List of Famous people born in Kazakhstan

Alexey Yurevich Poltoranin is a Kazakh cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004. He has three World Cup wins, one in 2010 and two in 2013. In the 2013 World Championship in Val di Fiemme he won two bronze medals. Most of his best results are in the classic technique.

Bakhtiyar Batyrzhanuly Zaynutdinov is a Kazakhstani footballer who plays for the Russian club CSKA Moscow and the Kazakhstan national football team. He plays as an attacking midfielder, right winger, left winger, centre back or left back.

Goga Ashkenazi is a Kazakh businesswoman and socialite. She is the founder and CEO of MunaiGaz Engineering Group, a Kazakh oil and gas conglomerate. Since 2012, she has been head of the fashion label Vionnet, based in Milan.

Nurlan Baiuzakuly Yermekbayev is a Kazakh politician, diplomat and Lieutenant General in the Ground Forces who has been the Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan since August 2018.

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard to copyright. According to Elbakyan, Sci-Hub has served over a billion science articles to its visitors since 2011.

Altai Seidırūly Kölgınov is a Kazakh politician who is currently serving as the äkim of Astana since June 2019.

Bulat Zhamituly Utemuratov is a Kazakhstani businessman, public figure, diplomat and philanthropist.

Igor Vladimirovich Sysoev is a Russian software engineer. In October 2004 he released the nginx Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache software and founded NGINX, Inc.

Alexander Merkel is a Kazakh-German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Professional League club Al-Faisaly and Kazakhstan national football team.

Kenes Rakishev or Kenges, is a Kazakh entrepreneur and investor.