List of Famous people born in Russia

Alla Anatolyevna Shishkina is a Russian competitor in synchronised swimming. She won a gold medal in the women's team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Leonid Lebedev is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament.

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakushev is a former ice hockey player and coach for the Soviet Union.

Vladislav Lantratov is a Russian principal dancer in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Sergey Veremeenko is a Russian businessman who, according to Forbes magazine, has a net worth of 1.4 billion US Dollars. He has investments in steel, mining, banking and microchips. He has 25% of shares in Estar, a steel and metals group, and also owns luxury housing developments in Moscow’s suburbs and vast agricultural land in Tver, Kaluga and Penza. He also holds publishing interests in the newspapers Pravda.ru and Pravda International.

Lyudmyla Leontiivna Denisova is a Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Labor and Social Policy who on 15 March 2018 was elected Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov, sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist. He is Andrew McLeish Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian-British physicist, and a Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore. He is also the Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.