Medvedev

Medvedev (Russian: Медве́дев) and female Medvedeva (Медве́дева), from Russian medved’ (медве́дь), meaning the animal "bear", are Slavic surnames. Notable bearers of the name include:

Medvedev (male form):

Alexander Medvedev (born 1955), Russian business manager
Alexander Medvedev (ice hockey) (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
Aleksei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
Andriy Medvedev (born 1974), Ukrainian tennis player
Daniil Medvedev, Russian tennis player
Danila Medvedev (born 1980), Russian futurologist, business manager
Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965), Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, former President of Russia
Dmitry Medvedev (partisan) (1898–1954), Russian partisan leader in World War II
Evgeny Medvedev (born 1982), Russian ice hockey defenseman
Grigory Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
Hennadiy Medvedyev (born 1975), Ukrainian footballer
Ilya Medvedev (born 1983), Russian Olympic canoer
Maksim Medvedev (born 1989), Azerbaijani footballer
Pavel Medvedev (disambiguation) - several people
Roy Medvedev (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian historian
Sergei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
Vladimir Medvedev (born 1937), KGB general, senior bodyguard of Brezhnev and Gorbachev
Vladimir Medvedev (footballer) (born 1971), Russian football player
Vitaly Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
Yukhym Medvedev (1886–1938), first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament in Ukraine
Zhores Medvedev (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian biologist, historian and activist

Medvedeva (female form)

Evgenia Medvedeva (born 1999), Russian figure skater
Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
Natalia Medvedeva (disambiguation) – several people
Nijolė Medvedeva (born 1960), Olympic long jumper from Lithuania
Svetlana Medvedeva (born 1965), former First Lady of Russia
Yelena Medvedeva (born 1965), Soviet Olympic rower
Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova (born 1976), cross country skier

Medvedev

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