List of Famous people born in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Viktor Tolokonsky
Viktor Aleksandrovich Tolokonsky is a Russian politician. He was governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia from 2014 to 2017 and governor of Novosibirsk Oblast from 2000 to 2010.
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him “one of the greatest violinists in the world.”
Irina Zaryazhko
Irina Vladimirovna Koroleva is a Russian female volleyball player, who plays as a middle blocker. She is a member of the Women's National Team and has participated at the Universiade, the Montreux Volley Masters, the Women's European Volleyball Championship, the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, the 2015 European Games in Baku, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Ivan Stretovich
Ivan Alexeyevich Stretovich is a Russian artistic gymnast. He won a silver medal in the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Grigori Denisenko
Grigori Denisenko is a Russian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect to the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 15th overall, by the Florida Panthers in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
Anna Kikina
Anna Yuryevna Kikina is a Russian engineer and test cosmonaut, selected in 2012. In June 2020, fellow cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko said that Kikina is expected to fly on his fall 2022 mission to the International Space Station and perform a spacewalk during the mission.
Sergey Dreyden
Sergey Simonovich Dreyden (Dontsov) is a Russian actor and star of Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark.
Lyubov Shutova
Lyubov Andreyevna Shutova is a Russian fencer, World champion in 2009 and team World champion in 2013 and 2014.
Aleksander Barkov
Alexander Edgardovich Barkov is a retired Russian professional ice hockey player and coach. He played a long career for Sibir Novosibirsk and Spartak Moscow in the Soviet Union, and later for Tappara of the Finnish SM-liiga. His son Aleksander Barkov Jr. was born in Finland and is the captain of the Florida Panthers of the NHL.
Ruben Aganbegyan
Ruben Aganbegyan is a Russian economist, the President of Micex. Son of the famous Soviet economist Abel Aganbegyan.