Russia
People of this nationality
Alan Karaev
b. 1977
mixed martial arts fighter
Badri Basishvili
b. 1977
politician
Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov
1922 – 1973
paleontologist
Dmitri Goncharov
b. 1975
association football player
Vladimir Draganer
b. 1981
serial killer
Aleksandras Plechavičius
1897 – 1942
military officer
Andrei Levanidov
1747 – 1802
military officer
Pavel Snurnitsyn
1992 – 2011
ice hockey player
Mikhail Scotti
1814 – 1861
painter
Vasily Helmersen
1873 – 1937
artist
Yulia Berger
b. 1991
artistic gymnast
Christoph Johann von Medem
1763 – 1838
diplomat
Sergei Anashkin
1961 – 2022
association football player
Viktor Varshavsky
1933 – 2005
scientist
Egor Korotkov
b. 1986
freestyle skier
Alexander Pavlenko
b. 1971
serial killer
Romualdas Ramanauskas
b. 1950
actor
Sergey Chubraev
b. 1972
archivist
Vasili III of Moscow
1479 – 1533
statesperson
Ruslan Bolov
b. 1994
association football player
Dmitry Kamolikov
1923 – 1977
military personnel
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
1867 – 1951
explorer
Anna Kramer
1694 – 1770
businessperson
Aleksandr Lobkov
b. 1989
association football player
Kseniya Rappoport
b. 1974
actor
Jaan Kaplinski
1941 – 2021
poet
Ibad Huseynov
b. 1970
spy
Heinrich Eiche
1893 – 1968
historian
Vasili Pronchishchev
1702 – 1736
explorer
Aleksandr Paramonov
b. 1942
swimmer
Nina Ivanova
1934 – 2020
film actor
Anna Gerasimova
b. 1961
singer-songwriter
Nikolay Durnovo
1876 – 1937
linguist
Ivan Samarin
1817 – 1885
actor
Dmitry Goritsky
b. 1970
politician
Atamyrat Nyýazow
1912 – 1942
primary school teacher
Mariya Saakyan
1980 – 2018
film director
Artyom Dervoed
b. 1981
classical guitarist
Svetlana Savitskaya
b. 1948
aircraft pilot
Vladimir Neuvazhaev
b. 1935
mathematician
Kote Andronikashvili
1876 – 1925
revolutionary
Vladimir Voroshilov
1930 – 2001
journalist
Nikolai Bulganin
1895 – 1975
politician
Iurik Ogannisian
b. 2002
karateka
Anatolii Levchenko
1941 – 1988
astronaut
Vladislav Badiarov
b. 1973
violinist
Polina Landa
1931 – 2022
physicist
Vladimir Popov
1962 – 2025
amateur wrestler
Andrey Meshcheryakov
b. 1984
swimmer
Oleg Volkov
b. 1958
pianist
Sergei Kapustin
1953 – 1995
ice hockey player
N. P. Dyrenkova
1899 – 1941
ethnologist
Gennady Garbuzov
1930 – 2009
boxer
Yuriy Yurchyk
b. 1970
Catholic priest
Viktor Antikhovich
1945 – 2021
association football player
Yevgeni Toloknov
b. 1978
association football player
Ivan Rogov
1899 – 1949
politician
Denis Khodykin
b. 1999
figure skater
Angelina Vovk
b. 1942
actor
Artyom Popov
b. 1992
association football player
Oleg Balanovsky
1977 – 2021
geneticist
Vatslav Mikhalsky
1938 – 2024
writer
Vladimir Atoev
b. 1999
racing automobile driver
Yekaterina Nagimaya
canoeist
Arcadie Osmolovschi
1882 – 1931
politician
Tatiana Repeikina
1973 – 2017
association football player
Roman Avdeev
b. 1967
banker
Friedrich Martens
1845 – 1909
diplomat
Alexander Grigorev
b. 1989
judoka
Hennadiy Babenko
b. 1950
politician
Oleksandr Tikhonov
1938 – 2019
academic
Emanuel Kozačinski
1699 – 1755
journalist
Karo Halabyan
1897 – 1959
architect
Olga Zubova
b. 1993
weightlifter
Igor Moskvin
1929 – 2020
figure skater
Nina Barysaŭna Vatatsy
1908 – 1997
literary scholar
Serhiy Taruta
b. 1955
entrepreneur
Yelena Tikhonova
b. 1977
short-track speed skater
Al Jolson
1886 – 1950
actor
Oleg Yefremov
1927 – 2000
theatre director
Elena Suslova
b. 1984
association football player
Arkady Rosengolts
1889 – 1938
diplomat
Vadim Filippov
b. 1983
association football player
Ekaterina Feoktistova
1915 – 1987
chemist
Valerian Zorin
1902 – 1986
diplomat
Lilia Akhaimova
b. 1997
artistic gymnast
Koba Kurtanidze
1964 – 2005
judoka
Zurab Karumidze
1957 – 2023
writer
Vladimir Zakharov
b. 1960
computer scientist
Pyotr Baluyev
1857 – 1923
Alexei Avtonomov
b. 1959
legal scholar
Nadiya Rozhon
b. 1952
rower
Alexander Kropotckin
1841 – 1886
mathematician
Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov
b. 1941
military personnel
Nikolay Alexandrovich Stepanov
1807 – 1877
caricaturist
Dovid Gofshteyn
1889 – 1952
poet
Kaljo Kiisk
1925 – 2007
film director
Aleksandr Miasnikov
b. 1959
field hockey player
Natalya Safronova
b. 1979
volleyball player
Viktor Potapov
1934 – 2021
aircraft pilot