Petrov (surname)

Petrov or Petroff (

Notable people

It is the last name of, among many others, the following people:

• Alexander Petrov
  • Alexander Petrov (chess player) (1794–1867), Russian chess player, after whom the following is named:
    • Petrov's Defence, an opening
  • Aleksandr Petrov (animator) (born 1957), Russian animator
• Alexey Petrov
  • Aleksei Aleksandrovich Petrov
    (born 1974), Russian weightlifter
  • Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov (1910–1972), Russian mathematician
  • Aleksey Petrov (ice hockey)
    , Russian ice hockey player with SKA St. Petersburg
  • Aleksei Petrov (cycling)
    , Soviet cyclist who won bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics
  • Alexey A Petrov
    (born 1971), American physicist
  • Alyaksey Pyatrow (born 1991), Belarusian footballer
• Andrey Petrov (1930–2006), Russian composer
• Antonina Petrova (1915–1941) partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union
• Boris Petrov
• Borislava Petrova, Bulgarian curler
• Božo Petrov (born 1979), Croatian politician
• Daniel Petrov (born 1971), Bulgarian boxer
• Dmitry Petrov
  • Dmitry Petrov (translator) (born 1958), multilingual Russian interpreter, translator, methodologist in foreign language teaching, Polyglot TV show teacher
  • Dmitry Petrov (sprinter), a Russian sprinter
  • Dzmitry Pyatrow, a Belarusian footballer
• Dušan Petrov, Serbian political and human rights activist
• Evdokia Petrova (1915–2002), Soviet spy, wife of the Soviet diplomat who defected to Australia
• Galina Petrova (1920–1943), medic and Heroine of the Soviet Union
• Georgi Petrov, several people
  • Gjorche Petrov
    (1864/1865–1921), Bulgarian revolutionary
• Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov
  (1866–1925), Russian priest and publicist
• Igor Petrov
  • Igor Petrov (1933–2020), Soviet and Russian naval officer
  • Ihor Petrov (born 1964), Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach
• Ivailo Petrov (1923–2005), Bulgarian writer
• Ivan Petrov
  • Ivan Petrov (baritone) (1899–1963), opera singer (baritone) of Bulgarian descent
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov (born 1947), Bulgarian neurologist
  • Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (1920–2003), Russian bass opera singer
  • Ivan Yefimovich Petrov
    (1896–1958), Soviet general
• Ivanka Petrova (1951–2007), Bulgarian shot putter
• Kamelia Petrova (born 2006), Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• Kirill Petrov (born 1990), Russian ice hockey player
• Konstantin Petrov, Ukrainian physicist
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian/Soviet painter
• Kyrylo Petrov (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
• Lyudmila Petrova (born 1968), Russian long-distance runner
• Maya Petrova (born 1982), Russian Olympic champion in handball
• Maria Petrova
  • Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast) (born 1975), Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
  • Maria Petrova (figure skater) (born 1977), Russian figure skater
• Martin Petrov (born 1979), Bulgarian footballer
• Mikhail Petrovich Petrov
  • Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (general)
    (1898–1941), Soviet general
  • Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (colonel), Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nadia Petrova (born 1982), Russian professional tennis player
• Nikolay Petrov, multiple people
• Nina Petrova (1893–1945), female Red Army sniper credited with 122 kills
• Oleg Petrov
  • Oleg Petrov (born 1971), Russian hockey player
  • Oleg Petrov (footballer) (born 1968), retired Russian professional footballer
• Oleh Petrov (1960–2023), Ukrainian politician
• Olga Petrova (1884–1977), stage name of Muriel Harding, an English-born American vaudeville performer
• Osip Petrov (1806–1878), Russian opera singer
• Petar Petrov, several people
• Pyotr Nikolayevich Petrov (1827–1891), Russian historian and writer
• Pyotr Mikhailovich Petrov (1910–1941), Soviet flying ace
• Serhiy Petrov (born 1997), Ukrainian footballer
• Stanislav Petrov (1939–2017), Russian colonel who averted a potential nuclear exchange
• Stefka Petrova (born 1950), Bulgarian nutritionist
• Stiliyan Petrov (born 1979), Bulgarian footballer
• Tetiana Petrova
  • Tatiana Petrova (born 1973), Russian water polo player
  • Tatyana Petrova
    (born 1983), Russian runner
• Todor Petrov (born 1960), Macedonian politician
• Tonka Petrova, Bulgarian middle-distance runner
• Totka Petrova (born 1956), Bulgarian middle-distance runner
• Tudor Petrov-Popa (born 1963), Moldovan Romanian politician
• Vadim Petrov (1932–2020), Czech composer
• Vadym Petrov (born 1995), Ukrainian football player
• Valeri Petrov (1920–2014), Bulgarian poet
• Valeriy Petrov, (1955–2022) Ukrainian football coach
• Vasily Petrov, multiple people
• Vasil Petrov (born 1986), Bulgarian football manager
• Victor Petrov
  , Soviet spy, Ukrainian emigrant activist, writer, philosopher and historian
• Vitaliy Petrov
  • Vitaly Petrov, Russian auto racing driver
  • Vitaly Petrov
    , Ukrainian athletics coach
• Vladimir Petrov, multiple people
• Vyacheslav Petrov (born 1969), Russian politician
• Yevgeny Petrov, multiple people

Fictional characters

• Viktor Petrov, the fictional President of Russia in the
  House of Cards
  .
• Katerina Petrova, (1473–2012) character from the television series The Vampire Diaries
• Nadia Petrova, (1490–2012) character from the television series The Vampire Diaries
• Guardian Alberta Petrov, character from the book series Vampire Academy
• Katya Petrova, character from the television series Melrose Place
• Petrova Fossil, character from the novel Ballet Shoes (novel) by Noel Streatfeild

See also

• Petrov (disambiguation)

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Petrov, Petroff, Petrova.
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