Sorokin
Sorokin (Russian: Сорокин), or Sorokina (feminine; Сорокина), is a common Russian last name, which is derived from the Russian word soroka (сорока, or magpie). It may refer to the following:
- Alexander Sorokin, writer
- Alexey Sorokin (fashion designer), fashion designer
- Alexey Sorokin (military commander), Admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anatoly Sorokin, rear admiral
- Boris Sorokin, a Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Coti Sorokin, an Argentine singer-songwriter
- Evgraf Sorokin, painter
- Gennady Sorokin, a Soviet economist
- Ivan Sorokin, a Russian commander during the Russian Civil War
- Leonid Sorokin, a Soviet astronomer
- Maxim Sorokin, a Russian chess player (grandmaster)
- Nikolai Sorokin, a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, People's Artist of Russia
- Pavel Sorokin (painter), painter
- Peter P. Sorokin, an American physicist, co-inventor of the dye laser
- Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist
- Pyotr Sorokin, a Russian international soccer player
- Stanislav Sorokin, a Soviet boxer
- Vasili Sorokin, mosaics artist
- Vitali Sorokin, swimmer
- Vladimir Sorokin, writer
- Yuri Valentinovich Sorokin (1946-2008) Russian actor and director
- Zakhar Sorokin, a Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
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