Bogdanov

Bogdanov (Богданов) or Bogdanova (Богданова; feminine) is a common Russian and Bulgarian surname, that derives from the given name Bogdan and literally means Bogdan's. Translated: Bogu dan = God gave. Bogdanovs in Latvia. Notable people with the surname include:

Bogdanov

 * Abraham Bogdanove (1888–1946) Russian muralist, artist and educator
 * Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov (1907–1971), Soviet geologist
 * Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov (1692–1766), Russian bibliographer and ethnographer
 * Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (1949–2021/2022), French TV hosts and twin brothers, notable for the Bogdanov affair and numerous internet memes
 * Ivan Bogdanov (1897–1942), Soviet military officer
 * Ivan Bogdanov (painter) (1855–1932), Russian painter
 * Malachi Bogdanov, British theatre director
 * Michael Bogdanov (1938–2017), British theatre director
 * Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (1914–1995), Soviet production designer
 * Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868–1945), Russian painter
 * Semen Ilyich Bogdanov (1894–1960), Soviet military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Vladimir Leonidovich Bogdanov (born 1951), Russian oil tycoon
 * Jon Bogdanove (Born 1958), American artist

Science

 * Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), Belarusian-Russian physician, philosopher, economist, writer and revolutionary
 * Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov (1834–1896), Russian zoologist and anthropologist
 * Bogdan Bogdanov (1940–2016), Bulgarian classical philologist, culturologist and translator
 * Konstantin Bogdanov (born 1963), Russian anthropologist and philologist
 * Modest Bogdanov (1841–1888), Russian zoologist
 * Rifkat Bogdanov (1950–2013), Tatar-Russian mathematician

Politics

 * Andrei Vladimirovich Bogdanov, (born 1970), Russian politician
 * Boris Bogdanov (1884–1960), Menshevik revolutionary
 * Pyotr Bogdanov (1882–1939), Bolshevik statesman, engineer and economist

Sport

 * Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian footballer
 * Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov (1931–2001), Soviet sport shooter
 * Andrei Bogdanov (1958–1999), Russian swimmer
 * Eduard Bogdanov (born 1968), Russian football player and coach
 * Lyubomir Bogdanov (born 1982), Bulgarian football player
 * Maksims Bogdanovs (born 1989), Latvian motorcycle speedway rider
 * Petar Bogdanov (born 1948), Bulgarian high jumper
 * Sergei Dmitriyevich Bogdanov (born 1977), Russian footballer
 * Valeri Bogdanov (footballer, born 1952), Russian football player and coach
 * Valeri Bogdanov (footballer, born 1966), Russian football player

Bogdanova

 * Anna Bogdanova (born 1984), Russian heptathlete
 * Krasimira Bogdanova (1949–1992), Bulgarian basketball player
 * Ludmila Bogdanova, penname of Belarusian writer Rakitina Nika (born 1963)
 * Lyudmila Bogdanova (born 1983), Russian judoka
 * Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (born 1962), née Bogdanova
 * (1836–1897), Russian dancer with an international career, prima ballerina of Paris Opera and Bolshoi Theatre.
 * Olga Bogdanova (born 1951), actress
 * Olga Bogdanova (born 1994), Estonian rhythmic gymnast
 * Svetlana Bogdanova (handballer) (born 1964), Russian handball player
 * Svetlana Bogdanova (water polo) (born 1976), Russian water polo player
 * Yuliya Bogdanova (born 1964), Soviet swimmer
 * Viktoria Bogdanova (born 1994), Estonian rhythmic gymnast
 * Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova (1904–1983), Soviet theatre and film actress

Bogdanovs

 * Maksims Bogdanovs