title: Dyakonov
text: # Dyakonov
  
  Dyakonov (Russian: Дьяконов (masculine), Russian: Дьяконова (feminine)), Diakonoff, Diakonov, or Diakonof is a Russian surname meaning "a deacon's". Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Anatoly Dyakonov (1907–1972), Soviet general
  * Alexey Diakonoff (1907–1989), Dutch-Russian entomologist
  * Dmitry Dyakonov [ru] (1949–2012), Russian physicist
  * Elena Diakonova, known as Gala Dalí, (1894–1982), Russian model and wife of artist Dalí
  * Igor Diakonoff (1915–1999), linguist, translator, and historian of the Ancient Near East
  * Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller (1884–1980), Alaska Native educator
  * Nina Dyakonova (1915–2013), Russian researcher
  * Yevgeny Dyakonov (1935–2006), Russian mathematician
  * Vasily Dyakonov (1946–2012), governor of Krasnodar Krai
  * Mikhail Dyakonov (b. 1940), Russian physicist, discoverer of Dyakonov surface waves
  * Pavel Dyakonov (b. 1973), football player
  * Tatyana Dyakonova (b. 1970), Russian politician
  