List of Famous people born in Amur Oblast, Russia

Emilia Schüle is a Russian-born German actress.

Leonid Iovich Gaidai was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".

Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov is a Soviet and Russian film actor and a People's Artist of the USSR.

Georgi Petrovich Vins was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches. Following an agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Vins and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 with a group of other dissidents in exchange for two convicted spies, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger.

Andrey Viktorovoich Zamkovoy is a Russian Olympic-class boxer best known for winning silver at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Alexander Vadimovich Khoroshavin is a Russian politician. He was the Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, a federal subject of Russia from 2007 to 2015.

Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'. After the defeat of anti-communist forces in the Russian Civil War, he and his followers fled to Japanese-controlled China. He was lured by the NKVD to return to the Soviet Union with false promises of immunity and executed after a show trial in a Lubyanka prison cellar for "anti-soviet and counter-revolutionary activities".

Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Melnikov is a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was named People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1987 and awarded Order of Honour in 2002 and IV Class Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2010. He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences and was awarded the special Nika Award in 2016 "For outstanding contribution to national cinema".

Alexei Vasilievich Haieff was an American composer of orchestral and choral works. He is known for following Stravinsky's neoclassicism, observing an austere economy of means, and achieving modernistic effects by a display of rhythmic agitation, often with jazzy undertones.