List of Russian Americans
This is a list ofnotableRussian Americans,including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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Arts
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- Paul Abrahamian(born 1993), reality television personality, of Russian and Armenian descent
- Odessa Adlon(born 2000), actress, has Russian ancestry through her mother
- Dianna Agron(born 1986), actress, father of Russian Jewish ancestry[1]
- Monique Alexander(born 1982), pornographic actress, actress and model
- Woody Allen(born 1935), actor, writer, director, and musician, mother of Russian Jewish ancestry
- Alan Arkin(1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrants
- René Auberjonois(1940–2019), Tony Award-winning character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television showBensonand his role as Odo onStar Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Olga Baclanova(1893–1974), actress[2]
- Eric Balfour(born 1977), actor, portraying Milo Pressman in24,of Russian Jewish descent
- Sasha Barrese(born 1981), actress of Irish, Dutch, American Indian, and Russian descent
- Anna Baryshnikov(born 1992), actress, daughter ofMikhail Baryshnikov
- Mikhail Baryshnikov(born 1948), dancer and actor, immigrant from Russia[3]
- Shura Baryshnikov(born 1981), dancer, choreographer, actress
- Michael Bay(born 1965), American film director and producer (Bay's grandfather was Russian)
- Irving Berlin(1888–1989), Russian-born, considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history, nominated eight times forAcademy Awards
- Emma Berman(born 2008), American actress, of Russian descent
- Jack Black(born 1969), actor, comedian, musician, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Michael Bolton(born 1953), singer, all of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia[4]
- Jon Bon Jovi(born 1962), singer-songwriter, mother of partial Russian descent
- Alexey Brodovitch(1898–1971), the pioneer of graphic design, created a prototype of the modern glossy magazine about fashion
- Agnes Bruckner(born 1985), actress, mother has Russian background
- Yul Brynner(1920–1985), Russian-born American actor, wonAcademy Award
- Cheryl Burke(born 1984), professional dancer known for starring on the television seriesDancing with the Stars,father of Russian and Irish descent
- Semyon Bychkov(born 1952), conductor
- Amanda Bynes(born 1986), actress, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Dove Cameron(born 1996), actress of Russian descent
- Eddie Cantor(1892–1964), actor and dancer, parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
- Timothée Chalamet(born 1995), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Michael Chekhov(1891–1955), actor and dancer, immigrant from Russia
- Jennifer Connelly(born 1970), actress, mother of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent
- David Copperfield(born 1956), illusionist and stage magician, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
- Lydia Cornell(born Lydia Korniloff, 1953), actress, father of Russian descent
- Eric Dane(born 1972), actor, of partial Russian-Jewish descent
- Gavin DeGraw(born 1977), musician, mother of Russian Jewish descent[5]
- Alexis Denisof(born 1966), actor, father of mostly Russian ancestry
- Kat Dennings(born 1986), American actress, grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Leonardo DiCaprio(born 1974), actor,Academy Awardwinner, maternal grandmother was Russian
- Jim Downey(born 1952), comedy writer
- Michael Dudikoff(born 1954), actor, father was an immigrant from Russia
- Aaron Eckhart(born 1968), actor, father of German and Russian descent
- Ansel Elgort(born 1994), actor, father of Russian-Jewish descent
- Val Emmich(born 1979), singer-songwriter and actor of Italian, Russian, and German ancestry
