Potapov

Potapov (masculine, Потапов) or Potapova (feminine, Потапова) is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aleksandr Potapov (1818–1886), Russian statesman
 * Anastasia Potapova, (born 2001), Russian tennis player
 * Leonid Potapov (1935-2020), Russian politician
 * Leonid P. Potapov (1905–2000), Russian ethnographer
 * Maksim Potapov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
 * Mikhail Feofanovich Potapov (1921–1943), Soviet military officer
 * Viktor Potapov (1947–2017), Russian sailor
 * Viktor Pavlovich Potapov (1934–2021), Soviet and Russian naval aviator
 * Vladimir Potapov (1914–1980), Ukrainian mathematician