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Popovich
Popovich or Popovitch (RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Попович) is a common Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
or Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
surname, and sometimes a patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
meaning son of Popov
Popov
Popov or Popoff or Popova is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop . The fourth most common Russian surname...
. It may refer to:
- Pavel PopovichPavel Popovich- Biography :He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Soviet Union . to Roman Porfirievich Popovich and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonov. He had two sisters and two brothers ....
, a Soviet cosmonaut. - Marina PopovichMarina PopovichMarina Popovich is a retired Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who holds 107 aviation world records set on over 40 types of aircraft...
, a Soviet test pilot, Pavel Popovich's wife. - Alyosha PopovichAlyosha PopovichAlyosha Popovich , alongside Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets, is a bogatyr . He is the youngest of the 3 main bogatyrs of Kiev Rus.The three of them are represented together at Vasnetsov's famous painting Bogatyrs....
, a bogatyrBogatyrThe bogatyr was a medieval heroic warrior of Kievan Rus' and the Novgorodian Republic, akin to a Western European knight errant.- Kievan Rus' :...
(i.e., a medieval Russian knight-errantKnight-errantA knight-errant is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. "Errant," meaning wandering or roving, indicates how the knight-errant would typically wander the land in search of adventures to prove himself as a knight, such as in a pas d'armes.The first known appearance of the term...
) - Boris PopovichBoris PopovichBoris Nikolayevich Popovich was an association football player.-International career:Popovich played his only game for Russia on July 12, 1914 in a friendly against Norway.-External links:...
, a Russian international footballer. - Paul PopovichPaul PopovichPaul Edward Popovich was an infielder for the Chicago Cubs , Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates ....
, an infielder for the Chicago CubsChicago CubsThe Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...
. - Derek PopovichDerek PopovichDerek Popovich, born April 24, 1981 in Syracuse, New York, United States is a midfielder who last played for American USL Second Division side Wilmington Hammerheads...
, a midfielder currently playing for American USL Second Division side Wilmington HammerheadsWilmington HammerheadsWilmington Hammerheads is an American professional soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded in 1996, the team plays in the American Division of the new USL Professional Division, the third tier of the American Soccer Pyramid....
. - Milt PopovichMilt PopovichMilton John Popovich was a professional American football halfback in the National Football League. He played with the Chicago Cardinals from 1938 to 1942.-External links:**...
, a former professional American football player for the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
. - Yaroslav PopovychYaroslav PopovychYaroslav Popovych is a Ukrainian cyclist with the UCI ProTour team . He was born in Drohobych, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Under-23 road race champion in 2001, Popovych turned professional in 2002 with , where he performed particularly strongly in the Giro d'Italia, finishing third in 2003...
, a Ukrainian professional cyclist.
Other
- Popovich Hall, home of the Marshall School of BusinessMarshall School of BusinessThe USC Marshall School of Business is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. In 1997 the school was renamed following a US$35 million donation from alumnus Gordon S...
at the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. - Popovich, a village in Byala MunicipalityByala Municipality, Varna ProvinceByala Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, located in the central part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Byala....
, Varna Province, Bulgaria.
Popović
Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Поповић) is a common OrthodoxEastern Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
and Montenegrin and to a lesser extent Croatian
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
surname meaning son of a priest, and may refer to:
- Aleksandar Popović, Serbian politician, current cabinet minister
- Ana PopovićAna PopovicAna Popović is a Serbian blues guitarist and singer.-Biography:Ana Popović's father first introduced her to the blues, through an extensive record collection and sessions hosted at the family home. Popović founded her first band at age nineteen...
, Serbian blues musician - Bojan PopovićBojan PopovicBojan Popović is a Serbian professional basketball player. He is a 1.91 m tall point guard, currently playing as a starter at Red Star Belgrade.-Professional career:Popović is a product of FMP's youth system...
, Serbian basketball player - Cvjetko PopovićCvjetko PopovicCvjetko Popović was a Serb born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1896. He was a student in Sarajevo when Danilo Ilić recruited him and his friend, Vaso Čubrilović to help assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand....
, member of Mlada Bosna - Davorin PopovićDavorin PopovicDavorin Popović was a Bosnian musician, well known throughout the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer and frontman of the progressive and pop rock band Indexi throughout most of their career. He was a popularly associated with a bohemian lifestyle. In his youth, he was a successful...
, singer, longtime frontman of IndexiIndexiIndexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died... - Edo Popović, Croatian writer
- Gregg PopovichGregg PopovichGregg Popovich is an American basketball coach, and is currently the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs. With the resignation of Jerry Sloan as head coach of the Utah Jazz on February 10, 2011, Popovich is the longest tenured coach in the NBA and also the...
