List of Famous people named Boris

Boris Artashesovich Babayan is a Russian computer scientist, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia.

Boris Fyodorovich Schlözer (Schloezer), was a writer, musicologist and French translator of Russian origin.

Prince Boris de Rachewiltz (1926–1997) was an Italian-Russian Egyptologist and writer on Africa and the ancient world. He studied Egyptology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (1951–1955).

Boris Gavriilovich Shpitalny was a Soviet designer of aircraft guns and cannons and one of the first people awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.

Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won a total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He held the record for most Olympic medals by a male athlete record until gymnast Nikolai Andrianov won his 14th and 15th medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He also won 14 medals at the World Championships.

Boris Borissovich Rohdendorf was a Soviet entomologist and curator at the Zoological Museum at the University of Moscow. He attained the position of head of the Laboratory of Arthropods, Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. A student of Andrey Martynov, he was a prolific taxonomist who described numerous new taxa, including fossil Diptera, and published important syntheses on fossil insects. His work is being extensively revised by the current generation of Russian paleoentomologists.