- Evidence,real name Michael Perretta (born 1976), American hip hop musician, Russian mother
- Peter Falk(1927–2011), born to a Polish Jewish father and a Russian Jewish mother[6]
- Tina Fey(born 1970), American actress and comedian, father of part-Russian descent
- Carrie Fisher(1956–2016), actress, father of Russian Jewish descent
- Michel Fokine(1880–1942), dancer and choreographer
- Olga Fonda(born 1982), actress and model
- Harrison Ford(born 1942), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Dave Franco(born 1985), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- James Franco(born 1978), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Isabelle Fuhrman(born 1997), actress (mother, Elena Fuhrman, is a Russian-Jewish immigrant, father is of Russian Jewish descent)
- Drew Fuller(born 1980), actor of Russian, Scottish and English heritage
- Edward Furlong(born 1977), actor, the star of such film asTerminator 2: Judgment DayandAmerican History X,father[7]of Russian origin
- George Gaynes(1917–2016), actor, singer
- Galen Gering(born 1971), actor of Russian Jewish (father) and Basque Spanish (mother) descent
- George Gershwin(1898–1937), composer and pianist, author ofRhapsody in Blue,Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry
- Alexander Godunov(1949–1995), dancer and choreographer
- Katerina Graham(born 1989), actress, singer, record producer, dancer, and model, mother of Russian Jewish ancestry
- Seth Green(born 1974), actor, part Russian Jewish ancestry
- Jake Gyllenhaal(born 1980), mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal of Russian Jewish descent[8]
- Maggie Gyllenhaal(born 1977), motherNaomi Foner Gyllenhaalof Russian Jewish descent[8]
- Armie Hammer(born 1986), actor, father of part Russian Jewish/Russian descent
- Juliana Harkavy(born 1985), actress, has Russian ancestors
- Ben Harper(born 1969), singer-songwriter, Jewish mother of Russian and Lithuanian ancestry[9]
- Barbara Hershey(born 1948), actress, father of partial Russian Jewish descent
- Fedor Jeftichew(1868–1904), freak show attraction nicknamed "Jojo the dog-faced man" and a star of the Barnum Circus
- Kidada Jones(born 1974), actress, model, and fashion designer, daughter of actressPeggy Liptonand musicianQuincy Jones;mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Rashida Jones(born 1976),[10]actress, model, and musician, daughter of actressPeggy Lipton,mother of Russian Jewish descent
- Milla Jovovich(born 1975), actress and model, born inKyivto a Russian mother and a Serbian father
- Stacy Kamano(born 1974), actress of German, Russian, Polish and Japanese descent
- Lila Kedrova(1909–2000), Russian-born French-American actress, wonAcademy AwardforBest Supporting Actress
- Olga Kern(born 1975), Russian-born classical pianist, won the 11thVan Cliburn International Piano Competition,direct family ties to bothRachmaninovandTchaikovsky[11]
- Justin Kirk(born 1969), stage and film actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent[12]
- Charles Klapow(born 1980), American choreographer and dance instructor,Emmy Awardwinner, father of Russian origin
- Christopher Knight(born 1957), actor
- Walter Koenig(born 1936), parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Theodore Kosloff(1882–1956), dancer and choreographer
- Lenny Kravitz(born 1964), American singer, father of Russian Jewish descent
- Zoë Kravitz(born 1988), American actress, singer and model daughter ofLenny Kravitz,both parents of half Russian Jewish descent
- Mila Kunis(born 1983), Russian Jewish immigrant (born in Ukrainian SSR)
- Joe Lando(born 1961), film actor
- Feodor Lark(born 1997), Russian-born television actor
- Logan Lerman(born 1992), of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, and Lithuanian Jewish descent
