Sorokin
Sorokin, or Sorokina, is a common Russian surname, derived from the Russian word soroka. Those bearing it include the following:
- Aleksei Sorokin, Estonian politician
- Alexey Sorokin, fashion designer
- Alexey Sorokin, Admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anastasia Sorokina, Belarusian/Australian chess Woman International Master
- Anna Sorokin, Russian fraud perpetrator
- Coti Sorokin, Argentine singer-songwriter
- Evgraf Sorokin, painter
- Ilya Sorokin, NHL goalie under contract with the New York Islanders
- Irina Sorokina, Russian-Norwegian laser physicist
- Ivan Sorokin, Russian commander during the Russian Civil War
- Maxim Sorokin, Russian chess player
- Nikolai Sorokin, Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, People's Artist of Russia
- Pavel Sorokin, painter
- Peter P. Sorokin, an American physicist, co-inventor of the dye laser
- Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist
- Pyotr Sorokin, a Russian international soccer player
- Stanislav Sorokin, a Soviet boxer
- Vasili Sorokin, mosaics artist
- Vitali Sorokin, swimmer
- Vladimir Sorokin, writer
- Zakhar Sorokin, Soviet military officer and declared Hero of the Soviet Union
