Medvedev
Medvedev (Russian: Медве́дев) and female Medvedeva (Медве́дева), from Russian medved’ (медве́дь), meaning the animal "bear", are Slavic surnames.
Notable bearers of the name include:
Medvedev (male form):
- Medvedev, Dmitry Anatolyevich (born 1965), Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, former President of Russia
- Medvedev, Alexander (born 1955), Russian business manager— Gazprom
- Medvedev, Alexander (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
- Medvedev, Aleksei – several people
- Medvedev, Andriy (born 1974), a retired professional tennis player from Ukraine
- Medvedev, Danila (born 1980), Russian futurologist, business manager – KrioRus, Science vs. Aging
- Medvedev, Dmitry (pilot) (1918–1992), Soviet soldier
- Medvedev, Dmitry Nikolayevich (1898–1954), Russian partisan leader in World War II
- Medvedev, Grigory – several people
- Medvedyev, Hennadiy (born 1975), Ukrainian footballer
- Medvedev, Ilya (born 1983), Russian Olympic canoer
- Medvedev, Maksim (born 1989), Azerbaijani footballer
- Medvedev, Nikolai (1922–1985), a Soviet seaman and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Medvedev, Pavel (1892–1938), Russian scholar
- Medvedev, Pyotr, Russian actor and entrepreneur
- Medvedev, Roy (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian historian
- Medvedev, Sergei – several people
- Medvedev, Vladimir, KGB General responsible for security of Soviet leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
- Medvedev, Vitaly – several people
- Medvedev, Yukhim (1886–1938), first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament in Ukraine
- Medvedev, Zhores (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian biologist, historian and activist
Medvedeva (female form)
- Medvedeva, Evgenia (born 1999), Russian figure skater
- Medvedeva, Katya (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
- Medvedeva, Nadezhda, Russian actress
- Medvedeva, Natalia – several people
- Medvedeva, Nijolė (born 1960), Olympic long jumper from Lithuania
- Medvedeva, Svetlana (born 1965), former First Lady of Russia
- Medvedeva, Yelena (born 1965), Soviet Olympic rower
- Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Yevgeniya (born 1976), cross country skier
Astronomy
- 17000 Medvedev, asteroid.
See also
- Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale, earthquake intensity scale
- Medved (disambiguation), a non-Russian Slavic variant of the surname meaning bear in Russian.
- Nedvěd, another Slavic variant
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