List of Famous people born in Smolensk Oblast, Russia

Ilya Abramovich Frez, PAU, was a Soviet and Russian film director primarily known for his films for younger viewers. Among his films was the internationally popular I Loved You of 1967.

Ivan Kirpa is a Russian welterweight boxer from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Pyotr Borisovich Sheremetev (1713–1788) was a Russian nobleman and courtier, the richest man in Russia aside from the tsar; he was the son of Boris Sheremetev.

Tetyana Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people. She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev, was a Russian researcher of various kinds of national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of Sports of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art technique developed in the Soviet Union. Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was a student of boxing, fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport.

Maksim Aleksandrovich Glushenkov is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Khimki on loan from FC Spartak Moscow.

Alexander Dmitrievich Lanskoy, also called Sashin'ka or Sasha, was a Russian general, favourite and lover of Catherine the Great between 1780 and 1784. It has been said that "[a] look at [her] correspondence with her favorites gives the impression she only had tender feelings for one, Alexander Lanskoi."

David Rostislavich, Prince of Smolensk (1180–1197) was fourth son of Rostislav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev.

Mstislav Romanovich the Old was Prince of Pskov (1179–?), Smolensk (1197–?), Belgorod (1206), Halych (?–?) and Grand Prince of Kiev. He was the son of Roman Rostislavich.

Roman Rostislavich, Prince of Smolensk, Grand Prince of Kiev and Prince of Novgorod (1178–1179). He was the son of Rostislav Mstislavich.