Lebedev

Lebedev (Лебедев), or Lebedeva (feminine; Лебедева) is a common Russian family name derived from the word lebed — swan. The following notable people have this name:

Real people

• Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman and politician
• Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev, Russian biochemist
• Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev (1918–1943), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexei Lebedev, Russian electrical engineer
• Artemy Lebedev, Russian graphic designer and founder of Art. Lebedev Studio
• Gerasim Lebedev (1749–1817), Russian Indologist
• Dmitry Lebedev, Russian scientist in the field of rail transport mechanics
• Ivan Lebedev, Russian writer
• Klavdy Lebedev (1852–1916), a Russian painter
• Konstantin Lebedev (1910–1949), Soviet soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Mikhail Ivanovich Lebedev, Russian painter
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Lebedev, Russian poet
• Natalya Lebedeva, Russian athlete
• Nikolai Lebedev, Russian sinologist and pedagogue
• Nikolai Alexandrovich Lebedev (1914–1942), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolai Andreevich Lebedev, mathematician
• Pavel Lebedev, Russian pairs figure skater
• Platon Lebedev, Russian businessman
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist
• Sergei Lebedev, head of Russian foreign intelligence
• Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev, creator of first Soviet computers
• Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian chemist, inventor of synthetic rubber
• Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian athlete
• Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut and double Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vasili Lebedev-Kumach, Russian poet
• Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist
• Yevgeny Lebedev, Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR

Fictional characters

• Juan Ivanovich Lebedev, fictional character from Deus Ex
• Lebedev (first name not mentioned), fictional character from Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot

Institutions

The Lebedev Physical Institute and the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering which are named after Pyotr and Sergei, respectively.