Lebedev
Appearance
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]
- 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
See also
- The Lebedev Physical Institute and the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering which are named after Pyotr and Sergei, respectively.
- Pyotr Lebedev (research vessel)