Yanukovych (surname)
Appearance
Language(s) | Belarusian |
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Origin | |
Meaning | "son of John" |
Region of origin | Belarus |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Bevan, Giannitelli, Giannopoulos, Hovannesian, Hovannesyan, Hovhannisian, Hovhannisyan, I'Anson, Ioannidis, Ioannou, Ivanenko, Ivanić, Ivanov, Ivanović, Ivanovich, Ivanovski, Janavičius, Jānsons, Janowicz, JansenI, Jansons/Jansone, Janssen, Jensen, Johansson, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Johnstone, Jonavičius, Jonson, Jonsson, Johnsson, Jones, Jovanović, Mac Eoin, MacIain, Mac Seáin, McKeown, McKeon, McLachlan |
Yanukovych (Belarusian: Януковіч) is a Belarusian[1] surname and a patronymic of Yan ("John"). Notable people with the surname include:
- Viktor Yanukovych (born 1950) is a Ukrainian politician of Belarusian, Polish and Russian descent who served as 4th President of Ukraine from 2010 until his overthrow in the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution
- Oleksandr Yanukovych (born 1973), Ukrainian businessman
- Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych (1981–2015), Ukrainian politician
References
[edit]- ^ (in Belarusian) Бiрыла, М. В. (1966). Беларуская антрапанiмiя. Уласныя iмёны, iмёны-мянушкi, iмёны па бацьку, прозвiшчы. Мінск: Навука i тэхнiка. с. 85–86.