Potemkin (surname)
Potemkin (Russian: Потёмкин, Potyomkin; or Potyomkina/Potemkina Feminine; Потёмкина) is a Russian surname which derives from the word Потёмка Potyomka meaning "dark". Persons bearing the name Potemkin rose to prominence in Muscovy from the 16th century onwards. The name may refer to
- Alexander Potemkin (1675–1746), Russian nobleman, father of Grigory
- Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), statesman and lover of Catherine the Great
- Károly Potemkin (born 1977), Hungarian football player
- Pavel Potemkin (1743–1796), a Russian diplomat and military leader, cousin of Grigory Potemkin
- Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), a Russian diplomat and voivode
- Valeriya Reznik (born Valeriya Potemkina in 1985), Russian short-track speed-skater
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