List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan
Zhanibek Alimkhanuly
Janibek Alimkhanuly is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2013 World Championships, 2013 Asian Championships and 2014 Asian Games. He also represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Olympics, losing in the quarter-finals.
Sergey Baburin
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.
Vladimir Steklov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov is a Soviet and Russian actor.
Victoria Dayneko
Victoria Dayneko is a singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2004, she started her career in Russia after her victory at the Star Factory-5 All-Russian TV show. Dayneko's songs have topped the Russian charts, and the music video of the "Bei Sebia" song has garnered more than 30 million YouTube views. Dayneko has also won Russian music award Golden Gramophone several times. She was declared as a Singer of the Year by Russian Glamour magazine and by Russian Fashion TV. She has appeared on the Russian Playboy magazine cover three times.
Dariga Nazarbayeva
Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva, born 7 May 1963) is a Kazakh politician. She is a member of the Mazhilis since 2021 and has served prior from 2004 to 2007, then again from 2012 to 2015. From 2014, Nazarbayeva was the Deputy Chair of Mazhilis until she became Deputy Prime Minister, where served from 2015 until she became the member of the Senate in 2016. She served as the Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020 and is the daughter of former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Dzinara Alimbekava
Dinara Alimbekava is a Kazakhstan-born Belarusian biathlete. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay at the 2018 Olympics. Alimbekava won her first IBU World Cup competition in Hochfilzen, Austria, in December 2020, and finished as the Under-25 Cup leader for the 2020-21 World Cup season.
Sergey Druzhko
Sergey Yevgenyevich Druzhko is a Russian film actor and TV presenter. From 2005 till 2008 he was a presenter of the popular TV show Inexplicable, yet a Fact. As of 2018 he is a web-based videoblogger of the "Druzhko Show", which has 2.8 million subscribers on YouTube.
Daulet Sembaev
Daulet Hamituly Sembaev was a Kazakh politician and financier who was the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 1992 to 1993 and the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 1992. He served as the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan from 1993 until 1996, when he was appointed as a member of the Kazakh Senate.
Amirjan Qosanov
Amirjan Sagidrahmanuly Qosanov is a Kazakh politician, journalist, political activist. He was a main challenger to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election.
Toktar Aubakirov
Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov is a retired Kazakh Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut. He is the first person from Kazakhstan to go to space.