Popov
Popov or Popoff (masculine) or Popova (feminine) is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (priest). The fourth most common Russian surname. It may refer to:
- Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
- Aleksei Popov (b. 1978), Russian footballer
- Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, former Prime Minister of Chechnya
- Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
- Angel Popov (born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
- Apostol Popov (born 1982), Bulgarian football defender
- Blagoy Popov (1902-1968)
- Boris Popov (b. 1941), Russian water polo player
- Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player
- Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
- Dimitar Iliev Popov (born 1927), Bulgarian judge and former Prime Minister
- Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
- Dusan Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known also as 'Tricycle'
- Eduard Popov (b. 1988), Russian football player
- Egor Popov (1913-2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
- Fedot Popov, Russian explorer
- Frank Popoff (born 1930), American businessman and chemist
- Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (born 1936), Russian politician
- Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer
- Georgy Popov, Soviet statesman and party figure
- Goran Popov, Macedonian footballer
- Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
- Hristian Popov (b. 1990), Bulgarian football player,
- Igor Popov, Soviet painter
- Ivan Popov, Russian zoo technician
- Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
- Konstantin Popov, Soviet geographer and orientalist
- Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
- Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist
- Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
- Markian Popov (1902-1969), Soviet Army General
- Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
- Nikolay Popov
- Nil Popov, Russian historian
- Nina Popova, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize
- Oleg Popov (born 1930), Russian circus artist
- Pavel Popov, Russian sinologist
- Peter Popoff (born 1946), German-born American televangelist
- Pyotr Popov, Russian luger
- Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
- Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
- Sasha Popov, Bulgarian musician
- Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
- Serhiy Popov (b. 1971), Ukrainian footballer
- Serhiy Popov (gymnast), Ukrainian acrobatic gymnast
- Stefan Popov (b. 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
- Stole Popov (b. 1950), Macedonian film director.
- Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
- Valentin Popov, Russian art collector and expert in Muscovite history
- Valentina Popova, a Russian weightlifter
- Valery Popov (diplomat), Soviet and Russian diplomat and ambassador
- Valery Popov (musician), Russian bassoonist
- Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
- Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
- Victor Popov, Russian theoretical physicist
- Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
- Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
- Popov (crater), lunar crater
- Popov (vodka), American brand of vodka
- Faddeev-Popov ghost, an object in theoretical physics
- Popov Island
- Popov Castle
- Popov was also a derogatory term for 'Russian' used by German soldiers in World War II (much like Ivan)