Zinoviev

Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (Russian: Зиновьев), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зиновьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek Zenobios.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Zinovyev (1922–2006), a Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
• Alexander S. Zinoviev, a diplomat
• Boris Zinovyev (1874–1900), a Russian revolutionary
• Georgi Zinovyev (1887–1934), a Soviet military leader
• Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), an NKVD captain and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Peter Zinovieff, a British inventor
• Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer
• Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), a Finnish composer
• Sergei Zinovjev, Russian Ice Hockey player
• Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author
• Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 594. ISBN 0-19-211592-8. Zinovyev [-] Russian:patr. from the given name Zinovi, a Russ. form of Gk Zenobios [...] Its popularity in Eastern Europe is largely due to the veneration in the Orthodox Church of an early Christian martyr, a priest and physician who was killed in Asia Minor at the end of the 3rd century.