Nikitin (Russian: Никитин), or Nikitina (feminine; Никитина) is a common Russian surname that derives from the male given name Nikita and literally means Nikita's. It may refer to:
Artists, musicians, authors
- Basil Nikitin (1885–1960), Russian orientalist and diplomat
- Gury Nikitin (1620–1691), Russian icon painter
- Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (c. 1690–1742), Russian painter
- Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
- Sergey Nikitin (musician), contemporary Russian composer, singer and bard
- Tatyana Nikitina, contemporary Russian singer and composer (wife of musician Sergey Nikitin)
- Victor Ivanovich Nikitin, Soviet soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble
- Yevgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone), bass-baritone
- Yuri Nikitin (author) (1939–2025), Russian sci-fi writer
- Sergei Alekseevich Nikitin [ru] (b. 1950), Russian sculptor
Athletes
Scientists, engineers and architects
Botanists
- There are at least five botanists with this surname, shown here followed by their standard author abbreviations :
Others
- Afanasiy Nikitin (died 1472), a Russian explorer and merchant
- Alexander Nikitin, contemporary Russian environment activist and a dissident Navy officer
- Alexey Petrovich Nikitin [ru], Russian artillery officer of the Napoleonic Wars
- Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin (general) (1891–1957), Soviet general
- Anfal Nikitin (fl. 1360), Novgorod boyar and ushkuynik
- Basil Nikitin Soviet orientalist and diplomat
- Nikolay Aleksandrovich Nikitin (general), (1900–1984), Soviet general
- Vladilen Nikitin (1936–2021), Russian engineer and politician
- Vladimir Nikitin, multiple people
- Viktor Nikitin (1893–1933), Russian and Serbian pilot, killed in the first disaster of Yugoslav civil aviation