Gleb

Gleb (Russian: Глеб; Belarusian: Глеб; Ukrainian: Гліб, Old East Slavic: Г(ъ)лѣбъ) is a Slavic male given name derived from the Old Norse name Guðleifr, which means "heir of god." According to another version, the name Gleb comes from the name Olaf. It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint Gleb, who is venerated by Eastern Orthodox churches. It is also commonly used in Ukraine and Belarus. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Gleb of Kiev (died 1171), Rus’ prince
• Gleb Axelrod (1923–2003), Russian pianist
• Gleb Baklanov (1910–1976), Russian general
• Gleb Boglayevskiy (born 1986), Russian football player
• Gleb Botkin (1900-1969), Russian-born American memoirist, illustrator and founder of a neo-pagan religion who was the son of Eugene Botkin, the court physician to the Romanov family
• Gleb W. Derujinsky (1888–1975), Russian-American sculptor
• Gleb Galperin (born 1985), Russian diver
• Gleb Ilyin (1889–1968), Russian-American painter
• Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), Russian inventor
• Gleb Krotkov (1901–1968), Canadian scientist
• Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872–1959), Russian economist
• Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russian engineer
• Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky (born 1958), Russian mathematician
• Gleb Panfilov (born 1934), Russian film director
• Gleb Panfyorov (born 1970), Russian football player
• Gleb Pavlovsky (born 1951), Russian political scientist
• Gleb Pisarevskiy (born 1976), Russian weightlifter
• Gleb Sakharov (born 1988), French tennis player
• Gleb Savchenko (born 1984), Russian dancer
• Gleb Savinov (1915–2000), Russian painter
• Gleb Shishmaryov (1781–1835), Russian admiral
• Gleb Shulpyakov (born 1971), Russian writer
• Gleb Strizhenov (1923–1985), Russian actor
• Gleb Struve (1898–1985), Russian poet and literary historian
• Gleb Svyatoslavich (died 1078), Rus' prince
• Gleb Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov) (1168–1215), Rus' prince
• Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902), Russian writer
• Gleb Wataghin (1899–1986), Italian scientist
• Gleb Yakunin (1934–2014), Russian priest and dissident
• Gleb Golubin (born 1996), Russian rapper and songwriter, leader of Dead Dynasty

Fictional characters

• Gleb Nerzhin, leading character, mathematician, prisoner, and Solzhenitsyn's alter ego in In the First Circle; Solzhenitsyn also uses Nerzhin in some of his writings about his experiences in World War II
• Gleb, a female character in the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II
• Gleb Vaganov, main antagonist in 2017 musical Anastasia (musical)
• Gleb Zheglov, main character in 1979 Soviet mini-series The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

See also

• Boris Gleb, village in Murmansk, Russia
• Church of Boris and Gleb, Russia
• Saints Boris and Gleb