Russia
22 celebrities born in Russia.
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
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
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 oligarch and 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 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