List of Famous people born in Russia

Alla Yefremovna Gerber is a Russian politician, journalist and film critic.

Sabine Bethmann is a former German movie actress.

Andrey Bartenev is a Russian artist, sculptor, experimentalist, and creator of many provocative, interactive installations and performances. He was born in 1965 in Norilsk, Russia.

Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev, born 29 June 1947 in Susanino, Kostroma Oblast, is the former governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast from 8 August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev until his resignation on 26 September 2017. Prior to his appointment as governor, Shantsev was the deputy mayor of Moscow. He also led Moscow's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Yevgenia Markovna Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host. As of 2011, she works as a chief editor of The New Times magazine.

Zoya Feliksovna Svetova is a Russian journalist and human rights defender, producer, author of the documentary novel Innocent Found Guilty.

Vera Igorevna Zvonareva is a Russian tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career-high ranking is world No. 2 by the WTA. Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles including 2009 Indian Wells Masters and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open. She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In doubles, she has won five Grand Slam titles. Three of the titles came in women's doubles, the first two at the 2006 US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy, and the 2012 Australian Open, with Svetlana Kuznetsova. Following her return to tennis, Zvonareva won her third women's doubles Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open, partnering Laura Siegemund. Her other two titles came in mixed doubles, the first at the 2004 US Open, partnering Bob Bryan, and her second at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, alongside Andy Ram.

Igor Olegovich Shestyorkin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Commonly known as the "The Tsar" and "The Prince", he was selected by the Rangers in the fourth round, 118th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Ernest Borisovich Vinberg was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, who worked on discrete subgroups of Lie groups and representation theory. He introduced Vinberg's algorithm and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem.

Ildar Amirovich Abdrazakov is a Russian bass opera singer.