List of Famous people born in Uzbekistan

Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova is a professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history.

Yuri Pavlovich Pshenichnikov was a Soviet football goalkeeper and coach, born in Tashkent.

Viktor Alexandrovich Verzhbitsky born 21 September 1959, in Tashkent, Soviet Union is an Uzbekistani-Russian film and stage actor. He is well known for playing mobsters, businessmen, and villains and he is well known for playing the role of Zavulon in the 2004 film Night Watch and its 2006 sequel Day Watch.

Vladimir Borisovich Obukhov is a Russian professional football player. He plays for FC Rostov.

Bekzod Makhamadzhonovich Abdurakhmonov is an Uzbekistani freestyle wrestler and mixed martial artist. He won the gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in the Men's 70 kg Freestyle wrestling. At the 2016 Olympics he beat former gold medalist Jordan Burroughs of the United States 11-1, but lost in the bronze-medal match to Jabrayil Hasanov of Azerbaijan. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 74 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Bektemir Rozmatjon Ogli Meliqoziyev is an Uzbek professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics as a middleweight.

Arthur Kaliyev is an Uzbek-born American professional ice hockey forward for the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect to the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 33rd overall by the Kings in the second round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

Rustam Usmanovich Khamdamov is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist. His film Anna Karamazoff (1991) was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

Oybarchin Bakirova was an Uzbek actress, People's Artist of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2000).

Sergey Belyayev was a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.