Famous people of Russian origin

Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924)

Russian revolutionary

Grigori Rasputin (1869 - 1916)

Russian monk

Vladimir Putin (66)

Russian politician

Maria Sharapova (32)

Russian tennis player

Roman Abramovich (52)

Russian businessman and politician

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

Russian writer

Fedor Emelianenko (42)

Russian mixed martial artist

Yul Brynner (1915 - 1985)

Russian actor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Russian composer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)

Russian writer and philosopher

Catherine the Great (1729 - 1796)

Russian empress

Anna Kournikova (38)

Russian tennis player

Peter the Great (1672 - 1725)

Russian emperor

Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)

Russian physiologist

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

Russian physician and author

Ivan the Terrible (1530 - 1584)

Russian Tsar

Anne Vyalitsyna (33)

Russian model

Alexander Ovechkin (33)

Russian ice hockey player

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Russian composer

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907)

Russian chemist

Boris Yeltsin (1931 - 2007)

Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

Russian novelist, professor, and lepidopterist

Lev Vygotsky (1896 - 1934)

Russian psychologist

Eduard Khil (1934 - 2012)

Russian singer

Dmitry Medvedev (53)

Russian politician, 3rd President of Russia

Andrei Chikatilo (1936 - 1994)

Russian serial killer

Garry Kasparov (56)

Russian chess player

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Russian composer

Alexander Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Russian poet

Mikhail Baryshnikov (71)

Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor

Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852)

Russian writer

Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)

Russian composer

Andrei Arshavin (38)

Russian footballer

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008)

Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian

Maria Kirilenko (32)

Russian tennis player

Pavel Datsyuk (40)

Russian ice hockey player

Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936)

Russian author

Evgeni Malkin (32)

Russian ice hockey player

Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931)

Russian ballerina

Rudolf Nureyev (1938 - 1993)

Russian dancer and choreographer

Georgy Zhukov (1896 - 1974)

Russian general

Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919 - 2013)

Russian general, designed the AK-47

Nail Yakupov (25)

Russian ice hockey player

Grigori Perelman (53)

Russian mathematician

Vyacheslav Molotov (1890 - 1986)

Russian politician

Constantin Stanislavski (1863 - 1938)

Russian actor and director

Mikhail Prokhorov (54)

Russian businessman

Rosa Luxemburg (1871 - 1919)

Russian economist and philosopher

Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926 - 2011)

Russian daughter of Joseph Stalin

Alexander Emelianenko (37)

Russian mixed martial artist

Marat Safin (39)

Russian tennis player