List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan

Manshuk Zhiengalikyzy Mametova was a machine gunner of the 100th Rifle Brigade in the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd Shock Army on the Kalinin Front during the Second World War. She became the first Kazakh woman to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after the Supreme Soviet posthumously awarded her the title on 1 March 1944.

Volha Mazuronak is a Belarusian long-distance runner and former racewalker. She is a three-time national champion. Mazuronak has a marathon best of 2:23:54 and finished fourth at the London Marathon in 2016. She has won marathons in Siberia and California and was a silver medalist on the track at the 2015 Military World Games.

Oleg Nikolayevich Soskovets is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian politician.

Bayan Maksatkyzy Yessentayeva (née Mukhitdenova; is a Kazakhstani producer, television presenter, actress, and singer. She first rose to fame in 1993 with her leading role in the melodrama Love Station, after which she worked for a long time as a journalist and presenter on television. Since 2006, she has been producing Kazakh musical groups and individual performers. Since 2010, she has appeared in several films and television series.

Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina is a Russian aerobatic pilot.

Yeldos Smetov is a Kazakh judoka who competes in the under 60 kg weight division. He won gold medals at the 2014 Asian Games and 2015 World Judo Championships, and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Karim Qajymqanuly Massimov is a Kazakh politician who served as a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 10 January 2007 to 24 September 2012 and again from 2 April 2014 to 8 September 2016.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Litvin is a Kazakhstani sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 Asian Indoor Championships.

Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while being strong.

Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who has won four world championships. On 12 December, 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin set two world records in the −105 kg class. He lifted 246 kg in the clean and jerk and 437 kg in the total. Ilyin was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times: in 2005, 2006, 2014, and 2015.