List of Famous people born in Ryazan Oblast, Russia

Viktor Ivanovich Kosichkin was a speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.

Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov was a Soviet firearms designer, most notable for his Makarov pistol.

Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov GCB was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister from November 1910 to July 1916. The degree of his involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative mobilization squarely on Sazonov's shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was "to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the Balkans".

Gennadi Petrovich Bogachyov is a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor. In the troupe of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg since 1969. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990), laureate of the highest theater prize of Russia Golden Mask (2015).