Most Famous People from Russia
People from Russia, ranked by worldwide fame rather than local attention.
As of October 29, 2026, Vladimir Putin leads iFANN's Famous rankings for Russia, ahead of Vladimir Lenin and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Ranking updated October 29, 2026 by the iFANN Rankings Desk. How the ranking works
Powered by the Global Fame Engine v5.70, which combines multiple worldwide public signals and discloses evidence coverage for each People ranking. Updated daily.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
594.3K Wikipedia views · 167 news articles
Islam Makhachev
267.3K Wikipedia views · 95+ news articles
Irina Shayk
195.7K Wikipedia views · 32+ news articles
Mikhail Gorbachev
329.8K Wikipedia views · 409 news articles
Pavel Durov
975.1K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Maria Sharapova
299K Wikipedia views · 14+ news articles
Dmitry Medvedev
160.8K Wikipedia views · 1.5K news articles
Boris Yeltsin
187.4K Wikipedia views · 465 news articles
Sergey Lavrov
61K Wikipedia views · 4.8K news articles
Daniil Medvedev
228.1K Wikipedia views · 380 news articles
Andrei Tarkovsky
96.2K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Peter the Great
168K Wikipedia views · 163 news articles
Garry Kasparov
148.1K Wikipedia views · 98 news articles
Khamzat Chimaev
153.1K Wikipedia views · 62 news articles
Ayn Rand
223.3K Wikipedia views · 97 news articles
Catherine II of Russia
317.2K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Marie Curie
400.2K Wikipedia views · 247 news articles
Igor Stravinsky
65.3K Wikipedia views · 68 news articles
Grigori Perelman
137.6K Wikipedia views · 19 news articles
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
97.5K Wikipedia views · 173 news articles
Yuri Gagarin
155.9K Wikipedia views · 202 news articles
Isaac Asimov
257.8K Wikipedia views · 220 news articles
Alla Pugacheva
27.1K Wikipedia views · 201 news articles
Fedor Emelianenko
89.2K Wikipedia views · 20 news articles
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
125.2K Wikipedia views · 114 news articles
Valentina Tereshkova
59.6K Wikipedia views · 10 news articles
Alexander Ovechkin
181.3K Wikipedia views · 873 news articles
Petr Yan
260.8K Wikipedia views · 166 news articles
Mikhail Kalashnikov
70.8K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Anatoly Karpov
49.7K Wikipedia views · 7 news articles
Natalia Vodianova
58.8K Wikipedia views · 45 news articles
Anna Kournikova
162.5K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Alexandra Trusova
20.9K Wikipedia views · 83 news articles
Karen Khachanov
311.7K Wikipedia views · 96 news articles
Vladimir Nabokov
143.8K Wikipedia views · 54 news articles
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
33K Wikipedia views · 101 news articles
Daniil Kvyat
75.4K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Gennady Zyuganov
49K Wikipedia views · 199 news articles
Nikita Mikhalkov
11.8K Wikipedia views · 261 news articles
Maxim Galkin
10.4K Wikipedia views · 80 news articles
Sweetie Fox
289.2K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Evgenia Medvedeva
25.7K Wikipedia views · 4+ news articles
Dmitry Glukhovsky
32.5K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Usman Nurmagomedov
188.6K Wikipedia views · 10 news articles
Andrei Konchalovsky
13.6K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Maya Plisetskaya
8.5K Wikipedia views · 31 news articles
Kirill Marchenko
105.9K Wikipedia views · 592 news articles
Chulpan Khamatova
6.9K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Sharabutdin Magomedov
71.4K Wikipedia views · 9 news articles
Umar Nurmagomedov
349.7K Wikipedia views · 23 news articles
Hasbulla
54.3K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Sergei Pavlovich
86K Wikipedia views · 82 news articles
Jacob Tsimerman
33.4K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles