- Boris Berezovsky
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky a.k.a. Platon Elenin is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001, where he was granted political asylum.
- Elena Dementieva
Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva (pronounced: L-e-nuh de-MENT-ye-vuh Russian:); born October 15, 1981, Moscow), is a professional tennis player from Russia.
- Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Курникова, "Anna Sergeevna Kurnikova;" born June 7, 1981) is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a major singles tournament, she became one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google.
- Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina (Russian: Дина́ра Муби́новна (Миха́йловна) Са́фина), born April 27, 1986, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar origins. She was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia), where she currently lives. She is the younger sister of tennis player, former world number one Marat Safin. She is coached by Glen Schaap, former trainer of Nadia Petrova.
- Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin (born September 17, 1985 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He currently resides in Arlington, Virginia, USA. He was the number one pick in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, but due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout only started playing in the 2005-06 NHL season.
- Taras Shevchenko
Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko was born in Moscow, Russia in 1984. He currently performs in the Cirque du Soleil show "Corteo". He is performing an act called "Paradise", as well as portraying one of the leading characters in the show - White Clown. Whereas the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814, the latter Taras was born on March 8, which happened to be an International Women's Day.
- Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova is a professional tennis player from Russia. Petrova's career high ranking is World No. 3, a ranking she achieved after beating Justine Henin in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open in May 2006. She has reached the French Open semi-finals twice in her career, once in 2003 and again in 2005. As of July 9 2007, she is the No. 9 player in the world.
- Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djamalovna Chakvetadze (born March 5, 1987, Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player. On June 25, 2007, she reached her career-high pro singles ranking of #7 in the world. She began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother, Natalia. She travels for tournaments with her father. She speaks both Russian and English.
- Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.
- Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin (born 25 January 1988) is a French professional tennis player. She is best known for winning the 2004 French Open mixed-doubles event with her countryman Richard Gasquet, and also, reaching the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova. She was born in Moscow, but she moved to Paris with her parents, and earned French citizenship. She has two sisters, Olga and Oxana.
- Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко; born January 25 1987 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, beating Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-4 in the China Open. She is a good friend of Maria Sharapova. She is affectionately called Makiri. Maria Kirilenko won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian Open, as well as the 2002 US Open junior tournament.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva) (26 September/8 October 1892, Moscow - 31 August 1941, Yelabuga, Tatarstan, suicide) was a Russian poet and writer.
- Patriarch Filaret
Fyodor Nikitich Romanov, and became de-facto ruler of Russia during the reign of his son, Mikhail Feodorovich. Fyodor was born in Moscow the second son of the prominent boyar Nikita Romanovich and was the first to bear the Romanov surname. During the reign of his first cousin Feodor I (1584-1598), young Feodor Romanov distinguished himself both as a soldier and a diplomatist, fighting against the forces of John III of Sweden in 1590, …
- Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Youzhny (Russian: "'"'; b. June 25, 1982, Moscow, USSR) (now Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. Youzhny is noted for his consistency and all court play style.
- Pavel Bure
Pavel Vladimirovich Bure is a former professional ice hockey player. He was a right winger and played in the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as for the Soviet Union and Russia internationally. He won a bronze medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. During his career in the NHL, he played for the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers.
- 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.
- Lena Katina
Lena Katina (born on 4 October, 1984 in Moscow) is one of the two members of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u.; the other being Yulia Volkova. She is known for being the "good girl" of the duo.
- Irina Slutskaya
Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya (born February 9, 1979) is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World Champion, seven-time European Champion, two-time Olympic medalist, and four-time Grand Prix Final Champion. Slutskaya, known for her athletic ability, was the first female skater to land a triple lutz-triple loop combination. She is also known for her trademark double Biellmann spin with a foot change, which she also invented.
- Igor Andreev
Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.
- Alexander II of Russia
Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevich was the Emperor of the Russian Empire and Tsar of Russia from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His early life gave little indication of his ultimate potential; until the time of his accession in 1855, …
- Ivan Safronov
Ivan Ivanovich Safronov (January 16 1956 – March 2 2007) was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper "Kommersant". He died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building. His apartment was on the third floor. There are speculations that he may have been killed for his critical reporting. The Taganka District prosecutor's office in Moscow has initiated a criminal investigation into Safronov's death.
