- Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor (born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.
- Igor Andreev
Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.
- Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (b. May 9, 1964) is a Russian film director and actor. He is the director of the acclaimed film "9th Company". He is the son of director Sergei Bondarchuk (who co-starred with him in Boris Godunov) and Irina Skobtseva, half-brother of Natalya Bondarchuk, and brother to Alyona Bondarchuk. He is married to television presenter Svetlana, and has one son.
- Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov ("Maksim Sergejevič Afinogenov", ; born September 4, 1979 in Moscow, USSR; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey player.
- Sergej Samsonov
Sergei Samsonov ("Russ:" Сергей Самсонов, "Sergej Samsonov"; born October 27, 1978 near Moscow, Russia) is a professional ice hockey forward in the NHL. He is a small player by NHL standards at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) and 194 lb (88 kg), but he is nonetheless effective with excellent stickhandling and skating skills. Samsonov was drafted by the Boston Bruins eighth overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.
- Nikolai Korndorf
Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf, January 23, 1947 Moscow, USSR – May 30, 2001 Vancouver, Canada) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia and in Vancouver, Canada.
- Lev Zhurbin
Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a composer, violist, and arranger. A frequent collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet, Ljova is the author of over 70 original compositions for classical, jazz, and folk music ensembles. He has also contributed musical scores to numerous short and feature films. Ljova immigrated to the United States in 1990 and currently lives in New York City.
- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Lyudmila Stephanova Petrushevskaya (born May 26 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most talented contemporary writers, whose writing combine postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as Anton Chekhov. Her works include the 1992 novel "The Time Night", which was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and "Immortal Love", …
- Lana Parshina
With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager. But, filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. She turned to NYU Tisch School of Arts for advanced training in the art of filmmaking. All of her previous professions have contributed to her style of work as an independent filmmaker. First as an interpreter...
- Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva is a pretty damn good tennis player. She is also a pretty damn fine looking woman. Another thing we love about Elena is that her Web site has plenty of pics so we can study her, uh, form. Women's tennis has never looked sexier than it does right now. We've got Elena, Maria, ...
- Agata Gotova
Agata began her career as a child star in the former Soviet Union's version of "The Mickey Mouse Club," the morning show, "Budilnik" (1987). She spent her childhood touring Europe performing as part of the famous children's dance troupe, Kalinka, and headlined the troupe's 1989 film, Kalinka (1989). As a teenager, she joined the theater, where her theatrical career culminated with a role on satirist Mikhail Jevanetsky's "Political Cabaret," after which she moved to France and attended...
- Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan
Russian speaking Armenian like the master filmmakers Mikhail Vartanov and Sergei Parajanov The son of Edmond Keosayan.
- Maksim Emmanuilovich Vitorgan
The son of Alla Balter and Emmanuil Vitorgan
- Pierre Léon
Member of jury and professor at La Femis (Paris)
- Vladimir Turchinsky
Was a professional bodybuilder Has multiple power world records in different weightlifting Sings at a non-professional actors vocal-instrumental ensemble "Guarana" together with Aleksei Kravchenko
- Dimitry Kirillov
Graduated from Joe Blasco Make-up Center and Vidal Sassoon Academy in Los Angeles.
- Sergey Brin
BS, University of Maryland at College Park: mathematics and computer science MS: Stanford University Ph.D. candidate in computer science (dropped out in 1995) Co-founder of Google, Inc. Estimated worth $16Billion (as of December 2005) Father Michael is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Mother Eugenia is a scientist at NASA.
- Aleksei Chadov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Chadov was born on September 2, 1981, in Solntsevo, a suburb of Moscow, USSR. He is the younger brother of actor Andrei Chadov. His father, named Aleksandr Chadov, died in 1986, and both brothers were raised by their single mother. His mother, named Galina Petrovna Chadova, was an engineer turned accountant and teacher. She raised both brothers as best friends. Chadov brothers are look-alike, but they are not twins, with sixteen moths between them. They are good...
- Ivan Petrovich Khoroshev
Igor Khoroshev (born July 14, 1965 in Moscow, USSR, now living in the USA), is a musician best known as the keyboardist of Yes from 1998 to 2000. He appeared on their albums Open Your Eyes (released in 1997; as a session player on three tracks), The Ladder and House of Yes: Live from House of Blues. He is also trained to play guitar, bass, and drums, among other musical instruments. Coming from a classical background, after his departure from Yes he has composed soundtracks for motion...
- Yelena Drobysheva
Daughter of Nina Drobysheva and Vitali Konyaev.
- Dmitry Volovik
Dima (aka Dmitriy) Volovik was born in Moscow, ex-Soviet Union. In 1984 he went to regular Soviet school. In the age of 15 he moved to USA with his parents and older brother where he still resides in the town of Neponsit in NYC. Now days he works in mostly independent movie projects in sound department.
- Daniil Strakhov
His mother is a psychotherapist, father is a linguist. Is known to be very passionate about his work. After filming a scene often gives suggestions how to make it all over again and these concern both acting, directing and cinematography. He didn't need to do an audition for Aleksandr Rogozhkin's Peregon. He met the director in St. Petersburg, but they discussed other things like philosophy, foreign policy and the universe. Has a younger sister Lisa, who lives in US.
- Masha Krivoshlyopova
Conjoined twin sister of Dasha Krivoshlyapova
- Veronika Belianina
- Viktor Dombrovsky
- Alexander Vartanov
- Daria Kaplya
- Alexander Kopeikin
- Konstantin Tschetwerikoff
- Mikhail Shatin
- Oleg Ryaskov
- Aleksandr Lipkov
- Borya Burlyaev
- Andrei Makarov
- Alexander Vladimirovich Tchaikovsky
- Svetlana Seliverstova
- Irina Calero-Bieberach
- Svyatozar Rusakov
- Boris Burmistrov
- Anousha Nzumé