List of Famous people born in Russia

Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the main shareholder and chairman of Severstal, a Russian conglomerate with interests in metal, energy and mining companies. In April 2019, CEOWORLD magazine reported that Mordashov was Russia’s 4th richest person, with an estimated worth of $20.5 billion.

Andrei Shleifer is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in three fields: corporate finance, the economics of financial markets, and the economics of transition.

Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Buvaysar Hamidovich Saytiev, is a Russian retired freestyle wrestler who represented Chechnya, and won nine world-level gold medals in freestyle wrestling. He is widely considered as the greatest freestyle wrestler of all time. He currently is an acting State Duma Deputy from Dagestan.

Sergey Yuryevich Terekhov is a Russian footballer who plays as a left-back for PFC Sochi.

Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin is a Russian cellist and businessman, based in St Petersburg. He is a close friend of Vladimir Putin.

Marat Basharov is a Russian film actor and a TV host. He has appeared in 30 films since 1994. He starred in the film The Wedding, which was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.

Dmitry Nikolayevich Patrushev is a Russian banker and politician who served as the Minister of Agriculture of Russia since 18 May 2018.

Sergey Rost is a Russian actor, screenwriter, television and radio.

Yekaterina Strizhenova is a Russian film and stage actress, television presenter.