List of Famous people born in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Denis Yurievich Ten was a Kazakhstani figure skater. He was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist, the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.

Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev is a Kazakh politician and diplomat. He took office as the president of Kazakhstan on 20 March 2019, succeeding Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned on 19 March 2019 after 29 years in office.

Zarina Diyas is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 31 in the world. She is one of the few Kazakhstani tennis players who was born in Kazakhstan. Diyas has won one WTA singles title, the 2017 Japan Women's Open, as well as nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Dmitriy Igorevich Balandin is a Kazakh breaststroke swimmer. He won the 200 m breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 50, 100 and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2014 Asian Games.

Andrey Teteryuk - is a Kazakhstani professional road bicycle racer who represented his country at the Olympic games.

Maxim Gourov is a Kazakhstani professional road bicycle racer. He is currently a free agent, having last ridden for the Astana–Premier Tech team.

Vadim Aleksandrovich Sayutin is a former speed skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Kazakhstan, and Russia, in that order. Sayutin was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, the city where the famous Medeo skating rink is located.

Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev was a senior official of the government of Kazakhstan who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015. Austrian legal circles were giving much attention to this high-profile criminal case in which a former diplomat was facing murder charges.

Igor Vladimirovich Sysoev is a Russian software engineer. In October 2004 he released the nginx Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache software and founded NGINX, Inc.