List of Famous people born in Russia

Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai is a film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent.

Yuliya Olegovna Samoylova, sometimes credited as Yulia Samoilova or Julia Samoylova, is a Russian singer-songwriter. In early 2017, she was selected to represent Russia in the 2017 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Flame Is Burning", but was subsequently banned from the contest's host country, Ukraine, due to violating Ukrainian law by entering Crimea through Russia in 2015, shortly after the region was annexed by Russia. In response to the ban, Russia ultimately withdrew from the contest. The following year, Samoylova was instead chosen to represent her country in the 2018 edition of the contest in Portugal. Performing "I Won't Break", she placed 15th out of 18 contestants in the second semi-final, failing to qualify for the grand final. "I Won't Break" was the first Russian entry not to reach the final since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004.

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and public speaker.

Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya is a Soviet and Russian singer and film actress, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 48 people, and possibly as many as 60, between 1992 and 2006 in Southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing and putting on plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.

Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin is a Russian Orthodox priest, actor, director and screenwriter. By his own choice, he is temporarily suspended as priest from the ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is the creative director of the company Baon.

Zabit Akhmedovich Magomedsharipov is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He currently fights in the Featherweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former Absolute Championship Berkut (ACB) Featherweight Champion. As of July 30, 2020, he is #3 in the UFC featherweight rankings.

Andrey Nikolayevich Malakhov is a Russian television personality and TV presenter on the main Russian television channel, Russia-1.

Sergey Yevgenevich Zhukov is a Russian pop musician. He first emerged as the lead singer for the band Hands Up! in 1996, alongside Aleksey Potekhin.