Popov, or Popova, is a common Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian surname. Derived from a Slavonic word pop. The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to:Alek Popov, Bulgarian writer Alexander Popov (disambiguation) Aleksei Popov (disambiguation) Anatoly Popov, Russian politician, Prime Minister of Chechnya Andrei Popov (disambiguation) Angel Popov, Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter Apostol Popov, Bulgarian football defender Blagoy Popov (1902–1968) Boris Popov, Russian water polo player Denis Popov, Russian football player and manager Denis Popov, Russian football player Denys Popov, Ukrainian football player Dimitar Popov, Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist Dimitar Iliev Popov (1927–2015), Bulgarian judge and Prime Minister Dmitri Popov (disambiguation) Duško Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known as Tricycle Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer Fedot Popov, Russian explorer Gavriil Popov (composer) (1904–1972), Russian composer Gavriil Popov (politician), Russian politician Goran Popov, Macedonian footballer Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister Hristian Popov, Bulgarian football player Ilya Popov, Russian boxer Ivelin Popov, Bulgarian footballer Katia Popov (1965–2018), Bulgarian-born American violinist Leonid Popov, Soviet cosmonaut Luben Popov, Bulgarian chess player Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General Mikhail Popov (disambiguation) Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian circus artist Polina Popova, Miss Russia 2017 Pyotr Popov, Russian luger Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, Soviet intelligence officer and double agent Robert Popov, Macedonian footballer Rumen Popov, Bulgarian football player Sergei Popov (disambiguation) Serhiy Popov, Ukrainian footballer Stefan Popov a Bulgarian cellist Stole Popov, Macedonian film director. Strahil Popov, Bulgarian footballer Valery Popov (disambiguation) Vasile M. Popov, Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist Vasili Popov (disambiguation) Victor Popov (1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist Vladimir Popov (disambiguation) Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation) Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (1936–2016), Russian paleoentomologist
