List of Famous people born in Russia

Alexander Nikolayevich Maltsev is a retired Soviet ice hockey forward and politician.

Kirill Viktorovich Panchenko is a Russian footballer who plays as a second striker for FC Arsenal Tula.

Emir-Usein Kuku is a Crimean Tatar human rights defender and member of the Crimean Human Rights Contact Group. In February 2016, he was arrested and charged by Russian authorities on the accusation that he was a member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, although Kuku denies any involvement in this organization.

Maxim Sergeyevich Vlasov is a Russian professional boxer.

Vera Schalburg was a Soviet, German and British agent and sister of Christian Frederik von Schalburg.

Zinetula Khaidarovich "Bill" Bilyaletdinov is a former Russian ice hockey player of Tatar descent, who played for the USSR.

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. She was the last Russian female in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 25, 2014.

Valentina Dmitriyevna Ponomaryova, often also spelled Ponomareva, is a Russian singer, performer of Russian romances and a jazz vocalist.

Marina (Marianna) Pavlovna Basmanova is a Russian artist and book illustrator based in St. Petersburg.

Valery Vladimirovich Fokin is a Russian theatrical director and writer. He is the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the President of The Meyerhold Centre in Moscow. Fokin is decorated with four honorary Russian state awards.