Bogdanov

Bogdanov (Богданов), or its feminine form Bogdanova (Богданова), is a common Russian and Bulgarian surname, derived by a genitive inflection from the given name Bogdan. In a number of cases in the Russian Empire the surname was given to illegitimate children, interpreting the literal meaning "given by God".

==Notable individuals== Abraham Bogdanove (1888–1946) Russian muralist, artist and educator Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov (1907–1971), Soviet geologist Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov (1692–1766), Russian bibliographer and ethnographer Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (1949–2021/2022), French TV hosts and twin brothers, notable for the Bogdanov affair and numerous internet memes Ivan Bogdanov (1897–1942), Soviet military officer Ivan Bogdanov (painter) (1855–1932), Russian painter Malachi Bogdanov, British theatre director Michael Bogdanov (1938–2017), British theatre director Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (1914–1995), Soviet production designer Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868–1945), Russian painter Semen Ilyich Bogdanov (1894–1960), Soviet military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Leonidovich Bogdanov (born 1951), Russian oil tycoon Jon Bogdanove (Born 1958), American artist