List of Famous people born in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

Dmitry Vladimirovich Orlov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Lev Abramovich Dodin is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater.

Ilya Igorevich Sorokin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sorokin was selected by the Islanders in the third round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Yevgeni Valeryevich Grishkovetz is a popular Russian writer, dramatist, stage director, actor and musician.

Vera Danilovna Voloshina was a Russian partisan who after joining the Red Army took part in subversive activities against the Nazis in World War II. After being ambushed by the Germans in November 1941, she was brutally hanged near the village of Golovkovo in the Naro-Fominsky District to the southwest of Moscow. According to legend, she was also the model behind Ivan Shadr's Girl with an Oar sculpture in Moscow's Gorky Park. In 1994, Voloshina was honoured posthumously as a Heroine of the Russian Federation.

Maksim Valerevich Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently under contract to HC Khimik Voskresensk in the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). He has played for various KHL, Supreme Hockey League (VHL), and Junior Hockey League (MHL) teams.

Vladimir Stanislavovich Milov is a Russian politician and the former chairman of the Russian political party Democratic Choice. From May to October 2002, he served as Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. He was a member of the Federal Political Council of the democratic movement Solidarnost (2008-2010) and one of the founders of the coalition "For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption". He was also the president of the Institute for Energy Policy, a Moscow-based independent think tank until 2013.

Vladislav Alekseevich Ramm is a Russian singer. Former member of MBAND (2014-2015).

Evgenia Valeryevna Smolyaninova (Russian: Евгения Валерьевна Смольянинова, born 29 February 1964 in Novokuznetsk) is a Russian singer, performer of Russian romance and Folk songs and composer.

Nadezhda Viktorovna Sergeeva is a Russian bobsledder.