Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great's.
Potemkin may also refer to:
Fictional entities
- Potemkin (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games
- Potemkin, a character in Celebration (1969), a musical by Tom Jones
- Potemkin, a fictional Soviet submarine in To Kill the Potemkin
- USS Potemkin, a fictional starship in the Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer"
Other uses
- Russian battleship Potemkin
- Potemkin (surname)
- Potemkin (architecture), a steel park in Japan
See also
- Battleship Potemkin uprising, a mutiny in 1905
- The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein dealing with the mutiny
- Potemkin village, a term for fake settlements
- Potemkin Island, an island in southern Ukraine named after Grigory Potemkin
- "Potemkine", a song by Jean Ferrat glorifying the uprising
- All pages with titles containing Potemkin
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