List of Famous people born in Russia

Andrey Borisovich Perlov is a retired race walker who represented the USSR and later Russia.

Aleksey Leonidovich Teksler, is a Russian statesman and politician who is currently the 5th Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast since 20 September 2019. He is also the secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the United Russia party since 2 October 2020.

Sultan-Ahmed Magomedsalihovich Ibragimov is a retired Russian professional boxer of Dagestani descent who competed from 2002 to 2008, and held the WBO world heavyweight title from 2007 to 2008. He was ranked by BoxRec as the world's top 10 heavyweight from 2005 to 2008, reaching his highest ranking of world No.5 in 2007. As an amateur he won silver medals at the 2000 Olympics and 2000 European Championships, and bronze at the 2001 World Championships, all in the heavyweight division.

Michael Aizenman is an American-Israeli mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University, working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory.

Zinaida Greceanîi is a Moldovan politician. She is currently Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova since 8 June 2019. Greceanîi was previously also the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 14 September 2009. She is the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) and was previously a member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). She was Moldova's first female Prime Minister and was the second female Communist head of government in Europe, the first having been Premier Milka Planinc of Yugoslavia. She has been referred to by her collogues in PSRM as the "Moldovan Margaret Thatcher".