List of Famous people born in Russia

Andrei Yurievich Kravchuk is a Russian television and film director and screenwriter best known for his films The Italian (2005) and The Admiral (2008).

Lev Abramovich Dodin is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater.

Semen Ihorovych Semenchenko is a former deputy to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security and Defence and the commander-founder of the volunteer territorial defence battalion "Donbas", based in Donetsk. He was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from 2014 to 2019.

Yury Ilyich Skuratov is a Russian lawyer and politician.

Ilya Igorevich Sorokin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sorokin was selected by the Islanders in the third round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Tikhon Viktorovich Dzyadko is a Russian public figure, journalist and media manager. Editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel. Former deputy editor-in-chief and host of the RTVI TV network. Previously worked at the radio station Echo of Moscow and the Ukrainian channel Inter.

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Matovnikov, is a Russian statesman and military leader, who is a Lieutenant General as of 2018, and currently the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation since 22 January 2020. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017.

Oleg Aleksandrovich Kuzmin is a Russian football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant coach with Rubin Kazan. He played as a right back.

Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov is a naval officer and is the current Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU). He was appointed the acting Director on 22 November 2018 following the death of his predecessor Igor Korobov and is a noted hardliner. This posting also made him the first naval officer in the history of the GRU to take the office of Director of Military Intelligence. He has been placed on the US Government's "blacklist" for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US Presidential elections. He was further promoted to the rank of Admiral in late 2019.

Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov is a former Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Ludmila Belousova he is a two-time Olympic champion and four-time World champion (1965–1968). In 1979, the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995. They continued to skate at ice shows and exhibitions through their seventies.