List of Famous people born in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia

Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene, née Kuchina, is a Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She won the gold medal at the 2015, 2017 and the 2019 World Championships.

Viktor Ivanovich Belenko is an American aerospace engineer and former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer.

Katya Lel, born Ekaterina Nikolayevna Chuprinina(Russian: Екатерина Николаевна Чупринина), on September 20, 1974 in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is a Russian pop singer.

Dzhambulat Mikhailovich "Dzhambik" Khatokhov was the world's heaviest child from 2003, according to the Guinness Book of Records.

Kantemir Arturovich Balagov is a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Circassian origin. He has directed the films Closeness (2017) and Beanpole (2019).

Bilyal Valerievich Makhov is a Circassian-Kabardian-born Russian mixed martial artist, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestler. He is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, currently competing in the Heavyweight division. He was the Russian champion in 2007 and 2010, European champion in 2010 and World champion in 2007, 2009 and 2010 in Men's Freestyle 120 kg wrestling and bronze medalist in 130 kg Greco-Roman Wrestling at the World Championships in 2014 and 2015. In 2015, he won the Russian National Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin.

Felix Viktorovich Tsarikati is a Soviet and Russian pop singer (baritone) and an actor of Ossetian origin. Honored Artist of Russia (2000).

Arseny Grigoryevich Golovko was a Soviet admiral, whose naval service extended from the 1920s through the early Cold War.

Yuri Alexandrovich Kokov is a Russian politician who was served as Head of Kabardino-Balkaria from 2013 to 2018.