Popov or Popoff (masculine) or Popova (feminine) is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (priest). The fourth most common Russian surname. It may refer to:

• Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
• Aleksei Popov (born 1978), Russian footballer
• Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, former Prime Minister of Chechnya
• Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
• Angel Popov (born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
• Apostol Popov (born 1982), Bulgarian football defender
• Blagoy Popov (1902–1968)
• Boris Popov (born 1941), Russian water polo player
• Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player
• Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
• Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
• Dimitar Iliev Popov (born 1927), Bulgarian judge and former Prime Minister
• Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
• Dusan Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known also as 'Tricycle'
• Eduard Popov (born 1988), Russian football player
• Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
• Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer
• Frank Popoff (born 1930), American businessman and chemist
• Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (born 1936), Russian politician
• Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer
• Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
• Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
• Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player,
• Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
• Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
• Lyubov Popova (1889–1924), Russian avant-garde artist
• Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
• Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
• Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
• Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer
• Oleg Popov (born 1930), Russian circus artist
• Peter Popoff (born 1946), German-born American televangelist
• Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
• Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
• Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
• Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
• Serhiy Popov (born 1971), Ukrainian footballer
• Stefan Popov (born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
• Stole Popov (born 1950), Macedonian film director.
• Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
• Valentina Popova (born 1972), a Russian weightlifter
• Valery Popov (disambiguation)
• Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
• Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
• Victor Popov (1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist
• Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
• Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
• Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (born 1936), Russian paleoentomologist

See also[link]

• Popovo (disambiguation)
• Popovka (disambiguation)

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Mariana Popova (Bulgarian: Мариана Попова) (born June 6, 1978) is a Bulgarian singer. She is known for representing Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Biography[link]

Mariana Popova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has been studying music since she was 11, and later she also studied modern and jazz ballet. From 1996 until 2000, she was part of the group Cocomania. In 2005 she won the first prize at the “Burgas and the Sea” Festival with the song "Dream About Me," which she performed in a duet with Dani Milev. Mariana says that she dreams of never to stop dreaming, that she appreciates the really talented people, that she believes in herself and in reincarnation and that she would like to have a dinner with the singer Marc Anthony. In 2006, Mariana Popova triumphed at the Bulgarian National Final competition with the song "Let Me Cry", to enter the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. Popova was not voted through semi-finals and thus did not qualify for the final on May 20.

Singles[link]

• Ти не дойде (You Didn't Come)
• Казах (I Said)
• Можем пак (We Can Do It Again)
• Няма (There Isn't Anything)
• След (After)
• Сънувай ме (Dream About Me)
• Let Me Cry (Остави ме да плача) - with this song Mariana participated in Eurovision Song Contest in Athens.
• Sometimes (Понякога) - Bulgarian version called "Не знам"
• Lejos-song sung in Spanish with the Bulgarian artist Orlin Goranov.
• Ostani
• New Religion - Namesake of latest album

Awards[link]

• 2004 – Third Prize at ‘Bourgas and the Sea’ Festival and the special prize of ‘Rotari Club – Bourgas’ with the song ‘After’ / duet with Dany Milev
• 2005 – First Prize at ‘Bourgas and the Sea’ Festival with ‘Dream about me’ / duet with Dany Milev

Nominations[link]

• 2004 – Nomination for ‘Best Female Singer’, BG Radio Annual Music Awards
• 2004 – Nomination for ‘Best Bulgarian Debut’, BG Radio Annual Music Awards
• 2005 – Nomination for ‘Best Female Singer’, MM Television Annual Music Awards
• 2005 – Nomination for ‘Best Female Singer’, BG Radio Annual Music Awards

External links[link]

• Official website
• Eurovision Website - Bulgarian Page