List of Famous people born in Russia

Nikita Valeryevich Kryukov is a Russian former cross-country skier who competed internationally between 2006 and 2018. He was a sprint specialist who won an Olympic gold medal, three World Championship gold medals, six World cup gold medals, all in the sprint events. He was arguably the fastest skier ever when it came to double-poling on the flat in sprints. He generally favoured classic skiing and classic sprints over freestyle, but as he showed in winning the team sprint in the 2013 World Championship, in Val di Fiemme, he was also very strong in the freestyle sprint.

Alexey Andreevich Kunchenko is a Russian mixed martial artist (MMA) who competes in the welterweight division of PFL. Kunchenko was the former M-1 Global welterweight champion and competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Valeriy Oleksandrovych Chaly ; Valeri Aleksandrovich Chaly is a Ukrainian and Russian football manager and a former player. He also holds Russian citizenship. He was the manager of FC Rubin Kazan.

Leonid Veniaminovitch Volodarskiy (Russian: Леони́д Вениами́нович Волода́рский is a Russian translator, writer, and weekly radio show author. He is mostly known in Russia as one of the most popular home video voice-over translators of 1990s by a movies, such as The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator dilogy, Last Action Hero, A Nightmare on Elm Street and many others. Volodarskiy was also the first translator of Stephen King books into Russian.

Viktor Petrovich Tomenko, is a Russian statesman who is currently Governor of Altai Krai, elected 17 September 2018.

Ivan Alexeyevich Stretovich is a Russian artistic gymnast. He won a silver medal in the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Mikhail Pavlovich Mokretsov is a Russian businessman and state official who served as Director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2007 and 2010.

Nikita Porshnev is a Russian biathlete.

Mikhail Fyodorovich Vilkov is a Russian former professional football referee.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Grammatikov is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995).