Which celebrities were born in Russia?

Celebrities born in Russia include: Anna Kournikova, Anton Chekhov, Boris Yeltsin, Elena Rybakina, Georg Cantor, Igor Stravinsky, Irina Shayk, Ivan the Terrible.

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Anna Kournikova

Russian tennis player and model

Born:June 7, 1981

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist and author

Born:January 29, 1860

Died:July 15, 1904

Boris Yeltsin

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

Born:February 1, 1931

Died:April 23, 2007

Elena Rybakina

Kazakhstani tennis player

Born:June 17, 1999

Georg Cantor

German mathematician, inventor of set theory

Born:March 3, 1845

Died:January 6, 1918

Igor Stravinsky

Russian, French, and American composer

Born:June 5, 1882

Died:April 6, 1971

Irina Shayk

Russian model and television personality

Born:January 6, 1986

Ivan the Terrible

Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584

Born:August 25, 1530

Died:March 18, 1584

Kim Jong-il

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

Born:February 16, 1941

Died:December 17, 2011

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born:September 9, 1828

Died:November 20, 1910

Maria Kirilenko

Russian female tennis player

Born:January 25, 1987

Maria Sharapova

Russian tennis player

Born:April 19, 1987

Nicholas II of Russia

14th and last Emperor of Russia

Born:May 18, 1868

Died:July 17, 1918

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer

Born:March 18, 1844

Died:June 21, 1908

Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski

Russian composer

Born:May 7, 1840

Died:October 25, 1893

Roman Abramovich

Russian-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch and former politician

Born:October 24, 1966

Sergei Rachmaninov

Russian composer, pianist and conductor

Born:April 1, 1873

Died:March 28, 1943

Sergey Brin

American billionaire businessman

Born:August 21, 1973

Vladimir Lenin

founding leader of the Soviet Union

Born:April 22, 1870

Died:January 21, 1924

Vladimir Nabokov

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Born:April 10, 1899

Died:July 2, 1977

Vladimir Putin

President of the Russian Federation

Born:October 7, 1952

Yul Brynner

Russian-born American actor

Born:July 11, 1920

Died:October 10, 1985

Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв

leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

Born:March 2, 1931

Died:August 30, 2022

Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Born:March 9, 1934

Died:March 27, 1968

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