Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (russian: Зино́вьев), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek ''
Zenobios''.
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
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Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
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Aleksandr Zinovyev (footballer) (born 1979), Russian footballer
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Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, . Transliterated ''Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev'' according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch Apfelbaum, – 25 August 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (russian: Ов ...
(1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and
Hero of the Soviet Union
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Peter Zinovieff (1933–2021), British inventor
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer
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Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer
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Sergei Zinovjev, Russian ice hockey player
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Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author
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Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game ''
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis''
See also
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Zinoviev letter, a faked letter in 1924 British politics
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Russian destroyer ''Azard'' (1916), later renamed ''Zinoviev''
References
{{surname, Zinoviev
Russian-language surnames