List of Famous people born in Russia
Igor Rybakov
Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov is a meta-entrepreneur who co-owns the Technonikol industrial corporation and the Prytek technology corporation. He has appeared on Forbes 2019 list of the world's wealthiest people with a net worth of $1.1 billion. He is an author, actor, showman, singer, and producer. His motto is: “What we dwell on is who we become.” Rybakov is a philanthropist that focuses on education. Forbes calls the Rybakov Prize, established by Rybakov and his wife, Ekaterina Rybakov, the “Nobel Prize in Education”. Igor and Ekaterina Rybakov's main focus and passion has been the improvement of education in Russia and around the world. To coordinate their efforts and advance in this area, they founded the non-profit Rybakov Family Foundation in 2015.
Vadim Andreyev
Vadim Yurievich Andreyev is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
Elena Temnikova
Elena Vladimirovna Temnikova is a Russian singer, television personality and fashion designer. She came to prominence as a contestant in the talent show Star Factory and as one of the three members of the Russian girl group Serebro, which represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.
Aleksandr Samedov
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Samedov is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Znamya Noginsk. He has played for the Russia national football team since 2011 and was selected for the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Dmitri Dyuzhev
Dmitri Petrovich Dyuzhev is a Russian film and stage actor and singer.
Irina Muravyova
Irina Vadimovna Muravyova is a Russian film, television and stage actress, who is most well known for her performances in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979), Karnaval (1981), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) and her work in Maly Theatre of Moscow. She was awarded with USSR State Prize, Order of Merit for the Fatherland and Order of Honour.
Yuri Khanon
Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov, a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on June 16, 1965 in Leningrad. In 1988, he became a laureate of the European Film Awards, and in 1989, he won "Nika", a Russian cinematographic award. Due to his numerous concerts throughout Russia, as well as to TV and cinema appearances, Khanon reached the peak of his popularity in 1988–1992, but in 1993, decided to stop performing in public.
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a former Russian professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 8, on 6 April 2015. Her best Grand Slam singles results have come at the 2014 US Open and the 2015 Australian Open where she reached the semifinals on both occasions. Makarova is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2012 US Open mixed-doubles tournament with Bruno Soares, and the 2013 French Open, the 2014 US Open and 2017 Wimbledon Championships with Elena Vesnina. Makarova also won a gold medal in women's doubles at Rio with Vesnina.
Edvard Radzinsky
Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky is a Russian playwright, television personality, screenwriter, and the author of more than forty popular history books.
Yury Solomin
Yury Mefodievich Solomin is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in 1990-1991.