List of Famous people born in Russia

Aleksei Alekseivich German is a Russian film director. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is sometimes spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.

Rifat Maratovich Zhemaletdinov is a Russian professional football player of Tatar origin who plays as a right winger for Lokomotiv Moscow.

Lilia Igorevna Akhaimova is a Russian artistic gymnast. She represented the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the team event. She is a two-time World silver medalist with the Russian team.

Vladimir Egorovich Yakovlev is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper. He is a former CEO and owner of Kommersant Publishing house. Yakovlev is considered to be one of the creators of the Post-Soviet format of Russian journalism.

Ruslan Khadzhismelovich Tsalikov is a Russian First Deputy Minister of Defence and Order of Honour recipient.

Evgeny Vyacheslavovich Dod is a Russian manager and economist. He is CEO of JSC RusHydro.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Obolsky is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a forward in Spain for Cultural Leonesa.

Vitali Georgyevich Smirnov is a former Russian member of the International Olympic Committee.

Vladimir Ilyich Gendlin was a Russian commentator and boxing expert, a two-time TEFI award winner. He was the founder of professional boxing telecasts on Russian television. Gendlin's program Bolshoi Ring was considered the best program about boxing in the world by the World Boxing Union in 1995.

Daria Popova is a Russian former competitive pair skater. From 2011 to 2014, she competed with Bruno Massot, winning the 2014 Challenge Cup and the 2012 French national title. The pair finished in the top ten at the 2012 and 2013 European Championships. Popova also briefly skated for France with Andrei Novoselov.