Gleb

Gleb (Russian: Глеб; Belarusian: Глеб) or Hlib (Ukrainian: Гліб, Old East Slavic: Г(ъ)лѣбъ) is a Slavic male given name derived from the Old Norse name Guðleifr, which means "heir of god." According to another version, the name Gleb comes from the name Olaf.^{[citation needed]} It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint Gleb, who is venerated by Eastern Orthodox churches.^[1] It is also commonly used in Ukraine and Belarus. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Gleb of Kiev (died 1171), Rus’ prince
• 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, illustrator and founder of a neo-pagan religion who was the son of Eugene Botkin, the court physician to the Romanov family
• 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), Rus' prince
• Gleb Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov) (1168–1215), Rus' prince
• 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

See also

• Boris Gleb, village in Murmansk, Russia
• Church of Boris and Gleb, Russia
• Saints Boris and Gleb