Lebedev

Lebedev (Template:Lang-ru), or Lebedeva (feminine; Лебедева) is a common Russian family name derived from the word lebed — swan. The following notable people have this name:

Real people

• Alexander Lebedev (born 1959), Russian businessman and politician
• Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev, Russian biochemist
• Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev (1918–1943), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexey Lebedev, Russian electrical engineer
• Andrei Vladimirovich Lebedev (born 1963), Soviet and Russian footballer
• Andrey Lebedzew (born 1991), Belarusian footballer
• Artemy Lebedev, Russian graphic designer and founder of Art. Lebedev Studio
• Denis Lebedev, Russian boxer
• Dmitry Lebedev (businessman), CEO of Rossiya Bank
• Dmitry Lebedev (general) (1872-1935), Russian Estonian military commander, general
• Dmitry Lebedev (scientist), Russian scientist in the field of rail transport mechanics
• Dzmitry Lebedzew (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
• Evgeny Lebedev, newspaper publisher
• Gerasim Lebedev (1749–1817), Russian Indologist
• Gennady Lebedev (1957-2004), Russian economist, businessman and politician
• Ivan Lebedev, Russian writer
• Klavdy Lebedev (1852–1916), Russian painter
• Konstantin Lebedev (1910–1949), Soviet soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Mikhail Ivanovich Lebedev, Russian painter
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Lebedev, Russian poet
• Natalya Lebedeva, Russian athlete
• Nikolai Alexandrovich Lebedev (1914–1942), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolai Andreevich Lebedev, mathematician
• Pavel Lebedev, Russian pairs figure skater
• Platon Lebedev, Russian businessman
• Pyotr Lebedev (1866-1912), Russian physicist
• Sergei Lebedev, head of Russian foreign intelligence
• Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev, creator of first Soviet computers
• Sergei Nikolaevich Lebedev, Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian chemist, inventor of synthetic rubber
• Sergey Lebedev (footballer), Uzbekistani football midfielder
• Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian athlete
• Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut and double Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Russian poet
• Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist
• Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev, Russian mathematician, known for the Lebedev quadrature method
• Yevgeniy Lebedev, Russian sprint athlete
• Yevgeny Lebedev, Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR

Fictional characters

• Juan Ivanovich Lebedev, fictional character from Deus Ex
• Lukian Timofyevich Lebedev, fictional character from Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
• N. A. Lebedev, fictional character from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky game

See also

• The Lebedev Physical Institute and the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering which are named after Pyotr and Sergei, respectively.
• Pyotr Lebedev (research vessel)