List of Famous people named Boris

Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. He is coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow.

Boris Rodolfo Aguirre Hobo is a Venezelan-Spanish screenwriter, journalist, writer, TV host and showman.

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, a Russian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili.

Boris Spiegel is a Russian politician and businessman. Haaretz describes him as an oligarch who is "closely tied to the Kremlin." From 2003 to 2013, he has represented Penza Oblast in the Russian Federation Council; in December 2011, he was appointed the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Legal and Judicial Affairs and Civil Society Development.

Boris Vasilyevich Tokarev is a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenplay writer. He is a Meritorious Artist of RSFSR.

Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov was a Soviet military commander, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

William Henry Pratt, better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). He also appeared as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932).

Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982. People's Artist of the USSR (1962).

Boris Georgievich Nevzorov is a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997) and a People's Artist of Russia (2011).

Boris Vallaud is a French politician of the Socialist Party who was elected to the French National Assembly in the 2017 elections, representing the department of Landes.