Dyakonov ( (masculine), (feminine)), Diakonoff, Diakonov, or Diakonof is a Russian surname meaning "a deacon's". Notable people with the surname include:
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Anatoly Dyakonov (1907–1972), Soviet general
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Alexey Diakonoff
Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera.
His parents immigrated to the Dutch East Indies ...
(1907–1989), Dutch-Russian entomologist
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*Elena Diakonova, known as
Gala Dalí
Gala Dalí (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Елена Ивановна Дьяконова; – 10 June 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in s ...
, (1894–1982), Russian model and wife of artist Dalí
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Igor Diakonoff
Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (occasionally spelled Diakonov, ; 12 January 1915 – 2 May 1999) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages. His brothers were also distinguis ...
(1915–1999), linguist, translator, and historian of the Ancient Near East
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Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller (1884–1980), Alaska Native educator
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Nina Dyakonova (1915–2013), Russian researcher
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Yevgeny Dyakonov (1935–2006), Russian mathematician
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Vasily Dyakonov
Vasily Nikolayevich Dyakonov (; July 25, 1946 – September 5, 2012) was a Governor of Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Ru ...
(1946–2012), governor of Krasnodar Krai
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Mikhail Dyakonov (b. 1940), Russian physicist, discoverer of
Dyakonov surface waves
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Pavel Dyakonov (b. 1973), football player
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Tatyana Dyakonova (b. 1970), Russian politician
{{surname, Diakonoff
Russian-language surnames