Matvei

Matvei or Matvey (Матвей) is the Russian language variation of Matthew. Notable people with the name include:


 * Matvei Blanter (1903–1990), Russian composer of popular and film music
 * Matvei Petrovich Bronstein (1906–1938), Soviet theoretical physicist
 * Matvey Frantskevich (born 1995), Belarusian footballer
 * Matvei Gedenschtrom (c. 1780–1845), Russian explorer of the northern parts of Siberia
 * Matvei Golovinski (1865–1920), Russian-French writer, journalist, and Political activist
 * Matvei Gridin (born 2006), Russian ice hockey player
 * Matvey Gusev (1826–1866), Russian astronomer
 * Matvey Kuzmin (1858–1942), Russian peasant who was killed in World War II
 * Matvey Mamykin (born 1994), Russian cyclist
 * Matvey Manizer (1891–1966), Russian sculptor
 * Matvei Muranov (1873–1959), Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary
 * Matvey Muravyev (1784–1836), Russian explorer
 * Matvei Petrov (born 1990), Russian male artistic gymnast
 * Matvei Safonov (born 1999), Russian footballer
 * Matvei Zakharov (1898–1972), Marshal of the Soviet Union
 * Matvey Levenstein (born 1960), artist born in the former U.S.S.R, lives and works in NYC