Bogdanov (Богданов) or Bogdanova (Богданова; feminine) is a common Russian and Bulgarian surname, that derives from the given name Bogdan and literally means Bogdan's. Translated: Bogu dan = God gave. Bogdanovs in Latvia. Notable people with the surname include:

Bogdanov

• Abraham Bogdanove (1888–1946) Russian muralist, artist and educator
• Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov (1907–1971), Soviet geologist
• Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov (1692–1766), Russian bibliographer and ethnographer
• Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (1949–2021/2022), French TV hosts and twin brothers, notable for the Bogdanov affair and numerous internet memes
• Ivan Bogdanov (1897–1942), Soviet military officer
• Ivan Bogdanov (painter) (1855–1932), Russian painter
• Malachi Bogdanov, British theatre director
• Michael Bogdanov (1938–2017), British theatre director
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (1914–1995), Soviet production designer
• Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868–1945), Russian painter
• Semen Ilyich Bogdanov (1894–1960), Soviet military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vladimir Leonidovich Bogdanov (born 1951), Russian oil tycoon
• Jon Bogdanove (Born 1958), American artist

Science

• Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), Belarusian-Russian physician, philosopher, economist, writer and revolutionary
• Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov (1834–1896), Russian zoologist and anthropologist
• Bogdan Bogdanov (1940–2016), Bulgarian classical philologist, culturologist and translator
• Konstantin Bogdanov (born 1963), Russian anthropologist and philologist
• Modest Bogdanov (1841–1888), Russian zoologist
• Rifkat Bogdanov (1950–2013), Tatar-Russian mathematician

Politics

• Andrei Vladimirovich Bogdanov, (born 1970), Russian politician
• Boris Bogdanov (1884–1960), Menshevik revolutionary
• Pyotr Bogdanov (1882–1939), Bolshevik statesman, engineer and economist

Sport

• Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian footballer
• Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov (1931–2001), Soviet sport shooter
• Andrei Bogdanov (1958–1999), Russian swimmer
• Eduard Bogdanov (born 1968), Russian football player and coach
• Lyubomir Bogdanov (born 1982), Bulgarian football player
• Maksims Bogdanovs (born 1989), Latvian motorcycle speedway rider
• Petar Bogdanov (born 1948), Bulgarian high jumper
• Sergei Dmitriyevich Bogdanov (born 1977), Russian footballer
• Valeri Bogdanov (footballer, born 1952), Russian football player and coach
• Valeri Bogdanov (footballer, born 1966), Russian football player

Bogdanova

• Anna Bogdanova (born 1984), Russian heptathlete
• Krasimira Bogdanova (1949–1992), Bulgarian basketball player
• Ludmila Bogdanova, penname of Belarusian writer Rakitina Nika (born 1963)
• Lyudmila Bogdanova (born 1983), Russian judoka
• Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (born 1962), née Bogdanova
• Nadejda (Nadezhda) Bogdanova ^[ru] (1836–1897), Russian dancer with an international career, prima ballerina of Paris Opera and Bolshoi Theatre.
• Olga Bogdanova (born 1951), actress
• Olga Bogdanova (born 1994), Estonian rhythmic gymnast
• Svetlana Bogdanova (handballer) (born 1964), Russian handball player
• Svetlana Bogdanova (water polo) (born 1976), Russian water polo player
• Yuliya Bogdanova (born 1964), Soviet swimmer
• Viktoria Bogdanova (born 1994), Estonian rhythmic gymnast
• Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova (1904–1983), Soviet theatre and film actress

Bogdanovs

• Maksims Bogdanovs