List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan
Sergey Lipinets
Sergey Alekseyevich Lipinets is a professional boxer from Kazakhstan and former kickboxer who held the IBF light-welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world's ninth best active welterweight by The Ring magazine and tenth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Vladimir Shatalov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
Natalya Timakova
Natalya Aleksandrovna Timakova is a Russian journalist. As of 2012, she is press attaché to the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Moukhtar Dzhakishev
Moukhtar Dzhakishev is a notable Kazakh businessman and the former head of Kazatomprom.
Sara Nazarbayeva
Sara Alpysovna Nazarbayeva, Russian: Сара Алпысовна Назарбаева, né Konakayeva, born 12 February 1941, in Kzyl-Zhar, present-day Kazakhstan) served as the First Lady of Kazakhstan and is the wife of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. She married Nursultan in 1962 after her graduation. They have three daughters — Dariga, Dinara and Aliya — and as well as six grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
Lev Prygunov
Lev Georgievich Prygunov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, painter, People's Artist of Russia (2013). His son is a Russian film director Roman Prygunov.
Aliya Nazarbayeva
Aliya Nursultanovna Nazarbaeva is the youngest daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first President of Kazakhstan. She is the head of numerous business operations including a construction company and a high-end spa.
Madina Abilqasymova
Madina Erasylqyzy Abilqasymova is a Kazakh politician who's serving as the chair of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Regulation and Development of the Financial Market. Prior to that, she served as a Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population from 2018 to 2019.
Dinara Nazarbayeva
Dinara Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva is a Kazakh businesswoman and the middle daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayeva was born in Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union. Despite not being a public figure, she is the fourth-richest person in Kazakhstan, with a fortune estimated to be around $1.3 billion.
Daneliya Tuleshova
Daneliya Tuleshova is a Kazakhstani singer. She represented Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Minsk, Belarus with her song "Ózińe sen", finishing sixth.