List of Famous people born in Russia

Svetlana Alekseyevna Romashina is a Russian competitor in synchronised swimming, five-times Olympic champion and twenty-one-times world champion.

Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was a Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

Alexey Sergeevich Glyzin is a Soviet and Russian pop singer and actor. He has received various awards, including Honored Artist of Russia (2006), and the Chanson of the Year award (2016).

Yevgeny Yurievich Steblov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, honored as a People's Artist of Russia in 1993. He serves as First Deputy Chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Kirillovich Molchanov is a Soviet and Russian TV and radio host, speaker and journalist. He was a writer and host of the TV program Before and after midnight in the late 1980s - early 1990s on Soviet television. He is a member of the Russian Television Academy since 1994, and head of the studio of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino.

Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova is a Russian professional dancer.

Daniil Vyacheslavovich Yegorov is a Russian lawyer and government official serving as Director of the Federal Taxation Service since 2020. He was appointed by Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin on 17 January 2020.

Irina Victorovna Apeksimova is a Russian stage and screen actress. She had been director of the Taganka Theater since March 2015.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

Yevgeny Yuriyevich Dodolyev is a Soviet and Russian journalist, publisher, and one of hosts at a state-owned Russian television channel Russia-1.