Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus (Ukrainian: Юлій Сергійович Мейтус; 28 January 1903, Yelysavethrad – 2 April 1997, Kyiv), was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera.

His early style was modernistic, later he used more traditional neo-Romantic idioms.

In 1919 he graduated from the School of Music in piano from Heinrich Neuhaus, and from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama in the composition class of C. Bogatyrenko in 1931.

During World War II he was evacuated to the Turkmen SSR.

He is famous for his 18 operas, a number of orchestral works and about 300 songs on Ukrainian and Russian classical poems,[2] among them Stolen Happiness, the epic Yaroslav the Wise, Daughter of the Wind, Leila and Majnun, The Young Guard and Abakan.