Popov

This article is about surname Popov. For other uses, see Popov (disambiguation).

For the spelling variant Popoff, see Popoff (surname)

Popov (Cyrillic: Попов; masculine), or Popova (Cyrillic: Попова; feminine), is a common Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian surname. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (Cyrillic: поп, "priest"). The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to:

• Alek Popov (born 1966), Bulgarian writer
• Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
• Aleksei Popov (disambiguation)
• Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, Prime Minister of Chechnya
• Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
• Angel Popov (born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
• Apostol Popov (born 1982), Bulgarian football defender
• Blagoy Popov (1902–1968)
• Boris Popov (born 1941), Russian water polo player
• Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player and manager
• Denis Popov (footballer, born 2002), Russian football player
• Denys Popov (born 1999), Ukrainian football player
• Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
• Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
• Dimitar Iliev Popov (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
• Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
• Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
• Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player
• Ilya Popov (born 2000), Russian boxer
• Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
• Katia Popov (1965–2018), Bulgarian-born American violinist
• Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
• Luben Popov (born 1936), Bulgarian chess player
• Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
• Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
• Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer
• Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian circus artist
• Polina Popova (born 1995), Miss Russia 2017
• Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
• Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (born 1923), Soviet intelligence officer and double agent
• Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
• Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
• Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
• Serhiy Popov (born 1971), Ukrainian footballer
• Stefan Popov (born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
• Stole Popov (born 1950), Macedonian film director.
• Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
• Valery Popov (disambiguation)
• Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
• Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
• Victor Popov (1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist
• Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
• Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
• Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (1936–2016), Russian paleoentomologist

Fictional people

• Nadia Popov, character in the British children's program Rentaghost

Popova

• Alena Popova, Kazakhstani volleyballer
• Daria Popova, Russian pair skater
• Diana Popova, Bulgarian gymnast
• Faton Popova, German footballer
• Ksenia Popova, Russian open water swimmer
• Larisa Popova, Moldovan rower
• Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist
• Margarita Popova, former Bulgarian Minister of Justice
• Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
• Nadezhda Popova, Soviet military pilot
• Natalia Popova, Ukrainian figure skater
• Natalia Popova (chess player) (born 1976), Belarusian chess master
• Sofka Popova, Bulgarian runner
• Tamara Popova, Soviet sprint canoer
• Tatiana Popova, Russian basketball player
• Valentina Popova (born 1972), Russian weightlifter
• Vera Popova, Russian chemist
• Veronika Popova, Russian swimmer

See also

• Popovo (disambiguation)
• Popovka (disambiguation)
• Popović