List of Famous people born in Chechen Republic, Russia

Zubaira Tukhugov is a Russian mixed martial artist who fights in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2010, Tukhugov made a name for himself, fighting in promotions like Cage Warriors, ProFC, Fight Nights (EFN) and others, before joining the UFC in 2014.

Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova is a Russian competitive swimmer. After making her Olympic debut in 2008, she went on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke in 2012, and silver medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke in 2016. She is a six-time World Champion, winning the 50 metres breaststroke, the 100 metres breaststroke (2015), and the 200 metres breaststroke. She is also a former world record holder in the 50 metres breaststroke.

Ludmilla Ivanovna Tourischeva is a former Russian gymnast, Ukrainian gymnast coach, and a nine-time Olympic medalist for the Soviet Union.

Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Soviet Air Force general and Chechen secularist leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a breakaway region in the North Caucasus, from 1991 to his death in 1996.

Umar Aliye Dzhabrailov is a Russian politician, an advisor to Sergei Prikhodko, Assistant to the President of Russia, the vice president of the Artists Union of Russia, a philanthropist, and a connoisseur of modern art.

Mairbek Vakhaevich Taisumov is a Russian-Austrian mixed martial artist of Chechen descent. He fights in the lightweight division. A professional mixed martial artist since 2007, Taisumov has previously competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and M-1 Global.

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov is a Russian economist and politician and the former Chairman of Parliament of Russia of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

Zelimkhan Khoussainovich Bakaev is a Chechen singer. He disappeared in Chechnya on 8 August 2017, while on a brief visit to the region to attend his sister's wedding. He is widely believed to have been abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Chechen authorities as part of their systematic persecution of homosexual men.

Movsar Buharovich Barayev (Suleimanov);, earlier known as Suleimanov, was a Chechen Islamist militia leader during the Second Chechen War, who led the seizure of a Moscow theater that led to the deaths of over 170 people by Russian special forces.

Mikail O. Shishkhanov is a Russian businessman and financier. Mikail is of Ingush descent, and is the nephew Mikhail Gutsiriyev.