List of Famous people named Mikhail

Name Mikhail is among the most common names in Russia. Similar names: Mykhailo, Mykhaylo, Mikhaylo. Here are some famous Mikhails:

Mikhail Gorbachev

Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Gorbachev
Born on March 2, 1931
Died on August 30, 2022 (aged 91)

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism, although he had moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.

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Mikhail Lermontov

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Lermontov
Died on July 15, 1841
Born in Russia

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.

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Mikhail Vassilyevich Lomonosov

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Lomonosov
Died on April 4, 1765

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Bulgakov
Born on May 3, 1891
Died on March 10, 1940 (aged 48)
Born in Ukraine

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
He is also known of magnificent plays The White Guard, Ivan Vasilievich (play), Flight (play), The Days of the Turbins and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote mostly about bout the horrors of a fratricidal Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works were banned by Soviet government and personally by Joseph Stalin after by them was decided that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.

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Mikhail Gorsheniov

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Gorsheniov
Born on August 7, 1973
Died on July 19, 2013 (aged 39)

Mikhail "The Pot" Gorsheniov was a lead singer and composer of Russian horror punk/hard rock band Korol i Shut.

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Mikhail Yefremov

Михаил Олегович Ефремов
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Yefremov
Born on November 10, 1963 (age 59)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1995).

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Mikhail Mishustin

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Mishustin
Born on March 3, 1966 (age 57)

Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin is a Russian politician and economist serving as Prime Minister of Russia since 16 January 2020. He previously served as Director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2010 to 2020.

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Mikhail Porechenkov

Михаил Евгеньевич Пореченков
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Porechenkov
Born on March 2, 1969 (age 54)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Evgenevich Porechenkov is a Russian film actor, producer, director. He became famous after his lead role as FSB Agent Alexey Nikolayev in the TV series National Security Agent (1999–2005). In 2008, Porechenkov produced, directed and starred in D-Day, a Russian remake of the 1985 American action film Commando.

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Mikhail Kalashnikov

Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Kalashnikov
Born on November 10, 1919
Died on December 23, 2013 (aged 94)

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was a Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun.

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Mikhail Vrubel

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Vrubel
Died on April 1, 1910
Born in Russia, Omsk Oblast

Mikhail Vrubel – a 19th–20th century Russian painter who worked in all genres of art, including painting, graphics, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art. In 1896, Vrubel married the famous singer Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel whom he regularly painted.

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Mikhail Devyatayev

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Devyatayev
Born on July 8, 1917
Died on November 24, 2002 (aged 85)

Mikhail Petrovich Devyataev was a Soviet fighter pilot known for his incredible escape from a Nazi concentration camp on the island of Usedom, in the Baltic Sea.

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Mikhail Zadornov

Михаил Николаевич Задорнов
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Zadornov
Born on July 21, 1948
Died on November 10, 2017 (aged 69)
Born in Latvia

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov was a Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer. Zadornov was born into an artistic family, his father Nikolai Zadornov being a notable writer from Riga. Zadornov’s mother, Elena Matusevich (1909-1992), came from an old noble family, which can trace its roots to the Polish king Stephen Bathory.

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Mikhail Krug

Михаил Владимирович Воробьёв
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Krug
Born on April 7, 1962
Died on July 1, 2002 (aged 40)
Born in Russia, Tver Oblast

Mikhail Vladirmirovich Vorobyov, known professionally as Mikhail Krug, was a Russian singer. Krug was one of the most popular singers of the style of music known as blatnaya pesnya or Russian chanson, a genre of music that has been popular in Russia since the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Mikhail Derzhavin

Михаил Михайлович Державин
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Derzhavin
Born on June 15, 1936
Died on January 10, 2018 (aged 81)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Mikhajlovich Derzhavin(Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Держа́вин; 15 June 1936, Moscow – 10 January 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Khodorkovsky
Born on June 26, 1963 (age 59)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is an exiled Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch, now residing in London. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus, during the Soviet years, and started several businesses during the period of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, he accumulated considerable wealth by obtaining control of a number of Siberian oil fields unified under the name Yukos, one of the major companies to emerge from the privatization of state assets during the 1990s.

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Mikhail Boyarsky

Михаил Сергеевич Боярский
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Boyarsky
Born on December 26, 1949 (age 73)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Sergeevich Boyarsky is a Soviet and Russian actor and singer. He is best known for playing swashbucklers in historical adventure films; the role of d'Artagnan in the 1978 Soviet adaptation of Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers elevated Boyarsky to the nationwide fame. In the 1980s, he was also popular as a singer. Boyarsky is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984) and a People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1990).

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Mikhail Glinka

First Name Mikhail
Last Name Glinka
Died on February 3, 1857

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.

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Mikhail Fridman

Михаил Маратович Фридман
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Fridman
Born on April 21, 1964 (age 59)
Net Worth $15.5B

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Russian business magnate. He also holds Israeli citizenship. He co-founded Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of 2017. In May 2017, he was also ranked as Russia's most important businessman by bne IntelliNews.

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Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Михаил Маньевич Жванецкий
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Zhvanetsky
Born on March 6, 1934
Died on November 6, 2020 (aged 86)

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky was a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist and performer of Jewish origin, best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.

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Mikhail Kokshenov

Михаил Михайлович Кокшенов
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Kokshenov
Born on September 16, 1936
Died on June 4, 2020 (aged 83)
Born in Russia

Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002).

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