, Serbian-American basketball coach - Ivana Popović, Montenegrin singer and actress
- Jovan Sterija PopovićJovan Sterija PopovicJovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals...
, Serbian playwright - Justin PopovićJustin PopovicSaint Justin Popović was a theologian, a philosopher of the Eastern Orthodox theology, a Dostoyevski scholar, a champion of anti-communism, a writer, and a critic of the pragmatic church life...
, Christian Orthodox theologian - Koča PopovićKoca PopovicKonstantin "Koča" Popović was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito's Partisan army...
, Serbian communist politician - Krsto Zrnov PopovićKrsto Žrnov PopovicCaptain Krsto Todorov-Zrnov Popović was one of the leaders of 1919 Christmas Uprising in Montenegro against Serbian dynasty Karađorđević, organized by the greens , followers of dethroned King Nikola and Montenegrin dynasty Petrović-Njegoš...
, Montenegrin captain - Ljuba PopovićLjuba PopovicLjubomir Ljuba Popović is a famous Serbian-born French Surrealist painter. He is renowned for his many erotic and unconventionally juxtaposed subject matters....
, Serbian surrealist painter - Mark PopovicMark PopovicMark Popovic is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with the SCL Tigersin the Swiss National League A.-Professional career:...
, Canadian hockey player of Croatian descent - Marko PopovićMarko Popovic (born 1982)Marko Popović is a Croatian professional basketball player of Serbian descent. He is a 1.85 m and 86 kg point guard...
, Croatian basketball player - Marko Miljanov PopovićMarko MiljanovMarko Miljanov Popović was a warrior and writer from Montenegro. He led the Kuči clan against the Turks in 1862 and distinguished himself in the War of 1876-78...
, Montenegrin writer - Marko PopovićMarko Popovic (born 1985)Marko Popović is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He currently plays for Budućnost.- References :...
, Montenegrin basketball player - Mića PopovićMica PopovicMiodrag "Mića" Popović was a Serbian painter and experimental filmmaker.-Popović's Life:Mića Popović was born on 12 June 1923 in Loznica. He finished grammar school in Belgrade...
, Serbian painter - Milan "Danijel" Popović, Montenegrin singer
- Milan Popović, director
- Milentije PopovićMilentije PopovicMilentije Popović was a member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia since 1939. During World War II he held various Party and administrative positions...
, Serbian communist politician - Milivoje Popović-Mavid, Serbian actor, Mira StupicaMira StupicaMiroslava "Mira" Stupica is a Serbian actress primarily famous for her illustrious work in the theatre....
's first husband - Miodrag Popović-Deba, Serbian actor
- Nebojša PopovićNebojša PopovicNebojša Popović was a Serbian basketball player, coach and administrator...
, Serbian basketball player, coach and administrator - Oliver PopovićOliver PopovićOliver Popović is retired Serbian/Yugoslav basketball player, currently working as basketball coach. Yugoslav champion and Cup holder , silver medalist of Russian and Greek basketball championships; bronze medalist of 1988 European Champions' Cup, winner of 1989 Korać Cup and 2003 NEBL;...
, Serbian basketball player and coach - Radojica Popović, director and screenwriter
- Richard Popovic, American folk musician
- Sasha MontenegroSasha MontenegroSasha Montenegro is a Mexican-Italian born actress.Aleksandra Aćimović Popović ,as a child she moved to Argentina with her parents before relocating to Mexico. She became an actress in the 1970s and made several lucha libre movies, some of them with superstar El Santo...
, Montenegrin-Mexican actress (born Alexandra Asimović Popović) - Sanya Popovic, American academic of Serbian descent
- Tony PopovicTony PopovicAnthony Popovic is a Croatian Australian former football player. He last played for Sydney FC. He is currently the First Team Coach of Crystal Palace. Popovic grew up in Fairfield, New South Wales.-Early career:...
, Australian soccer player of Croatian descent - Vasa Popović, screenwriter
- Vladimir PopovićVladimir Popovic (footballer born 1976)Vladimir Popović is a Montenegrin former footbal forward.He played for FK Budućnost Podgorica, FK Zemun, Sporting de Gijón, Málaga CF, Getafe CF, FK Železnik and FK Kom.-External links:...
, Montenegrin footballer - Vladimir Popović, Serbian footballer
- Vladimir PopovićVladimir Popovic (actor)Vladimir Popović was a famous Montenegrin actor. He was also credited as Vlada Popović and Vlado Popović.-Filmography:*Čovjek koga treba ubiti *Povratak otpisanih" .... Uca*Prvi garnizon...
, Montenegrin actor