Ivanov (surname)
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Ivanov (Bulgarian, Russian: Ивано́в, sometimes the stress is on Ива́нов in Bulgarian if it is a middle name, or in Russian as a rare variant of pronunciation) or Ivanoff (masculine) or Ivanova (Ивано́ва; feminine) is one of the most common surnames in Russia and Bulgaria. The surname derived from the first name Ivan (equivalent to John, making the name effectively equivalent to Johnson).
The following people share this surname (See "Ivanov" for fictional characters):
- Alexander Ivanov, see there for a list of people
- Alexei Ivanov, Russian singer
- Alexey Viktorovich Ivanov, modern Russian writer
- Alina Ivanova (born 1969), Russian race walker and long-distance runner
- Almaz Ivanov (died 1669), Russian statesman
- Anton Ivanov-Goluboy (1818–1863), Russian painter
- Arkady Ivanov, Russian revolutionary
- Artem Ivanov, Russian singer
- Artemiy Ivanov, Russian zoologist
- Binio Ivanov, Bulgarian poet
- Desislava Ivanova (born 1979), Bulgarian singer
- Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
- Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov (1877–1949), Bulgarian writer known as Elin Pelin
- Georgi Ivanov (disambiguation), several people
- Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958), leading poet of the Russian emigration
- Igor Ivanov (born 1945), Russian foreign minister
- Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (1947–2004), Russian-born Canadian chess player
- Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870–1932?), Russian biologist
- Ivan Ivanov (born 1971), Bulgarian Weightlifter
- Ivan Ivanov (footballer) (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer
- Ivan I. Ivanov (1862–1939), Russian mathematician
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900–1987), Soviet/Russian animator
- Ivo Ivanov (born 1985), Bulgarian footballer
- Elena Ivanova, Russian figure skater
- Kira Ivanova (1963–2001), Russian figure skater
- Konstantin Ivanov (1890–1915), Chuvash poet
- Lea Ivanova, Bulgarian singer
- Leonid Ivanov, Russian botanist
- Lev Ivanov (1834–1901), Russian choreographer
- Lili Ivanova (born 1939), Bulgarian singer
- Lyubov Ivanova (born 1981), Russian long-distance runner
- Mikhail Ivanov (born 1977), Russian cross country skier
- Mikhail Matveyevich Ivanov, Russian graphic artist and painter
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859–1939), Russian composer, conductor, and pedagogue
- Mikhail Ivanov-Boretsky, Russian musicologist and composer
- Mimi Ivanova, Bulgarian singer
- Mirela Ivanova (born 1962), modern Bulgarian poet
- Miroslav Ivanov (1929–1999), Czech non-fiction writer
- Miroslav Ivanov (footballer) (born 1981), Bulgarian footballer
- Mitrofan Ivanov-Kozelsky, Russian actor
- Natalya Ivanova (born 1981), Russian hurdler
- Natalya Ivanova (wrestler) (born 1969), Tajikistani wrestler
- Natalya Ivanova (Ukrainian athlete) (born 1975), Ukrainian runner
- Nikolai Ivanov (1850–1919), Russian commander
- Nikolai Ivanov (referee), Russian football referee
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Ivanov, Russian biochemist
- Nicolas Ivanoff (born 1969), French pilot and flying instructor
- Olimpiada Ivanova (born 1979), Russian athlete
- Porfiry Ivanov (1898–1983), Russian mystic
- Pyotr Ivanov, Russian embryologist
- Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik, Russian politician
- Rick Ivanoff a Canadian songwriter and member of SOCAN
- Savina Ivanova (born 1989), Australian academic
- Sergei Ivanov (born 1953), First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
- Sergei Ivanov (chess player), Russian chess grandmaster
- Sergei Ivanov (ethnographer) (1895–1986), Russian ethnographer of Siberia
- Sergei Ivanov (painter) (1864–1910), Russian painter
- Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov (born 1975), Russian professional bicycle racer
- Sergey Ivanov (athlete), Russian runner
- Trifon Ivanov (born 1965), Bulgarian football player
- Valentin Kozmich Ivanov (born 1934), Soviet football player
- Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov (born 1961), Russian football referee
- Vasili Ivanov (born 1970), Russian football player
- Viktor Ivanov (born 1950), Russian politician
- Viktor Ivanov, Russian poster artist
- Violeta G. Ivanova, Bulgarian astronomer
- Vladimir Ivanov (footballer) (born 1973), Bulgarian football player
- Vladimir Ivanov (Iranologist) (1886–1970), Russian Iranologist
- Vladimir Ivanov (volleyball player), Russian volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist
- Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov, Russian orientalist
- Vladimir Dmitriyevich Ivanov, Soviet military leader
- Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963), Soviet writer
- Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866–1949), Russian Symbolist poet and philosopher
- Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov (born 1938), Russian rower, first three-time Olympic gold medalist in the single scull
- Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (born 1929), Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist
- Xenophont Ivanov (1898–1967), Bulgarian veterinary scholar
- Yanis Ivanov, Soviet composer and People's Artist of the USSR
- Yevgeny Ivanov (1926–1994), Soviet naval attaché and a spy
- Yulia Ivanova (born 1983), Russian beauty queen