List of Famous people named Boris

Boris Ilich Marshak was an archeologist who spent more than fifty years excavating the Sogdian ruins at Panjakent, Tajikistan.

Boris Karlovich Pugo, OAN was a Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origin.

Boris Fyodorovich Budnikov is a Soviet sailor. He won the silver medal in Soling in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow along with Alexandr Budnikov and Nikolay Poliakov.

Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer and, from 1946 to 1986, the second head of the Alexandrov Ensemble which was founded by his father, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. Alexandrov reached the rank of Major-General and was awarded the order of Hero of Socialist Labour, the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR, and named People's Artist of the USSR.

Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak was a Russian writer.

Boris Lvovich Vasilyev was a Russian writer and screenwriter. He is considered the last representative of the so-called lieutenant prose, a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatised their traumatic World War II experience.

Boris Valentinovich Volynov is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish person to enter space, preceding American Judith Resnik. Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019, he is the last surviving member of the original group of cosmonauts.

Boris Nikolayevich Lisanevich, a.k.a. Boris Lissanevitch, Ukrainian: Борис Миколайович Лисаневич, Russian: Борис Николаевич Лисаневич, was a ballet dancer, a hotelier and a restaurateur. He helped pave the way for tourism in Nepal, when he opened the country's first hotel, the Hotel Royal, and later when he created the Yak & Yeti Hotel and Restaurant.

Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev is a Karachay politician and judge. He served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Russia from 1991 to 2008 and as president of Karachay–Cherkessia between 2008 and 2011.

Boris Francesco Jean Collardi is a Swiss-Italian banker who serves as a Partner at Pictet Group. Having joined the Julius Baer Private Bank as COO in 2006, he was the CEO from May 2009 until his widely unexpected resignation in November 2017. In June 2018, Collardi joined Pictet Group.