Most Famous People from Russia
Russia has produced 4,578 notable individuals throughout history, with athletes and politicians being the most represented categories. The highest-ranked is Vladimir Lenin. Rankings are based on a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
VL
Vladimir Lenin Russian Politician 1870 – 1924
#
30
JS
Joseph Stalin Russian Politician 1879 – 1953
#
30
FD
Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Novelist 1821 – 1881
#
85
LT
Leo Tolstoy Russian Writer 1828 – 1910
#
92
AC
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright 1860 – 1904
#
130
PI
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian Composer 1840 – 1893
#
131
LT
Leon Trotsky Russian Politician 1879 – 1940
#
146
MG
Mikhail Gorbachev Russian Politician Born 1931
#
147
VP
Vladimir Putin Russian Politician Born 1952
#
154
AP
Alexander Pushkin Russian Poet 1799 – 1837
#
275
CT
Catherine the Great Russian Empress 1729 – 1796
#
346
NI
Nicholas II of Russia Russian Emperor 1868 – 1918
#
372
LB
Leonid Brezhnev Russian Politician 1906 – 1982
#
405
NK
Nikita Khrushchev Russian Politician 1894 – 1971
#
420
IS
Igor Stravinsky Russian Composer 1882 – 1971
#
425
RL
Rosa Luxemburg Russian Philosopher 1871 – 1919
#
479
YG
Yuri Gagarin Russian Cosmonaut 1934 – 1968
#
508
AS
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Writer 1918 – 2008
#
517
MS
Maria Sharapova Russian Player Born 1987
#
554
BY
Boris Yeltsin Russian Politician 1931 – 2007
#
564