Yakovlev (surname)

Yakovlev (Яковлев) is an East Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Yakovlev (UN procurement), former United Nations official
• Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev (1863–1909), Russian entomologist and painter
• Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923–2005), Soviet politician credited with promoting glasnost
• Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989), Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer
• Alexandre Jacovleff, Russian painter
• Anatoli Yakovlev (1913–1993), Soviet spymaster in New York City in the mid-1940s, linked with Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs and Julius Rosenberg
• Arina Yakovleva (1758–1828), the nurse who taught Pushkin to love the Russian language
• Boris Yakovlev (1945–2014), Soviet race walker
• Dima Yakovlev, a Russian adoptee and the informal namesake for the Dima Yakovlev Law
• Elena Yakovleva (born 1961), Russian actress
• Gennady Yakovlev, Russian botanist
• Ivan Yakovlev (disambiguation), several people
• Kornilii Iakovlev, 17th century Don Cossack ataman who defeated Stenka Razin
• Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster
• Nataliya Yakovleva (handball player) (born 1986), a team handball player from Kazakhstan.
• Nataliya Yakovleva (swimmer) (born 1971), Russian Olympic Swimmer
• Nikolai Dmitriyevich Yakovlev, Soviet military leader
• Origa, or Olga Yakovleva (born 1970), Russian singer and vocalist
• Pavel Vladimirovich Yakovlev, Russian football player
• Postnik Yakovlev, the architect of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
• Roman Yakovlev (born 1976), Russian volleyball player
• Sergei Yakovlev (disambiguation)
• Vadim Yakovlev, Cossack commander
• Valentina Yakovleva (born 1947), Soviet Olympic Swimmer
• Varvara Yakovleva (died 1918), Russian Orthodox nun and Saint
• Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva (1884–1941), Russian revolutionary
• Vasily Yakovlev, Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR, and teacher of Aleksei Gritsai
• Vasili Yakovlev (1885–1938), Bolshevik politician
• Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (1839–1908), Russian entomologist
• Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev (b. 1944), Russian politician, Minister of Regional Development
• Yakov Yakovlev, Soviet statesman and politician, former deputy chairman of Rabkrin
• Yegor Yakovlev (1930–2005), Russian journalist
• Yury Yakovlev (1928−2013), critically acclaimed Russian film actor
• Yuriy Yakovlev (disambiguation)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Yakovlev
• Yakovlevo, an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast, Russia