Russia
Historical figures born in Russia
24,075 notable historical figures were born in Russia. These are the most notable:
Russia ranks #7 of 197 countries by number of historical figures on Histiphy, just behind Italy, Japan and France.
By era
- Early Modern: 8
- Modern: 32
By occupation
- Politician: 20
- Writer/Author: 12
- Head of State/President: 11
- Monarch/Royalty: 9
- Screenwriter: 8
- Soldier/Officer: 8
- Journalist: 7
- Novelist: 6
- Immanuel Kant (1724 to 1804, Philosophy)
- Peter the Great (1672 to 1725, Politics)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 to 1910, Literature)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 to 1881, Literature)
- Vladimir Putin (born 1952, Politics)
- Maria Sharapova (born 1987, Sports)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 to 1971, Politics)
- Yuri Gagarin (1934 to 1968, Exploration)
- Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961 to 2023, Military)
- Alexei Navalny (1976 to 2024, Entertainment)
- Ramzan Kadyrov (born 1976, Politics)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 to 2022, Politics)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 to 1924, Politics)
- Isaac Asimov (1920 to 1992, Literature)
- Nicholas II (1868 to 1918, Politics)
- Boris Yeltsin (1931 to 2007, Politics)
- Kim Jong Il (1941 to 2011, Politics)
- Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965, Politics)
- Grigori Rasputin (1869 to 1916, Religion)
- Ayn Rand (1905 to 1982, Literature)
- Ivan IV (1530 to 1584, Politics)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 to 1893, Arts & Music)
- Sergey Brin (born 1973, Science)
- Alexander II of Russia (1818 to 1881, Politics)
- Alexander Pushkin (1799 to 1837, Literature)
- Alexander I of Russia (1777 to 1825, Politics)
- Alexander III (1845 to 1894, Politics)
- Yuri Andropov (1914 to 1984, Politics)
- Nicholas I of Russia (1796 to 1855, Politics)
- Paul I of Russia (1754 to 1801, Politics)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 to 2008, Literature)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975, Arts & Music)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 to 1943, Arts & Music)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (1932 to 1986, Entertainment)
- Elizabeth (1709 to 1761, Politics)
- Grigori Perelman (born 1966, Science)
- Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937, Exploration)
- Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919 to 2013, Science)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 to 1971, Arts & Music)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911 to 1985, Politics)
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