List of Famous people born in Moscow Oblast, Russia
Olga Romanova
Olga Yevgenyevna Romanova is a Russian journalist and a director of the civil rights organization Russia Behind the Bars.
Valeria Zholobova
Valeria Sergeyevna Koblova, née Zholobova is a Russian freestyle wrestler. She competed in the freestyle 55 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she advanced to the bronze medal match, where she was defeated by Yuliya Ratkevich. At the 2014 World Wrestling Championships she lost in the final match to 10-time World champion and 4-time Olympic champion Kaori Icho. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she lost in the gold medal match to Kaori Icho. She is Grand Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling.
Sergei Shirokov
Sergei Sergeyevich Shirokov is a Russian professional ice hockey winger currently with Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Prior to signing with Vancouver in 2009, Shirokov played with CSKA Moscow for four seasons in the Russian Superleague and Kontinental Hockey League. He returned to CSKA Moscow in 2011 after two years with the Vancouver Canucks and Manitoba Moose.
Roman Safiullin
Roman Rishatovich Safiullin is a Russian tennis player. Safiullin became junior champion at the 2015 Australian Open, defeating South Korean Hong Seong-chan. Safiullin has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 164 achieved on 22 February 2021 and doubles of No. 296 achieved on 19 October 2020.
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kryukov is a Russian former cross-country skier who competed internationally between 2006 and 2018. He was a sprint specialist who won an Olympic gold medal, three World Championship gold medals, six World cup gold medals, all in the sprint events. He was arguably the fastest skier ever when it came to double-poling on the flat in sprints. He generally favoured classic skiing and classic sprints over freestyle, but as he showed in winning the team sprint in the 2013 World Championship, in Val di Fiemme, he was also very strong in the freestyle sprint.
Andrei Bogdanov
Andrey Vladimirovich Bogdanov is a Russian politician. He is the chairman of the Communist Party of Social Justice and a prominent Freemason, serving as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia since 2007. As a candidate for the 2008 presidential election, he received 968,344 votes or 1.30% of the Russian electorate.
Alexei Fedorychev
Alexey Mikhailovich Fedorychev (Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Федо́рычев; - Russian-born businessman, a citizen of Monaco and Hungary. The former owner of FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Rostov. The owner of the company Fedcom .
Mikhail Pulyaev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Pulyaev is a Russian judoka.
Korniliy
Metropolitan Korniliy, secular name Konstantin Ivanovich Titov ; born August 1, 1947, in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union is a Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church bishop; Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.
Pavel Yakovlev
Pavel Vladimirovich Yakovlev is a Russian football player who plays for Fakel Voronezh in Russian Football National League. His primary position is left winger.