List of Famous people named Boris

Boris Weisfeiler was a Soviet-born mathematician and professor at Penn State University who lived in the United States before disappearing in Chile in 1985. Declassified US documents suggest a Chilean army patrol seized Weisfeiler and took him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive Germanic agricultural commune set up in Chile in the 1960s. The Chilean Pinochet military dictatorship alleged that he drowned. He is known for the Weisfeiler filtration, Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm, and Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures.

Boris Peter Bransby Williams is a French/English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure (1984–1994).

Boris Vasilyevich Shchukin was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). In 1941, he was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize. He was most famous for his portrayals of Vladimir Lenin.

Boris Koltsov is a Russian darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).

Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko was a Soviet mathematician and a student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov. He was born in Simbirsk, Russia, and died in Moscow. He is perhaps best known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Gnedenko was appointed as Head of the Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Section of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1949, and became Director of the NASU Institute of Mathematics in 1955.