Prokhorov
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Prokhorov or Prokhorova (feminine; ), is a common Russian surname which may refer to:
- Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002), Russian physicist and Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner - Aleksandr Prokhorov (footballer)Aleksandr Prokhorov (footballer)Aleksandr Vladimirovich Prokhorov was a Soviet football player and coach.-International career:...
(1946–2005), Soviet football player and coach - Alexey Prokhorov (1923–2002), Soviet aircraft pilot and twice Hero of the Soviet UnionHero of the Soviet UnionThe title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...
- Mikhail ProkhorovMikhail ProkhorovMikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov is a Russian billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the American basketball team, the New Jersey Nets. After graduating from the Moscow Finance Institute he made his name in the financial sector and went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists in the...
(b. 1965), Russian billionaire businessman and entrepreneur - Nikolay Prokhorov (b. 1925), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Vasily Prokhorov (1919–1955), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Vitali ProkhorovVitali ProkhorovVitali Vladimirovich Prokhorov is a retired professional hockey player who played briefly with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. He played left wing and shot left-handed....
(b. 1966), professional hockey player - Vladimir ProkhorovVladimir ProkhorovVladimir Prokhorov is a Russian luger who has competed since 2000. He finished tenth in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL European Luge Championships in Cesana, Italy....
(b. 1984), Russian luger - Yelena ProkhorovaYelena ProkhorovaYelena Prokhorova is a Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2001 world champion in this event. She was born at Kemerovo, in Siberia....
(b. 1978), Russian heptathlete - Yuri Vasilevich ProkhorovYuri Vasilevich ProkhorovYuri Vasilevich Prokhorov is a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1949....
(b. 1929), Russian mathematician- Lévy–Prokhorov metric
- Prokhorov's theoremProkhorov's theoremIn measure theory Prokhorov’s theorem relates tightness of measures to weak compactness in the space of probability measures. It is credited to the Soviet mathematician Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov, who considered probability measures on complete separable metric spaces...