List of Famous people born in Russia

Khetag Muratovich Khosonov is a Russian football player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Alania Vladikavkaz.

Reino Häyhänen was a Soviet intelligence officer of the KGB who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in May 1957. Häyhänen surrendered information on Soviet espionage activities that solved the Hollow Nickel Case for the FBI, and led to the arrest of his KGB partner Rudolf Abel and other Soviet spies in the United States and Canada.

Alexander Pavlovich Smolensky is a Russian businessman.

Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Osetinskaya is a Russian journalist and media manager. She is notable as a former editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes (2011-2013) and of RBC (2014-2016). Her reforms at RBC helped make it one of the most-cited Russian media holdings. Under her editorship, RBC emphasized investigative journalism, with highlights including the participation of Russian troops in the War in Donbass and the business connections of president Vladimir Putin's family.

Alexander Vladimirovich Samarin is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2019 European silver medalist, the 2019 Internationaux de France silver medalist, the 2017 Skate Canada International bronze medalist, the 2018 Internationaux de France bronze medalist, and a four-time 2017 Russian national medalist. He has won three medals on the ISU Challenger Series, including gold at the 2015 CS Warsaw Cup.

Rustem Rinatovich Adagamov is an influential Russian blogger who goes by the pseudonym of "Drugoi" ("Другой"), meaning "Another". The Daily Telegraph has described Adagamov as "Russia's number one blogger".

Alexander Vadimovich Khoroshavin is a Russian politician. He was the Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, a federal subject of Russia from 2007 to 2015.

Aleksandra Igorevna Boikova is a Russian pair skater. With her skating partner, Dmitrii Kozlovskii, she is the 2020 European champion, 2020 Rostelecom Cup champion, 2019 European bronze medalist, 2019 Skate Canada champion, and 2020 Russian national champion. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2017 World Junior Championships and bronze at the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final.

Dmitry Petrovich Buchkin is a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, who lives and works in Saint Petersburg. He is also regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, being best known for his genre and landscape paintings.

Ludmila Valentinovna Berlinskaya is a Russian pianist and actress born in 1960 in Moscow. She is the daughter of cellist Valentin Berlinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet.