List of Famous people born in Russia
Eteri Tutberidze
Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze is a Russian figure skating coach who works mainly with single skaters. She is head coach at the Sambo 70 skating club in Moscow. She has coached several skaters to success in international competitions, including Olympic and World Champion Alina Zagitova, two-time World champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, and team Olympic Champion Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Artem Dzyuba
Artyom Sergeyevich Dzyuba is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a striker for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and captains the Russia national team.
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk
Anastasia Yuryevna Zavorotnyuk is a Russian actress and television presenter. She is best known for her lead role on My Fair Nanny (2004–2009).
Pavel Volya
Pavel Alekseevich Volya is a Russian TV host, actor and singer. A former KVN player, he first came to prominence as the "resident" of the Russian Comedy Club show, co-produced by Garik Martirosyan and aired on TNT channel. In 2007, Volya released his first studio album. As of 2008, he hosts a TV Show on TNT.
Danila Kozlovsky
Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky is a Russian actor and director.
Mikhail Porechenkov
Mikhail Evgenevich Porechenkov is a Russian film actor, producer, director. He became famous after his lead role as FSB Agent Alexey Nikolayev in the TV series National Security Agent (1999–2005). In 2008, Porechenkov produced, directed and starred in D-Day, a Russian remake of the 1985 American action film Commando.
Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat and politician. In office since 2004, he is the Foreign Minister of Russia. Previously, he was the Russian Representative to the UN, serving in the role from 1994 to 2004.
Vladimir Mashkov
Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov is a Soviet and Russian theatre actor and director of cinema, known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines and 2011 film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film Papa.
Kirill I of Moscow
Kirill or Cyril is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.
Polina Gagarina
Polina Sergeyevna Gagarina is a Russian singer, songwriter and actress. She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with "A Million Voices" where she finished second with 303 points. In doing so, she became the first second placed finisher to exceed 300 points. Gagarina also participated in the Chinese reality-competition Singer in 2019, where she was one of the finalists.