Semion
Semion is a male slavic given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Semion Abugov, Jewish, Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
- Semion Alapin, chess master, openings analyst, and puzzle composer
- Semion Belits-Geiman, former Soviet freestyle swimmer
- Semion Bogatyrev, Russian musicologist and composer
- Semion Braude, Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer
- Semion Budionnyi, red cossack, Soviet cavalryman, military commander, politician and close ally of Joseph Stalin
- Semion Chelyuskin, Russian polar explorer and naval officer
- Semion Domash, Belarusian politician
- Semion Elistratov, Russian short-track speed-skater
- Semion Grigoryevich Frug, multi-lingual Russian poet, lyricist and author
- Semion Furman, Soviet chess International Grandmaster and trainer
- Semion Grossu, Moldovan politician and businessman
- Semion Ivanov, Soviet general
- Semion Mogilevich, Israeli, Ukrainian-born organized crime boss, believed to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world
- Semion Morozov, commissar of the Taganrog antifascist underground organization
- Semion G. Murafa, Bessarabian politician in the Russian Empire, also known as a publicist and composer
- Semion Rotnitsky, Soviet Russian painter, Honoured Art worker of Tatar Republic, member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
- Semion Șestopali, Russian-born Romanian and Israeli writer
- Semion Shchedrin, Soviet military commander, senior professional officer of the Red Army when the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939
- Semion Yushkevich, Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda