Sokolov (surname)

Sokolov (Russian: Соколов, masculine) or Sokolova (Соколова, feminine) is one of the top ten most common Russian last names.^[1] It is derived from the Russian word "сокол" (sokol, meaning falcon). It may be Germanized as Sokoloff or Sokolow.

The surname may refer to:

People

• Aleksandr Sokolov (politician) (born 1949), Russian politician
• Alexander Sokolov (born 1955), Spanish sculptor
• 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 Vadimovich Sokolov (born 1957), philologist and historian
• Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (1914–2013), Soviet geologist, paleontologist, and academician
• Dmitri Sokolov (footballer) (born 1988), Russian footballer with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Amkar Perm
• Dmitri Sokolov (basketball) (born 1985), Russian basketball player currently with PBC CSKA Moscow
• Dmitri Sokolov (biathlete) (1924–2009), Soviet biathlete
• Elena Sokolova (born 1980), Russian figure skater
• Eva Sokolova (born 1961), Russian hurdler
• Fedor Sokolov (born 1984), Israeli pair skater
• 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
• Lydia Sokolova (1896–1974), English ballerina
• Larisa Sokolova, Russian musicologist
• Lyubov Sokolova (volleyball) (born 1977), Russian volleyball player
• Lyubov Sokolova (1921–2001), Soviet and Russian actress
• Maxim Sokolov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey goaltender
• Nahum Sokolow (1859–1936), Jewish Hebrew-language writer and Zionist leader
• Natalia Sokolova (model) (born 1976), Russian model and actress
• Nikolai Sokoloff (1886–1965), Russian-American conductor and violinist
• Nikolai Alekseyevich Sokolov (born 1983), Russian football striker
• Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (1859–1922), Russian composer
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Sokolov (athlete) (born 1930), Soviet Olympic athlete
• Nikolai Sokolov (footballer) (1897–1988), Soviet international football goalkeeper
• Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, fictional character from the Metal Gear series
• Oleg Sokolov, member of the Odessa Group
• Pavel Petrovich Sokolov (1764–1835), Russian sculptor
• Pavel Viktorovich Sokolov (born 1987), Russian footballer with FC Istra
• Pavel Yevgenyevich Sokolov (born 1976), Russian footballer with FC Gazovik Orenburg
• Pyotr Sokolov (portraitist) (1791–1848), Russian portraitist, father of the painter of the same name
• Pyotr Sokolov (painter) (1821–1899), Russian painter and graphic artist, son of the portraitist of the same name
• Pyotr Sokolov (footballer) (1890–1971), Russian football player and spy
• Raymond Sokolov (born 1941), American culinary journalist
• Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), Russian writer
• Sergey Sokolov (commander) (1911–2012), Soviet military commander
• 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
• Vladislav Sokolov (1908–1993), Soviet choir conductor and composer, People's Artist of the USSR
• Yefrem Sokolov (born 1926), former leader of the Byelorussian SSR
• Yegor Sokolov (1750–1824), Russian architect
• Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov (1896–1971), Russian mathematician

Fictional characters

• Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov from Metal Gear Solid 3
• Sokolov, former Russian Spetsnaz in Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde
• Anton Sokolov, Head of the Academy and Royal Physician in the game Dishonored

See also

• Sokolov (disambiguation)
• Sokolović, a surname

References