List of Famous people named Oleg

Oleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He is an assistant coach with Rubin Kazan. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records.

Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and activist from Crimea. As a filmmaker he shot his film in 2011 Gamer. Following the Russian annexation of Crimea he was arrested in Crimea in May 2014 and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a Russian court in August 2015 on charges of plotting terrorism acts. The conviction was described as fabricated by Amnesty International and others. He was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize in 2018. On 7 September 2019 he was released in a prisoner swap.

Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow.

Oleg Konstantinovich Popov was a Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).

Oleg Ivanovich Dal was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

Oleg Valeryevich Sokolov is a Russian Napoleonic era historian and convicted murderer. He is a Candidate of Historical Sciences and was a Docent of the Department of Modern History, Faculty of History of Saint Petersburg State University. His scientific and social activities were acknowledged by the Legion of Honour (Chevalier) in 2003.

Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky is known for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with the Soviet Union.

Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev, PAR, was a Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, and poet. He was born in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954. He was widely popular in USSR and was honored with the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Oleg Aleksandrovich Shatov is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or central midfielder for Rubin Kazan.

Oleg Borisovich Vidov was a Soviet Russian American actor, film director and producer. He appeared in 50 films beginning in 1961. A refugee from his native country Russia, then Soviet Union, he was granted U.S. citizenship and became a naturalized American.