List of Famous people named Grigory

Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants was a Russian philosopher and cultural theorist. He is the author of numerous philosophical works that circulated in samizdat and made an impact on the liberal intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Grigory Ivanovich Kulik was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who was chief of the Red Army's Main Artillery Directorate until June 1941. He was known as an incompetent commander with a knowledge of military technology "frozen in 1918", and dismissed innovations such as tanks, anti-tank guns, and the Katyusha rocket launcher; only his personal friendship with Stalin from service together in the Russian Civil War protected him from criticism. He had a reputation as a buffoon and a bully, who would shriek at subordinates who disagreed with him, "Prison or a medal!" On Stalin's orders, he was dismissed from his posts in 1946, arrested in 1947, and executed for treason in 1950.

Grigory Yakovlevich Kriss is a retired Soviet Olympic épée fencer who won four Olympic medals.

Grigory Abramovich Shajn was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn. Nonetheless, his last name is sometimes given as Schayn.