Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623–1628)
- Hryhoriy Chorny (1628–1630), elected by Registered Cossacks
- Taras Fedorovych (1629–1630), elected by unregistered Cossacks
- Ivan Sulyma (1630–1635)
- Tomilenko (1635–1637)
- Savva Kononovych (1637), former Pereyaslav polkovnyk
- Pavel Mikhnovych, better known as Pavel Pavluk, the leader of 1637 uprising
- Karp Skydan, Pavlyuk's assistant, headed the 1637 uprising while Pavlyuk returned to Zaporizhia
- Battle between Moshny and Ros on December 6, 1637
- Ilyash Karaimovych (1637), Mykola Potocki's appointee of Registered Cossacks, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was appointed a pysar of Karaimovych.
- Dmytro Hunia (1638), leader in Zaporizhia
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