List of Famous people named Mikhail

Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky was a Russian reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia, to whom he was a close advisor. He later served under Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Speransky is referred to as the father of Russian liberalism.

Mikhail Borisovich Kislyuk, is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician who had last served as the 1st Governor of Kemerovo Oblast from 1991 to 1997. He was head of the Federal Service for the Regulation of Natural Monopolies in Transport from 1997 to 1998. He is also a member of the Democratic Party of Russia.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Zadornov is a Russian economist, Chairman of the Management Board of Otkritie FC Bank, President and Chairman of the Management Board of VTB 24 in the years 2005–2017, government official, Russian Minister of Finance from 1997–1999, Russian State Duma Deputy, 1st – 4th Convocations. Recipient of the Order of Merit for the Motherland IV and a Certificate of Honour from the Russian Government.

Mikhail Vitalievich Margelov ,a Russian public figure and politician, Vice President, JSC “Transneft”, the ex-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia. He has been a member of the European Democrat Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2002 until 2009.

Mikhail Borisovich Shein (?–1634) was a leading Russian general during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Despite his tactical skills and successful military career, he ended up losing his army in a failed attempt to besiege Smolensk and being executed for this defeat. The first Russian generalissimo, Aleksey Shein, was his great grandson.

Mikhail Tikhonovich Tikhanov was a Russian artist who accompanied Captain Vasily Golovnin's circumnavigation aboard the frigate Kamchatka.

Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky was a Russian army officer and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923.

Mikhail Ivanovich Shuydin was a Soviet clown and acrobat-eccentric. People's Artist of the RSFSR. From 1950 he worked in the arena with Yury Nikulin, Member of the Great Patriotic War.

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet chess player, who was the sixth World Chess Champion. Besides playing top-class competitive chess, he worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist, and he was also a pioneer of computer chess.

Mikhail Pavlovich Mokretsov is a Russian businessman and state official who served as Director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2007 and 2010.