Ignatyev

Ignatyev, Ignatiev, or Ignatieff (Russian: Игнатьев; masculine) or Ignatyeva (Игнатьева; feminine) is a Russian surname derived from the name Ignatius, in Russian, Ignatiy/Ignaty. In the Imperial Russia the Ignatievs noble family was established sometimes in the 17th century as a cadet branch of the Pleshchevs family from Chernihiv (Czernihów). Along with Pleshchevs, the Ignatievs family takes its roots from a Muscovite boyar Theodore Biakont who emigrated from Chernihiv to Moscow sometime in the 14th century, see Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev.

Ihnatyev and Ihnatiev is a transliteration of the name from Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. For more information, see Ge (Cyrillic).

Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Ignatyev (born 1971), Russian football player
• Alexsandr Ignatyev (1912–1998), Russian sculptor
• Alexandra Nikolaevna Ignatieff (born 1939), Franco-Russian countess and Princess of San Stefano
• Alexey Ignatyev (1877–1954), Russian count, statesman, and writer
• Andrey Alexandrovich Ignatiev (1900–1973), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Andrey Nikolayevich Ignatyev (1921–2012), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Ardalion Ignatyev (1930–1998), Soviet athlete
• Boris Ignatyev (1940–2026), Russian football manager and player
• Gavriil Ignatyev (1768–1852), Russian infantry general
• George Ignatieff (1913–1989), Canadian diplomat and recipient Pearson Medal of Peace (son of Pavel Ignatyev)
• Grigory Ignatyev (1846–1898), Russian military communications engineer and inventor
• Michael Ignatieff (born 1947), Canadian politician, academic and broadcaster (son of George Ignatieff)
• Mikhail Ignatyev (disambiguation), several people
• Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832–1908), Russian statesman and diplomat
• Nikolay Ignatyev (pilot) (1917–1994), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Noel Ignatiev, history professor at the Massachusetts College of Art
• Pavel Ignatieff (1870–1945), Russian count and minister of education (son of Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev)
• Pavel Ignatyev (1973), Russian sculptor
• Semyon Ignatyev (1904–1983), head of the Soviet secret police
• Sergey Ignatyev (disambiguation), several people
• Countess Sophia Ignatieva, Russian countess
• Varnava Ignatyev (1867–1927), Russian/Soviet scientist in the field of children's and teenage hygiene
• Vitaly Ignatiev (born 1980), foreign minister and diplomat of Moldova's unrecognized breakaway region of Transnistria
• Vladislav Ignatyev (born 1987), Russian football player currently playing for Lokomotiv
• Vladyslav Ihnatyev (born 1997), Ukrainian football player