Popov
Popov, or Popova, is a common Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian patronymic surname. Derived from a Slavonic word pop. Notable people with the surname include:
Popov
- Alek Popov, Bulgarian writer
- Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
- Aleksei Popov (disambiguation)
- Anatoly Popov, Russian politician, Prime Minister of Chechnya
- Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
- Angel Popov, Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
- Apostol Popov, Bulgarian football defender
- Blagoy Popov
- Boris Popov, Russian water polo player
- Christo Popov, Bulgarian-born French badminton player
- Denis Popov, Russian football player and manager
- Denis Popov, Russian football player
- Denys Popov, Ukrainian football player
- Dilyana Popova, Bulgarian actress and model
- Dimitar Popov, Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Ivanov Popov, Bulgarian organic chemist
- Dimitar Iliev Popov, Bulgarian judge and Prime Minister
- Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
- Duško Popov, Serbian double-agent, known as Tricycle
- Egor Popov, Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
- Fedot Popov, Russian explorer
- Gavriil Popov (composer), Russian composer
- Gavriil Popov (politician), Russian politician
- George Basil Popov a Russian-British entomologist born in Iran
- Georgi Popov, Bulgarian chess player
- Georgi Alexandrov Popov, Bulgarian chess player, member of the ICCF Bulgaria
- Georgi Dimitrov Popov, Bulgarian football player
- Georgi Vladimirovich Popov was a Soviet weightlifter.
- Georgy Arturovich Popov, Russian taekwondo athlete
- Goran Popov, Macedonian footballer
- Haralan Popov, Bulgarian church minister
- Hristian Popov, Bulgarian football player
- Ilya Popov, Russian boxer
- Ivan Popov, Russian general
- Ivan Popov, Russian chess Grandmaster
- Ivelin Popov, Bulgarian footballer
- Katia Popov, Bulgarian-born American violinist
- Leonid Popov, Soviet cosmonaut
- Luben Popov, Bulgarian chess player
- Markian Popov, Soviet Army General
- Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
- Nikolay Popov (disambiguation)
- Oleg Popov, Russian circus artist
- Pavel Popov, Russian military officer
- Polina Popova, Miss Russia 2017
- Pyotr Popov, Russian luger
- Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, Soviet intelligence officer and double agent
- Robert Popov, Macedonian footballer
- Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
- Serhiy Popov, Ukrainian footballer
- Stefan Popov (musician) a Bulgarian cellist
- Stole Popov, Macedonian film director.
- Strahil Popov, Bulgarian footballer
- Toma Junior Popov, Bulgarian-born French badminton player
- Valery Popov (disambiguation)
- Vasile M. Popov, Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
- Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
- Victor Popov, Russian theoretical physicist
- Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
- Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
- Yuri Alexandrovich Popov, Russian paleoentomologist
Popova
- Alena Popova, Kazakhstani volleyballer
- Daria Popova, Russian pair skater
- Diana Popova, Bulgarian gymnast
- Dina Popova, Ukrainian financier and entrepreneur
- 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, Russian avant-garde artist
- Margarita Popova, former Bulgarian Minister of Justice
- Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
- Nadezhda Popova, Soviet military pilot
- Natalia Popova, Ukrainian figure skater
- Natalia Popova, Belarusian chess master
- Nina Popova, Soviet official
- Roza Popova, Bulgarian actress and theatre director
- Sofka Popova, Bulgarian runner
- Tamara Popova, Soviet sprint canoer
- Tatiana Popova (basketball), Russian basketball player
- Valentina Popova, Russian weightlifter
- Vera Popova, Russian chemist
- Veronika Popova, Russian swimmer
Fictional characters
- Nadia Popov, character in the British children's program Rentaghost
- Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov, character in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance