Gleb
Gleb (Russian: Глеб) is a Russian male given name derived from the Old Norse name Guðleifr, which means 'heir of god', from guð ('god') and leifr ('heir').[1] It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint Gleb, who is venerated by Eastern Orthodox churches. The Ukrainian equivalent is Hlib.
Notable people with the name include:
People
- Gleb of Kiev (died 1171), grand prince of Kiev
- Gleb Axelrod (1923–2003), Russian pianist
- Gleb Baklanov (1910–1976), Russian general
- Gleb Boglayevskiy (born 1986), Russian football player
- Gleb Botkin (1900–1969), Russian-born American memoirist and illustrator
- Gleb Brussenskiy (born 2000), Kazakh cyclist
- Gleb W. Derujinsky (1888–1975), Russian-American sculptor
- Gleb Galperin (born 1985), Russian diver
- Gleb Ilyin (1889–1968), Russian-American painter
- Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), Russian inventor
- Gleb Krotkov (1901–1968), Canadian scientist
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872–1959), Russian economist
- Gleb Lapitsky (born 1988), Belarusian politician
- Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russian engineer
- Gleb Lutfullin (born 2004), Russian figure skater
- Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky (born 1958), Russian mathematician
- Gleb Panfilov (1934–2023), Russian film director
- Gleb Panfyorov (born 1970), Russian football player
- Gleb Pavlovsky (1951–2023), Russian political scientist
- Gleb Pisarevskiy (born 1976), Russian weightlifter
- Gleb Sakharov (born 1988), French tennis player
- Gleb Savchenko (born 1984), Russian dancer
- Gleb Savinov (1915–2000), Russian painter
- Gleb Shishmaryov (1781–1835), Russian admiral
- Gleb Shulpyakov (born 1971), Russian writer
- Gleb Strizhenov (1925–1985), Soviet-Russian actor
- Gleb Struve (1898–1985), Russian poet and literary historian
- Gleb Svyatoslavich (died 1078), prince of Tmutarakan
- Gleb Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov) (1168–1215), prince of Chernigov
- Gleb Syritsa (born 2000), Russian cyclist
- Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902), Russian writer
- Gleb Veremyev (born 2003), American ice hockey player
- Gleb Wataghin (1899–1986), Italian scientist
- Gleb Yakunin (1934–2014), Russian priest and dissident
Fictional characters
- Gleb Nerzhin, leading character, mathematician, prisoner, and Solzhenitsyn's alter ego in In the First Circle; Solzhenitsyn also uses Nerzhin in some of his writings about his experiences in World War II
- Gleb, a female character in the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II
- Gleb Vaganov, main antagonist in 2017 musical Anastasia (musical)
- Gleb Zheglov, main character in 1979 Soviet mini-series The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
References
- ^ Hanks, P.; Hodges, F.; Hardcastle, K. (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. The Oxford Reference Collection. OUP Oxford. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-19-157854-0.