List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan
Nurlan Nigmatulin
Nurlan Nigmatulin is a Kazakh politician who's serving as the Chair of the Mazhilis since 22 June 2016. Prior to that, he served as the head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, first deputy of Nur Otan from 2009 to 2012, and akim of Karaganda Region from 2006 to 2009.
Aleksandr Mokin
Aleksandr Valeryevich Mokin is a Kazakh football goalkeeper for the Kazakhstan national football team and FC Tobol.
Bağdat Musin
Bağdat Batyrbekuly Musin is a Kazakh politician that is serving as the Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry since 2 September 2020.
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov is a Kazakh footballer who plays for Wisła Kraków and Kazakhstan.
Mikhail Poltoranin
Mikhail Nikiforovich Poltoranin is a Russian journalist and politician who held senior government posts under the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Most notably, Poltoranin served as the minister of information and later as the deputy prime minister for the sphere of the press and news.
Grigori Marchenko
Grigory Alexandrovich Marchenko is a Kazakh financier, banker and politician.
Bibigul Tulegenova
Bibigul Akhmetkyzy Tulegenova is a Soviet-Kazakh opera singer, actress and teacher. Among her awards are Hero of Socialist Labor (1991), People's Artist of the USSR (1967), and the USSR State Prize (1970).
Mihhail Kõlvart
Mihhail Kõlvart is an Estonian politician. He is the current mayor of Tallinn, Estonia, a position he has held since April 2019, after the resignation of Taavi Aas.
Francheska Yarbusova
Francheska Alfredovna Yarbusova, often credited as F. Yarbusova, is an award-winning Russian artist and the wife and collaborator of Yuri Norstein, daughter of Alfred L. Yarbus a scientist famous for understanding how eye movements help us explore images. Yarbusova received a degree in film animation from VGIK in 1967, after which she began working for Soyuzmultfilm in the roles of art director or artist. She debuted as art director in the film A Little Locomotive from Romashkovo, directed by Vladimir Degtyaryov, in 1967. She also worked on other films such as A White Skin and Plasticine Hedgehog, but is primarily known for her work as the art director and artist in the films of Yuri Norstein, beginning with The Battle of Kerzhenets in 1971. She is currently working with her husband on an adaptation of Gogol's Overcoat.
Abilkhan Amankul
Abilkhan Amankul is a Kazakh middleweight amateur boxer.