List of Famous people born in Russia

Maksim Sergeyevich Kanunnikov is a Russian football winger or striker. He plays for PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara.

Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov is a Soviet/Russian rock musician, composer, producer, and businessman.

Sir Andre K. Geim is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Pavel Leonidovich Kogan is a Russian violinist and conductor who currently leads the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

Kristina Andreyevna Potupchik is a Russian blogger, a public figure, and the head of the Foundation for the Open New Democracy (FOND), engaged in the support of non-profit social projects on the Internet.

Alexander Valeryevich Dyukov is a Russian businessman serving as the Chairman of the management Board of Gazprom Neft, one of Russia’s top-5 vertically integrated oil companies by production and amongst the largest oil companies in the world by proven reserves. He was also President of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and is the current President of the Russian Football Union.

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group, and Professor of Physics at Cornell University. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.

Olavi Paavolainen was a Finnish writer, essayist and poet. He was one of the prominent figures of the literary group Tulenkantajat, and one of the most influential Finnish writers of the inter-war period.

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin.

Dmitri Ivanovich Sautin is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver. He was born in Voronezh.