List of Famous people born in Oryol Oblast, Russia

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for the World Health Organization, and chairman of International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Berezin is a Soviet and Russian actor, journalist, television and radio presenter. He was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia.

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature.

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov was a Soviet physicist and university teacher, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the founders of nonlinear optics.

Sergei Vyacheslavovich Kiriakov is a Russian football coach and a former player. He last worked as the manager of FC Arsenal Tula.

Anna Petrovna Kern was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of what is probably the best known love poem in the Russian language, written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1825.

Kristina Aleksandrovna Kretova is a Russian soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Boris Valerianovich Chirikov was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was the founder of the physical theory of Hamiltonian chaos and made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum chaos. In 1959, he invented the Chirikov criterion which gives an analytical estimate for the overlap of resonances and provides the conditions for transition from integrability to global chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

Mikhail Yurievich Segal, is a Russian film director and writer.