List of Famous people born in Russia

Tugan Taymourazovitch Sokhiev, Russia) is a Russian conductor.

Sergei Eremenko is a Russian football player who plays for Orenburg.

Ali Isaevich Isaev is a Dagestani-Azerbaijani professional mixed martial artist and former amateur wrestler. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division of Bellator MMA. He has also formely compe ted for Fight Nights Global and Professional Fighters League (PFL), where he was the 2019 Heavyweight Tournament Champion. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in men's freestyle wrestling at 125 kilos where Isaev placed 17th.

Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko is a Ukrainian-Russian retired professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Summer Olympic Games medals and three FIBA World Cup medals with the senior men's Soviet Union national basketball team. He was also named both the Euroscar and the Mr. Europa in 1979. His club career lasted 16 years. He became a FIBA Hall of Fame player in 2015.

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Tochilin is a Russian football coach and a former player who played the most of his career for FC Dynamo Moscow and once represented Russia. He is the manager of FC Kuban Krasnodar.

Andrei Maratovich Babitsky is a Russian journalist and war reporter, who worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) from 1989 to 2014, covering the 1991 August Coup, Civil War in Tajikistan and, most notably, both the First and Second Chechen Wars from behind Chechen lines. Babitsky's kidnapping by the Russian forces in January–February 2000 during the Second Chechen War attracted attention of international journalists' organisations. His 2005 video interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev was condemned by Russian government, as Basayev was on wanted terrorist list in Russia.

Dmitri Nikolaevich Torgovanov is a Russian handball player and Olympic Champion from 2000 in Sydney. He was the head coach for the Russian national team in 2016.

Julia Borisovna Novikova is a Russian coloratura soprano.

Morisi Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili is a Russian-Georgian figure skater who currently represents Georgia. He is the 2020 European bronze medalist, a two-time Rostelecom Cup silver medalist, the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, and the 2018 Georgian national champion.

Lyubov Vladimirovna Sokolova is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at 2006 and 2010 World Championship in Japan and the silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.