Orlov (surname)

Orlov (Орлов; masculine) or Orlova (Орлова; feminine) is a Russian surname derived from the noun орёл "eagle". It is shared by the following people:

People

 * Orlov (family), a Russian noble family
 * Aleksandr Orlov (disambiguation), several people
 * Aleksey Orlov (politician) (b. 1961), Russian-Kalmyk politician
 * Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737-1808), Russian military leader
 * Alina Orlova, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
 * Andrey Orlov or Orlusha, Russian poet, and journalist
 * Boris Orlov (disambiguation), several people
 * Dal Orlov (1935–2021), Russian film critic, journalist, and screenwriter
 * Dmitri Orlov, Russian hockey player
 * Dmitry Orlov (disambiguation), several people
 * Dorothy Orlov (mother of actor Paul Michael Glaser)
 * Georgi Orlov (1884–1941), Russian-Estonian politician
 * Igor Orlov, several people
 * Ivan Orlov (aviator) (1895-1917), World War I flying ace
 * Ivan Orlov (philosopher) (1886–1936), philosopher
 * Jakob Orlov (b. 1985), Swedish footballer
 * Janina Orlov (b. 1952), Finnish-Swedish translator
 * Lyubov Orlova (1902–1975), Soviet actress
 * Marina Orlova (actress), Russian actress
 * Marina Orlova (Internet celebrity), YouTube celebrity philologist
 * Mikhail Orlov (racewalker) (b. 1967), Russian race walker
 * Natalya Orlova (born 1969), Russian politician
 * Nikolay Orlov, several people
 * Oleg Petrovich Orlov (b. 1953), Russian biologist, post-Soviet human rights activist
 * Raisa Orlova (1918-1989), Russian writer and American studies scholar
 * Sergei Orlov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Svetlana Orlova (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Vasily Orlov-Denisov (1775–1843), Russian cavalry general
 * Vladimir Orlov (speed skater) (b. 1938), Russian speed skater
 * Vladimir Aljakseevich Orlov (b. 1953), also known as Uładzimir Arłou, Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet
 * Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov (1895–1938), Soviet military leader
 * Yuri Orlov (1924–2020), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and a human rights activist

Fictional characters

 * Aleksandr Orlov, an anthropomorphic meerkat from the Compare the Meerkat advertising campaign
 * Bo Orlov, a character in the Netflix series  Grand Army
 * General Orlov, a villain in the James Bond film Octopussy
 * Georgiy Ivanych Orlov, a character in the Chekhov novella The Story of an Unknown Man.
 * Yuri Orlov, arms dealer and central character of the film Lord of War