List of Famous people born in Russia

Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of the most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, world and European levels. She has a long jump best of 7.33 m and had hold the indoor world record mark of 15.36 m in the triple jump.

Konstantin Mikhailovich Genich is a former Russian professional football player. Currently he is a TV football commentator.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov is a Russian actor. He has had prominent roles in Russian films and television.

Maksim Valerevich Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently under contract to HC Khimik Voskresensk in the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). He has played for various KHL, Supreme Hockey League (VHL), and Junior Hockey League (MHL) teams.

Aleksey Kudryavtsev is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer, who was affiliated with Profsoyuzy Moskva. He is the father of three time 2013, 2014 and 2015 World All-Around Rhythmic Gymnastics Gold Medalists Yana Kudryavtseva.

Sergey Viktorovich Semenov is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in the 130 kg weight category. In the semifinals he lost to Mijaín López of Cuba (0–3). In the bronze medal match he beat Heiki Nabi of Estonia (6–0). Semenov won the 2018 World Wrestling Championships defeating American Adam Coon in the final, 9–0.

Aleksandr Viktorovich Moor, is a Russian politician who is currently the Governor of the Tyumen Oblast from 14 September 2018.

Siegfried Graetschus was a German SS functionary at the Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was assassinated by a prisoner during the Sobibor uprising.

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov is a Russian Ground Forces army general and a Hero of the Russian Federation.

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG is a former colonel of the KGB and KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London, who was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1974 to 1985. He was exfiltrated from the USSR in July 1985 under a plan code named Operation Pimlico. The USSR subsequently sentenced him to death in absentia.