Popov (; masculine), or Popova (; feminine), is a common Russian,

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Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

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surname. Derived from a Slavonic word ''pop'' (, " priest"). The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to: *

Alek Popov Alek Popov ( bg, Алек Попов) is a Bulgarian novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter, author of the novel ''Mission London''. Alek Popov was born in Sofia in 1966.

(born 1966), Bulgarian writer *

Alexander Popov (disambiguation) Alexander Popov may refer to: Science *Aleksandr Iosifovich Popov (1913–1993), Soviet permafrost researcher *Alexander Nikiforovich Popov (1840–1881), Russian organic chemist *Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859–1906), Russian physicist Spor ...

Aleksei Popov (disambiguation) Aleksei Popov may refer to: * Aleksei Arkadyevich Popov (born 1990), Russian football player * Aleksey Dmitrievich Popov, Soviet theatre director * Alexey Popov Alexey Lvovich Popov (russian: Алексей Львович Попов; July 13, 1 ...

Anatoly Popov Anatoly Alexandrovich Popov (russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Попо́в; born July 10, 1960) is an ethnic Russians, Russian who was the Prime Minister of the Chechnya, Chechen Republic, Russia, from February 10 ...

(born 1960), Russian politician, Prime Minister of Chechnya *

Andrei Popov (disambiguation) Andrei Popov may refer to: *Andrei Alexandrovich Popov (1821–1898), Russian admiral *Andrei Alekseyevich Popov (1918–1983), Soviet actor * Andrei Andreyevich Popov (1832-1896), Russian painter *Andrei Popov (ice hockey) (born 1988), Russian ice ...

Angel Popov Said Saif Asaad (born Angel Popov ( bg, Ангел Попов; May 31, 1979 in Bulgaria), is a Qatari weightlifter who competed in the Men's 105 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. One of eight Bulgarian weig ...

(born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter *

Apostol Popov Apostol Popov ( bg, Апостол Попов; born 22 December 1982) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer and currently assistant manager of CSKA 1948 III. Career Early career Popov began his career with Spartak Plovdiv and made his f ...

(born 1982), Bulgarian football defender *

Blagoy Popov Blagoi Simeonov Popov ( bg, Благой Симеонов Попов) (22 November 1902 – 28 December 1968) was a Bulgarian Communist activist and Comintern executive who was one of the co-defendants along with Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil T ...

(1902–1968) * Boris Popov (born 1941), Russian water polo player *

Denis Popov Denis Aleksandrovich Popov (russian: Денис Александрович Попов; born 4 February 1979) is an association football manager and a former player who played forward. He played for Russia national football team. In February 2 ...

(born 1979), Russian football player and manager *

Denis Popov (footballer, born 2002) Denis Vladimirovich Popov (russian: Денис Владимирович Попов; born 29 August 2002) is a Russian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Peresvet Domodedovo. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for R ...

, Russian football player * Denys Popov (born 1999), Ukrainian football player *

Dimitar Popov Dimitar Nikolaev Popov ( bg, Димитър Николаев Попов; born 27 February 1970) is a former Bulgarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career In his career Popov played for Levski Sofia, Botev Plovdiv, Sparta ...

(born 1970), Bulgarian footballer * Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist *

Dimitar Iliev Popov Dimitar Iliev Popov (Pokriva) ( bg, Димитър Илиев Попов ; 26 June 1927 – 5 December 2015) was a leading Bulgarian judge and the first Prime Minister of the country not to be a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1946. H ...

(1927–2015), Bulgarian judge and Prime Minister * Dmitri Popov (disambiguation) * Duško Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known as Tricycle * Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer * Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer * Gavriil Popov (composer) (1904–1972), Russian composer * Gavriil Popov (politician) (born 1936), Russian politician * George Basil Popov (1922–1998) a Russian-British

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

born in Iran * Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer * Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister *

Hristian Popov Hristian Emilov Popov ( bg, Християн Попов; born 5 February 1990 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may pla ...

(born 1990), Bulgarian football player *

Ilya Popov Ilya Alekseyevich Popov (russian: Илья Алексеевич Попов; born 19 June 2000) is a Russian amateur boxer who won gold medals at the 2018 Youth Olympics and 2018 European Youth Championships, and silver at the 2018 Youth Worl ...

(born 2000), Russian boxer *

Ivelin Popov Ivelin Ivanov Popov ( bg, Ивелин Иванов Попов; born 26 October 1987) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Levski Sofia. Club career Youth career Born in Sofia, Popov started to play ...

