# Sokolov (surname)

Sokolov (Соколо́в, masculine) or Sokolova (Соколо́ва, feminine) is one of the top ten most common Russian family names. The name derives from the Russian word "Со́кол" (sokol, meaning "falcon"). It may appear in Germanized form as Sokoloff or Sokolow. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aleksandr Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* 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 Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Denis Viktorovich Sokolov (born 1983), Russian rifle shooter
* Denis Yurevich Sokolov (born 1977), Russian ice hockey defenceman
* Dmitri Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Elena Sokolova (born 1980), Russian figure skater
* Eugene Sokolov (1920–2008), Russian neuroscientist
* Eva Sokolova (born 1961), Russian hurdler
* Evgenia Sokolova (1850–1925), Russian dancer and educator
* Evgeny Sokolov (born 1984) Russian cyclist
* Fedor Sokolov (born 1984), Israeli pair skater
* Fred Sokolow (born 1945), American multi-instrumentalist.
* 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
* Lale Sokolov (1916–2006), the tattooist of Auschwitz
* Larisa Sokolova, Russian musicologist
* Lydia Sokolova (1896–1974), English ballerina
* Lyubov Sokolova (volleyball) (born 1977), Russian volleyball player
* Lyubov Sokolova (1921–2001), Soviet and Russian actress
* Konstantin Sokolov (born 1991), Russian ice hockey player
* Maksim Sokolov (born 1968), Russian economist and former Minister of Transport of Russia
* Marina Sokolova (born 1969), Russian-born German chess player
* Maxim Sokolov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey goaltender
* Mikhail Sokolov (1885–1947), Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator
* Nahum Sokolow (1859–1936), Jewish Hebrew-language writer and Zionist leader
* Natalia Sokolova (model) (born 1976), Russian model and actress
* Nikolay Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Oleg Sokolov, Russian historian
* Pavel Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Pyotr Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Raymond Sokolov (born 1941), American culinary journalist
* Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), Russian writer
* Saška Sokolov, Serbian athlete
* Sergei Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* 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
* Victor Sokolov Alias name of espionage agent Anatoly Gurevich
* Viktor Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Vladimir Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
* Vladislav Sokolov (1908–1993), Soviet choir conductor and composer, People's Artist of the USSR
* Yefrem Sokolov (1926–2022), former leader of the Byelorussian SSR
* Yegor Sokolov (1750–1824), Russian architect
* Yevgeny Sokolov (born 1931), Lithuanian middle-distance runner
* Yevgeny Gavrilovich Sokolov (1880–1949), Russian artist
* Yordan Sokolov (1933–2016), Bulgarian jurist and former Minister of Interior of Bulgaria
* Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov (1896–1971), Russian mathematician

## Fictional characters

* Sokolov, former Russian Spetsnaz in Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde
* Dr.Sokolov, a character in Ivan Vazov's novel Under the Yoke
* Andrey Sokolov, the main character of the Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov's short story The Fate of Man
* Sergei Sokolov, character in Rina Kent's Empire Series.
* Game characters:
** Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov from Metal Gear Solid 3
** Anton Sokolov, Head of the Academy and Royal Physician in the game Dishonored
** Ivan Sokolov, a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler from Buriki One