Smirnov

Smirnov (masculine, Смирнов) or Smirnova (feminine, Смирнова) is one of the two most common surnames in Russia. Smirnov (Смирнов) is derived from an adjectival nickname smirnyj (смирный; in archaic form smirnoy, смирной), that means "quiet, still, peaceful, gentle".

Smirnov

 * Aleksandr Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov (1877–1938), Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman
 * Alexei Smirnov (physicist) (born 1951), Russian particle physicist
 * Alexey Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Anatoly Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Andrei Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Anton Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Artem Smirnov (tennis) (born 1988), Ukrainian tennis player
 * Artyom Aleksandrovich Smirnov (born 1989), Russian footballer
 * Boris Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Danila Smirnov (born 2001), Russian football player
 * Daniil Smirnov, Russian Paralympic swimmer
 * Denys Smirnov (born 1975), Ukrainian footballer
 * Dmitry Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Eulogius (Smirnov) (1937–2020), Russian Orthodox prelate
 * Evgeny Smirnov (born 1987), Ukrainian DJ and producer known by his stage name Omnia
 * Gennady Mikhailovich Smirnov (1955–2000), Soviet footballer
 * Grigory Sergeyevich Smirnov (born 1997), Russian competitive ice dancer
 * Igor Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ilya Smirnov (1887–1964), Soviet army general
 * Ivan Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Karin Smirnov (1880–1973), Finnish Swedish author and daughter of August Strindberg
 * Konstantin Smirnov (1854–1930), general of the Imperial Russian Army
 * Konstantin Smirnov (military Orientalist) (1877–1938), military Orientalist of the Imperial Russian Army
 * Leonid Smirnov (footballer) (1889–1980), Russian football player
 * Leonid Smirnov (politician) (1916–2001), Soviet politician and engineer
 * Lev Smirnov (1911–1986), Soviet statesman and jurist
 * Maksim Smirnov (born 1979), Estonian football midfielder
 * Mikhail Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Nikolai Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Oleg Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Pavel Smirnov (1882–1947), Russian chess player
 * Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), Russian businessman, founder of the Smirnoff vodka brand
 * Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939), Soviet Commissar, Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander of the Soviet Navy
 * Roman Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Sergey Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Stanislav Smirnov (born 1970), mathematician
 * Valentin Smirnov (athlete) (born 1986), Russian middle distance runner
 * Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (born 1937), Russian nuclear fusion physicist
 * Vasily Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Vitali Smirnov (born 1935), Russian member of the International Olympic Committee
 * Vladimir Smirnov (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Yanaki Smirnov (born 1992), Bulgarian footballer
 * Yevhen Smirnov (born 1993), Ukrainian football midfielder
 * Yuriy Smirnov (disambiguation), also Yuri Smirnov; multiple people

Smirnova

 * Alexandra Smirnova (1809–1882) Russian lady-in-waiting
 * Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova (1910–1980), Russian composer
 * Lyudmila Smirnova (born 1949), Russian figure skater
 * Mariya Smirnova (1920–2002), Russian military pilot
 * Sophia Smirnova (1852–1921), Russian writer
 * Svetlana Smirnova (sport shooter) (born 1962), Russian sport shooter
 * Svetlana Smirnova (actor) (born 1956), Russian actor
 * Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (1935–2001), Soviet/Russian astronomer
 * Yekaterina Smirnova (born 1956), Soviet heptathlete

Other variations

 * Smirnoff (surname), variant of transliteration
 * Smirnovs, Latvian form
 * Smirnovas, Lithuanian form
 * Smirnow, variant of transliteration
 * Ukrainian forms: the Russian surname Смирнов may be rendered either as Смирнов (Smyrnov) or Смірнов (Smirnov).