People

• The name of a Russian noble family of Orlov
  Orlov
  Orlov is the name of a Russian noble family which produced several distinguished statesmen, diplomatists and soldiers. The family first gained distinction in the person of four Orlov brothers, of whom the senior was Catherine the Great's paramour, and the two junior were notable military...
  
  
• Vasily Orlov-Denisov
  Vasily Orlov-Denisov
  Vasily Orlov-Denisov was a Cossack Russian general. He was the son of Vasily Petrovich Orlov, Ataman of the Don Cossacks, and grandson of the first Earl of the Cossacks, General of Cavalry, Fedor Petrovich Denisov . In honour of his grandfather he added his surname to his own, becoming...
  
   (1775–1843), Russian cavalry general
• Alexander Yakovlevich Orlov (1880–1954), Russian astronomer
• Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov (1895–1973), Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West
• Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
  Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
  Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov was a Russian soldier and statesman, who rose to prominence during the reign of Catherine the Great.Orlov served in the Imperial Russian Army, and through his connections with his brother, became one of the key conspirators in the plot to overthrow Tsar Peter III...
  
   (1737-1808), Russian military leader
• Ivan Ivanovich Orlov (1861–1928), Russian inventor
• Sergey Vladimirovich Orlov (1880–1958), Russian astronomer
• Ivan Orlov
  Ivan Orlov
  Orlov, Ivan Efimovich was a philosopher, a forerunner of relevant and other substructural logics, and an industrial chemist. The date of his death is unknown but is believed to have occurred no earlier than 1936.-Education and Scientific Career:Orlov studied at the Natural Sciences Faculty of...
  
   (1886–1936), philosopher
• Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (1893–1966), Russian paleonthologist and academician
• Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov
  Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov
  Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov was a Russian military leader and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from July 1931 to July 1937....
  
   (1895–1938], Soviet military leader
• Lyubov Orlova
  Lyubov Orlova
  Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer.She was born to a middle class family in Zvenigorod near Moscow and grew up in Yaroslavl...
  
   (1902–1975), Soviet actress
• Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (b. 1924), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and a human rights activist
• Boris Orlov
  Boris Orlov
  Boris Gerasimovich Orlov was a Soviet painter. Member of the Soviet Painters Association since 1957. Graduated from Moscow city art studio for disabled. Participated a number of times in Moscow city, republican, all Soviet Union and foreign exhibitions. Paintings are in a number of Russian...
  
   (1925–1981), Russian painter
• Vladimir Orlov (speed skater)
  Vladimir Orlov (speed skater)
  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Orlov is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Winter Olympics.He was born in Moscow.In 1964 he won the silver medal in the 500 metres event.-External links:*...
  
    (b. 1938), Russian speed skater
• Dmitry Orlov
  Dmitry Orlov
  Dmitry Orlov is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States," something he has called “permanent crisis”...
  
   (b. 1963), engineer and writer on Peak Oil
  Peak oil
  Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. This concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, projected reserves and the combined production rate of a field...
  
  
• Mikhail Orlov (athlete)
  Mikhail Orlov (athlete)
  Mikhail Orlov is a retired Russian race walker who won a bronze medal over 5000 metres walk at 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He finished 6.57 seconds behind the silver medallist Robert Korzeniowski, while fellow Russian Mikhail Shchennikov won the race. The following year Orlov finished...
  
   (b. 1967), Russian race walker

Fictional characters

• Aleksandr Orlov
  Aleksandr Orlov (meerkat)
  Aleksandr Orlov is a fictional CGI anthropomorphic Russian meerkat. He is portrayed as being of aristocratic stock, and the founder of www.comparethemeerkat.com. The character is central to an advertising campaign on British commercial television for comparethemarket.com, a price comparison website...
  
  , star of Compare the Meerkat advertising campaign