List of Russians

Table of contents

1 Artists 2 Authors 3 Performing Arts 4 Poets: 5 Inventors: 6 Explorers: 7 Military: 8 Musicians/Composers: 9 Politicians: 10 Philosopherss 11 Royal Family 12 Scientists and Mathematicans 13 Sports Personalities: 14 Other 15 See also

Artists

• Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
• Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (born 1917), sculptor
• Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985), painter
• Carl Faberg� (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, 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 Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
• Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
• Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826 - 1889), Russian 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

• 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

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

Inventors:

• 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 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

Explorers:

• Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741), explorer of north-western and south-western Alaska
• Semion Ivanovich Dezhnev (circa 1605 - 1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia
• Ivan Fedorov, explorer of north-western Alaska

Military:

• Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (1925 - 1970), cosmonaut
• Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi (1921 - 1995), cosmonaut
• 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
• Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968), pilot and the first human cosmonaut
• Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (1920 - 1991), WWII fighter pilot , trice Hero of the Soviet Union
• 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
• 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
• 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

Musicians/Composers:

(many of them of different ethnic background, but who were/are citizens of Russia and/or the Soviet Union)

• Alexander Porfiriyevich Borodin, (1833 - 1887), Russian composer
• Feodor Chaliapin (1873 - 1938), (French spelling of Russian first name 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)
• Lena Katina (born 1984) and Yulia Volkova (born 1985), members of t.A.T.u
• 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
• 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), Russian composer
• Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composer
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
• Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 - 1998), composer

Politicians:

• 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
• 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, (1870 - 1924), Bolshevik party leader and the first Soviet head of state
• Vladimir Putin (born 1952), president of Russia
• Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
• Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), (a pseudonym) - Russian Revolution leader
• Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (born 1931), President of Russia 1991-1999

Philosopherss

• Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), anarchist
• Nicolas Berdyaev (1874- 1948), philosopher of religion and politics
• Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921), anarchist
• Peter D. Ouspensky (1878 - 1947), author of In Search of the Miraculous and Tertium Organum

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)

Scientists and Mathematicans

• 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

Sports Personalities:

• Vladimir Beschastnykh, footballer
• 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), world renowned football goalkeeper

Other

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky (born 1963), businessman
• Grigori Rasputin (1872 - 1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Roman Abramovich (born 1966), businessman, 49th richest person in the Forbes list
• Garry Kasparov (born 1963), chess grandmaster
• Anatoly Karpov (born 1951), chess grandmaster

See also

• List of Slavs
• List of people by nationality
• List of people