List of Famous people born in Russia
Ruben Aganbegyan
Ruben Aganbegyan is a Russian economist, the President of Micex. Son of the famous Soviet economist Abel Aganbegyan.
Mikhail Lukin
Mikhail Lukin ; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Artemiy Artemiev
Artemiy Artemiev is a Russian composer of electronic and experimental music. Since 1988, he has composed music for more than fifty Russian feature films, and has contributed to several documentary films and television programs. He is the son of renowned composer Edward Artemiev, who is most recognized for his collaborations with film director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Alexei Kasatonov
Alexei Viktorovich Kasatonov is a Russian former ice hockey defenceman, who was a long-time member of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team.
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mubinovna Safina is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. Safina was runner-up in singles at the 2008 French Open, 2009 Australian Open, and the 2009 French Open, falling to Ana Ivanovic, Serena Williams, and Svetlana Kuznetsova, respectively. She had success at Grand Slam events in women's doubles by winning the 2007 US Open with Nathalie Dechy. She also won the Olympic silver medal in women's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Safina retired in 2014 after a lengthy absence from the tour since 2011 due to an ongoing back injury.She is the younger sister of former world No. 1 men's player Marat Safin. The brother–sister pair are the first to both achieve No. 1 rankings.
Ilya Maksimov
Ilya Vladimirovich Maksimov is a Russian football central midfielder.
Grigory Margulis
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020, becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics.
Dmitry Bertman
Dmitry Alexandrovitch Bertman is a Russian theatre and opera director and the founder and artistic director of Helikon Opera in Moscow.
Pavel Vrublevsky
Pavel Olegovich Vrublevsky is a Russian, owner and general manager of the processing company ChronoPay. He is also the founder of investment company RNP and a Russian Forbes contributor on matters relating to blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity. He was also implicated in a range of criminal cases related to hacking.
Mamed Khalidov
Mamed Khalidov is a Polish mixed martial artist of Chechen ethnicity. He is best known for competing in the Middleweight division of Polish MMA promotion KSW. He is the current KSW Middleweight Champion