Mykhaylo Bohdanovych Svystovych (Ukrainian: Михайло Богданович Свистович; born December 11, 1968) is a Ukrainian social activist and member of "Vidsich" civil movement, editor of "Maidan" magazine and economist.

Mykhaylo Svystovych was born in Pervomaisk in Mykolaiv Oblast. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Mykolayiv. When he was studying in fourth grade of school, Mykhaylo read a book about Native Americans and became interested in indigenous people of America. At age 14, he concluded that fate of the Ukrainian people is very similar to the fate of Indians who were placed into reservations. Since then, Mykhaylo began to speak only Ukrainian language, despite the fact that the most people who surrounded him in Mykolayiv were speaking Russian.

After finishing school, Svystovych entered the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv on the faculty of economics.

In 1987 he joined the environmental protection squad called "Lenin Watch" (sector of fight against poaching), then — Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian language organization and also People's Movement of Ukraine.

He is one of the founders of the Ukrainian Students Union (USS) that conducted the student hunger strikes in 1990, member of "Revolution on Granite". During the "August Coup" he was organizing protests, later he joined the Ukrainian Republican Party, which was later renamed to the URP "Sobor".

1993 — worked in financial department of the state administration of Moscow district of Kyiv.

Since 1996 – worked as a deputy head of currency department of "Gradobank".

Since 1997 – worked as a head of currency operations Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Alliance".