- Margarita Levieva(born 1980), Russian-born Jewish American actress; born in theSoviet Union;professional gymnast before starring in the filmsThe Invisible,AdventurelandandSpread
- Peggy Lipton(1946–2019), actress, of Russian Jewish ancestry
- Karina Lombard(born 1969), actress and singer of Lakota Sioux, Russian, Italian and Swiss descent
- Annet Mahendru(born 1985), actress, mother of Russian descent
- James Maslow(born 1990), actor and singer of Scots Irish, English, and Russian Jewish descent
- Marlee Matlin(born 1965), actress who starred inChildren of a Lesser God,of Russian Jewish descent
- Walter Matthau(1920–2000), actor and comedian, parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
- Blake Michael(born 1996), actor of Russian Jewish descent
- Wentworth Miller(born 1972), actor, mother of partial Russian descent
- Eugene Mirman(born 1974), actor, born in Russia
- Taylor Momsen(born 1993), actress, musician and model, fronts the rock bandThe Pretty Reckless[13]
- Mandy Moore(born 1984), actress, singer, of Russian Jewish descent (from her maternal grandfather)
- Vic Morrow(1929–1982), actor, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Sarah Natochenny(born 1987), voice actress
- Alla Nazimova(1879–1945), theater and film actress, Jewish immigrant from Russia
- Alexander Nevsky(born 1971), actor, producer, writer, bodybuilder, immigrant from Russia
- Nancy Novotny(born 1963), voice actress, radio personality
- Pat O'Brien(born 1965), guitarist, half Russian
- Larisa Oleynik(born 1981), actress (Mad Men,3rd Rock from the Sun), father of Russian descent
- Mandy Patinkin(born 1952), actor and singer, of Russian Jewish descent
- Sean Penn(born 1960), two-timeAcademy Awardwinning actor, paternal grandparents Jewish immigrants from Russia and Lithuania
- Lee Philips(1927–1999) (born Leon Friedman), parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Joaquin Phoenix(born 1974), actor, Jewish mother of Russian and Hungarian ancestry[12]
- River Phoenix(1970–1993), actor, Jewish mother of Russian and Hungarian ancestry[14]
- Bronson Pinchot(born 1959), actor, best known forPerfect Strangers;father, born Henry Poncharavsky, is of Russian ancestry
- Alexander Polinsky(born 1974), actor
- Natalie Portman(born 1981), actress, of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish ancestry
- Mike Portnoy(born 1967), musician, founding member of American heavy metal bandDream Theater
- Princess Superstar(born 1971), musician, father of Russian Jewish descent
- Sergei Rachmaninoff(1873–1943), Russian-born composer who immigrated to the US in 1918 and lived there until his death in 1943; acquired U.S. citizenship in 1943
- Sam Raimi(born 1959), Jewish American film, producer, actor and writer, whose parents came from Russia and Hungary
- Ted Raimi(born 1965), actor and brother of Sam Raimi, star ofXena: Warrior Princess
- Raven(born 1979), drag queen and reality-television star
- Joan Rivers(1933–2014), comedian, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Sasha Roiz(born 1973), Russian Jewish immigrant (born inTel Aviv, Israel)
- Natalya Rudakova(born 1985), actress
- Paul Rudd(born 1969), American actor of Russian Jewish ancestry
- Olesya Rulin(born 1986), actress and singer, immigrant from Russia
- Melanie Safka-Schekeryk(born 1947), folk singer, father of Russian and Ukrainian ancestry
- Steven Seagal(born 1952), actor, father of Russian Jewish descent
- Jack Shaindlin(1909–1978), composer, musical director of theMarch of Timenewsreel series
- Peter Shukoff(born 1979), YouTuber, co-founded ERB, of Russian descent
- Jenny Slate(born 1982), actress, comedian and author, of Russian Jewish origin
- Sasha Alex Sloan(born 1995), singer-songwriter
- Regina Spektor(born 1980), Russian born American singer-songwriter and pianist, born inMoscow
- Leonard Stone(1927–2011), father Russian Jewish immigrant from Russia
