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):

• Alexander Medvedev (born 1955), Russian business manager
• Alexander Medvedev (ice hockey) (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
• Aleksei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
• Andriy Medvedev (born 1974), Ukrainian tennis player
• Daniil Medvedev (born 1996), Russian tennis player
• Danila Medvedev (born 1980), Russian futurologist, business manager
• Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965), former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, former President of Russia
• Dmitry Medvedev (partisan) (1898–1954), Russian partisan leader in World War II
• Evgeny Medvedev (born 1982), Russian ice hockey defenseman
• Grigory Medvedev, Soviet sprint canoeist
• Hennadiy Medvedyev (born 1975), Ukrainian footballer
• Ilya Medvedev (born 1983), Russian Olympic canoer
• Maksim Medvedev (born 1989), Azerbaijani footballer
• Mikhail Medvedev (1891-1964), Bolshevik, Chekist
• Pavel Medvedev (disambiguation) - several people
• Roy Medvedev (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian historian
• Sergei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
• Vladimir Medvedev (born 1937), KGB general, senior bodyguard of Brezhnev and Gorbachev
• Vladimir Medvedev (footballer) (born 1971), Russian football player
• Vitaly Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
• Yukhym Medvedev (1886–1938), first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament in Ukraine
• Zhores Medvedev (1925–2018), Georgian-born Russian biologist, historian and activist

Medvedeva[]

(female form)

• Natalia Medvedeva (actress) (1915–2007), Russian actress
• Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
• Natalia Medvedeva (singer) (1958–2003), Russian singer
• Nijolė Medvedeva (born 1960), Olympic long jumper from Lithuania
• Svetlana Medvedeva (born 1965), former First Lady of Russia
• Yelena Medvedeva (born 1965), Soviet Olympic rower
• Natalia Medvedeva (tennis) (born 1971), Ukrainian tennis player
• Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova (born 1976), cross country skier
• Evgenia Medvedeva (born 1999), Russian figure skater

See also[]

• 17000 Medvedev, asteroid
• 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

Surname list

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