Shubin (), or Shubina (feminine; Шубина), is a Russian-language

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. It derived from the

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

word шуба ''shuba'' meaning

fur coat Fur clothing is clothing made from the preserved skins of mammals. Fur is one of the oldest forms of clothing and is thought to have been widely used by people for at least 120,000 years. The term 'fur' is often used to refer to a specific item ...

. There are also unrelated Chinese surnames () transliterated as "Shubin". Notable people with the surname include:

Chinese origin

* Li Shubin, Chinese football manager and a former international player * Nie Shubin, Chinese man wrongfully executed for a rape and murder * Zhang Shubin (b. 1966), retired Chinese

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic d ...

Russian origin

* Alexander Shubin (b. 1983), Russian figure skater *

Aleksandr Shubin (historian) Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin (; born July 18, 1965, in Moscow) is a Russian historian and politician. Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (2000), Professor at the State Academic University for the Humanities (since 2003) and the Russian S ...

* Ekaterina Shubina, Canoer at the 2006 Asian Games * Fedot Shubin (1740–1805), Russian sculptor * Galina Shubina (1902–1980), Russian poster and graphics artist * Igor Shubin (b. 1958), Russian politician * Joel Shubin (died 1942), Russian American writer * Kirill Shubin (b. 2003), Russian chess master * Lester Shubin (1925–2009), American inventor * Lyudmila Shubina (b. 1948), Soviet Azerbaijani handball player * Mariya Shubina (1930–2025), Soviet sprint canoeist * Mikhail Shubin (mathematician) (1944–2020), Russian-American mathematician * Mikhail Shubin (triathlete) (b. 1988), Russian triathlete * Murray J. Shubin (1917–1956), American flying ace during World War II *

Neil Shubin Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and ...

(b. 1960), American biologist and science writer * Nikolay Shubin (b. 1956), Georgian-born Russian serial killer * Oleksiy Shubin (1975–2025), Ukrainian footballer * Steve Shubin, founder and CEO of Interactive Life Forms, an adult sex toy company *

Tatiana Shubin Tatiana Shubin is a Soviet and American mathematician known for her work developing math circles, social structures for the mathematical enrichment of secondary-school students, especially among the Navajo and other Native American people. She ...

, Soviet American mathematician

Chinese origin

Russian origin

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