List of Famous people born in Russia
Olga Naumenko
Olga Nikolayevna Naumenko is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, TV presenter, People's Artist of Russia (2005)). Actress of Gogol Center.
Anton Siluanov
Anton Germanovich Siluanov is a Russian politician and economist serving as Minister of Finance since 2011. He served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2018 to 2020.
Maria Butyrskaya
Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya is a Russian retired figure skater. She is the 1999 World champion and a three-time European champion — becoming the oldest skater and the first Russian to win the World ladies' title and the oldest skater to win the European ladies' title. Butyrskaya placed fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She won the Russian national title six times.
Mikhail Kozhukhov
Mikhail Yuryevich Kozhukhov is a Russian journalist and television presenter. Kozhukhov was a host of In Search of Adventures television program, for which he received the TEFI award in 2004; he was also awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Nina Sublati
Nino Sulaberidze, better known by her stage name Nina Sublatti, is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model.
Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni, later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish born American soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the Eastern Front in World War II; and as a United States Army Major when he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.
Dennis Siver
Dennis D. Siver is a Russian-born German mixed martial artist who competed in the welterweight, lightweight, and featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Polina Agureyeva
Polina Vladimirovna Agureeva is a Russian film and stage actress, singer of songs, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Yury A. Dmitriev
Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev is a civil rights activist and local historian in Karelia. Since the early 1990s, he has worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin's Great Terror and identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain. As a result of his commitment, Karelia's past is better documented in this respect than almost any other part of the Russian Federation.
Sergey Chemezov
Sergey Viktorovich Chemezov is the CEO of Rostec Corporation, chairman of the Union of Russian Mechanical Engineers, and a lieutenant-general.