List of Famous people born in Russia
Yury Chernavsky
Yury (George) Chernavsky is a Russian producer, composer and songwriter. Chernavsky is a member of performance rights organisations such as GEMA, BMI, and RAO, and has also been recognized as a Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation.
Nikolai Pisarev
Nikolai Nikolayevich Pisarev is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is an assistant coach with Russia national football team.
Andrey Akimov
Andrey Igorevich Akimov is the Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank.
Andrey Kuznetsov
Andrey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov is a professional Russian tennis player.
Irina Sherbakova
Irina Lazarevna S(ch)herbakova is a Russian historian of the modern age, an author and a founding member of Memorial. She won the Carl von Ossietsky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics in 2014 and the Goethe Medal in 2017. She has been studying Russia's modern history since the 1970s. "Memorial" was identified as one of Russia's "foreign agents" in 2016.
Ivan Iakovlev
Ivan Gennadievich Iakovlev is a Russian volleyball player. He is part of the Russia men's national volleyball team. On club level, he plays for Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Aleksandr Vlasov
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Vlasov is a Russian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana–Premier Tech. In October 2020, he was named in the startlists for the 2020 Giro d'Italia and the 2020 Vuelta a España.
Serg Bell
Dr. Serg Bell is a Singaporean businessman entrepreneur, investor and speaker, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Schaffhausen Institute of Technology and multiple global IT companies, including Acronis, a global data protection company, and is the senior founding partner of Runa Capital, a technology investment firm. He is also executive chairman of the board and chief architect of Parallels, Inc., a virtualization technology company, co-founder and chairman of the board of Acumatica, an enterprise resource planning software (ERP) company, and co-founder of QWave Capital.
Kirill Starkov
Kirill Olegovich Starkov is a Russian-born Danish professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for HC Château-d'Oex in the Swiss 2. Liga, the fifth tier of the Swiss hockey system.
Adelina Zagidullina
Adelina Rustemovna Zagidullina is a Russian right-handed foil fencer, two-time team European champion, two-time team world champion, and 2021 team Olympic champion.