Gagarin (surname)
Gagarin (Russian: Гагарин), or Gagarina (feminine; Гагарина), is a Russian surname derived from the word gagara, meaning loon (a waterbird, genus Gavia). Notable people with the surname include:
- Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family
- Anna Gagarina, maiden name of Anna Lopukhina (1777–1805), mistress of Emperor Paul of Russia
- Ivan Gagarin (1814-1882), Russian Jesuit theologian
- Nikolai Gagarin (1784–1842), Russian soldier and politician
- Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893), Russian painter
- Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model
- Andrey Gagarin (1855–1920), Russian prince, scientist, and inventor
- Yekaterina Gagarina (1790–1873), wife of Russian diplomat Prince Grigory Gagarin and the daughter of the Secretary of State Pyotr Soymonov
- Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), Russian cosmonaut, the first man to travel in space
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