List of Famous people born in East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan

Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held the world heavyweight championship twice, including the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, and Ring magazine titles. A strategic and intelligent boxer, Klitschko is considered to be one of the best heavyweight champions of all time. He was known for his exceptional knockout power, using a strong jab, straight right hand and left hook, as well as great footwork and mobility, unusual for boxers of his size.

Valeria Lvovna Kudryavtseva, best known as Lera Kudryavtseva, is a Russian television presenter, actress, singer, and dancer.

Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin is a Russian nationalist politician, member of the State Duma of the first, second and fourth convocations where he served in the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law, leader of the Russian All-People's Union and an ex-leader of the Rodina political party. He also served as a rector of the Russian State University of Trade and Economics (RGTEU) from 2002 to 2012.

Anton Valerievich Khudobin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Olga Rypakova is a Kazakh track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.

Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh (Koch) is a Russian writer, mathematician-economist and businessman of partial German origin.

Igor Valeryevich Nikitin is a former Soviet-Kazakhstani hockey player, whom after the end of his playing career became a coach. He is currently the head coach of HC CSKA Moscow.

Alexey Yurevich Poltoranin is a Kazakh cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004. He has three World Cup wins, one in 2010 and two in 2013. In the 2013 World Championship in Val di Fiemme he won two bronze medals. Most of his best results are in the classic technique.

Damir Muratuly Ryspayev a Kazakh professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Nomad Nur-Sultan of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL).

Stanislav Olegovich Lunin, also known as Islam Dalaev, was a Kazakh professional footballer who played as a right-back.