List of Famous people born in Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Alexander Evgenievich Udodov is a Russian-based businessperson and real estate and property developer. He is the founder of Aforra Group, a real estate and property development company based in Moscow. Udodov is also an investor in agriculture and is a board member of the Eurasian Pipeline Consortium.

Magomed Ramazanovich Kurbanov is a Russian professional boxer who fights as a light middleweight.

Mavlet Alavdinovich Batirov is a Russian freestyle wrestler, world and 2-time Olympic champion, who competed in the men's freestyle 55 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal.

Khabib Mevlidinovich Allakhverdiev is a Russian former professional boxer of Lezgin descent who competed from 2007 to 2015. He held the WBA (Regular) and IBO super-lightweight titles from 2012 to 2014, and as an amateur won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2005 World Championships.

Magomed Ibragimov is a Russian-Dagestani Uzbek wrestler who competed in the freestyle 96 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He was born in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Adam Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Saytiev, is a Russian wrestler of Chechen descent who won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the Russian Federation at 85 kg cat. Adam also won the Wrestling World Championships in 1999 and 2002.

Zelimkhan Khadjiev is a Russian-French freestyle wrestler of Chechen heritage. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which he was eliminated in the round of 16 by Sosuke Takatani.

Razambek Salambekovich Zhamalov is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chechen ethnicity who competes at 74 kilograms. He claimed the 2020 Individual World Cup when he defeated two–time World Champion Frank Chamizo in the finals. An accomplished athlete, Zhamalov was also the 2020 Russian National Champion, the 2019 U23 World and European champion, a two–time Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix medalist and was the Junior World Championship runner–up at 70kg in 2018.

Muhammad Abdulkadyrovich Dandamayev, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM-RAS), was a historian who focused on the ancient Persian Empire, and the social institutions of Babylonia during the first millennium BCE.

Sharif Khamayuni Mukhammad is an Afghan professional football who plays for Gokulam Kerala in the I-League.