(born 1987), Bulgarian footballer *

Katia Popov Katia Popov ( bg, Катя Попов; 3 March 1965 – 18 May 2018), born in Bulgaria and later living in California, was a violinist, playing as soloist, in chamber music and in orchestras; she was concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. ...

(1965–2018), Bulgarian-born American violinist *

Leonid Popov Leonid Ivanovich Popov (russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Попо́в; born August 31, 1945) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. Biography Popov was born in Oleksandriia, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. He was selected as a cosmonaut on ...

(born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut * Luben Popov (born 1936), Bulgarian chess player *

Markian Popov Markian Mikhaylovich Popov (; 1902–1969) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (26 August 1943), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965). Early life Markian Popov was born in 1902 in Ust-Medvediskaya in the Don Host Oblast (now Volgograd O ...

(1902–1969), Soviet Army General *

Mikhail Popov (disambiguation) Mikhail Popov may refer to: *Mikhail Abramovich Popov (1753–1811), Russian businessman and politician, first mayor of Perm *Mikhail Ivanovich Popov (1742–1790), Russian writer and poet *Mikhail Grigorevich Popov (1893–1955), Russian botanist * ...

* Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer *

Oleg Popov Oleg Konstantinovich Popov (russian: Олег Константинович Попoв, 31 July 1930 – 2 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Early life Popov was born on 31 July 19 ...

(1930–2016), Russian circus artist *

Pavel Popov Pavel Anatolyevich Popov (russian: Павел Анатольевич Попов; born 1 January 1957), is a Russian army officer who is the Deputy Minister of Defense since 7 November 2013. He holds the rank of General of the Army as of 11 Decembe ...

(born 1957), Russian military officer *

Polina Popova Polina Alexeyevna Popova (russian: Полина Алексеевна Попова; born 1 June 1995) is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Russia 2017. She represented Russia at the Miss World 2017 competition, ...

(born 1995), Miss Russia 2017 *

Pyotr Popov Pyotr Popov (russian: Пётр Попо́в, born 4 September 1985) is a Russian luger who has competed since 2002. A natural track luger, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2007 FIL World Luge Natural Track C ...

(born 1985), Russian luger *

Pyotr Semyonovich Popov Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (; July 1923 – January 1960) was a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence apparatus (GRU). He was the first GRU officer to offer his services to the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II. Between 1953 and 195 ...

(1923–1960), Soviet intelligence officer and double agent *

Robert Popov Robert Popov ( mk, Роберт Попов; born 16 April 1982 in Strumica) is a retired footballer from North Macedonia. Club career Robert is a right defender or defensive midfielder. He started his career with FK Belasica. In 2003 Popov sign ...

(born 1982), Macedonian footballer *

Rumen Popov Rumen Popov (Bulgarian: Румен Попов; born 21 May 1983, in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian football player A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are ...

(born 1983), Bulgarian football player *

Sergei Popov (disambiguation) Sergei Popov may refer to: * Sergey Aleksandrovich Popov (born 1949) Russian politician * Sergei Igorevich Popov (born 1987), Russian footballer * Sergei Popov (marathon runner) (1930–1995), Soviet marathon runner * Sergei Popov (businessman) ...

Serhiy Popov Serhiy Oleksandrovych Popov ( uk, Сергій Олександрович Попов; russian: Серге́й Александрович Попов; born 22 April 1971 in Makiivka) is a former footballer from Ukraine. He is the highest scoring de ...

(born 1971), Ukrainian footballer *

Stefan Popov Stefan Popov (born 3 April 1940) is an internationally recognised Bulgarian cellist. He started playing the cello at the age of 11 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Kn ...

(born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist *

Stole Popov Stole Popov is a Macedonian film director. Biography Stole Popov (Macedonian: Столе Попов) was born 20 August 1950 in Skopje, North Macedonia. He graduated film directingat the Academy of Theatre, Film & Television in Belgrade. He is ...

(born 1950), Macedonian film director. *

Strahil Popov Strahil Popov ( bg, Страхил Попов; born 31 August 1990) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Ümraniyespor. He mainly plays as a right back. Popov began his professional career at Litex Lovech in 2008. Af ...

(born 1990), Bulgarian footballer *

Valery Popov (disambiguation) Valery Popov may refer to: * Valery Popov (diplomat), Soviet and Russian diplomat and ambassador * Valery Popov (writer), Soviet and Russian writer * Valery Popov (musician), Soviet bassoonist * Valerij Popov Valerij Sergeyevich Popov (born 1 ...

