Semion

Semion is a male Slavic given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Semion Abugov (1877-1950), Jewish, Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
• Semion Alapin (1856-1923), chess master, openings analyst, and puzzle composer
• Semion Belits-Geiman (born 1945), former Soviet freestyle swimmer
• Semion Bogatyrev (1890-1960), Russian musicologist and composer
• Semion Braude (1911-2003), Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer
• Semion Budionnyi (1883-1973), red cossack, Soviet cavalryman, military commander, politician and close ally of Joseph Stalin
• Semion Chelyuskin (1700-1764), Russian polar explorer and naval officer
• Semion Domash (born 1950), Belarusian politician
• Semion Elistratov (born 1990), Russian short-track speed-skater
• Semion Grigoryevich Frug (1860-1916), multi-lingual Russian poet, lyricist and author
• Semion Furman (1920-1978), Soviet chess International Grandmaster and trainer
• Semion Grossu (born 1934), Moldovan politician and businessman
• Semion Ivanov (1907-1993), Soviet general
• Semion Mogilevich (born 1946), Israeli, Ukrainian-born organized crime boss, believed to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world
• Semion Morozov (1914-1943), commissar of the Taganrog antifascist underground organization (1941-1943)
• Semion G. Murafa (1887-1917), Bessarabian politician in the Russian Empire, also known as a publicist and composer
• Semion Rotnitsky (1915-2004), Soviet Russian painter, Honoured Art worker of Tatar Republic, member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Semion Șestopali (1912-2002), Russian-born Romanian and Israeli writer
• Semion Shchedrin (1895-1970), Soviet military commander, senior professional officer of the Red Army when the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939
• Semion Yushkevich (1868-1927), Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda