List of Famous people named Boris

Boris Sidis was a Ukrainian-American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of child prodigy William James Sidis. Boris Sidis eventually opposed mainstream psychology and Sigmund Freud, and thereby died ostracized. He was married to a maternal aunt of Clifton Fadiman, the American intellectual.

Boris Vasilievich Snetkov was a Soviet Army and briefly Russian Ground Forces Army General.

Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian historian who personified the anti-Normanist vision of Russian history. He is the father of Indologist Rostislav Rybakov.

Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky, was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.

Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum was a Russian and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a representative of Russian formalism.