List of Famous people born in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia

Alexey Sambuevich Tsydenov is a Buryat politician who has been acting Head of the Republic of Buryatia since his appointment by Vladimir Putin on February 7, 2017.

Natalia Nikolaevna Zhdanova is a Russian politician and Governor of Zabaykalsky Krai from February, 2016 to October, 2018. She resigned after receiving criticism for her handling of the region's social and economic difficulties and for not being able to maintain public support.

Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov is a Russian security services official.

Sergey Valentinovich Kudryavtsev is a Russian film critic and historian.

Lev Pavlovich Okhotin was a member of the Supreme Council of the Russian Fascist Party, founded by exiles in Manchuria.

Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov was a Soviet and Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives, he published biographies of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others. Despite being a committed Stalinist and Marxist–Leninist ideologue for most of his career, Volkogonov came to repudiate communism and the Soviet system within the last decade of his life before his death from cancer in 1995.

Ravil Faritovich Geniatulin was the Governor of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, an office he held from 1 February 1996 to 2 March 2013.

Lyudmila Yevgenyevna Titova is a retired Russian speed skater.