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But this surname is very-not Polish, it's much more Russian.

Also used in Odisha; written as "ମିଶ୍ର" in Odia.

http://forebears.io/surnames/mishra
https://or.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ନରସିଂହ_ମିଶ୍ର (in Odia)

Alison Abdullah (Amanda Stephen) is a major character in Orange is the New Black.

Mitchell 'Mitch' Evans is a racing driver from New Zealand, who competed in the GP2 Series for several years, before moving to Formula E for the 2016/2017 season, driving for Jaguar.

Charles Leclerc is a Monégasque racing driver, who was GP3 Champion 2016, and as of June 2017 is leading the Formula 2 championship, driving for Prema Racing.

Also used in Canada.

http://forebears.io/surnames/desjardins

A famous bearer of this surname is Australian actor, David Lyons who played Sebastian Monroe in the television series, Revolution. He spells his last name with an s at the end.

Пастернак in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Паяри in Russian cyrillic script (pronounced pa-yar-ee)

The Finnish would also be pronounced this way, as the "j" would be pronounced like a "y".

Орлов in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Матвеев in Russian cyrillic. [noted -ed]

Лагоунов in Russian cyrillic script.

Попов in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Уткин in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Васильев in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Волков in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Фёдоров in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Крупин in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Кузнецов in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Константинов in Russian cyrillic script. [noted -ed]

Козлов in Russian cyrillic scrpit. [noted -ed]

Also used in Iran (written as "کریمی" in Persian and "كريمي" in Arabic). [noted -ed]

It's actually spelled as "Růžička" in Czech. [noted -ed]

Steve Burns, American actor most notable for playing Steve on Blue's Clues.

Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter best known for his 1978 single "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"

Sammy Johns, American singer-songwriter famous for his 1973 song "Chevy Van."

Actually, it's used more in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan than it is in Italy.

Source: http://forebears.io/surnames/Sultana [noted -ed]

Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress known for "Rookie Blue".

The name 'Barros' is actually a variant of the Basque surname 'Haro' the original branch of the former.

The name 'Souza' comes from an early Portuguese variation of the Latin word 'Saxa' meaning 'pebbles'.

In Latin, this name can be translated to "dying art" or "to die was an art".

Written as "حسين" in Arabic, also used in Pakistan ("حسین" in Urdu), India (by Indian Muslims; written as "हुसैन" in Hindi), and Bangladesh (by Bengali Muslims; written as "হুসেন" in Bengali).

http://forebears.io/surnames/Hussain [noted -ed]

Written as "Խաչատուրյան" in Armenian.

Graham Nash, an English singer-songwriter best known for his work with The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Another notable variation of D'Antonio is [Antuna] originating in Florence, Italy.

"Bach" means "stream", not "field". [noted -ed]

Classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989).

Rick Sanchez is a cynical, alcoholic, yet brilliant scientist and grandfather of Morty Smith in the American TV series 'Rick and Morty'.

John Marston is the protagonist of Red Dead Redemption.

Andrew Ryan is a character in Bioshock.

Cosmo Kramer (Referred to as Kramer) is a main character on Seinfeld.

Written as "رستمي‎‎" in Persian. [noted -ed]

Kohens did not decend from the Levi's. They decended from Aaron, Moses's brother.

I saw that there was a section for Fictional Characters and I know a character that's not listed. Ashley Davies from South of Nowhere (2005-2008).

Sounds like the most British surname to me.

Commander Shepard from Mass Effect is a famous bearer.

According to (http://forebears.io/surnames/Maeda) Maeda is the 32rd most common last name in Japan with 318,743 bearers.

Tex Avery, a famous cartoonist and animator in the 20th century, carried this surname.

Jim Lovell is an astronaut who travelled on the Apollo 13 Mission.

The French variation of the surname is Toussaint.