Sorokin (russian: Соро́кин), or Sorokina (feminine; Соро́кина), is a common

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n surname, derived from the Russian word ''soroka'' (сорока, or

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). Those bearing it include the following: * Aleksei Sorokin, Estonian politician * Alexey Sorokin (fashion designer), fashion designer *

Alexey Sorokin (military commander) Alexey Ivanovich Sorokin (russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Соро́кин) (28 March 1922 – 4 March 2020) was a Soviet Fleet Admiral and member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. Sorokin was born one of f ...

, Admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union *

Anastasia Sorokina Anastasia Sorokina ( be, Анастасія Сарокіна; born 26 January 1980 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2001 and is an International Arbiter (2 ...

, Belarusian/Australian

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Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

Anna Sorokin Anna Sorokin (russian: Анна Сорокина; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access the upper echelons of the New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2 ...

, Russian fraud perpetrator *

Coti Sorokin Roberto Fidel Ernesto Sorokin Esparza (born June 14, 1973, in Rosario, Santa Fe), who performs under the stage name Coti, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, best known for collaborations with other Spanish-language artists like Andrés Calamaro, ...

, Argentine singer-songwriter *

Evgraf Sorokin Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin, or Yevgraf Semyonovich Sorokin (russian: Евгра́ф Семёнович Соро́кин; 18 December 1821, Nekrasovskoye (Bolshie Soli) – 1892, Moscow) was a Russian artist and teacher; known for historical, relig ...

, painter *

Ilya Sorokin Ilya Igorevich Sorokin (russian: Илья Игоревич Сорокин; born 4 August 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Sorokin was selected by the Islanders ...

, NHL goalie under contract with the New York Islanders *

Irina Sorokina Irina T. Sorokina (born 1963) is a Russian laser physicist. She works in Norway as a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and is the founder and CEO of spin-off company ATLA Lasers AS. Education and career ...

, Russian-Norwegian laser physicist *

Ivan Sorokin Ivan Lukich Sorokin (4 December 1884 - 3 November 1918) was a Russian military leader and participant in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Russian Civil War. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army of the North Caucasus and Comman ...

, Russian commander during the Russian Civil War *

Maxim Sorokin Maxim Sorokin (22 January 1968 – 30 June 2007) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (1992). In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina. In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coache ...

, Russian chess player ( grandmaster) *

Natalie Sorokin Natalie Sorokin (also Sorokine; 1921–1967) was a French woman who had relations with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Rogers, N., & Thompson, M. (2004). '' Philosophers Behaving Badly''. London: Peter Owen Beauvoir was suspended from her ...

, French woman known for her affairs with

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...

and

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialist, existentialism (and Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter ...

Nikolai Sorokin Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was art ...

, Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, People's Artist of Russia *

Pavel Sorokin (painter) Pavel Semenovich Sorokin (1836/39 - 1886) was a Russian painter of religious themes. He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and died in Moscow. Sorokin was the brother of artists Evgraf and Vasili Sorokin Vasi ...

, painter *

Peter P. Sorokin Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin ( rus, Пётр Питиримович Сорокин, 10 July 1931 – 24 September 2015) was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachus ...

, an American physicist, co-inventor of the dye laser *

Pitirim Sorokin Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; russian: Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Background ...

, Russian-American sociologist *

Pyotr Sorokin Pyotr Yefimovich Sorokin (russian: Пётр Ефимович Сорокин) (born in 1889 in Saint Petersburg; died in 1942) was an association football player. International career Sorokin made his debut for the Russia national football tea ...

, a Russian international soccer player *

Stanislav Sorokin (boxer) Stanislav Nikolayevich Sorokin (russian: Станислав Николаевич Сорокин; 17 February 1941 – 2 February 1991) was a Russian amateur boxer. He represented the Soviet Union at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, ...

, a Soviet boxer *

Stanislav Sorokin (footballer) Stanislav Yuriyovych Sorokin ( ua, Станіслав Юрійович Сорокін; born 3 May 2000) is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for lithuanian Dainava Club. Career Sorokin is a product of the FC Dynamo Kyiv You ...

, Ukrainian football player *

Vasili Sorokin Vasili Semenovich Sorokin (1833–1918) was a Russian mosaics artist. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg; among his works are mosaics for the Church of St. Isaac in Moscow. Sorokin was the brother of painters Pave ...

, mosaic artist *

Vitali Sorokin Vitaly Ivanovich Sorokin (russian: Виталий Иванович Сорокин; 8 December 1935 – 1995) was a Russian swimmer, who competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 196 ...

, swimmer *

Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist. He has been described as one of the most popular writers ...

, writer *

Zakhar Sorokin Zakhar Artyomovich Sorokin (russian: Захар Артёмович Сорокин; – 19 March 1978) was a Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace who flew in combat with prosthetic feet from 1943 to 1945, having lost his feet to frostbite in 1941 ...

, Soviet military officer and declared Hero of the Soviet Union

See also