Ignatyev

Ignatyev, Ignatiev, or Ignatieff (Игнатьев; masculine) or Ignatyeva (Игнатьева; feminine) is a Russian surname derived from the name Ignatius, in Russian, Ignatiy/Ignaty. In the Imperial Russia the Ignatievs noble family was established sometimes in the 17th century as a cadet branch of the Pleshchevs family from Chernihiv (Czernihów). Along with Pleshchevs, the Ignatievs family takes its roots from a Muscovite boyar Theodore Biakont who emigrated from Chernihiv to Moscow sometime in the 14th century, see Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev.

Ihnatyev and Ihnatiev is a transliteration of the name from Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. For more information, see Ge (Cyrillic).

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aleksandr Ignatyev (born 1971), Russian football player
 * Alexsandr Ignatyev (1912–1998), Russian sculptor
 * Alexandra Nikolaevna Ignatieff (born 1939), Franco-Russian countess and Princess of San Stefano
 * Alexey Ignatyev (1877–1954), Russian count, statesman, and writer
 * Andrey Alexandrovich Ignatiev (1900–1973), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Andrey Nikolayevich Ignatyev (1921–2012), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Ardalion Ignatyev (1930–1998), Soviet athlete
 * Boris Ignatyev, Russian football manager
 * Gavriil Ignatyev (1768–1852), Russian infantry general
 * George Ignatieff (1913–1989), Canadian diplomat and recipient Pearson Medal of Peace (son of Pavel Ignatyev)
 * Grigory Ignatyev (1846–1898), Russian military communications engineer and inventor
 * Michael Ignatieff (born 1947), Canadian politician, academic and broadcaster (son of George Ignatieff)
 * Mikhail Ignatyev (disambiguation), several people
 * Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832–1908), Russian statesman and diplomat
 * Nikolay Ignatyev (pilot) (1917–1994), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Noel Ignatiev, history professor at the Massachusetts College of Art
 * Pavel Ignatieff (1870–1945), Russian count and minister of education (son of Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev)
 * Pavel Ignatyev (1973), Russian sculptor
 * Semyon Ignatyev (1904–1983), head of the Soviet secret police
 * Sergey Ignatyev (disambiguation), several people
 * Countess Sophia Ignatieva, Russian countess
 * Varnava Ignatyev (1867–1927), Russian/Soviet scientist in the field of children's and teenage hygiene
 * Vladislav Ignatyev (born 1987), Russian football player currently playing for Lokomotiv
 * Vladyslav Ihnatyev (born 1997), Ukrainian football player