- Igor Stravinsky(1882–1971), composer and pianist[15]
- Michael Strong(1918–1980) (born Cecil Natapoff), parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
- Tara Strong(born 1973), Canadian-born actor whose family is of Russian Jewish descent
- Gene Stupnitsky(born 1977), screenwriter, born in Kyiv, now Ukraine
- Svoy(born 1980), Russian-born American songwriter/producer forUniversal Music Group
- Max Terr(1889–1951), Russian-born American pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer[16]
- Tonearm(Ilia Bis), performance musician
- Michelle Trachtenberg(born 1985), television and film actress, mother is an immigrant Jewish from Russia[17]
- Sofia Vassilieva(born 1992), actress, parents were Russian immigrants
- Sasha Velour(born 1987), drag queen and winner ofRuPaul's Drag RaceSeason 9
- Gene Wilder(1933–2016), actor, father was a Russian immigrant and mother was of Polish descent
- Lana Wood(born 1946), actress, parents were immigrants from Russia
- Natalie Wood(1938–1981), Academy Award-nominated actress, won a Golden Globe, parents were immigrants from Russia
- Anton Yelchin(1989–2016), actor, Jewish immigrant from Russia
- Elena Zoubareva(born 1972), opera singer, immigrant from Russia
Visual arts
[edit]- Jane Aaron(1948–2015), filmmaker
- Miya Ando(born 1978), artist
- Alan Arkin(1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrants), artist and painter
- Andrey Avinoff(1884–1949), artist and painter
- Irwin Chanin(1891–1988), architect and builder whose skyline signature was formed of jazzyArt Decotowers and six elegantBroadwaytheaters
- Dimitri Devyatkin(born 1949), filmmaker and video artist
- Misha Frid(born 1938), sculptor, artist, graphic designer and filmmaker
- Alexander Golitzen(1908–2005), TV and theater art director
- Ilya Kabakov(born 1933), sculptor, painter, installation artist
- Alexander Kaletski,artist and playwright
- Fyodor Kamensky(1836–1913), sculptor
- Louis Lozowick(1892–1973), American painter and printmaker; born in the Russian Empire, came to the United States in 1906
- Ernst Neizvestny(1925–2016), sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff(1888–1980), portrait painter
- Israel Tsvaygenbaum(born 1961), Russian-American painter of Russian Jewish descent
Literature
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- Isaac Asimov(1920–1992),science fictionwriter[18]
- Saul Bellow(1915–2005), writer
- Reginald Bretnor(1911–1992), science fiction and fantasy writer
- Joseph Brodsky(1940–1996), Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
- Michael Dorfman(born 1965), writer
- Sergei Dovlatov(1941–1990), short story writer and novelist
- Alexander Genis(born 1953), writer and journalist, emigrated from Russian in 1977
- Daniel Genis(born 1978), writer and journalist, parents emigrated from Russian in 1977
- Jacob Gordin(1853–1909), playwright
- Michelle Izmaylov(born 1991), Russian-American science fiction and fantasy writer
- Vladimir Nabokov(1899–1977), writer
- Chuck Palahniuk(born 1962),[19]novelist and freelance journalist, most known for the award-winning novelFight Club
- Ayn Rand(1905–1982), born as Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, Russian-born American writer, philosopher, novelist[20]
- Michael Rostovtzeff(1870–1952), writer[21]
- Alex Shoumatoff(born 1946), magazine journalist and author
- Maxim D. Shrayer(born 1967), Moscow-born bilingual author, literary scholar and translator
- David Shrayer-Petrov(born 1936), Moscow-born author, medical scientist, and former refusenik
- Gary Shteyngart(born 1972), Russian-born writer[22]
Science
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- Alexei A. Abrikosov(1928–2017), theoretical physicist
- Boris Altshuler(born 1955), contributed to the theory of universal conduction fluctuations
- Andrey Avinoff(1884–1949),museology,lepidoptery,entomology
