Potapov

Potapov (masculine, Russian: Потапов) or Potapova (feminine, Russian: Потапова) is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Potapov (1818–1886), Russian statesman
• Anastasia Potapova (born 2001), Russian tennis player
• Leonid Potapov (1935–2020), Russian politician
• Leonid Potapov (ethnographer) (1905–2000), Russian ethnographer
• Maksim Potapov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
• Mikhail Feofanovich Potapov (1921–1943), Soviet artillery captain
• Viktor Potapov (1947–2017), Soviet–Russian sailor
• Viktor Pavlovich Potapov (1934–2021), Soviet–Russian naval aviation officer
• Vladimir Potapov (1914–1980), Soviet–Ukrainian mathematician

• 13480 Potapov, a main-belt asteroid