Lev (given name)

The name Lev may be of different origins.

It is typically a first name, or less commonly a surname (e.g. in Czech Republic) of Slavic origin, which translates as "lion". Cf. Germanic form Löwe or Löw.

It is also a common Israeli surname and uncommon female first name which translates as "heart" (לב, Loeb, Löb) in Hebrew. .

The name also appears in the forms Liev, Lyev, Leo and Leon.

People with this name include:

• Leo I of Galicia (Lev Danylovych in Ukrainian) (c. 1228-c. 1301), Knyaz (prince) of Belz, Peremyshl, Halych, Grand Prince of Kiev and King of Galicia-Volhynia
• Lev Alburt (born 1945), chess Grandmaster and chess writer
• Lev Artsimovich (1909-1973), Soviet physicist
• Lev Berg (1876-1950), Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
• Lev Brovarskyi (1948-2009), Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach
• Lev Chernyi (died 1921), Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet
• Lev Dyomin (1926-1988), Soviet cosmonaut and Air Force colonel
• Lev Grossman (born 1969), American novelist and critic
• Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
• Lev Hakak (born 1944), Israeli-American academic, novelist and poet
• Lev Ivanov (1834-1901), Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet
• Lev Ivanov (football manager) (born 1967), Russian football manager
• Lev Korchebokov (1907-1971), Soviet football player and manager
• Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), Soviet filmmaker and film theorist
• Lev Khrshchonovich (1838-1907), chief architect of Kazan
• Lev Landau (1908–1968), Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate
• Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born 1956), Israeli businessman and philanthropist
• Lev Binzumovich Leviev (born 1984), Russian-Israeli Internet entrepreneur and investor
• Lev Loseff (1937-2009), Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator
• Lev Mei (1822-1862), Russian dramatist and poet
• Lev Naryshkin (1785-1846), Russian general in the Napoleonic Wars
• Lev Perovski (1792-1856), Russian count, mineralogist and Minister of Internal Affairs under Nicholas I
• Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist
• Lev Polugaevsky (1934-1995), Soviet grandmaster and author
• Lev Pontryagin (1908-1988), Soviet mathematician
• Lev Russov (1926-1987), Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• Lev Sedov (1906–1938), son of the Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky
• Lev Shatilo (born 1962), retired javelin thrower from the Soviet Union
• Lev L. Spiro, American television and film director
• Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), often translated as Leo Tolstoy, Russian author
• Lev Trotsky (Liev Davidovitch Bronstein) (1879-1940), often translated as Leon Trotsky, Russian economist and revolutionary
• Lev Vladimirovich Urusov (1877-1933), Russian prince, diplomat and tennis player
• Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), Soviet psychologist
• Lev Weinstein (1916–2004), Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting
• Lev Yashin (1929–1990), Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper
• Lev Yilmaz (born 1973), American independent filmmaker, artist and publisher

See also

• Liev Schreiber (born 1967), American actor

References