Mykola Volodymyrovych Rohozhynsky (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Рогожинський; born 28 August 1965) was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.^[1]

Rohozhynskyy was born on 28 August 1965 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union, into a large family.^[2] His father, Vladimir (Volodymyr), was a participant in World War II and a factory worker and his mother, Valentyna, was a disabled front-line worker and teacher of Ukrainian language and literature.^[2] After attending secondary school, he eventually graduated from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, where he was trained as a director.^[2] He then served in the Soviet Armed Forces, and upon returning worked at the Electronmash plant in Kyiv.^[2] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he worked in various enterprises, eventually becoming the head of a company.^[2]

He was a former chairperson of the Center for Juvenile Creativity, "Zvezdopad" also spelled "Zorepad" ("Starfall"), where more than 100 children aged from 5 to 18 study for free.^[2] He also maintained the Children’s Theater of Mykola Rohozhynskyi through charitable funding.^[2] Rogozhynsky was also a poet, his collection "If I could.." was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.^[3]

When vying for the 2004 election, he promised to switch the Ukrainian economy through an innovative development model focused on the hi-tech sector, modernization of science and education, investment in intellectual and labor potential of a human being. His promise includes the turning of companies that comprise the geostrategic potential of Ukraine into joint-stock companies with a majority ownership by state.

In the first round of the election, he polled 10,242 votes, 0.03% of the total, and was eliminated from the second round.