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List of famous Russians
This is a list of people associated with Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia of today. For a long time Russia was a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow. They may be Georgians, Jews, Poles, Moors, Udege, Tatars, Belarussians, Germans,... Sometimes we don't know their exact ancestry. Sometimes their formal nationality was written down at random or for political or other reasons. They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian", whether with pride, with shame, or with pain.
Artists
- Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
- Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (born 1917), sculptor
- Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985), painter
- Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920), jewellery designer
- Isaak Levitan (1860 - 1900), landscape painter
- Vera Ignat'evna Mukhina (1889 - 1953), sculptress
- Alexander O. Nikulin (1878 - 1945), painter
- Andrei Rublev (circa 1360 - 1430), painter
- Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911), painter
- Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857), painter
- Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (1699 - 1761), painter
- Andrey Bely (1880 - 1934), poet and author
- Isaak Babel (1894-1940), author
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), playwright, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
- Ilya Gregoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 - 1947), novelist and WWII war correspondent
- Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), author, Dead Souls
- Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812 - 1891), Oblomov
- Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936), novelist, My Universities
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), poet, author and painter
- Nikolai Leskov (1831 - 1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
- Nikolai Ogaryov (1813 - 1877), author
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), linguistic reformer
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), refused (ie. was not permitted to accept) the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), poet
- Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826 - 1889), novelist
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born 1918), Nobel Prize for Literature
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937), author of We
Performing Arts
- George Melitonovich Balanchine, dancer and choreographerr
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), ballet dancer
- Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 - 1994), film director
- Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor
- Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948), film director
- Nikita Mikhalkov (born 1945), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician
- Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master
- Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev (1938 - 1993), ballet dancer
- Anna Pavlova (1882 - 1931), ballerina
- Alexander Lukich Ptushko (1882 - 1931), film director
- Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (1868 - 1938), actor
- Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (1910 - 1988), ballerina
(who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), poet
- Valeri Bryusov (1873 - 1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Denis Davydov (1784 - 1839), poet
- Osip Mandelstam, (1891 - 1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), poet
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet
- Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), poet
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), poet
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933), novelist
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (born 1930), physicist
- Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775 - 1839), mining engineer and inventor
- Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894 - 1977), aircraft constructor
- Nikolai Kibalchich (1853 - 1881)
- Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907 - 1966), rocket engineer and designer, "Father of the space program"
- Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859 - 1906), Russia's Marconi
- Alexandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov (1916 - 2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, born in Queensland, Australia
- Boris L'vovich Rosing (1869 - 1933)
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
- Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (1895 - 1975), aircraft constructor and designer
- Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen) (1896 - 1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857 - 1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
- Andrei Nicolayevich Tupolev, (1888 - 1972), aircraft designer and builder
- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1899 - 1982), physicist and electrical engineer
- Petr Bagration
- Semion Ivanovich Cheliuskin (circa 1700 - after 1760), Polar explorer, lieutenant-captain of the Russian Imperial Navy
- Lev Mikhailovich Dovator (1903 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (1920 - 1991), WWII fighter pilot , trice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov
- Sigismund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky (1902 - 1937), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anatoly Vasilyevich Liapidevsky 1908 - 1983), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov (1802 - 1855), admiral
- Isai Ivanovich Panfilov (1893 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (b.1913), WWII fighter pilot, trice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Vasilievich Suvorov
- Victor Vasilyevich Talalikhin (1918 - 1941), WWII lieutentant and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Andrey Vlasov (1900 - 1946), Red Army general turned Nazi collaborator and the commander of volunteer Russian forces (ROA,"Russian Liberation Army") of the German army during WWII
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopianov (1899 - 1975), aircraft pilot, among the first to receive the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union
- Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881 - 1969), marshal and politician
- Pyotr Klimentyevich Voroshilov (1914 - 1984), Red Army leader and commander
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, hero of Borodino (1812), military ruler of the Caucasus
- Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974), marshal, chief of general staff of the Red Army and representative of STAVKA, four times Hero of the Soviet Union
- Alexander Porfiriyevich Borodin, (1833 - 1887), composer
- Fyodor Chaliapin (1873 - 1938), (French spelling of Russian surname Shaliapin) - opera singer, bass
