List of Famous people born in Russia

Alexandra Nikolayevna Stepanova is a Russian ice dancer. With her skating partner, Ivan Bukin, she is a four-time European medalist, the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki champion, the 2018 Rostelecom Cup champion, and the 2021 Russian national champion. In total, they have won seven medals on the Grand Prix series and three Finlandia Trophy titles.

Denis Urubko is a Russian-Polish mountaineer. In 2009, as a citizen of Kazakhstan he became the 15th person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders and the 8th person to achieve the feat without the use of supplementary oxygen. He had Soviet citizenship, but after the dissolution of the Soviet Union he became a citizen of Kazakhstan, but renounced the citizenship in 2012. In 2013, he received Russian citizenship and on 12 February 2015 he received Polish citizenship.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Torkunov is a Soviet and Russian diplomat and international relations scholar.

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov is a physicist and scientific leader in the Russian Federation. His scientific interests include plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering and magnetohydrodynamics. He is the author of over 1500 scientific publications and a number of inventions and discoveries.

Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, together with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram.

Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and studied in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen. He has combined a scientific career as a microbiologist with political and public activities focused on civil liberties and human rights in Russia, in the course of which he has been associated with Andrei Sakharov, George Soros, Boris Berezovsky, and Alexander Litvinenko. He has not visited Russia since 2000.

Alexander Valentinovich Titov is a Russian rock musician, known for his role as bassist of the band Aquarium, a position previously held by Fan. He has also performed with the bands Avgust, Pop-Mekhanika, and Kino. He was born in Leningrad. Alexander Titov is married to singer-songwriter, musician, lead singer of Rina Green, and British Linguist Elena Titov. They have two children, Anna Titov (27) and Catherine Titov (16).

Zilya Valeeva — public figure and politician in Republic of Tatarstan, honored cultural worker of the Russian Federation, PhD in philosophical studies (2010).

Alla Yevgenyevna Osipenko is a retired Soviet ballerina. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School in the class of Agrippina Vaganova.

Sergei Sergeyevich Plotnikov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Plotnikov previously played in the KHL with Amur Khabarovsk, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and SKA Saint Petersburg. He has played briefly in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Arizona Coyotes.