Lebedev

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. 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)