List of Famous people born in Tula Oblast, Russia

German Germanovich Galynin was a Russian composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Soviet classic music.

Valery Rezantsev is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was an Olympic gold medalist in 1972 and in 1976, competing for the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, and 1975 World Wrestling Championships.

Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky was as a prominent Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan during the German-Soviet War. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was appointed Deputy Premier in May 1940 at the age of thirty-eight. He was directly involved in the recovery of production associated with the movement of industry eastwards at the start of the war. His work The Economy of the USSR during World War II is his account of these years.