Gagarin (surname)

Gagarin (Гагарин), or Gagarina (feminine; Гагарина), is a Russian surname derived from the word gagara, meaning loon (a waterbird, genus Gavia). Notable people with the surname include:
 * Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family
 * Anna Gagarina, maiden name of Anna Lopukhina (1777–1805), mistress of Emperor Paul of Russia
 * Ivan Gagarin (1814-1882), Russian Jesuit theologian
 * Nikolai Gagarin (1784–1842), Russian soldier and politician
 * Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893), Russian painter, major general and administrator
 * Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model
 * Andrey Gagarin (1934–2011), Russian prince and scientist
 * Yekaterina Gagarina (1790–1873), wife of Russian diplomat Prince Grigory Gagarin and the daughter of the Secretary of State Pyotr Soymonov
 * Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), Russian cosmonaut, the first man to travel in space