List of Famous people with last name Ivanov

Blagoy Aleksandrov Ivanov is a Bulgarian mixed martial artist and Sambo practitioner who won the 2008 Combat Sambo World Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he competes in the Heavyweight division. He previously fought for the World Series of Fighting, where he attained success as the promotion's Heavyweight champion. Blagoy has also competed in Judo as a heavyweight national representative for Bulgaria. He competed in the 2003 Balkan Junior Championships and placed first. He then continued in competition up to the European Championships level but only placed 7th in the 2007 U23 Tournament, and did not make an attempt to represent Bulgaria in the 2008 Olympic games. Ivanov chose to enter into a career in mixed martial arts as opposed to representing Bulgaria in the 2012 Olympic Games. As of December 24, 2020, he is #13 in the UFC heavyweight rankings.

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov was a Soviet-Russian footballer who played as a winger or as a forward. He was the co-leading scorer at the 1962 World Cup, and the co-1960 European Nations' Cup top scorer.

Trifon Marinov Ivanov was a Bulgarian international footballer who played as a defender.

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian senior official and politician who is the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Environmental Activities, Environment and Transport since 12 August 2016.

Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov is a Russian writer.

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals. He is famous for his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid by inseminating three female chimpanzees with human sperm.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov was a Russian-born Canadian grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist.

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.

Oleg Aleksandrovich Ivanov is a Russian footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ufa.