List of Famous people born in Russia

Karen Abgarovich Khachanov is a Russian professional tennis player of Armenian descent. He has won four ATP singles titles. Khachanov achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 on 15 July 2019, after reaching the quarterfinals of the 2019 French Open.

Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya is the former wife of Vladimir Putin, the current President and former Prime Minister of Russia.

Maria Alexeyevna Lvova-Belova is a Russian public figure and politician, who is currently the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia.

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is an exiled Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch, now residing in London. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus, during the Soviet years, and started several businesses during the period of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, he accumulated considerable wealth by obtaining control of a number of Siberian oil fields unified under the name Yukos, one of the major companies to emerge from the privatization of state assets during the 1990s.

Elvin Grey is the stage name of Radik Yulyakshin, a Russian pop singer and producer of bashkir descent.

Vitaly Konstantinovich Kaloyev is a Russian former architect and convicted murderer, who was found guilty of the premeditated killing of an air traffic controller after his family died aboard Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, which collided with DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Germany, on 1 July 2002.

Kristina Igorevna Asmus is a Russian theater and film actress. She is known for her television role in the medical sitcom Interns. She was named the sexiest Russian woman of 2010 by Maxim magazine.

Margarita Simonovna Simonyan is a Russian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the English-language television news network RT and of the state-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.

Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian former figure skater. Together with her husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in pair skating. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater.

Leonid Nikolayevich Agutin is a Russian pop musician and songwriter, Meritorious Artist of Russia (2008). He has been active since the 1990s. He has released ten albums and three compilation albums.