Iakiv Zozulia (Яків Зозуля, given name also spelled Jakiv or Yakiv) was a "feldsher" (military paramedic) in the Ukrainian People's Republic Army, lawyer, faculty member of the Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute, and a church and community leader. He was born in 1893 in Lebedyn of the Kharkiv Province of the Russian Empire (today Sumy oblast, Ukraine). He was active in the Socialist Revolutionary Party. He was a member of the Ukrainian People's Republic Central Rada (1917-1918), served as the head of the Sanitary Department of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army (1919), was a member of the Legal Commission of the Government of Carpatho-Ukraine (1938-1939), Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute (Munich, since 1943), Professor of the Ukrainian Technical Institute ( New York , 1954 - 1964).

In 1928 he emigrated to Prague to study law at the Charles University. He worked as an assistant lawyer in Khust, and was a legal adviser to the government of Carpatho-Ukraine 1938-39. He was involved in the Ukrainianization of the Orthodox Church in Transcarpathia, founded the Synodal Commission of the Orthodox Church at the congress in Tyachiv, and helped in the appointment of Archbishop Savatii as the administrator. He was a faculty member of the Ukrainain Technical and Husbandry Institute in Prague and Regensburg. He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He served as vice-president of the Ukrainian Legal Society (1955-62).