Vasile M. Popov Vasile Mihai Popov (born 1928) is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist. He is well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, now known as Popov criterion. Biography He was b ...

(born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist * Vasili Popov (disambiguation) *

Victor Popov Victor Nikolaevich Popov (russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Попо́в; 27 October 1937 – 16 April 1994) was a Russian theoretical physicist known for his contribution to the quantization of non-abelian gauge fields. His work wi ...

(1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist *

Vladimir Popov (disambiguation) Vladimir Popov may refer to: * , Russian author * (1889–1968), Russian actor; see ''Anna Karenina'' (1953 film) * Vladimir Popov (admiral) (1857–19XX), Imperial Russian admiral * Vladimir Popov (animator) (1930–1987), Soviet animated films ...

Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation) Yevgeni Popov may refer to: * Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov (born 1946), Russian writer * Yevgeny Popov (journalist) (born 1978), Russian journalist and politician * Yevgeni Gennadyevich Popov (born 1988), Russian footballer * Yevgeni Popov (cyclist) ...

Yuri Alexandrovich Popov Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Попов) (5 March 1936 – 16 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian paleoentomologist, an authority on the taxonomy and evolution of fossil true bugs ( Heteroptera) and ...

(1936–2016), Russian paleoentomologist

Fictional people

* Nadia Popov, character in the British children's program ''

Rentaghost ''Rentaghost'' is a British children's television comedy show, originally broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which ...

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Alena Popova Alena Popova (born ) is a Kazakhstani female volleyball player. She is part of the Kazakhstan women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix. On club level she played for Karaganda Karaganda or ...

, Kazakhstani volleyballer *

Daria Popova Daria Popova (born 28 July 1993) is a Russian former competitive pair skater. From 2011 to 2014, she competed with Bruno Massot, winning the 2014 Challenge Cup and the 2012 French national title. The pair finished in the top ten at the 2012 and ...

, Russian pair skater *

Diana Popova Diana Popova (born December 10, 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. Career She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1982 and started training at an early age. Popova competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Despite two drops of ...

, Bulgarian gymnast *

Faton Popova Faton Popova (born 22 December 1984 in Stolberg) is a German retired footballer. Popova also holds Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country ...

, German footballer *

Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (Bulgarian: Екатерина Попова) (born 30 April 1948 in Sofia) is a Polish pianist of Bulgarian descent. She studied at the Poznań Music Academy, then graduated with honours from the State High School of Musi ...

, Polish pianist and pedagogue of Bulgarian descent * Ksenia Popova, Russian open water swimmer * Larisa Popova, Moldovan rower * Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist *

Margarita Popova Margarita Stefanova Popova ( bg, Маргарита Стефанова Попова; born 15 May 1957) is Bulgarian people, Bulgarian jurist, prosecutor, educator who was Vice President of Bulgaria from 2012 to 2017. She previously served as Minist ...

, former Bulgarian Minister of Justice * Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer *

Nadezhda Popova Nadezhda Vasilveyna Popova (russian: Наде́жда Васи́льевна Попо́ва, uk, Надія Василівна Попова; 17 December 1921 – 8 July 2013) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regimen ...

, Soviet military pilot *

Natalia Popova Natalia Ihorivna Popova ( uk, Наталія Ігорівна Попова; born September 15, 1993) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. She is a five-time Ukrainian national champion (2010, 2012–2015) and won five senior interna ...

, Ukrainian figure skater *

Natalia Popova (chess player) Natalia Popova (russian: Наталья Валерьевна Попова; born 28 November 1976) is a Belarusian chess player who holds the titles of Woman International Master (1999), International Arbiter (2017), and FIDE Trainer (2018). ...

(born 1976), Belarusian chess master * Sofka Popova, Bulgarian runner *

Tamara Popova Tamara Popova was a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1973) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar ...

, Soviet sprint canoer * Tatiana Popova, Russian basketball player * Valentina Popova (born 1972), Russian weightlifter *

Vera Popova Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya (Вера Евстафьевна Попова; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of ...

, Russian chemist *

Veronika Popova Veronika Andreyevna Andrusenko (née Popova) (russian: Вероника Андреевна Андрусенко (Попова); born 20 January 1991) is a Russian competitive swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the national ...

, Russian swimmer