Famous People with Name Fedor

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev: was an early Russian painter of landscape art. After training in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, he spent three years in Venice studying the works of famous French and Italian landscape painters.

Fedor Bogatyrchuk            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Fedor Bogatyrchuk: was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess, and an International Master of correspondence chess. He also was a doctor of medicine, a political activist, and a chess writer. As a youth, Bogatyrchuk sometimes traveled to chess tournaments with the great Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), who had earlier lost a match for the World Championship to Wilhelm Steinitz. Chigorin trained the young player, and influenced his style and openings.

Fedor Parfen'evych Bogatyrchuk            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Fedor Parfen'evych Bogatyrchuk: was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess, and an International Master of correspondence chess. He also was a doctor of medicine, a political activist, and a chess writer.

Fedor Von Bock            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fedor Von Bock: was an officer in the German military from 1898 to 1945, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II. As a leader who lectured his soldiers about the honor of dying for the German Fatherland, he was nicknamed "Der Sterber" (literally, "The Dier")

Fedor Polischuk            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Fedor Polischuk: is a Ukrainian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player. He is 171 cm tall and weighs 74 kg. He is a member of the Kazakhstan national team and participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.