- Cesar Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918),
- Valery Gergiev (born 1953), pianist, conductor
- Alexander Glazunov (1865?1936), composer
- Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere (1875 - 1956), composer
- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla
- Nikolai Semyonovich Golovanov (1891 - 1953), conductor
- Emil Grygoryevich Gilels (1916 - 1985), pianist
- Vladimir Horowitz (1903 - 1989), pianist
- Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)
- Aram Ilyich Katchaturian (1903 - 1978)
- Tikhon Khrennikov (1913- composer)
- Kyril Kondrashin (1914 - 1981), conductor
- Leonid Kogan (1924 - 1982), violinist
- Viktoria Mullova (born 1959), violinist
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881), composer of Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition
- David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974), violinist
- Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (born 1931), violinist
- Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), composer
- Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943),
- Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 - 1997), pianist
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), composer
- Mstislav Rostropovich (born 1927), cellist and conductor
- Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer
- Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
- Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852 - 1918), composer and music educator
- Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871 - 1915), composer and pianist
- Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), composer
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, (1882 - 1971), composer
- Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
- Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 - 1998), composer
- Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (1914 - 1984), general secretary of the communist party of the USSR (November 12, 1982 - February 9, 1984)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888 - 1938), Bolshevik party leader, Soviet statesman
- Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1911 - 1985), general secretary of the communist party of the USSR
- Zakhar Grigor'evich Chernyshev
- Boris Godunov (1551 - 1605), tsar
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 1931), general secretary of the communist party and president of the USSR, Nobel Prize winner
- Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1908 - 1989), "Cold War" Foreign Minister of the USSR
- Nikita Khrushchev, (1894 - 1971), general secretary of the communist party of the USSR and head of state
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (real name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), (1870 - 1924), Bolshevik party leader and the first Soviet head of state
- Vladimir Putin (born 1952), president of Russia
- Joseph Stalin
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Russian Revolution leader
- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (born 1931), President of Russia 1991-1999
Royal Family
- Aleksey I of Russia, "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest" (1629 - 1676)
- Alexander I of Russia, "Alexander the Blessed" (1777 - 1825), Russian, Polish ruler
- Alexander II of Russia, "Alexander the Liberator" (1818 - 1881)
- Alexander III of Russia, "Alexander the Peacemaker" (1845 - 1894)
- Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia (1872 - 1918)
- Alexius Petrovich, (1690 - 1718)
- Catherine I of Russia, (1683 - 1727)
- Catherine II of Russia, "Catherine the Great" (1729 - 1796)
- Elizabeth of Russia, (1709-1761)
- Ivan III of Russia, "Ivan the Great", (1440-1505)
- Ivan IV of Russia, "Ivan the Terrible", (1530 - 1584)
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (1878 - 1918), Grand Duke
- Nicholas I of Russia, "Nicolas I the Unforgettable" (1825 - 1831)
- Nicholas II of Russia, "Nicholas II the Bloody" (1868 - 1918)
- Paul I of Russia (1754 - 1801)
- Peter I of Russia, "Peter the Great", (1672 - 1725)
- Peter III of Russia, (1728 - 1762)
- Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova, (1901 - 1918)
- Maria Nicolaievna Romanova, (1899 - 1918)
- Marie Fyodorovna Romanova, (1848 - 1928)
- Olga Nicolaievna Romanova, (1895 - 1918)
- Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, (1882 - 1960)
- Tatiana Nicolaievna Romanova, (1897 - 1918)
- Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev (1821 - 1894), mathematician
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904 - 1990), physicist
- Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank (1908 - 1990), physicist
- Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895 - 1976), electrochemist
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (1927 - 1967), cosmonaut
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987), mathematician
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), mathematician
- Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968), physicist and mathematician
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792 - 1856), mathematician
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857 - 1918), mathematician
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (1879 - 1944), physicist
- Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856 - 1922), mathematician
- Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834 - 1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
- Gennadyi I. Nevelskoi (1813 - 1876), captain and navigator
- Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (born 1935), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936), physician and physiologist
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896 - 1986), physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (1916 - 1985), astronomer and astrophysicist
- Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (1842 - 1927), mathematician
- Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (1863 - 1926) , physicist and mathematician
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (1895 - 1971), physicist
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914 - 1987), physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Vladimir Beschastnykh, footballer
- Andrey Chesnokov, tennis player
- Yelena Davydova (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
- Sergei Fedorov (born 1969), NHL star
- Yevgeni Kafelnikov, tennis player
- Valery Kharlamov (1948 - 1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
- Andrei Kirilenko (born 1981), NBA star
- Anna Kournikova (born 1981), professional tennis player
- Vladimir Petrov, ice hockey player
- Marat Safin, tennis player
- Yelena Shushunova (born 1969), gymnast
- Vladislav Tretiak (born 1952), ice hockey goalie
- Alexander Yakushev (born 1947), ice hockey player
- Lev Yashin (1929 - 1990), football goalkeeper
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