List of Famous people born in Russia

Adam Alavdinovich Batirov is a Russian and Bahraini freestyle wrestler of Avar heritage. He is a World Cadet Championships runner-up and Cadet European Champion (2002). He thrice won the Ivan Yarygin tournament and is National Russian Freestyle wrestling Champion (2007). In 2009, he won his first European Championships. At the 2016 Asian Wrestling Championships he won gold, beating Kumar Vinod of India in the final match. He is a 2018 World Championships runner-up.

Elena Alekseevna Karpukhina is a retired rhythmic gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. She is the 1967 World All-around champion and 1971 World All-around silver medalist.

Sergii Kostiantynovych Ionushas — politician, Ukrainian lawyer, patent attorney. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. Head of Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine.

Yury Alexandrovich Kuznetsov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, recipient of the Meritorious Artist award of Russia.

Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin is a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons specialist. In 1998, he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical and Military-Economic Policy at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he worked before he was arrested for treason on accusations he had given information to a British company, although he had no access to classified documentation as a civilian researcher. Sutyagin spent 11 years in prison on espionage charges and was released by Russia in 2010 in exchange for the release of a group of spies arrested in the United States.

James Lloydovich Patterson is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Her murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Olga Yevgenyevna Romanova is a Russian journalist and a director of the civil rights organization Russia Behind the Bars.

Yulia Galyamina is a Russian linguist and political activist.

Aleksey Vladimirovich Goman is a Russian pop singer who rose to popularity after winning Narodniy Artist-1, the Russian version of Pop Idol. He has performed with other notable Russian singers.