List of Famous people born in Russia

Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999).

Yuri Nikolaevich Arabov is a Russian screenwriter, writer, poet and educator. He is known for his long-lasting collaboration with Alexander Sokurov. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999).

Vladislav Yuryevich Bezborodov is a Russian professional football referee and former footballer.

Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk is a Russian billionaire businessman and financier who is "reputed to be Vladimir Putin's personal banker". The May 2008 issue of Russian Forbes listed him for the first time in its Golden Hundred of Russia's richest, calling him and another new entrant to the List, Gennady Timchenko, "good acquaintances of Vladimir Putin." The magazine placed him at number 53 on the Russians-only list, with an estimated fortune of $1.9 billion. After sanctions imposed on Kovalchuk in 2018, this dropped to $650 million.

Boris Petrovich Mikhailov is a former Soviet ice hockey player.

Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for the results he achieved on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry.

Aleksandr Romanovich Galliamov is a Russian pair skater. With his skating partner, Anastasia Mishina, he is the 2021 World champion, 2019–20 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and 2019 Internationaux de France champion. On a junior level he is the 2019 World Junior champion, the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2019 Russian national junior champion.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of political party RPR-PARNAS (2006–2014) and former Russian State Duma member (1993–2007), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and the leader of parliamentary group Our Home – Russia. He is a candidate of historical sciences and a professor of the Higher School of Economics. Anchorman of a number of Echo of Moscow radio programs.

Oleg Dmitrievich Saprykin is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. Saprykin played with HC Dynamo Moscow, SKA Saint Petersburg, HC Sochi and Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. He played in the 2009 KHL All-Star Game, held in Red Square and was a member of Ufa's Gagarin Cup championship team in 2011. Saprykin also played parts of seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a first round selection, 11th overall, of the Calgary Flames and also played for the Phoenix Coyotes and Ottawa Senators. Internationally, Saprykin has played with the Russian National Team on two occasions and was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2009 World Championship.

Yelena Vladimirovna Terleyeva is a Russian singer, best known for her hit Sun. She was born in the family of a serviceman. Soon her family moved to Urengoy, where she spent her childhood. Because of that, she has a very strong and purposeful character. Her mother was a teacher of music, so Terleyeva followed her mother's example. At first she played piano, but a few years later she began to sing.