- Alexander Beilinson(born 1957), mathematician known for contributions torepresentation theory,algebraic geometryandmathematical physics
- Viktor Belenko(born 1947), aerospace engineer, formerSoviet Air Forcepilot
- Alexander Bolonkin(1933–2020), cybernetician
- Lera Boroditsky(born 1976), cognitive scientist[23]
- Theodosius Dobzhansky(1900–1975), biologist
- Alexei L. Efros(born 1938), physicist, received theOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- Alexander Esenin-Volpin(1924–2016), mathematician
- Alex Eskin(born 1965), mathematician
- Sergey Fomin(born 1958), mathematician
- Edward Frenkel(born 1968), mathematician
- Lex Fridman(born 1986), computer scientist
- Victor Galitski,physicist,theoristin the areas ofcondensed matter physicsandquantum physics
- George Gamow(1904–1968), astrophysicist, developer ofLemaître'sBig Bang theory,theoretical explanation ofalpha decayviaquantum tunneling
- Dmitri Z. Garbuzov(1940–2006), physicist, was one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diodelasersand high-powerdiode lasers
- Moses Gomberg(1866–1947), founder of radical chemistry
- Lev Gor'kov(1929–2016), pioneering work in the field ofsuperconductivity
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff(1867–1952), chemist, important contributions are in the field ofpetroleumchemistry andcatalysts
- Anton Kapustin(born 1971), theoretical physicist
- Morris S. Kharasch(1895–1957), chemistry
- Mikhail Khovanov(born 1972), mathematician
- Sergei Khrushchev(1935–2020), professor and son of formerSoviet PremierNikita Khrushchev
- Olga Kocharovskaya(born 1956), known for her contributions toquantum opticsandgamma raymodulation
- Simon Kuznets(1901–1985), economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian, the winner of 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Anatoly Larkin(1932–2005), physicist, discovered collective pinning of magnetic flux insuperconductors,predicted paraconductivity, made essential contributions to thetheory of weak localization,as well as developed the concept of the Ehrenfest time and its effect on phenomena ofquantum chaos
- Andrei Linde(born 1948), developed a theory ofcosmological phase transitions,one of the main authors of theinflationary universe theory,as well as the theory ofeternal inflationand inflationarymultiverse
- Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin(1847–1923), electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb
- Mikhail Lukin(born 1971), theoretical and experimental physicist
- Grigory Margulis(born 1946), mathematician known for his introduction of methods fromergodic theoryintodiophantine approximation
- Abraham Maslow(1908–1970), psychologist
- Alexander A. Maximow(1874–1928), in the fields of medicine, histology, embryology and hematology
- Alexander Migdal(born 1945), physicist, known for quantum chromodynamics andconformal field theory
- Guenakh Mitselmakher,physicist who contributed to the discovery ofGW150914using his developed conductor
- Andrei Okounkov(born 1969), winner of the Fields Medal (2006)
- Ivan Ostromislensky(1880–1939), chemistry, pharmacy
- Alexey Pajitnov(born 1956), software engineer and video game designer, inventor of Tetris
- Vladimir Pentkovski(1946–2012), researcher who led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processor
- Boris Podolsky(1896–1966), physicist known forEPR paradox
- Alexander M. Polyakov(born 1945), known for contributions toquantum field theoryandvacuum angleinQCD
- Gennady Potapenko(1894–1979), radio astronomer
- Nikolay Prokof'ev,physicist, known for his works on theory ofsupersolidsincludes the theory ofsuperfluidityof crystalline defects
- Tatiana Proskouriakoff(1909–1985), Russian-American Mayanist
- Ivan Raimi(born 1956),Doctor of Medicine,osteopathic
- Anatol Rapoport(1911–2007), American mathematical psychologist
