Lebedev

Lebedev (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