- Timati
Timati is a stage name of Timur Eldarovich Yunusov (born on August 15, 1983 in Moscow), Russian rapper, one of the members of Hip-Hop bands "Banda" ("Gang" in English) and "VIP-77".
- Sergey Lazarev
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev, born 01 April 1983) is a vocalist, dancer and actor based in Moscow, Russia. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as the dark-haired member of the group Smash!!. The group has since broken up, and Lazarev has carved out a successful solo career.
- Vladimir Solovyov
Vladimir Rudol'fovich Solovyov is a popular Russian TV and radio journalist. His father, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov, and his mother, Inna Solomonovna Shapiro, both graduated from the history and philology faculty of the Lenin Pedagogical University. Later on his father taught political economy at a school of statistics, while his mother worked as an arts critic at the Battle of Borodino museum. In 1980 he graduated from the elite English language secondary School No.
- Irina Rodnina
Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships (1969–78) and three successive Olympic gold medals. She competed with two different partners, Alexei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev.
- Michael Lucas
Michael Lucas is a gay Jewish pornographic actor and the founder and owner of Lucas Entertainment, born Andrei Treivas Bregman in Moscow, Russia, on March 10 1972. In 1995, Lucas moved to Germany and lived in France for two years before moving to the United States.
- Anatole Kaletsky
Anatole Kaletsky Anatole Kaletsky is Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of The Times of London, where he writes a twice-weekly column on economics, politics and financial markets. Since 1997 he has also worked as an economic consultant, providing forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions, multinational companies and international organisations through his company, Kaletsky Economic Consulting Ltd. In 1998 he was elected by Britainâ
- Konstantin Makovsky
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (—) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Wanderers". Many of his historical paintings, such as "The Russian Bride's Attire" (1889), showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of a Salon art.
- Pyotr Aven
Pyotr Olegovich Aven (Peter O. Aven is a Jewish-Russian businessman and politician. From June – December 1992 he was the Minister of External Economic Relations of Russia. Since October 1994 he has been the President of the Alfa Bank.
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (September 13, 1923 in the village of Osino-Gay, Gavrilovsky District, Tambov Oblast - November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).
- Pavel Pogrebnyak
Pavel Pogrebnyak (born November 8, 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian international footballer. The striker earned his place in the national team while playing for FC Tom Tomsk. On November 28, 2006, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg announced a three-year contract with Pogrebnyak.
- Ilya Yashin
Ilya Yashin (b. on June 29, 1983 in Moscow) is the leader of Yabloko's youth wing. He is its face as well as its voice, organizing mass protests and speaking to the media about its causes. Recently, he has spoken against the pro-Putin Nashi movement
- Anna Of Russia
Anna Ivanovna (February 7, 1693, Moscow – October 28, 1740) reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
- Alexander Frolov
Alexander "Alex" Frolov (born on June 19, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Kings.
- Irina Antonova
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova has been Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow since 1961, making her the oldest director of a major art museum in the world. Among her many awards and decorations are the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Antonova was born on 20 March 1922 in Moscow. She studied under Boris Vipper at the Moscow University, graduating in 1945. Later that year she joined the staff of the Pushkin Museum, …
- Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled "Aljechin or Alechin") (October 31 or November 1, 1892 - March 24, 1946) was a Russian-born naturalized French chess grandmaster (officially naturalized in 1927 only three days before the World Champion title), and the fourth World Chess Champion. He was known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style.
- Elizabeth Of Russia
Yelizaveta Petrovna (December 29, 1709 – January 5, 1762 (New Style); December 18, 1709 – December 25, 1761 (Old Style)), also known as Yelisavet and Elizabeth, was an Empress of Russia (1741 – 1762) who took the country into the War of Austrian Succession (1740 – 1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763).
- Lev Yashin
Lev Ivanovich Yashin (October 22, 1929 – March 20, 1990) was a Russian Soviet football goalkeeper, known for his supreme athleticism in goal, imposing stature (he was 6' 3", 189 cm) and amazing reflex saves. He was voted the best goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS.
- Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov ("Maksim Sergejevič Afinogenov", ; born September 4, 1979 in Moscow, USSR; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey player.
- Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (born September 12, 1987 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 71 as of 2007. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 2 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 2 doubles titles. She was taught tennis at the age of 6 by her father.