Fyodor

{{toc right}} '''Fyodor''', '''Fedor''' ({{langx|ru|Фёдор}}) or '''Feodor''' is the Russian-language form of the Greek-language name Theodoros ({{langx |el| Θεόδωρος}}) meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". '''Fedora''' ({{lang|ru|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 *{{ill|Fyodor Korsh|ru|Корш, Фёдор Адамович}}, 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 *{{ill|Silviu Feodor|ro}}, 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 {{ill|father Fyodor|ru|Отец Фёдор}}, a character from ''The Twelve Chairs'', a 1928 Russian picaresque novel *{{ill|Uncle Fyodor|ru|Дядя Фёдор}}, 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''

==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.

==See also== *Fyodorov *Fedir *Feodora

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