Gennady ( rus, Геннадий, p=ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪj), also transcribed Gennadi or Gennadiy, is a Russian male name. It is derived from the Greek given name Γεννάδιος (Gennadios), latinized

Gennadius Gennadius or Gennadios may refer to: People * Gennadius of Constantinople (died 471), Patriarch of Constantinople from 458 to 471 * Gennadius of Massilia (5th century) Roman historian, best known for his work ''De Viris Illustribus'' * Gennadius (m ...

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Gennady Dobrokhotov Gennady Dobrokhotov (24 September 1948 – 8 February 2025) was a Soviet boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and o ...

, Soviet boxer *

Gennady Gladkov Gennady Igorevich Gladkov (; 18 February 1935 – 16 October 2023) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He composed music for some of the most famous Soviet movies and cartoons, most notably ''The Bremen Town Musicians (1969 film), The Bremen Town ...

, Soviet and Russian composer *

Gennady Golovkin Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (; also spelled Gennady; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former u ...

, Kazakh boxer *

Gennady Gudkov Gennady Vladimirovich Gudkov (; born 15 August 1956) is a Russian politician and businessman. ''The Moscow Times'' described him in 2012 as "one of parliament's most vocal and charismatic critics" of President Vladimir Putin. Background Gudkov ...

, Russian politician and businessman *

Gennadi Karponosov Gennadi Mikhailovich Karponosov (; born 21 November 1950) is an ice dancing coach and a former competitive ice dancer for the Soviet Union. With Natalia Linichuk, he is the 1980 Olympic champion and a two-time World champion. Competitive car ...

, Soviet and Russian Olympic and world champion ice dancer and coach *

Gennady Korotkevich Gennady Korotkevich (, Hienadź Karatkievič, ; born 25 September 1994) is a Belarusian competitive sport programmer who has won major international competitions since the age of 11, as well as numerous national competitions. Widely regarded ...

, Belarusian sport programmer *

Gennady Logofet Gennady Olegovich Logofet (; 15 April 1942 – 5 December 2011) was a Soviet and Russian football player and football coach. Career Logofet earned 17 caps for the USSR national team as a defender between 1963 and 1970, and participated in UEFA ...

, Soviet and Russian footballer and football coach *

Gennady Semenovich Makanin Gennady (or Gennadii or Gennadiy) Semenovich Makanin (1938–2017) was a Russian mathematician, awarded the 2010 I. M. Vinogradov Prize for a series of papers on the problem of algorithmically recognizing the solvability of arbitrary equations in ...

, Russian mathematician *

Gennady Mikhasevich Gennady Modestovich Mikhasevich (; 7 April 1947 – 25 September 1987) was a Soviet serial killer and serial rapist known as the "Vitebsk Strangler" (Віцебскі душыцель), who murdered a minimum of 36 women between 1971 and 1985 in V ...

, prolific Soviet serial killer and rapist *

Gennady of Novgorod Gennadius (Gennady, ; died 4 December 1505) was Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov from 1484 to 1504. He was most instrumental in fighting the Heresy of the Judaizers and is famous for compiling the first complete codex of the Bible in ...

, Russian archbishop *

Gennady Padalka Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previ ...

, Russian cosmonaut *

Gennady Rozhdestvensky Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Gennady Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagog ...

, Soviet and Russian conductor *

Gennadi Syomin Gennadi Vladimirovich Syomin (; 4 December 1967 – 8 June 2021) was a Russian professional football coach and player. Club career Syomin manages an amateur side FC Olimpik Novaya Usman. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second Leagu ...

, Russian footballer and football coach *

Genndy Tartakovsky Gennady Borisovich "Genndy" Tartakovsky (; born January 17, 1970) is a Soviet-born American animation, animator, screenwriter, film producer, and film director, director. He is best known as the creator of various animated television series on ...

, Russian-American cartoonist *

Gennady Yanayev Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (; 26 August 193724 September 2010) was a Soviet politician and disputed President of the Soviet Union for three days. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, ...

, the only vice president of the Soviet Union *

Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union ...

, Russian political party leader and assemblyman *

Giennadij Jerszow Giennadij Jerszow (; born 12 July 1967) is a Polish–Ukrainian sculptor, jewelry designer and art teacher. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and the National Association of Polish Artists and Designers. He is kno ...

, Polish and Ukrainian sculptor {{given name Russian masculine given names Masculine given names