Sokolov (surname)

Sokolov ({{lang|ru|Соколо́в}}, masculine) or Sokolova ({{lang|ru|Соколо́ва}}, feminine) is one of the top ten most common Russian family names.Никонов В. А. "Словарь русских фамилий". [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/nikonov/article/nik/nik-0694.htm&stpar1=1.3.1 Соколов]. Сост. Е. Л. Крушельницкий. Москва, Школа-Пресс, 1993. 224 с.

The name derives from the Russian word "{{lang|ru|Со́кол}}" (sokol, meaning "falcon"). It may appear in Germanized form as Sokoloff or Sokolow. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Andrei Sokolov (born 1963), French chess player
• Andrei Sokolov (born 1972), Latvian chess player
• Arseny Sokolov (1910–1986), Russian physicist, coauthor of Sokolov–Ternov effect
• Boris Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Denis Viktorovich Sokolov (born 1983), Russian rifle shooter
• Denis Yurevich Sokolov (born 1977), Russian ice hockey player
• Dmitri Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Elena Sokolova (born 1980), Russian figure skater
• Eugene Sokolov (1920–2008), Russian neuroscientist
• Eva Sokolova (born 1961), Russian hurdler
• Evgenia Sokolova (1850–1925), Russian dancer and educator
• Evgeny Sokolov (born 1984) Russian cyclist
• Fedor Sokolov (born 1984), Israeli pair skater
• Georgi Sokolov (1942–2002), Bulgarian footballer
• Grigory Sokolov (born 1950), Russian pianist
• Igor Sokolov (born 1958), Soviet sport shooter
• Ivan Sokolov (born 1968), Dutch chess player
• Ivan Sokolov (born 1960), Russian composer
• Ivan Glebovich Sokolov (born 1960), Russian-born pianist and composer
• Lale Sokolov (1916–2006), the tattooist of Auschwitz
• Larisa Sokolova, Russian musicologist
• Lydia Sokolova (1896–1974), English ballerina
• Lyubov Sokolova (volleyball) (born 1977), Russian volleyball player
• Lyubov Sokolova (1921–2001), Soviet and Russian actress
• Konstantin Sokolov (born 1991), Russian ice hockey player
• Maksim Sokolov (born 1968), Russian economist and politician
• Marina Sokolova (born 1969), German chess player
• Maxim Sokolov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey player
• Mikhail Sokolov (1885–1947), Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator
• Nahum Sokolow (1859–1936), Jewish Hebrew-language writer and Zionist leader
• Natalia Sokolova (model) (born 1976), Russian model and actress
• Nikolay Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Oleg Sokolov, Russian historian
• Pavel Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Pyotr Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Raymond Sokolov (born 1941), American culinary journalist
• Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), Russian writer
• Saška Sokolov, Serbian athlete
• Sergei Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Stanislav Sokolov (born 1947), Russian animator
• Tsvetan Sokolov (born 1989), Bulgarian volley player
• Valeriy Sokolov (born 1986), Ukrainian violinist
• Victor Sokolov (1947–2006), Russian-American dissident journalist and priest
• Victor Sokolov, alias of spy Anatoly Gurevich
• Viktor Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Vladimir Sokolov (disambiguation), several people
• Vladislav Sokolov (1908–1993), Soviet choir conductor and composer, People's Artist of the USSR
• Yefrem Sokolov (1926–2022), leader of the Byelorussian SSR
• Yegor Sokolov (1750–1824), Russian architect
• Yevgeny Sokolov (born 1931), Lithuanian middle-distance runner
• Yevgeny Gavrilovich Sokolov (1880–1949), Russian artist
• Yordan Sokolov (1933–2016), Bulgarian jurist and politician
• Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov (1896–1971), Russian mathematician