- Vladimir Rojansky(1900–1981), physicist
- Alexander L. Rosenberg(1946–2012), mathematician
- James Alexander Shohat(1886–1944), mathematician
- David Shrayer-Petrov(born 1936), medical scientist, microbiologist, immunologist, biophage specialist
- Alexander Shulgin(1925–2014), pharmacologist, chemist and drug developer
- Yakov Sinai(born 1935), mathematician known for his work ondynamical systems;recipient ofNemmers Prize,Wolf Prize in MathematicsandAbel Prize
- Mark Stockman(1947–2020), physicist
- Otto Struve(1897–1963), astronomer
- Boris Svistunov(born 1959), physicist, co-inventor of the widely used Worm Monte-Carlo algorithm
- Jacob Tamarkin(1888–1945), mathematician and vice-president ofAmerican Mathematical Societyin 1942-43
- Leon Theremin(1896–1993), physicist, inventor of the Theremin
- Peter Turchin(born 1957), biologist and the father of cliodynamics
- Petr Ufimtsev(born 1931), Russian-American mathematician and physicist
- J. V. Uspensky(1883–1947), mathematician
- Arkady Vainshtein(born 1942), theoretical physicist
- Vladimir Vapnik(born 1936), developed the theory of thesupport vector machinealso known as the "fundamental theory of learning" an important part ofcomputational learning theory
- Leonid Vaseršteĭn(born 1944), mathematician known for providing a proof ofQuillen–Suslin theorem
- Lev Vekker(1918–2001), psychologist
- Vladimir Voevodsky(1966–2017), the winner of the Fields Medal (2002)
- Alexander Vyssotsky(1888–1973), astronomer
- Paul Wiegmann(born 1952), physicist, pioneering contributions to the field ofquantum integrable systems,including the exact solution ofKondo model
- Vladimir Yurkevich(1885–1964), naval architect
- Boris Zeldovich(1944–2018), physicist
- Efim Zelmanov(born 1955), winner of the Fields Medal (1994), professor at the University of California, San Diego
- George Zweig(born 1937), proposed the existence ofquarksatCERN,independently ofMurray Gell-Mann
- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin(1888–1982), one of the inventors of television[24][25]
Sports
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- Benjamin Agosto(born 1982), ice dancer[26]
- Doc Alexander(1897–1975),NFLfootball player and coach
- Lyle Alzado(1949–1992), NFL All Pro defensive tackle
- Amanda Anisimova(born 2001), tennis player
- Al Axelrod(1921–2004), Olympic fencer, bronze medalist
- Deborah Babashoff(born 1970), competition swimmer
- Jack Babashoff(born 1955), Olympic swimmer, silver medalist[27]
- Shirley Babashoff(born 1957), Olympic swimmer, gold/silver medalist[27]
- Bo Belinsky(1936–2001), baseball player[28]
- Mohini Bhardwaj(born 1978), gymnast[29]
- Fred Biletnikoff(born 1943), football wide receiver and coach
- Sue Bird(born 1980), professional women's basketball player[30]
- Alex Bogomolov, Jr.(born 1983), professional tennis player
- Nathan Bor(1913–1972), boxer
- Alex Bregman(born 1994), baseball player
- Daniel Bukantz(1917–2008), four-time Olympic fencer
- Maxim Dlugy(born 1966), grandmaster of chess
- Brandon Dubinsky(born 1986), hockey player
- Rod Dyachenko(born 1983), footballer[31]
- Curtis Enis(born 1976), football player
- Benny Friedman(1905–1982), NFL Hall of Fame football player
- Alex Galchenyuk(born 1994), hockey player
- Nastasya Generalova(born 2000), rhythmic gymnast, Russian mother
- Bill Goldberg(born 1966), professional NFLfootballplayer and undefeatedwrestler[32]
- Charles Goldenberg(1911–1986), All-Pro NFL player
- Alexander Goldin(born 1964), chess grandmaster
- Jon Robert Holden(born 1976), basketball player for Russian national team
- Nat Holman(1896–1995), Hall of Fame basketball player
- Red Holzman(1920–1998), NBA Hall of Fame basketball player and coach[33]
- Irving Jaffee(1906–1981), Olympic speed skater; two gold medals
- Sofia Kenin(born 1998), tennis player
- Andrei Kirilenko(born 1981), basketball player
