Vasyl Symonenko (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????????? ?????????; January 8, 1935 – December 13, 1963) a well-known Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement.
He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s.
By the opinion of the Museum of dissident movement in Kiev, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.