Botkin

Botkin (Russian: Боткин) or Botkina (feminine; Боткина) is a common Russian or Scottish surname which may refer to:

• Benjamin A. Botkin (1901–1975), American folklorist and scholar
• Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer
• Daniel Botkin, author and environmentalist, son of Benjamin A. Botkin
• Eugene Botkin (1865–1918), Russian court physician, father of Gleb and Tatiana
• Gleb Botkin (1900–1969), novelist and founder of the Church of Aphrodite, son of Eugene Botkin
• Jeremiah D. Botkin (1849–1921), U.S. Representative from Kansas
• Kirk Botkin (born 1971), American football player who performed in the National Football League; college football coach
• Mikhail Botkin (1839-1914), Russian artist

• Perry Botkin Sr. (1907–1973), American jazz musician, composer and songwriter
• Perry Botkin Jr. (born 1933), American composer, producer, arranger, and musician
• Sean Botkin, American pianist
• Sergey Botkin (1832–1889), Russian clinician and therapist
• Vasily Botkin (1812-1869), critic and essayist, brother of Sergey Botkin
• Tatiana Botkina (1898–1986), daughter of Russian court physician Eugene Botkin
• Botkin, a man character from Rupert (TV series) in 1991 on "Rupert And The Twilight Fan" episode
• V. Botkin, a character (limited almost entirely to an index entry) in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 masterpiece "Pale Fire". Nabokov is said to have claimed that this Botkin was the author of the entire novel. If so, then Botkin is an alias for Nabokov himself.