Yagoda () is a Russian surname meaning "berry". However, there is a change in stress and thus pronunciation—the Russian surname is stressed Яго́да, and the word for "berry" is я́года. It also may be a Russian version of the name Yaguda/Yehuda ( Judah). Notable people with the surname include: *

Genrikh Yagoda Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. A ...

(1891–1938), Soviet state security official * Ben Yagoda (born 1954), American professor of journalism * Myroslav Yagoda (1957–2018), Ukrainian artist * Marvin Yagoda (1938-2017), founder of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

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