List of Famous people born in Smolensk Oblast, Russia

Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian track and field athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters. She has tested positive for doping.

Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Other transliterations of his surname include "Tychonoff", "Tychonov", "Tihonov", "Tichonov."

Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin was a Soviet army commander.

Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov was a Russian mathematician, specializing in analysis.

Alexander Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing the first modern and high-level text on group theory, his The Theory of Groups published in 1944.

Pavel Kucherov is a Russian former footballer. Kucherov was an assistant coach at Dinamo Minsk and later a scout at Arsenal F.C.