Semion

Semion is a male slavic given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Semion Abugov (1877–1950), Jewish, Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
 * Semion Alapin (1856–1923), chess master, openings analyst, and puzzle composer
 * Semion Belits-Geiman (born 1945), former Soviet freestyle swimmer
 * Semion Bogatyrev (1890–1960), Russian musicologist and composer
 * Semion Braude (1911–2003), Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer
 * Semion Budionnyi (1883–1973), red cossack, Soviet cavalryman, military commander, politician and close ally of Joseph Stalin
 * Semion Chelyuskin (1700–1764), Russian polar explorer and naval officer
 * Semion Domash (born 1950), Belarusian politician
 * Semion Elistratov (born 1990), Russian short-track speed-skater
 * Semion Grigoryevich Frug (1860–1916), multi-lingual Russian poet, lyricist and author
 * Semion Furman (1920–1978), Soviet chess International Grandmaster and trainer
 * Semion Grossu (born 1934), Moldovan politician and businessman
 * Semion Ivanov (1907–1993), Soviet general
 * Semion Mogilevich (born 1946), Israeli, Ukrainian-born organized crime boss, believed to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world
 * Semion Morozov (1914–1943), commissar of the Taganrog antifascist underground organization (1941–1943)
 * Semion G. Murafa (1887–1917), Bessarabian politician in the Russian Empire, also known as a publicist and composer
 * Semion Rotnitsky (1915–2004), Soviet Russian painter, Honoured Art worker of Tatar Republic, member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 * Semion Șestopali (1912–2002), Russian-born Romanian and Israeli writer
 * Semion Shchedrin (1895–1970), Soviet military commander, senior professional officer of the Red Army when the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939
 * Semion Yushkevich (1868–1927), Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda