Lev (given name)
Lev is a male Slavic name of Greek origin. The name is also common in Jewish communities and means "heart" in Hebrew and appears as "Leyb" in Yiddish.
Common in Russia. The name was brought to Russia with Christianity and was uncommon up until the 20th century, when it became popular after Lev Tolstoy.
People with this name include:
- Leo I of Galicia, Knyaz of Belz, Peremyshl, Halych, Grand Prince of Kyiv and King of Galicia-Volhynia.
- Lev Alburt, chess Grandmaster and chess writer.
- Lev Artsimovich, Soviet physicist.
- Lev Berg, Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist.
- Lev Brovarskyi, Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.
- Lev Chernyi, Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet.
- Lev Dengov, Russian politician and businessman.
- Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut and Air Force colonel.
- Lev Grossman, American novelist and critic.
- Lev Gumilyov, Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist.
- Lev Hakak, Israeli-American academic, novelist and poet.
- Lev Ivanov, Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet.
- Lev Ivanov (football manager), Russian football manager.
- Lev Korchebokov, Soviet football player and manager.
- Lev Kamenev, Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician.
- Lev Kirshner, American soccer player and coach.
- Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker and film theorist.
- Lev Khrshchonovich, chief architect of Kazan.
- Lev Landau, Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate.
- Lev Leshchenko, Russian singer.
- Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Israeli businessman and philanthropist.
- Lev Binzumovich Leviev, Russian-Israeli Internet entrepreneur and investor.
- Lev Loseff, Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.
- Lev Mei, Russian dramatist and poet.
- Lev Naryshkin, Russian general in the Napoleonic Wars.
- Lev Perovski, Russian count, mineralogist and Minister of Internal Affairs under Nicholas I.
- Lev Pitaevskii, Soviet theoretical physicist.
- Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet grandmaster and author.
- Lev Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician.
- Lev Russov, Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
- Lev Sedov, son of the Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky.
- Lev Shatilo, retired javelin thrower from the Soviet Union.
- Lev Shcheglov, Russian physician.
- Lev L. Spiro, American television and film director.
- Lev Termen, often translated as Leon Theremin, Russian inventor.
- Lev Tolstoy, often translated as Leo Tolstoy, Russian author.
- Lev Trotsky, often translated as Leon Trotsky, Russian economist and revolutionary.
- Lev Vladimirovich Urusov, Russian prince, diplomat and tennis player.
- Lev Vygotsky, Soviet psychologist.
- Lev Weinstein, Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.
- Lev Yashin, Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper.
- Lev Yilmaz, American independent filmmaker, artist and publisher.
- Lev Zadov, Ukrainian counter-intelligence agent.