List of Russians

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

Authors

• 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
• 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 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
• 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

Musicians/Composers:

• 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), 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), Russian
• Sergey Taneyev[?] (1856 - 1915), composer
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
• Grigory Vasilyevich[?] (1915 - 1998), composer

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 - )
• Joseph Stalin, (1879 - 1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
• Boris Yeltsin, (1931 - ), President of Russia 1991-1999

Philosophers

• 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 Czar
• Peter I of Russia, (1672 - 1725), czar 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), czar 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

See also: List of people by nationality