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Historical figures born in Russia

24,075 notable historical figures were born in Russia. These are the most notable:

• 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, Other)
• 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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