Fyodor
male given name
Fyodor, Fedor (Russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian-language form of the Greek-language name Theodoros (Greek: Θεόδωρος) meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". Fedora (Федора) is the feminine form. "Fyodor" and "Fedor" are two English transliterations of the same Russian name. It may also be a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Given names
Mononymous
Royalty and nobility
Feodor I of Russia (1557–1598), Tsar
Feodor II of Russia (1605), Tsar
Feodor III of Russia (1661–1682), Tsar
Fyodor of Kiev (fl. 14th century)
Fyodor Rostislavich, also known as Duke Theodore Rostislavich, Fyodor the Black or Fyodor Chermny (c.1230s – d. 1298), a royal saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
Other
Feodor Kuzmich, a.k.a. the Righteous Theodore of Tomsk (died 1864), Russian Orthodox starets
Fedor
Fedor Andreev (born 1982), Russian / Canadian figure skater
Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), German field marshal of World War II
Fedor Rodichev (1854–1933), Russian politician and lawyer
Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Russian mixed martial arts fighter
Fedor Flašík (1958–2024), Slovak political marketer
Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), German illustrator
Fedor den Hertog (1946–2011), Dutch cyclist
Fedor Klimov (born 1990), Russian skater
Fedor Tyutin (born 1983), Russian ice hockey player
Feodor
Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), Russian opera singer
Feodor Vassilyev (1707–1782), whose first wife holds the record for most babies born to one woman
Fjodor
Fjodor Xhafa (born 1977), Albanian football player
Fyodor
Fyodor Bondarchuk (born 1967), Russian film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist of works including Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Glinka (1786–1880), Russian poet
Fyodor Khitruk (1917–2012), Russian animator and animation director
Fyodor Korsh, Russian impressario, founder of the Korsh Theatre, Moscow
Fyodor Makhnov (1878–1912), "The Russian Giant"
Fyodor Smolov (born 1990), Russian footballer
Fyodor Tertitskiy (born 1988), Russian-born South Korean historian
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian poet
Fyodor Ushakov (1745–1817), Russian naval commander
Fyodor Zakharov (1919–1994), Ukrainian painter
Surnames
Matreya Fedor (born 1997), Canadian actress
Nicolas Fedor
Silviu Feodor, Romanian politician, member of parliament since 2020
Pseudonyms
Lennart Eriksson (born 1956), known by the nickname Fjodor, Swedish musician, bass guitarist of Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön
Gordon Lyon, also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich, American network security expert and author
Fictional characters
Fyodor Vostrikov or father Fyodor, a character from The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 Russian picaresque novel
Uncle Fyodor, nickname of a boy, a character created by Eduard Uspensky first appeared in Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat, later in the Russian animated film series about events in Prostokvashino
Fedya, the hoodlum from the first novella of the 1965 Soviet film Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures
Fyodor Dostoyevksy, from the manga and anime series Bungou Stray Dogs
Other uses
FEDOR, a humanoid robot
Feodor (German children's TV series), a German animated children's series in 1997 about a fox named Feodor.
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