List of Famous people born in Russia

Misha Verbitsky is a Russian mathematician. He is currently working at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro. However, he is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher.

Evgeni Petrov is a Russian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2016 for the Mapei–Quick-Step, iBanesto.com, Saeco Macchine per Caffè, Lampre–Fondital, Tinkoff Credit Systems, Team Katusha, Astana and Tinkoff teams. He won the 11th stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia from Lucera to L'Aquila. He was ejected from the 2005 Tour de France and suspended from cycling for two weeks after his haemetocrit was deemed over the limit by morning controls on the tenth stage.

Vladimir L’vovich Arlazarov (Russian Арлазаров Владимир Львович) is a Russian computer scientist born in Moscow.

Ekaterina Nikolaievna Shchelkanova is a Russian ballerina, singer and actress from Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR. To American audiences, she is best known as Hunyak, the Hungarian death row prisoner, from the musical Chicago (2002). Chtchelkanova was also cast as Darya in the Canadian film The End of Silence and held parts in the films Odin's Shield Maiden, and Center Stage.

Alex Nepomniaschy is an American cinematographer. He was born in Moscow in what was then the Soviet Union. Nepomniaschy graduated from the AFI Conservatory's cinematography program with a Master of Fine Arts in 1982.