Popov


Popov, or Popova, is a common Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian patronymic surname. Derived from a Slavonic word pop. Notable people with the surname include:

Popov

  • Alek Popov, Bulgarian writer
  • Alexander Popov
  • Aleksei Popov
  • Anatoly Popov, Russian politician, Prime Minister of Chechnya
  • Andrei Popov
  • Angel Popov, Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
  • Apostol Popov, Bulgarian football defender
  • Blagoy Popov
  • Boris Popov, Russian water polo player
  • Christo Popov, Bulgarian-born French badminton player
  • Denis Popov, Russian football player and manager
  • Denis Popov, Russian football player
  • Denys Popov, Ukrainian football player
  • Dilyana Popova, Bulgarian actress and model
  • Dimitar Popov, Bulgarian footballer
  • Dimitar Ivanov Popov, Bulgarian organic chemist
  • Dimitar Iliev Popov, Bulgarian judge and Prime Minister
  • Dmitri Popov
  • Duško Popov, Serbian double-agent, known as Tricycle
  • Egor Popov, Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
  • Fedot Popov, Russian explorer
  • Gavriil Popov , Russian composer
  • Gavriil Popov , Russian politician
  • George Basil Popov a Russian-British entomologist born in Iran
  • Georgi Popov, Bulgarian chess player
  • Georgi Alexandrov Popov, Bulgarian chess player, member of the ICCF Bulgaria
  • Georgi Dimitrov Popov, Bulgarian football player
  • Georgi Vladimirovich Popov was a Soviet weightlifter.
  • Georgy Arturovich Popov, Russian taekwondo athlete
  • Goran Popov, Macedonian footballer
  • Haralan Popov, Bulgarian church minister
  • Hristian Popov, Bulgarian football player
  • Ilya Popov, Russian boxer
  • Ivan Popov, Russian general
  • Ivan Popov, Russian chess Grandmaster
  • Ivelin Popov, Bulgarian footballer
  • Katia Popov, Bulgarian-born American violinist
  • Leonid Popov, Soviet cosmonaut
  • Luben Popov, Bulgarian chess player
  • Markian Popov, Soviet Army General
  • Mikhail Popov
  • Nikolay Popov
  • Oleg Popov, Russian circus artist
  • Pavel Popov, Russian military officer
  • Polina Popova, Miss Russia 2017
  • Pyotr Popov, Russian luger
  • Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, Soviet intelligence officer and double agent
  • Robert Popov, Macedonian footballer
  • Sergei Popov
  • Serhiy Popov, Ukrainian footballer
  • Stefan Popov a Bulgarian cellist
  • Stole Popov, Macedonian film director.
  • Strahil Popov, Bulgarian footballer
  • Toma Junior Popov, Bulgarian-born French badminton player
  • Valery Popov
  • Vasile M. Popov, Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
  • Vasili Popov
  • Victor Popov, Russian theoretical physicist
  • Vladimir Popov
  • Yevgeni Popov
  • Yuri Alexandrovich Popov, Russian paleoentomologist

    Popova

  • Alena Popova, Kazakhstani volleyballer
  • Daria Popova, Russian pair skater
  • Diana Popova, Bulgarian gymnast
  • Dina Popova, Ukrainian financier and entrepreneur
  • Faton Popova, German footballer
  • Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Polish pianist and pedagogue of Bulgarian descent
  • Ksenia Popova, Russian open water swimmer
  • Larisa Popova, Moldovan rower
  • Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist
  • Margarita Popova, former Bulgarian Minister of Justice
  • Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
  • Nadezhda Popova, Soviet military pilot
  • Natalia Popova, Ukrainian figure skater
  • Natalia Popova, Belarusian chess master
  • Nina Popova, Soviet official
  • Roza Popova, Bulgarian actress and theatre director
  • Sofka Popova, Bulgarian runner
  • Tamara Popova, Soviet sprint canoer
  • Tatiana Popova, Russian basketball player
  • Valentina Popova, Russian weightlifter
  • Vera Popova, Russian chemist
  • Veronika Popova, Russian swimmer

    Fictional characters

  • Nadia Popov, character in the British children's program Rentaghost
  • Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov, character in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

    Similar surnames

Surnames of similar derivation include Popović, Popovici, Popoff, Popkov, Poptsov, Popovski, Popovsky, Raspopov, Raspopović.