List of Famous people named Vladimir

Vladimir Nikolaevich Markin is a Russian pop singer, entrepreneur, composer, songwriter.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov is a Soviet and Russian actor.

Vladimir Karfík was a Czechoslovak modernist architect and university professor. His life, professional career and his work reflected changes characteristic for the 20th century.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Anatolyevich Shamanov is a retired Colonel General of the Russian Armed Forces, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) from May 2009 to October 2016 and a former Russian politician. After his retirement in October 2016, Shamanov became head of the State Duma Defense Committee.

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Turchinsky was a Russian wrestler, strongman, television and radio presenter, actor, author, singer and businessman. After completing military service he took various odd jobs, as a photographer, bodyguard, security officer, circus performer, and translator from English and French. He later became a notable media personality capitalizing on his massive physique and a strongman image.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lyovkin is a popular Russian singer, former member of the Pop group Na Na. He was the main vocalist from the day of the band's foundation.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a former cosmonaut who made five flights.

Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky is a Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988), citizen of Murom (2013), and a Recipient of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician, journalist, author, and filmmaker. A protégé of Boris Nemtsov, he serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He has directed two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. As of 2021, he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018.