Smirnov
The taxon authority Smirnov, Smirnoff, Smirnow, or Смирнов may refer to:
- Alexey Valerievich Smirnov (born 1970, A.V.Smirnov), Russian (Soviet) zoologist and protistologist
- Alexey Vladimirоvich Smirnov (born 1955, A.Vl.Smirnov), Russian (Soviet) zoologist and echinodermologist
- Arkadij Nikolaevich Smirnov (born 1948, A.N.Smirnov), Russian (Soviet) palaeontologist
- Evgeny Sergeevich Smirnov (1898–1977, E.S. Smirn.), Russian (Soviet) entomologist
- Igor Sergeevich Smirnov, Russian marine biologist
- Maksim Eduardovich Smirnov (born 1971), Russian entomologist
- Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov (1849–1889, M.Smirn.), Russian botanist
- Nikolai Georgievich Smirnov (born 1948, N.G. Smirnov), Russian (Soviet) zoologist and palaeontologist
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov (1928–2019, N.N. Smirnov), Russian (Soviet) zoologist and carcinologist
- Pavel Aleksandrovich Smirnov (1896–1980, P.A. Smirn.), Russian (Soviet) botanist
- Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov (fl. 1870, Smirn.), Russian botanist
- Sergei Sergeyevich Smirnov (1907–1942, S.S. Smirn.), Russian (Soviet) zoologist and copepodologist
- Sergey Vladimirovich Smirnov (born 1976, S.V. Smirn.), Russian (Soviet) botanist