List of Russian people
Artists
- Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
- Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (1917 - ), sculptor
- Mark Zakharovich Shagal (1887 - 1985), painter
- Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920), jewelery 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
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), First Russian Nobel Prize Winner
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), playwright
- 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)
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), poet, author and painter
- Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831 - 1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
- Nikolai Platonovich 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)
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826 - 1889)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), Nobel Prize for Literature
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Performing Arts
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948 - ), ballet dancer
- Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 - 1994), film director
- Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor
- Serge Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario
- Nikita Mikhalkov (1945 - ), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician
- Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master
- Rudolf Nureyev (1938 - ), 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)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet
- Aleksandr Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933 - )
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
- Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938), opera singer, bass
- Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918),
- Valeri Giergev
- Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere (1875 - 1956), composer
- Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla
- Nicolai Golovanov, conductor
- Emil Grygoryevich Gilels (1916 - 1985), pianist
- 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), violinist
- Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (1931 - ), violinist
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), composer
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943),
- Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997), pianist
- 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 pianist
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), composer
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
- Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
- Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 - 1998), composer
- Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (1914 - 1984)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888 - 1938)
- Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1911 - 1985)
- 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)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- Vladimir Putin (1952 - )
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- Boris Yeltsin (1931 - )
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), anarchist
- Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921), anarchist
- Ivan III of Russia - (Ivan the Great)
- Ivan IV of Russia - (Ivan the Terrible) (1530 - 1584)
- Peter I of Russia - (Peter the Great) (1672 - 1725)
- Alexander I of Russia (1777 - 1825)
- 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
- 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)
- Peter III of Russia (1728 - 1762)
- Catherine II of Russia - (Catherine the Great) (1729 - 1796)
- Paul I of Russia
- Alexius Petrovich (1690 - 1718)
- 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
- Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968), physicist and mathematician
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857 - 1918), mathematician
- 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
- 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