List of Famous people named Grigory
Grigory Grabovoy
Grigori Petrovich Grabovoi is a qualified mechanic and paramedic and is the founder and leader of the Russian sect Обучение всеобщему спасению и гармоничному развитию. He has claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ, to be able to resurrect the dead, teleport, cure AIDS and cancer at any stage, diagnose and solve problems of electronic devices remotely, to be clairvoyant and to be able to change reality.
Grigory Semyonov
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, or Semenov, was a Japanese-supported leader of the White movement in Transbaikal and beyond from December 1917 to November 1920, Lieutenant General and Ataman of Baikal Cossacks (1919).
Grigory Drozd
Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd is a Russian former professional boxer. He is the former WBC cruiserweight champion, having lost the title when he was unable to defend it due to injury and was subsequently stripped. He also is a former European cruiserweight champion.
Grigory Margulis
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978, a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, and an Abel Prize in 2020, becoming the fifth mathematician to receive the three prizes. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics.
Grigory Romanov
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1985, he was considered Mikhail Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle after the death of Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985, the third Soviet leader to die in just a few short years.
Grigory Sokolov
Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a Russian pianist. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. He regularly tours Europe and resides in Italy.
Grigory Razumovsky
Count Grigory Kirillovich Razumovsky was a Russian nobleman, political philosopher, botanist, zoologist and geologist.
Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko
Count Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko was a Russian writer, publisher and philanthropist.
Grigory Bogdanovich Volovich
Grigory Bogdanovich Volovich (1535–1577) was a statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, diplomat of the Lord's gentleman, the Mayor of Grodno (1558–1566), Marshal of Dvorny (1560–1563), of the Lord's Stalker (1567–1574), governor of Smolensk Voivodeship (1571–1577), the elder of Mstsislaw (1548–1567), sovereign of Varniany and Zel’va (1558–1569).
Grigory Karasin
Grigory Borisovich Karasin is a career diplomat who formerly served as a State Secretary and a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.