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Bulava-mace traditional symbol of the supreme power of Ukrainian Hetmans. A mace and a horse-tail were publicly given to a hetman after the Cossacks’ council elected him.

Five hryvnia Ukrainian banknote depicting Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Ten hryvnia banknote depicting Hetman Ivan Mazepa

Hetman was the title used by commanders of the Ukrainian Cossacks from the end of the sixteenth century. The title hetman was adopted from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

At the end of the sixteenth century, commanders of Zaporizhian Cossacks were called Koshovyi Otaman. As from 1572, hetman was a commander of the Registered Cossack Army (Ukrainian: Реєстрове козацьке військо) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky uprising, Hetman was the title of the head of the Cossack state, the Zaporozhian Host. Cossack hetmans had very broad powers and acted as supreme military commander and legislator (by issuing administrative decrees).

After the split of Ukraine along the Dnieper River by the Polish-Russian Treaty of Andrusovo 1667, Ukrainian Cossacks of the Hetmanate (and Cossack Hetmans) are known as Left-bank Cossacks and Right-bank Cossacks.

In Russia, the office of Cossack Hetman was suppressed in 1734-1750, and finally abolished by Catherine II of Russia in 1764.

• Predslav Lyantskoronsky (1506–1512)
• Yevstafiy Dashkevych (1506–1536)
• Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1550–1564)
• Ivan Svirgovsky (1567–1574)
• Ivan Pidkova (1577–1578)
• Ivan Orishevsky (1579–1591)
• Bogdan Mikoshinsky (1586–1594)
• Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593)
• Hryhoriy Loboda (1593–1596)
• Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596)
• 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)
• Taras Fedorovych (1629–1630)
• Ivan Sulyma (1630–1635)
• Dmytro Hunia (1638)
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648–1657) was the first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, who is credited with winning Ukrainian independence from Poland and its incorporation into Russia.
• Ivan Bohun (June 1651)
• Ivan Vyhovsky (1657–1659)
• Yuhym Somko (1660–1663)
• Yurii Khmelnytsky (1659–1662) (1678-1681)(in the Right-bank Ukraine)
• Pavlo Teteria (1663–1665) (in the Right-bank Ukraine)
• Petro Doroshenko (1665–1672) (in the Right-bank Ukraine)
• Ivan Briukhovetsky (1663-1668)
• Demian Mnohohrishny (1669-1672)
• Mykhailo Khanenko (1669-1674) (in the Right-bank Ukraine)
• Ivan Samoylovych (1672–1687)
• Ivan Mazepa (1687–1708) led a failed attempt to win Ukrainian independence from Russia by siding with the Swedes against Peter I of Russia.
• Pylyp Orlyk Briefly successor of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
• Ivan Skoropadsky (1708–1722)
• Pavlo Polubotok (1722–1723)
• Danylo Apostol (1727–1734)
• Kyrylo Rozumovsky(1750–1764)

• Bulawa
• Hetmans of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Atamans of the Don Cossacks
• Koshovyi Otaman
• History of Cossacks

• Encyclopedia of Ukraine

v • d • e Hetmans of Ukraine
Hetmans	Predslav Lyantskoronsky • Yevstafy Dashkevich • Dmytro Vyshnevetsky • Ivan Svirgovsky • Ivan Pidkova • Ivan Orishevsky • Bogdan Mikoshinsky • Kryshtof Kosynsky • Hryhoriy Loboda • Severyn Nalyvaiko • Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny • Mykhailo Doroshenko • Taras Fedorovych • Ivan Sulyma • Dmytro Hunia • Bohdan Khmelnytsky • Ivan Bohun • Ivan Vyhovsky
Left-bank	Yuhym Somko • Ivan Samoylovych • Ivan Mazepa • Pylyp Orlyk • Ivan Skoropadsky • Pavlo Polubotok • Danylo Apostol • Kyrylo Rozumovsky
Right-bank	Yurii Khmelnytsky • Pavlo Teteria • Petro Doroshenko • Mykhailo Khanenko
Hetman topics: Bulava • List of hetmans