Petrov

Petrov or Petroff (masculine) or Petrova (feminine) is one of the most common surnames in Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian) (both equivalent to English Peter). It is the last name of the following people:

• Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player
• Aleksandr Petrov (animator), Russian animator
• Aleksandr Anatolyevich Petrov, Russian journalist
• Alexey Petrov, Russian physicist and mathematician
• Andrei Petrov, Russian composer
• Borislava Petrova, Bulgarian curler
• Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer
• Evdokia Petrova, Soviet spy, wife of the Soviet diplomat who defected to Australia
• Georgi Petrov, Bulgarian economist
• Gjorche Petrov, Bulgarian revolutionary
• Igor Petrov, Czech senator
• Ilia Petrov, Bulgarian painter and graphic artist
• Ivailo Petrov, Bulgarian writer
• Ivan Petrov (1899-1963), opera singer (baritone) of Bulgarian descent
• Ivan Atanassov Petrov (b. 1947), Bulgarian neurologist
• Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (1920–2003), Soviet/Russian opera singer
• Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896–1958), Soviet general
• Kirill Petrov (b. 1990), Russian ice hockey player
• Konstantin Petrov, Ukrainian physicist
• Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast) (b. 1975), Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• Maria Petrova (figure skater) (b. 1977), Russian figure skater
• Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
• Nadia Petrova, Russian professional tennis player
• Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, Russian pianist, founder of the Nikolai Petrov International Philanthropic Foundation
• Nikolay Petrov (b. 1988), Bulgarian soccer player
• Oleg Petrov, Russian hockey player
• Olga Petrova, stage name of Muriel Harding, an English-born American vaudeville performer
• Osip Petrov, Russian opera singer
• Petar Petrov (athlete) (b. 1955), Bulgarian sprinter
• Petar Petrov (footballer) (b. 1961), Bulgarian football player
• Petar Petrov (designer) (b. 1977), Bulgarian fashion designer
• Peter Petrov, Bulgarian investment banker
• Stanislav Petrov, Russian colonel who averted a potential nuclear exchange
• Stefka Petrova, Bulgarian nutritionist
• Stilian Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
• Tatiana Petrova, Russian water polo player
• Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet
• Vasily Petrov, disambiguation
• Vassil Petrov, Bulgarian musician/singer
• Victor Petrov, Soviet spy, Ukrainian emigrant activist, writer, philosopher and historian
• Vitaly Petrov, Russian auto racing driver
• Vladimir Petrov (author) (1915–1999), writer, teacher, and former prisoner of the Soviet Gulag
• Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (diplomat) (1907–1991), Soviet diplomat who defected to Australia
• Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (TRIZ Master), board member of International TRIZ Association
• Vladimir Petrov (footballer) (b. 1940), Soviet international footballer
• Vladimir Petrov (rower) (b. 1932), Soviet coxswain at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov (b. 1947), Soviet ice hockey player
• Vladimirs Petrovs (1908–1943), also known as Vladimir Petrov, Latvian chess player
• Vladimir Petrov, nickname of Al Blake, professional wrestler
• Vladimir Petrov (director), Bulgarian film director
• Yevgeny Petrov, Soviet writer of Ilf and Petrov duo

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• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian/Soviet painter
• Tudor Petrov-Popa, Moldovan Romanian politician

Places

• Petrov (crater), a lunar crater
• Petrov (Brno), a cathedral in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic
• Petrov (Blansko district), a village in Moravia, Czech Republic
• Petrov (Hodonín district), a village in Moravia, Czech Republic
• Petrov (Prague-west district), a village in the Czech Republic
• Petrov, Russia, a village (khutor) in the Republic of Adygea, Russia
• Petrova, Maramureş, a commune in Maramureş County, Romania
• Petrová, a village in Bardejov District, Slovakia

See also

• Petrof