Popov
Popov or Popoff (masculine) or Popova (feminine) is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (priest). The fourth most common Russian surname. It may refer to:
- Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
- Aleksei Popov (born 1978), Russian footballer
- Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, former 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
- Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
- Dimitar Iliev Popov (born 1927), Bulgarian judge and former Prime Minister
- Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
- Dusan Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known also as 'Tricycle'
- Eduard Popov (born 1988), Russian football player
- Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
- Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer
- Frank Popoff (born 1930), American businessman and chemist
- Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (born 1936), Russian politician
- Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer
- Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
- Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
- Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player,
- Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
- Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
- Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist
- Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
- Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
- Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
- Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer
- Oleg Popov (born 1930), Russian circus artist
- Peter Popoff (born 1946), German-born American televangelist
- Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
- 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
- Valentina Popova (born 1972), a Russian weightlifter
- 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 (born 1936), Russian paleoentomologist
See also