# Popov

Popov (Cyrillic: Попов; masculine), or Popova (Cyrillic: Попова; feminine), is a common Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian surname. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (Cyrillic: поп, "priest"). The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to:
* Alek Popov (born 1966), Bulgarian writer
* Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
* Aleksei Popov (disambiguation)
* Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, 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 (born 1941), Russian water polo player
* Christo Popov (born 2002), Bulgarian-born French badminton player
* Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player and manager
* Denis Popov, (born 2002) Russian football player
* Denys Popov (born 1999), Ukrainian football player
* Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
* Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
* Dimitar Iliev Popov (1927–2015), Bulgarian judge and Prime Minister
* Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
* Duško Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known as Tricycle
* Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
* Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer
* Gavriil Popov (composer) (1904–1972), Russian composer
* Gavriil Popov (politician) (born 1936), Russian politician
* George Basil Popov (1922–1998) a Russian-British entomologist born in Iran
* Georgi Popov (born 1941), Bulgarian chess player
* Georgi Alexandrov Popov (born 1937), Bulgarian chess player (GMC), member of the ICCF Bulgaria
* Georgi Dimitrov Popov (1944–2024), Bulgarian football player
* Georgi Vladimirovich Popov (1912–1974) was a Soviet weightlifter.
* Georgy Arturovich Popov (born 2001), Russian taekwondo athlete
* Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
* Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
* Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player
* Ilya Popov (born 2000), Russian boxer
* Ivan Popov (born 1975), Russian general
* Ivan Popov (born 1990), Russian chess Grandmaster
* Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
* Katia Popov (1965–2018), Bulgarian-born American violinist
* Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
* Luben Popov (born 1936), Bulgarian chess player
* Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
* Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
* Nikolay Popov (disambiguation)
* Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian circus artist
* Pavel Popov (born 1957), Russian military officer
* Polina Popova (born 1995), Miss Russia 2017
* Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
* Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (1923–1960), Soviet intelligence officer and double agent
* Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
* Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
* Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
* Serhiy Popov (born 1971), Ukrainian footballer
* Stefan Popov (musician) (born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
* Stole Popov (born 1950), Macedonian film director.
* Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
* Toma Junior Popov (born 1998), Bulgarian-born French badminton player
* Valery Popov (disambiguation)
* Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
* Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
* Victor Popov (1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist
* Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
* Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
* Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (1936–2016), Russian paleoentomologist

## Fictional people

* Nadia Popov, character in the British children's program Rentaghost
* Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov, character in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

## Popova

* Alena Popova, Kazakhstani volleyballer
* Daria Popova, Russian pair skater
* Diana Popova, Bulgarian gymnast
* Faton Popova, German footballer
* Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Polish pianist and pedagogue of Bulgarian descent
* Ksenia Popova, Russian open water swimmer
* Larisa Popova, Moldovan rower
* Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist
* Margarita Popova, former Bulgarian Minister of Justice
* Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
* Nadezhda Popova, Soviet military pilot
* Natalia Popova, Ukrainian figure skater
* Natalia Popova (born 1976), Belarusian chess master
* Nina Popova (1908–1994), Soviet official
* Roza Popova (1879–1949), Bulgarian actress and theatre director
* Sofka Popova, Bulgarian runner
* Tamara Popova, Soviet sprint canoer
* Tatiana Popova (basketball), Russian basketball player
* Valentina Popova (born 1972), Russian weightlifter
* Vera Popova, Russian chemist
* Veronika Popova, Russian swimmer