List of Famous people born in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zharov is a Russian politician. The head of Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) since 2012 to 2020.

Anna Trebunskaya is a Russian born American professional ballroom and Latin dancer, known for her appearances on Dancing with the Stars. She now lives in Los Angeles and dances in the International Latin style.

Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov is a Russian former ice hockey right wing and two-time Olympic gold medalist. He was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Centennial All-Star Team in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries.

Yevgeny Anatolyevich "Daddy" Dadonov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played in two stints for the Florida Panthers where he was originally selected 71st overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft

Nikolai Nikolayevich Prokhorkin is a Russian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Dmitry Leonidovich Gridin, known as The Lifter, is a Soviet serial killer who killed three girls in 1989.

Boris Aleksandrovich Dubrovsky is a Russian politician, metallurgical engineer, former CEO of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (2011-2014). The current Governor of the Chelyabinsk region from September 24, 2014.

Vyacheslav Arkadevich "Slava" Bykov is a former Soviet and Russian ice hockey player and a former head coach of the Russian national hockey team. A small, technically gifted center, he was a regular fixture on the Soviet national ice hockey team in the 1980s; after the fall of the Soviet Union, he played for Team Russia in the 1990s. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft in the 9th round at number 169 overall. He opted, however, to never play in the NHL.

Timur Morgunov is a Russian track and field athlete specialising in the pole vault. As an Authorised Neutral Athlete, he won the silver medal at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.

Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, which is still a record for a speed skater. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin.