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Medvedev
Medvedev and female Medvedeva (Медве́дева), from Russian medved’ (медве́дь), meaning the animal "bear", are Slavic surnames. Notable bearers of the name include:
Medvedev (male form):
- Alexander Medvedev (born 1955), Russian business manager
- Alexander Medvedev (ice hockey) (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
- Aleksei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
- Andriy Medvedev (born 1974), Ukrainian tennis player
- Daniil Medvedev, Russian tennis player
- Danila Medvedev (born 1980), Russian futurologist, business manager
- Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965), Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, former President of Russia
- Dmitry Medvedev (partisan) (1898–1954), Russian partisan leader in World War II
- Evgeny Medvedev (born 1982), Russian ice hockey defenseman
- Grigory Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
- Hennadiy Medvedyev (born 1975), Ukrainian footballer
- Ilya Medvedev (born 1983), Russian Olympic canoer
- Maksim Medvedev (born 1989), Azerbaijani footballer
- Pavel Medvedev (disambiguation) - several people
- Roy Medvedev (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian historian
- Sergei Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
- Vladimir Medvedev (born 1937), KGB general, senior bodyguard of Brezhnev and Gorbachev
- Vladimir Medvedev (footballer) (born 1971), Russian football player
- Vitaly Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people
- Yukhym Medvedev (1886–1938), first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament in Ukraine
- Zhores Medvedev (born 1925), Georgian-born Russian biologist, historian and activist
Medvedeva (female form)
- Evgenia Medvedeva (born 1999), Russian figure skater
- Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
- Natalia Medvedeva (disambiguation) – several people
- Nijolė Medvedeva (born 1960), Olympic long jumper from Lithuania
- Svetlana Medvedeva (born 1965), former First Lady of Russia
- Yelena Medvedeva (born 1965), Soviet Olympic rower
- Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova (born 1976), cross country skier