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Medvedev (Russian: Медведев) and female Medvedeva (Медведева), from Russian medved, meaning the animal "bear", are Russian surnames.
Notable bearers of the name include:
Medvedev (male form):
- Medvedev, Dmitry Anatolyevich (born 1965), President of the Russian Federation
- Medvedev, Alexander (born 1955), Russian business manager -- Gazprom
- Medvedev, Alexander (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
- Medvedev, Aleksei (born 1977), Russian footballer
- Medvedev, Andriy (born 1974), a retired professional tennis player from Ukraine
- Medvedev, Danila (born 1980), Russian futurologist, business manager -- KrioRus, Science vs. Aging
- Medvedev, Dmitry (pilot) (1918-1992), Soviet soldier
- Medvedev, Dmitry Nikolayevich (1898-1954), Russian partisan leader in World War II
- Medvedev, Grigory, Russian writer
- Medvedev, Nikolai (1922-1985), a Soviet seaman and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Medvedev, Pavel (1892-1938), Russian scholar
- Medvedev, Pyotr, Russian actor and entrepreneur
- Medvedev, Roy (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian historian
- Medvedev, Sergei (1885-1937), Russian metalworker, and unionist
- Medvedev, Sergei (geologist)
- Medvedev, Sergei (officer) (1970-2005), a Russian army officer and Hero of Russia
- Medvedev, Zhores (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian biologist, historian and activist
Medvedeva (female form)
- Medvedeva, Svetlana (born 1965), First Lady of Russia
- Medvedeva, Nadezhda, Russian actress
- Medvedeva, Natalia (born 1971), Ukrainian tennis player
- Medvedeva, Natalya (1958-2003), Russian poet, singer and model
- Medvedeva, Katya (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
- Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Yevgeniya (born 1976), cross country skier
See also
- Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik scale, earthquake-strength system
- Medved, a non-Russian Slavic variant of the surname meaning bear in Russian.
- Nedvěd, another Slavic variant
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