List of Famous people born in Russia

Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He cofounded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.

Maryus Erikovich Vaysberg, also known as Marius Balčiūnas-Weisberg, is a Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter of Lithuanian and Jewish descent.

Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov is a Russian Doctor of Physics, professor, former rector of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2012-2016).

Alexei Nikolayevich Mishin is a Russian figure skating coach and former pair skater. With partner Tamara Moskvina, he is the 1969 World silver medalist and Soviet national champion.

Anna Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian-born artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and represented Russia in other international competitions. In 2002 she had won the Russian National Championships.

Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor for the Soviet Union. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow. She coaches in collaboration with Vladimir Kotin, her former pupil.

Robert Mikhailovich Shwartzman, is a Russian racing driver competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship since 2020. He is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy. He is the 2018 Toyota Racing Series champion and the 2019 FIA Formula 3 champion.

Anna Andreyevna Gorshkova is a Russian actress and model, who made her debut as Polina Penkova in the 2003 soap opera Bednaya Nastya.

Iryna Friz is a Ukrainian politician who was Minister of the then newly created Ministry for Veterans Affairs in the Groysman government from November 2018 until August 2019. She was elected into the Ukrainian Parliament in 2014 as a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for European Solidarity.

Marat Shakirzyanovich Khusnullin is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Construction and Regional Development since 2020. He previously served as Deputy Mayor of Moscow from 2010 to 2020.