Timofeyev (; masculine) or Timofeyeva (; feminine) is a common Russian surname derived from the male given name
Timofey Timofey () is a male Russian name derived from the Ancient Greek ''Timotheos'' (), meaning "honoring God". It is a Russian variant of the name Timothy.
The corresponding male patronymic is Timofeyevich (), and the female patronymic is Timofeyev ...
. The surname literally means "belonging to Timofey". It is shared by the following people:
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Alexey Timofeev (born 1991), Russian curler from Saint Petersburg
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Anatoly Timofeyev (1887–1985), Russian fencer
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Andrei Timofeyev (born 1996), Russian football player
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Anna Timofeeva
Anna Viktorovna Timofeeva (; born 18 July 1987) is a Russian water polo player. She was part of the Russian team at the Water polo at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament, 2015 World Aquatics Championships. She participa ...
(born 1987), Russian water polo player
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Anna Timofeyeva (ice hockey) (born 1996), Russian ice hockey player
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Artyom Timofeev (chess player) (born 1985), Russian chess player
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Artyom Timofeyev (footballer) (born 1994), Russian association football player
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Avdotia Timofeyeva (1739–?), Russian ballet dancer
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Ermak Timofeev (1532–1585), Cossack ataman, hero in Russian folklore and myths
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Evgeniy Timofeev (born 1994), alpine skier from Kyrgyzstan
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Irina Timofeyeva (born 1970), Russian long-distance runner
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Kristina Timofeeva (born 1993), Russian archer
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Lev Timofeev (born 1936), Russian economist, political commentator and novelist
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Lidija Timofejeva (1906–1991), Serbian chess player of Russian origin
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Maria Timofeeva
Maria Glebovna Timofeeva ( rus, Мари́я Гле́бовна Тимофе́ева, , mɐˈrʲijə tʲɪmɐˈfʲe(j)ɪvə; born 18 November 2003) is a Russian professional tennis player.
Timofeeva has career-high WTA rankings of No. 93 in s ...
(born 2003), Russian tennis player
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Marina Timofeieva (born 1984), Estonian ice dancer
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Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981), Soviet biologist
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Nina Timofeeva (1935–2014), Russian ballet dancer
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Oleg Timofeyev (born 1963), American musicologist and musician
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Olga Timofeeva (born 1977), deputy for the United Russia party, former journalist
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Sergei Timofeyev (footballer, born 1981), Russian former football player
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Sergei Vasilyevich Timofeyev (1970–1997), Russian professional association footballer
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Sergey Timofeev (born 1965), Kazakh association football player
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Sergey Timofeyev (1950–2021), Soviet wrestler
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Valentina Timofeyeva
Valentina Timofeyeva () is a retired Russian coxswain
The coxswain ( or ) is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering. The etymology of the word gives a literal meaning of "boat servant" since it comes from ''c ...
, Russian rower
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Valeri Timofeev (1941–2014), Latvian artist
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Vitali Timofeyev (born 1982), Russian association football player
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Yulia Timofeeva (born 1972), Russian bobsledder
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Yekaterina Mulyuk-Timofeyeva (born 1976), Belarusian archer
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Yevgeniya Timofeeva (1911–1992), pilot in the Soviet Air Force, the first woman to fly the Pe-2
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Yulia Timofeeva (born 1972), Russian former track and field sprinter and bobsledder
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