Andrej Andreevic Markov (padre e figlio), matematici e statistici, (padre:1856-1922; figlio:1903-)
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, cosmonauta
Boris Morukov, cosmonauta
Sergei Ivanovich Moschenko, cosmonauta

N

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, scrittore

Aaron Nimzowitsch, scacchista, 1886 - 1935

O

Yuriy Ivanovich Onufriyenko, cosmonauta

P

Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, cosmonauta
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, scrittore
Alexander Fedorovich Poleschuk, cosmonauta

Q

R

Roman Yurievich Romanenko, cosmonauta
Valery Victorovitch Ryumin, cosmonauta

S

Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov, cosmonauta
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev, cosmonauta
Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmonauta
Maxim Victorovich Suraev, cosmonauta

T

Mikhail Tal, scacchista, 1936 - 1992
Vladimir Georgievich Titov, cosmonauta
Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, cosmonauta
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj, scrittore (talvolta anche trascritto Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoi)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, scrittore
Sergei Yevgenyevich Treschev, cosmonauta
Mikhail Tyurin, cosmonauta

U

Yury Vladimirovich Usachev, cosmonauta

V, W

Vladimir Vysotsky, poeta, cantante, attore, 1938-1980

X, Y

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin, cosmonauta

Z

Sergei Zaletin, cosmonauta

Artisti

Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), scultore, artista grafico e disegnatore di scena
Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (1917 - ), scultore
Mark Zakharovich Shagal (1887 - 1985), pittore
Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920), disegnatore di gioielli
Isaak Levitan (1860 - 1900), disegnatore d'esterni
Vera Ignat'evna Mukhina (1889 - 1953), scultrice
Alexander O. Nikulin (1878 - 1945), pittore
Andrei Rublev (circa 1360 - 1430), pittore
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911), pittore
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857), pittore
Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (1699 - 1761), pittore

Autori

Andrey Bely (1880 - 1934), poeta e autore
Isaak Babel, (1894-1940), autore
Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), autore e commediografo
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), Primo Russo a vincere il Nobel
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), commediografo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), I Fratelli Karamazov - Delitto e Castigo, scrittore
Ilya Gregoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 - 1947), giornalista e corrispondente di guerra della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), autore, Anime Morte
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812 - 1891), Oblomov
Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936)
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), poeta, autore e pittore
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 Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826 - 1889), Russian novelist
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), Nobel Prize for Literature
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937) We

Performing Arts

Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948 - ), ballet dancer
Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 - 1994), film director
Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor
Serge Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario
Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948), film director
Nikita Mikhalkov (1945 - ), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician
Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master
Rudolf 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

Poets:

(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), Russian poet
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet
Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892 - 1941), Russian poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (1933 - ), Russian novelist

Inventors:

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930 - ), physicist
Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov, mining engineer and inventor
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushiin (1894 - 1977), aircraft constructor
Nikolai Kibalchich (1853 - 1881)
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907 - 1966), rocket engineer and designer, "Father of the space program"
Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (1859 - 1906), Russia's Marconi
Alexandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1916 - 2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964
Boris Lwowitsch Rosing (1869 - 1933)
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (1895 - 1975), aircraft constructor and designer
Leon Theremin, inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, (1857 - 1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
Andrei Nicholayevich Tupolev, (1888 - 1972), aircraft designer and builder
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1899 - 1982), physicist and electrical engineer

Military:

Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (1925 - 1970), cosmonaut
Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi (1921 - 1995), cosmonaut
Lev Mikhailovich Dovator (1903 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968), pilot and cosmonaut
Isai Ivanovich Panfilov (1893 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
Victor Vasilyevich Talalikhin (1918 - 1941), WWII lieutentant and Hero of the Soviet Union
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881 - 1969), marshal and politician
Pyotr Klimentyevich Voroshilov (1914 - 1984), Red Army leader and commander
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974), marshal, commander of the general staff of the Red Army

Musicisti, compositori

Alexander Borodin, (1833 - 1887), Russian composer
Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938), opera singer, bass
Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918),
Valeri Giergev
Alexander Glazounov (1865–1936), composer
Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere (1875 - 1956), composer
Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla
Nicolai Golovanov, conductor
Emil Grygoryevich Gilels (1916 - 1985), pianista
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)
Aram Ilyich Katchaturian (1903 - 1978)
Kyril Kondrashin, conductor
Leonid Kogan (1924 - 1982), violinist
Viktoria Mullova, violinist
Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881), composer of Boris Godunov
David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974), violinista
Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (1931 - ), violinista
Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), composer
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943),
Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997), pianista
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908),
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927 - ), cellist and conductor
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871 - 1915), composer and pianista
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), composer
Igor Stravinsky, (1882 - 1971), Russian
Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 - 1998), composer
Vladimir Vysotsky, poeta, cantante, attore, 1938-1980

Politicians:

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, (1914 - 1984), General Secretary November 12, 1982 - February 9, 1984
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888 - 1938), Bolshevik Leader
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, (1911 - 1985), Soviet general secretary
Boris Godunov (1551 - 1605), tzar
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 - ), liberator, Nobel Prize winner
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1908 - 1989), "Cold War" Foreign Minister
Nikita Khrushchev, (1894 - 1971), Soviet general secretary
Vladimir Lenin, (1870 - 1924), first Soviet leader
Vladimir Putin (1952 - )
Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin, (1879 - 1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
Boris Yeltsin, (1931 - ), President of Russia 1991-1999

Philosopherss

Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), anarchist
Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921), anarchist

Royal Family:

Ivan III of Russia, (1440-1505), (Ivan the Great)

Ivan IV of Russia, (1530 - 1584), Russian Tsar
Peter I of Russia, (1672 - 1725), tsar of Russia
Alexander I of Russia, (1777 - 1825), Russian, Polish ruler
Alexander II of Russia (1818 - 1881)
Alexander III of Russia (1845 - 1894)
Alexandra of Russia (1872 - 1918)
Princess Brassova (1880 - 1952)
Nicholas I of Russia, (1825-1831), Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia (1868 - 1918)
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)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, Grand Duke
Aleksey I of Russia (1629 - 1676)
Catherine I of Russia, (1683 - 1727), Russian tsarina
Peter III of Russia, (1728 - 1762), tsar of Russia
Catherine II of Russia, (1729 - 1796), Russia
Paul I of Russia
Alexius Petrovich (1690 - 1718)

Scientists

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
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician
Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968), physicist and mathematician
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857 - 1918), mathematician
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (1879 - 1944), physicist
Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856 - 1922), mathematician
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
Gennadi Nevelskoi, captain and navigator
Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (1935 - ), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936), physician and physiologist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, 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

Sports Personalities:

Yelena Davydova (1961 - ), Olympic gymnast
Valery Kharlamov (1948 - 1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
Anna Kournikova (1981 - ), Professional tennis player
Vladimir Petrov, ice hockey player
Yelena Shushunova (1969 - ), gymnast
Vladislav Tretiak, ice hockey goalie
Alexander Yakushev, ice hockey player
Lev Yashin (1929 - 1990), football goalkeeper, capped 78 times for Russia

Other

Grigori Rasputin (1872 - 1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker

Personaggi Storici

Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov detto Lenin

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scrjabin detto Molotov

Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili detto Stalin

Leon Trotsky