Zinoviev

Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (Russian: Зино́вьев), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek Zenobios.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and Hero of the Soviet Union
Peter Zinovieff (1933–2021), British inventor
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer
Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer
Sergei Zinovjev (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author
Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 594. ISBN 0-19-211592-8. Zinovyev [-] Russian:patr. from the given name Zinovi, a Russ. form of Gk Zenobios [...] Its popularity in Eastern Europe is largely due to the veneration in the Orthodox Church of an early Christian martyr, a priest and physician who was killed in Asia Minor at the end of the 3rd century.

[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 594. ISBN 0-19-211592-8. Zinovyev [-] Russian:patr. from the given name Zinovi, a Russ. form of Gk Zenobios [...] Its popularity in Eastern Europe is largely due to the veneration in the Orthodox Church of an early Christian martyr, a priest and physician who was killed in Asia Minor at the end of the 3rd century.

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