Leontyev
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Leontyev, also spelled as Leontjew, Leontiev, Leontjev, Leontief, or Leont'ev (Russian: Леонтьев; feminine - Леонтьева, Leontyeva), is a common Russian surname and may refer to:
- Alexei Leontyev (1917-?), a Soviet mathematician
- Alexei Leontyev (1716-1786), one of the first Russian sinologists
- Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903-1979), Soviet psychologist, the founder of activity theory
- Aleksei A. Leontiev, (1936—2004), Soviet psychologist and lingust, one of the founders of the Soviet psycholinguistics, the son of Aleksei N. Leontiev
- Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891) was a maverick Russian philosopher
- Lev Leontyev (1901-?), a Soviet economist
- Mikhail Leontyev, a Russian reporter working for Channel One
- Oleg Leontyev (1920-?), a Soviet geomorphologist
- Sergei Leontyev (1879 or 1880 - after 1932), a Russian politician
- Valeri Leontyev, a Russian pop singer
- Wassily Leontief (1905-1999), was an economist