List of Famous people born in Uzbekistan

Ömer Faruk Yurtseven is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and the Georgetown Hoyas. Listed at 7 feet 0 inches (2.13 m) and 264 pounds (120 kg), he plays the center position.

Colonel General Gennady Valeryevich Zhidko, is an Uzbek-born Russian military leader who commands the Eastern Military District since 3 November 2018. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017. He is a colonel general as of 2020.

Stahan Mamadzhanovich Rakhimov is a Soviet Uzbek and Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia (2002).

Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev ; born 19 October 1978) is a retired Uzbek professional boxer of Tatarian descent who competed from 2001 to 2016. He held the WBA heavyweight title twice, from 2007 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2016, and was the first Asian boxer to win a world heavyweight title by any of the four major sanctioning bodies. As of December 2020, BoxRec ranks Chagaev as the 10th greatest Asian fighter of all time, pound-for-pound. He was ranked as the world's top 10 heavyweight by BoxRec from 2004 to 2011, reaching his career-high ranking of No.3 in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Two of his victorious fights received a 5-Star rating from BoxRec.

Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko is an American professional tennis player. She formerly played for Uzbekistan, and she is of Ukrainian descent. She has won 12 ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title.

Umar Shaikh Mirza II was the ruler of the Fergana Valley. He was the fourth son of Abu Sa'id Mirza, the Emperor of the Timurid Empire in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and eastern Iran.

Rustam Sadykovich Asimov is an Uzbek politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2005 to 2017. He served as Minister of Finance from 1998 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2016.

Michael Aronov is an American actor who has worked in film, television and theatre. In 2017, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Uri Savir in the Broadway play Oslo. He is also known for playing the role of Anton Baklanov, a refusenik scientist in The Americans.

Lev Leviev is an Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor, of Uzbek Bukhari Jewish background, Known as the "King of Diamonds". Lev Leviev has a net worth of $1.0 billion as of March 2018, and has been a philanthropist for Hasidic Jewish causes in Eastern Europe and Israel. Beginning in the 1990s, Leviev avoided being directly involved with the Yeltsin family, and nurtured ties with Vladimir Putin. His diamond mining investments in Angola and his investments in Israeli settlements have been the target of protests. A prominent member of the Bukhari Jewish community, he is president of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews.

Farid Mustafevich Seiful-Mulyukov was a Soviet Russian and international journalist, writer, orientalist, Arabist, a leading television Central Television and honored Artist of Russia (1995). He was also the author of numerous reports from around the world on one of Russia's leading television programs In The World Today and for the international Panorama