- Anna Kotchneva(born 1970), gymnast
- Anna Kournikova(born 1981), tennis player and model[34]
- Vladimir Kozlov(born 1979), professional wrestler
- Travis Kvapil(born 1976), race car driver
- Varvara Lepchenko(born 1986), professional tennis player[35]
- Nastia Liukin(born 1989), gymnast[36]
- Valeri Liukin(born 1966), artistic gymnast
- Ilia Malinin(born 2004), figure skater, first skater to land aquad axel
- Cade McNown(born 1977), football player
- Frank Mir(born 1979), mixed martial artist[37]
- Evgeni Nabokov(born 1975), San Jose Sharks' former Goalie
- Boris Nachamkin(born 1933), NBA basketball player
- Patrick O'Neal(born 1967), studio host and reporter[38]
- Denis Petukhov(born 1978), figure skater[39]
- Sergei Raad(born 1982), soccer player
- Jack Sack(1902–1980),American footballplayer and coach
- Dmitry Salita(born 1982), boxer
- Ossie Schectman(1919–2013), basketball player who scored the first basket in National Basketball Association history
- Andy Seminick(1920–2004), professional baseball player[40]
- Maria Sharapova(born 1987), tennis player
- Allie Sherman(1923–2015), National Football League player and head coach
- Mose Solomon(1900–1966), the "Rabbi of Swat," Major League Baseball player
- Kerri Strug(born 1977), gymnast
- Peter Tchernyshev(born 1971), ice-dancer
- Phil Weintraub(1907–1987), Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder
- Ted Williams(1918–2002), Major League Baseball left fielder[41]
Military
[edit]- Boris Pash(1900–1995), Colonel of the US Army
- Gary Tabach(born 1962), retired United States Navy captain, the first Soviet-born citizen to be commissioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States
- John Basil Turchin(1822–1901),Union armygeneralin theAmerican Civil War[42]
Business
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- Dmitri Alperovitch(born 1980)
- Marc Benioff(born 1964), founder ofSalesforce
- Sergey Brin(born 1973), co-founder ofGoogle,Russian-Jewish immigrant
- Boris Chaikovsky(1925–1996), founder of Tele-King International
- Valentin Gapontsev(1939–2021),fiber lasertechnology pioneer, founder ofIPG Photonics
- Alexander Poniatoff(1892–1980), founder ofAmpex Corporation
- Alexander P. de Seversky(1894–1974), founder of theSeversky Aircraft Corporation,founder and trustee of theNew York Institute of Technology
- Igor Sikorsky(1889–1972),aviation pioneerin bothhelicoptersandfixed-wing aircraft,founder of theSikorsky Aircraft Corporation,a leading US helicopter manufacturer
- Serge Sorokko(born 1954), art dealer, publisher and patron
- Michael Stroukoff(1883–1973), President of theChase Aircraft Company,founder of theStroukoff Aircraft Corporation
- André Tchelistcheff(1901–1994), America's most influential post-Prohibition winemaker
- Ratmir Timashev(born 1966), founder andCEOofVeeam Software
Politics
[edit]- Bella Abzug(1920–1998), former Representative from New York (Both of her parents wereRussian Jewishimmigrants[43])
- Alec Brook-Krasny(born 1958), first Soviet-born Russian speaker to become a member of theNew York State Assembly
- Ben Cardin(born 1943), politician of Russian Jewish descent
- William Cohen(born 1940), father of Russian Jewish descent
- Russ Feingold(born 1953), partial Russian Jewish descent
- Al Franken(born 1951), maternal grandmother of Russian Jewish descent
- Gary Johnson(born 1953), mother of partial Russian descent
- Jon Ossoff(born 1987), father of partial Russian Jewish descent
- Bernie Sanders(born 1941), mother of partial Russian descent[44]
- Scott Stringer(born 1960),New York City ComptrollerandBorough PresidentofManhattan,of part Russian Jewish descent
- Jim Talent(born 1956), former U.S. Senator, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
Economics
[edit]- Simon Kuznets(1901–1985), contribution to the transformation of economics into anempirical scienceand to the formation of quantitative economic history
