List of Famous people named Vitaly

Vitaly Nikitich Ignatenko is a Russian journalist and politician who had been the head of ITAR-TASS news agency from 1993 until 2012 and had served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin from 1995 to 1997 as deputy prime minister. He has also been a member of different journalism organizations and foundations promoting the Russian language and Russian-speaking press.

Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky is a Russian documentary film director. He is the founder of a festival of documentary movies, ArtDocFest and has resided in Riga since 2014. Artdocfest has since collaborated with the Riga International Film Festival.

Vitaly Gennadyevich Savelyev is a Russian businessman and politician, who served as Minister of Transport from 10 November 2020. Previously, he served as the chairman and CEO of Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, since 2009 to 2020.

Vitaly Yakovlevich Vulf was a Russian art, drama, film critic, literary critic, translator, TV and radio broadcaster and critic.

Vitaly Vasilyevich Fedorchuk was a Ukrainian Soviet security and intelligence officer and politician.

Vitaly Serhiiovych Anikeyenko was a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey player.

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist.

Vitaly Ivanovich Popkov was a Soviet fighter pilot who became a flying ace during the Second World War. During the war, he was credited with around 40 aerial victories for which he was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war he remained in the military and reached the rank of general-lieutenant, retiring in 1989. He died in 2010 at the age of 88.

Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki — was a popular Russian children’s writer and a prolific author of books on nature.

Vitali Mikhailovich Lisakovich is a Belarusian professional footballer. He plays for Lokomotiv Moscow.