List of Famous people born in Russia
Alexandr Zubkov
Alexandr Yuryevich Zubkov is a Russian retired bobsledder who has competed since 1999. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won two medals with a silver in 2006 (four-man) and a bronze in 2010 (two-man). On 24 November 2017, he was found guilty of doping offences and stripped of his medals from the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Vladimir Dmitriev
Vladimir Alexandrovich Dmitriev is a Russian businessman and former chairman of Vnesheconombank, a job he held from May 27, 2004 to February 26, 2016. He is the president of Tennis Europe from 2017 to 2020.
Polina Semionova
Polina Alexandrovna Semionova is a Russian ballet dancer and model for Uniqlo who is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York and with the Berlin State Ballet. She is a professor at the Berlin State Ballet School.
Sergei Tomarov
Sergei Aleksandrovich Tomarov is a Russian football coach and a former player.
Victoria Potapova
Viktoriya Potapova is a Russian Paralympic judoka. She represented Russia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She won a bronze medal on each occasion: in the women's 48 kg event in 2004, in the women's 48 kg event in 2008 and in the women's 48 kg event in 2012.
Maxim Emelyanychev
Maxim Emelyanychev is a Russian conductor, pianist, harpsichordist and cornetist.
Catherine Raikina
Vasily Shumov
Vasily Gerardovich Shumov is a Russian-American artist, musician, multimedia and experimental artist, short film director and record producer. He is probably best known for his music band Center, which was formed in Soviet Union and is based in Los Angeles, United States since 1990. Shumov created music in such genres as new wave, electronic music, avantgarde. His art of singing is often sprechgesang, especially on later albums.
Aliona Zander
Boris Mironov
Boris Olegovich Mironov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is the younger brother of Dmitri Mironov.