Sokolov (surname)
Sokolov (Russian: Соколов, masculine) or Sokolova (Соколова, feminine) is one of the top ten most common Russian last names.[1] It is derived from the Russian word "сокол" (sokol, meaning falcon). It may be Germanized as Sokoloff or Sokolow.
The surname may refer to:
People
- Aleksandr Sokolov (politician) (born 1949), Russian politician
- Alexander Sokolov (born 1955), Spanish sculptor
- Andrei Sokolov (born 1963), French, ex-Russian chess player
- Andrei Sokolov (born 1972), Latvian chess player
- Arseny Sokolov (1910–1986), Russian physicist, coauthor of Sokolov–Ternov effect
- Boris Vadimovich Sokolov (born 1957), philologist and historian
- Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (1914–2013), Soviet geologist, paleontologist, and academician
- Dmitri Sokolov (footballer) (born 1988), Russian footballer with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Amkar Perm
- Dmitri Sokolov (basketball) (born 1985), Russian basketball player currently with PBC CSKA Moscow
- Dmitri Sokolov (biathlete) (1924–2009), Soviet biathlete
- Elena Sokolova (born 1980), Russian figure skater
- Eva Sokolova (born 1961), Russian hurdler
- Fedor Sokolov (born 1984), Israeli pair skater
- Georgi Sokolov (1942–2002), Bulgarian footballer
- Grigory Sokolov (born 1950), Russian pianist
- Igor Sokolov (born 1958), Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion
- Ivan Sokolov (born 1968), Yugoslav-born Dutch chess player
- Ivan Sokolov (born 1960), Russian composer
- Ivan Glebovich Sokolov (born 1960), Russian-born pianist and composer
- Lydia Sokolova (1896–1974), English ballerina
- Larisa Sokolova, Russian musicologist
- Lyubov Sokolova (volleyball) (born 1977), Russian volleyball player
- Lyubov Sokolova (1921–2001), Soviet and Russian actress
- Maxim Sokolov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey goaltender
- Nahum Sokolow (1859–1936), Jewish Hebrew-language writer and Zionist leader
- Natalia Sokolova (model) (born 1976), Russian model and actress
- Nikolai Sokoloff (1886–1965), Russian-American conductor and violinist
- Nikolai Alekseyevich Sokolov (born 1983), Russian football striker
- Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (1859–1922), Russian composer
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Sokolov (athlete) (born 1930), Soviet Olympic athlete
- Nikolai Sokolov (footballer) (1897–1988), Soviet international football goalkeeper
- Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, fictional character from the Metal Gear series
- Oleg Sokolov, member of the Odessa Group
- Pavel Petrovich Sokolov (1764–1835), Russian sculptor
- Pavel Viktorovich Sokolov (born 1987), Russian footballer with FC Istra
- Pavel Yevgenyevich Sokolov (born 1976), Russian footballer with FC Gazovik Orenburg
- Pyotr Sokolov (portraitist) (1791–1848), Russian portraitist, father of the painter of the same name
- Pyotr Sokolov (painter) (1821–1899), Russian painter and graphic artist, son of the portraitist of the same name
- Pyotr Sokolov (footballer) (1890–1971), Russian football player and spy
- Raymond Sokolov (born 1941), American culinary journalist
- Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), Russian writer
- Sergey Sokolov (commander) (1911–2012), Soviet military commander
- Stanislav Sokolov (born 1947), Russian animator
- Tsvetan Sokolov (born 1989), Bulgarian volley player
- Valeriy Sokolov (born 1986), Ukrainian violinist
- Vasili Sokolov (1874–1959), Russian revolutionary and party journalist
- Victor Sokolov (1947–2006), Russian-American dissident journalist and a priest
- Vladislav Sokolov (1908–1993), Soviet choir conductor and composer, People's Artist of the USSR
- Yefrem Sokolov (born 1926), former leader of the Byelorussian SSR
- Yegor Sokolov (1750–1824), Russian architect
- Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov (1896–1971), Russian mathematician
Fictional characters
- Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov from Metal Gear Solid 3
- Sokolov, former Russian Spetsnaz in Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde
- Anton Sokolov, Head of the Academy and Royal Physician in the game Dishonored
See also
- Sokolov (disambiguation)
- Sokolović, a surname
References
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