List of Famous people born in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vilkova is a Russian actress. She is known for her roles in Black Lightning (2009), Hipsters (2008), and The PyraMMMid (2011).

Natalia Anatolievna Rudina, better known by stage name Natali, is a Russian singer, composer, songwriter, actress and TV presenter, best known for her 1997 song "Veter s morya dul", and for 2013 song "O bozhe, kakoy muzhchina!".

Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin is a Russian linguist, philologist, and historian from Nizhny Novgorod who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of 26 girls between the ages of 3 and 25 were discovered in his apartment. After exhuming the bodies from local graveyards, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, saw the mummies but mistook them for large dolls.

Pavel Pavlovich Borodin is a Russian official and politician.

Daniil Olegovich Trifonov is a Russian pianist and composer. Described by The Globe and Mail as "arguably today's leading classical virtuoso" and by The Times as "without question the most astounding pianist of our age", Trifonov's honors include a Grammy Award win in 2018 and the Gramophone Classical Music Awards' Artist of the Year Award in 2016. The New York Times has noted that "few artists have burst onto the classical music scene in recent years with the incandescence" of Trifonov. He has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic, and has given solo recitals in such venues as Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Concertgebouw, and the Seoul Arts Center.

Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva is a Russian stage and film actress and television presenter.

Zhora Kryzhovnikov is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.

Dmitri Nikolayevich Cheryshev is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a forward, and a manager.

Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov is a Russian writer.