List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan

Jania Aubakirova is a Kazakhstani pianist.

Rashid Nugmanov is a Kazakh film director, dissident, political activist and founder of the Kazakh New Wave cinema movement.

Bakhtiyar Karipullauly Artayev is a Kazakh boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics. In recognition of his success, one of the Taraz sport centres was named after him. In 2012 he was appointed as a president of the Astana Presidential Sports Club.

Yevgeni Borisovich Pupkov was a Kazakhstani ice hockey defenseman.

Boris Markovich Borovsky was a Russian tennis player and sports journalist; Master of Sports of the USSR; and member of the Russian Union of Journalists.

Serik Sapiyev is an amateur boxer from Kazakhstan who won the world title in the light welterweight (-64 kg) division in 2005 and 2007 and Olympic Gold 2012 at welterweight. Sapiyev has signed up for the new AIBA professional league, called AIBA Pro Boxing (APB), which will launch in autumn 2013. He won the Val Barker Trophy for best boxer at the London Olympic Games in 2012. Now he works as general director of WSB.

Valentin Iglinsky is a Kazakh road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTour team Astana. He is the younger brother of Maxim Iglinsky, who rode for the Astana–Premier Tech team.