Poliakoff is a surname, a variant of

Polyakov Polyakov or Poliakov, (, , , ), or Polyakova, Paliakova (feminine; ) is a Slavic surname. It may be transliterated as '' Poliakoff''. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksei Poliakov (born 1974), Russian/Uzbek goalkeeper * Alexander ...

. It may refer to: *

Alexander Poliakoff Alexander Poliakoff (; 20 August 1910 – 26 July 1996) was a Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, and the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years. Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country ...

, Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, father of Martyn and Stephen *

Élie de Poliakoff Élie is the French equivalent of " Elie", "Elias" or "Elijah."''The Complete Baby Name Book'' 1989 Page 92 "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and is still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: El ...

, Russian-born equestrian *

Joseph Poliakoff Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff (; 24 April 1873 – 24 November 1959) was a Ukrainian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids. Poliakoff was a Ukrainian who experienced first-hand the communist revoluti ...

, Russian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, father of Alexander *

Martyn Poliakoff Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist known for his work on green chemistry and for being the main presenter on the popular YouTube channel '' Periodic Videos''. The core subjects of his academic work are supercritica ...

, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, brother of Stephen *

Nicolai Poliakoff Nicolai Poliakoff OBE (2 October 1900 – 25 September 1974; ; ) was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century. Biography Nicolai Poliakoff was born in 1900 to a Jewish family ...

, British clown, born in Latvia *

Serge Poliakoff Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' École de Paris ( Tachisme). Biography Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. H ...

, Russian-born French modernist painter *

Stephen Poliakoff Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, Film director, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of ''The Independent'' described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" and that he had "inherited Dennis Po ...

, British playwright, director and scriptwriter, brother of Martyn *Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of

Marina Vlady Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Biography Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the a ...

, French actress, sister of Odile *Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of

Odile Versois Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène ...

, French actress, sister of Marina

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