List of Famous people born in Tver Oblast, Russia
Mikhail Tsaryov
Mikhail Ivanovich Tsaryov was a Soviet theater and film actor, theater director, master of the artistic word (reader). People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Hero of Socialist Labor (1973). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947) and the State Prize of the USSR (1969). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1949.
Nikolay Saltykov
Alexej von Jawlensky
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky, surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association, Der Blaue Reiter group and later the Die Blaue Vier.
Alexander Smirnov
Alexander Viktorovich Smirnov is a Russian pair skater. Smirnov teamed up with Yuko Kavaguti in May 2006. They are two-time European champions, two-time World bronze medalists, two-time ISU Grand Prix Final bronze medalists, and three-time Russian national champions (2008–2010). In 2015, they became the first pair in history to complete two quadruple throw jumps in one program and the first to land a quadruple throw loop
Mikhail Kazakov
Sergey Khandozhko
Sergey Khandozhko is a Russian male mixed martial artist who competes in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Nikolay Demyanov
Nikolay Yakovlevich Demyanov, also known as Demjanov and Demjanow, was a Russian organic chemist and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929). He is internationally known for the Demjanov rearrangement organic reaction and other discoveries.
Grigoriy Shpilko
Pavel Chistyakov
Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov was a Russian Imperial painter and art teacher; known for historical and genre scenes as well as portraits.
Ivan Zabelin
Ivan Yegorovich Zabelin was a Russian historian and archaeologist with a Slavophile bent who helped establish the National History Museum on Red Square and presided over this institution until 1906. He was the foremost authority on the history of the city of Moscow and a key figure in the 19th-century Russian Romantic Nationalism.