List of Famous people born in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Russian career-officer in the Red Army, attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (1942-1945) and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, and as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. As the Chief of the General Staff from 1942 to 1945, Vasilevsky became involved in planning and coordinating almost all the decisive Soviet offensives in World War II, from the Stalingrad counteroffensive of November 1942 to the assaults on East Prussia, Königsberg and Manchuria.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zaitsev, more commonly known as Slava Zaitsev, born 2 March 1938 in Ivanovo, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, is a Soviet/Russian fashion designer, painter, graphic artist, and theatrical costume designer.

Lyubov Sergeevna Sokolova was a Soviet and Russian cinema actress, named a People's Artist of the USSR. She played in the movie more than 300 roles.

Andrey Leonidovich Martynov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

Feodor Vassilyev was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. His first wife was Mrs. Valentina Vassilyev (1). Valentina is claimed to have lived to be 75, and between 1725 and 1765, have had 69 children ; 67 of them survived infancy with the loss of one set of twins: the record for most children born to a single woman. However, their names, dates of birth, and dates of death are all unknown.

Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk (NLMK), one of the four largest steel companies in Russia. He is a leading world authority on metallurgical processes; holding various patents on and having published over 100 articles on metallurgy and economics, including 15 monographs.

Pavel Petrovich Postyshev was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist. He was a member of Joseph Stalin's inner circle, before falling victim to the Great Purge. In 2010, a court in Kyiv judged Postyshev 'guilty of complicity in genocide' because of his part in causing the mass starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, known as the Holodomor.

Nathalie Sarraute was a French writer and lawyer.

Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky was a Russian medical scientist, epidemiologist and infectionist.

Arkady Dmitrievich Severny was a popular singer from Leningrad. He was very popular in the Soviet Union in the 1970s primarily because of his criminal songs. He sang more than 1,000 songs based on criminal folklore and literature. Severny worked with well-known Russian jazz and restaurant musicians. He recorded more than 80 albums, both solo and orchestral.