- Wassily Leontief(1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize 1973
- Hyman Minsky(1919–1996), economist, renowned for his research on financial crisis; born to a Belarussian Jewish Menshevik immigrant family
Modeling
[edit]
- Angelika Kallio(born 1972), model born inRiga
- Tatiana Kovylina(born 1981), model born in Kazan
- Josie Maran(born 1978), model of Russian descent
- Michele Merkin(born 1975), model and television host, also of Swedish and Russian Jewish descent
- Anya Monzikova(born 1984), model and actress born inVologda
- Irina Pantaeva(born 1972), model and actress born inUlan-Ude
- Kristina Pimenova(born 2005), child model and actress
- Sasha Pivovarova(born 1985), model born inMoscow
- Natasha Poly(born 1985), model born in Perm
- Vlada Roslyakova(born 1987), model born inOmsk
- Tatiana Sorokko(born 1971), model and fashion writer born inArzamas-16
- Daria Strokous(born 1990), model born in Moscow
- Eugenia Volodina(born 1984), model born inKazan
- Anne Vyalitsyna(born 1986), model and actress
Other
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- Svetlana Alliluyeva(1926–2011), daughter ofJoseph Stalin
- Ksenia Karelina(born 1991), ballet dancer; Russian immigrant
- David I. Arkin(1906–1980), teacher, painter, writer, lyricist, parents were Russian immigrants
- Benny Benson(1913–1972), designer offlag of Alaska
- Antuan Bronshtein(1972–1973), convicted murderer; Russian immigrant
- Jacob W. Davis(1831–1908), tailor, invention ofJeans
- Peter Demens(1850–1919), one of the founders of the U.S. city ofSaint Petersburg, Florida
- Max Factor Sr.(1877–1938), founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, born in Russian Poland; Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetics expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera
- Betty Freeman(1921–2009), art philanthropist, father was a Russian immigrant
- Masha Gessen(born 1967), journalist, author, translator and activist; Russian Jewish immigrant
- Alsu Kurmasheva(born 1976), journalist; Russian Tatar immigrant
- Bianna Golodryga(born 1978), journalist; Russian Jewish immigrant (born inMoldovan SSR)
- John A. Gotti(born 1964), leader of theGambino crime familyof theCosa Nostra;mother of Russian descent
- Oleg Kalugin(born 1934), former head ofKGBoperations in the United States
- Taras Kulakov(born 1987),YouTube personalityknown forlife hackandgadgetreviewing videos, ofUkrainiandescent
- Loren Leman(born 1950), former lieutenant governor of Alaska, one of his ancestors was a Russian settler who married an indigenousAlutiiqwoman inKodiakwhile Russia claimed and colonized Alaska centuries ago
- Doctor Mike,real name Mikhail Varshavski (born 1989), Russian-borninternet personalityandfamily medicinephysician, moved to the U.S. with his family at age six[45]
- Janosh Jovan Neumann (born 1979), former "K" department SEB FSB (‹See Tfd›Russian:Службы экономической безопасности ФСБ) agent who was associated with "shadow finance" and defected to USA in 2008; birth name is Alexy Yurievich Artamonov (‹See Tfd›Russian:Алексей Юрьевич Артамонов)[46][47][48][49][50][51]
- Boris Perchatkin(born 1 July 1946), the most famous participant inNakhodka's religious emigration movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a human rights activist who lobbied in the United States for the adoption of the "Lautenberg's Amendment" in 1989, as a result of which about 1 million people emigrated to theUnited Statesfrom the countries of the formerUSSR
- Neil Sedaka(born 1939), singer-songwriter
- Pitirim Sorokin(1889–1968), founded Harvard Sociology Department in 1930
- Vitaly Zdorovetskiy(born 1992), Russian JewishYouTube personalityknown for his adult rated pranks, was born inMurmansk
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