# Lebedev

Lebedev (Russian: Ле́бедев), or Lebedeva (feminine; Ле́бедева) is a common Russian family name derived from the word лебедь (lebed, meaning "swan").

## Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 83.5% of all known bearers of the surname Lebedev were residents of Russia (1:1,150), 5.5% of Ukraine (1:5,476), 2.8% of Belarus (1:2,295), 2.5% of Uzbekistan (1:8,343) and 2.4% of Kazakhstan (1:4,862).
In Russia, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,150) in the following federal subjects:
* 1. Kostroma Oblast (1:157)
* 2. Ivanovo Oblast (1:289)
* 3. Tver Oblast (1:291)
* 4. Yaroslavl Oblast (1:379)
* 5. Jewish Autonomous Oblast (1:476)
* 6. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1:516)
* 7. Mari El (1:521)
* 8. Vologda Oblast (1:563)
* 9. Vladimir Oblast (1:619)
* 10. Leningrad Oblast (1:677)
* 11. Novgorod Oblast (1:685)
* 12. Amur Oblast (1:739)
* 13. Udmurtia (1:761)
* 14. Saint Petersburg (1:773)
* 15. Pskov Oblast (1:838)
* 16. Moscow Oblast (1:861)
* 17. Volgograd Oblast (1:900)
* 18. Murmansk Oblast (1:925)
* 19. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (1:934)
* 20. Belgorod Oblast (1:976)
* 21. Kirov Oblast (1:983)
* 22. Kaliningrad Oblast (1:998)
* 23. Voronezh Oblast (1:1,010)
* 24. Irkutsk Oblast (1:1,018)
* 25. Smolensk Oblast (1:1,027)
* 26. Khabarovsk Krai (1:1,033)
* 27. Magadan Oblast (1:1,099)
* 28. Arkhangelsk Oblast (1:1,117)
* 29. Sakhalin Oblast (1:1,120)
* 30. Kemerovo Oblast (1:1,146)

## People

* Alexander Lebedev (born 1959), Russian businessman and politician
* Aleksandr Lebedev (biochemist), Russian biochemist
* Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev (1918–1943), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Alexey Lebedev (1924–1993), Russian tubist and composer
* Aleksey Vladimirovich Lebedev (born 1973), Russian scriptwriter and director. Main scriptwriter of the Kikoriki series.
* Alina Lebedeva (born 1985), attacked Prince Charles of the United Kingdom in 2001
* Andrey Lebedev (footballer) (born 1963), Soviet and Russian footballer
* Andrey Lebedzew (born 1991), Belarusian footballer
* Artemy Lebedev (born 1975), Russian graphic designer and founder of Art. Lebedev Studio
* Arthur Lebedev (born 1936), Russian neurophysiologist
* Denis Lebedev (born 1979), Russian boxer
* Dmitri Lebedev (businessman) (born 1968), CEO of Rossiya Bank
* Dmitry Lebedev (general) (1872–1935), Russian Estonian military commander, general
* Dzmitry Lebedzew (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
* Evgeny Lebedev (born 1980), newspaper publisher
* Evgeny Lebedev (1917–1997), Russian actor
* Gerasim Lebedev (1749–1817), Russian Indologist
* Gennady Lebedev (1957–2004), Russian economist, businessman and politician
* Ivan Lebedeff (1894–1953), Russian-American film actor
* Ivan Lebedev (a.k.a. Jean Lébédeff), (1884–1972), Russian-French painter and printmaker (article in French Wikipedia)
* Ivan Lebedev (born 1959), Russian – American artist and photographer
* Klavdy Lebedev (1852–1916), Russian painter
* Konstantin Lebedev (1910–1949), Soviet soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Natalya Lebedeva (born 1949), Russian athlete
* Nikolai Alexandrovich Lebedev (1914–1942), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Nikolai Andreevich Lebedev (1919–1982), mathematician
* Pavel Lebedev (born 1982), Russian pairs figure skater
* Platon Lebedev (born 1956), Russian businessman
* Pyotr Lebedev (1866–1912), Russian physicist
* Sergey Lebedev (disambiguation) – several people
* Tatyana Lebedeva (born 1976), Russian athlete
* Valentin Lebedev (born 1942), Russian cosmonaut and double Hero of the Soviet Union
* Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), Russian poet
* Vladimir Lebedev (artist) (1891–1967), Russian painter and graphic artist
* Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev (1930–2010), Russian mathematician, known for the Lebedev quadrature method
* Yelena Lebedeva (born 1977), Uzbekistani canoeist
* Yevgeniy Lebedev (born 1981), Russian sprint athlete
* Yevgeni Lebedev (1917–1997), Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR
* Yuri Lebedev (born 1951), Russian former ice hockey player

## 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