List of Famous people born in Kirov Oblast, Russia

Oksana Alexandrovna Domnina is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. She and partner Maxim Shabalin are the 2010 Olympic bronze medalists, the 2009 World Champions, the 2008 & 2010 European Champions, the 2007 Grand Prix Final champions, and three-time Russian national champions.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination was used as a pretext to launch the first Great Purge.

Alexander Nikolayevich Komin, known as The Slaveholder, was a Russian slave-owner and serial killer. At various times from 1995 to 1997, he kept 6 people as prisoners in a 9-meter deep bunker under his own garage. Four of his prisoners were eventually murdered.

Boris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. He was awarded four Stalin Prizes: in 1941, 1947, 1949, and in 1952. He 1975, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour.

Zhanna Leonidovna Agalakova is a Russian journalist, special correspondent, and television news presenter.

Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history. His expertise was medieval Rus' especially Novgorod the Great, where he had headed archaeological digs beginning in 1962.

Alexander Nikolayevich Maltsev is a retired Soviet ice hockey forward and politician.

Valery Mikhailovich Okulov is a Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, the former general director of Aeroflot. The actual state of the Russian Federation 2 Class Advisor.

Vladimir Georgievich Urin is a People's Artists of Russia; a Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko director (1995–2013), then Bolshoi Theatre director.