List of Famous people born in Russia

Aleksei Alekseyevich Veselkin is a Russian actor and TV game show presenter and Honoured Artist of Russia. He was a visible personality on television and in society magazines during the 1980s and 1990s, making a popular comeback in 2006 as the host of Sdelka?, the Russian version of the American gameshow Deal or no Deal. During 2012 he was also a radio host on Radio Mayak show of Sergei Stillavin, but he and co-presenter Victoria Kolosova were dismissed after government watchdog Roskomnadzor upheld complaints against a controversial article by the presenters on cystic fibrosis. Veselkin returned to his previous position as a staff actor at the Russian Academic Youth Theater.

Sergei Nikolayevich Chikishev is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Krasava Odintsovo.

Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'. After the defeat of anti-communist forces in the Russian Civil War, he and his followers fled to Japanese-controlled China. He was lured by the NKVD to return to the Soviet Union with false promises of immunity and executed after a show trial in a Lubyanka prison cellar for "anti-soviet and counter-revolutionary activities".

Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin was a Soviet officer in the Red Army during the Stalinist era and the Second World War. In 1945 he became the first town mayor of the Soviet occupying forces in Berlin.

Maria Leonidovna Komissarova is a Russian athlete who competes in freestyle skiing. She was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics, but during a training run before her event, she fractured a vertebra with a dislocation of her spine, rendering her unable to compete.

Erna Dorn was a victim of the politicised justice system in the German Democratic Republic. She is believed to be the only female to have been sentenced and executed in the aftermath of the East German uprising of 1953.

Evgeny Vadimovich Sedov is a Russian competitive swimmer. Sedov and his teammates won the gold medal in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the 2014 short course world championships in Doha, breaking the world record. Together with his teammates, he also broke the 4×50 meter medley relay world record in the heats, but this record was broken in the final by Brazil. He is the current junior world record holder in the 50 meter butterfly.

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Konovalov is a Russian lawyer and politician. From May 2008 to January 2020, he served as the Minister of Justice.

Pavel Valeryevich Basinsky is a Russian writer, literary critic and literary critic. Member of the Union of Russian Writers (1993), academician of the Academy of Russian Literature (1997). Member of the permanent jury of the Solzhenitsyn Prize (1997). The author of the most complete uncensored biography of Maxim Gorky, published in 2005. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2018).

Daria Evgenyevna Dmitrieva is a Russian female handballer for HBC CSKA Moscow and Russian national team.