Gleb
Gleb is a Russian male given name derived from the Old Norse name Guðleifr, which means 'heir of god', from guð and leifr. It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint Gleb, who is venerated by Eastern Orthodox churches. The Ukrainian equivalent is Hlib.
Notable people with the name include:
People
- Gleb of Kiev, grand prince of Kiev
- Gleb Axelrod, Russian pianist
- Gleb Baklanov, Russian general
- Gleb Boglayevskiy, Russian football player
- Gleb Botkin, Russian-born American memoirist and illustrator
- Gleb Brussenskiy, Kazakh cyclist
- Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor
- Gleb Galperin, Russian diver
- Gleb Ilyin, Russian-American painter
- Gleb Kotelnikov, Russian inventor
- Gleb Krotkov, Canadian scientist
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Russian economist
- Gleb Lapitsky, Belarusian politician
- Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, Russian engineer
- Gleb Lutfullin, Russian figure skater
- Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky, Russian mathematician
- Gleb Panfilov, Russian film director
- Gleb Panfyorov, Russian football player
- Gleb Pavlovsky, Russian political scientist
- Gleb Pisarevskiy, Russian weightlifter
- Gleb Sakharov, French tennis player
- Gleb Savchenko, Russian dancer
- Gleb Savinov, Russian painter
- Gleb Shishmaryov, Russian admiral
- Gleb Shulpyakov, Russian writer
- Gleb Strizhenov, Soviet-Russian actor
- Gleb Struve, Russian poet and literary historian
- Gleb Svyatoslavich, prince of Tmutarakan
- Gleb Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov), prince of Chernigov
- Gleb Syritsa, Russian cyclist
- Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer
- Gleb Veremyev, American ice hockey player
- Gleb Wataghin, Italian scientist
- Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
Fictional characters
- Gleb Nerzhin, leading character, mathematician, prisoner, and Solzhenitsyn's alter ego in In the First Circle; Solzhenitsyn also uses Nerzhin in some of his writings about his experiences in World War II
- Gleb, a female character in the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II
- Gleb Vaganov, main antagonist in 2017 musical Anastasia (musical)
- Gleb Zheglov, main character in 1979 Soviet mini-series ''The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed''