Popov or Popoff (masculine) or Popova (feminine) is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (priest). The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to:
Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
Aleksei Popov (disambiguation)
Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, former Prime Minister of Chechnya
Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
Angel Popov (born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
Apostol Popov (born 1982), Bulgarian football defender
Blagoy Popov (1902–1968)
Boris Popov (born 1941), Russian water polo player
Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player
Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
Dimitar Iliev Popov (1927–2015), Bulgarian judge and former Prime Minister
Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
Dusan Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known also as Tricycle
Eduard Popov (born 1988), Russian football player
Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer
Frank Popoff (born 1930), American businessman and chemist
Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (born 1936), Russian politician
Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer
Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player,
Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer
Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian circus artist
Peter Popoff (born 1946), German-born American televangelist
Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
Serhiy Popov (born 1971), Ukrainian footballer
Stefan Popov (born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
Stole Popov (born 1950), Macedonian film director.
Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
Valery Popov (disambiguation)
Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), 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 (born 1936), Russian paleoentomologist
