List of Russian Americans

This is a list of notable Russian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Russian American or must have references showing they are Russian American and are notable.

Arts

Performance

Paul Abrahamian (born 1993), reality television personality, of Russian and Armenian descent
Odessa Adlon (born 2000), actress, has Russian Jewish ancestry through her mother
Dianna Agron (born 1986), actress, father of Russian Jewish ancestry
Monique Alexander (born 1982), pornographic actress, actress and model
Woody Allen (born 1935), actor, writer, director, and musician, his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry.
Alan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandparents were Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish and German Jewish 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 show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Olga Baclanova (1893–1974), Russian-born actress
Eric Balfour (born 1977), actor, portraying Milo Pressman in 24, of Russian Jewish descent
Sasha Barrese (born 1981), actress of Irish, Dutch, American Indian, and Russian descent
Anna Baryshnikov (born 1992), actress, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), dancer and actor
Shura Baryshnikov (born 1981), dancer, choreographer, actress
Michael Bay (born 1965), film director and producer, grandfather was a Russian Jewish immigrant
Irving Berlin (1888–1989), composer and songwriter, Russian Jewish immigrant
Emma Berman (born 2008), actress, of Russian Jewish 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
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 actor and Academy Award winner
Cheryl Burke (born 1984), professional dancer known for starring on the television series Dancing with the Stars, father of Russian Jewish descent
Semyon Bychkov (born 1952), conductor
Amanda Bynes (born 1986), actress, mother of Russian Jewish descent
Dove Cameron (born 1996), actress, has partial Russian descent
Eddie Cantor (1892–1964), actor and dancer, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Timothée Chalamet (born 1995), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
Michael Chekhov (1891–1955), Russian-born actor and dancer
Lily Collins (born 1989), actress, maternal grandfather of Russian Jewish descent
Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress, mother of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent
David Copperfield (born 1956), illusionist and stage magician, paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Lydia Cornell (born Lydia Korniloff, 1953), actress, father of Russian descent
Eric Dane (1972-2026), actor, of partial Russian-Jewish descent
Gavin DeGraw (born 1977), musician, mother of Russian Jewish descent
Alexis Denisof (born 1966), actor, father of mostly Russian ancestry
Kat Dennings (born 1986), actress, grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974), actor, Academy Award winner, 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 Volga German 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), actor, born to a Polish Jewish father and a Russian Jewish mother
Tina Fey (born 1970), actress and comedian, father of part-Russian descent
Larry Fine (1902–1975), actor, comedian, musician and member of the Three Stooges, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
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
Crispin Freeman (born 1972), voice actor, father of Russian Jewish descent
Cassidy Freeman (born 1982), actress and musician, sister of voice actor Crispin Freeman, father 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 as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Pet Sematary Two and American History X, father of Russian origin
George Gaynes (1917–2016), actor and singer of Dutch (father), Russian and Finnish (mother) descent
Galen Gering (born 1971), actor of Russian Jewish (father) and Basque Spanish (mother) descent
George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer and pianist, author of Rhapsody 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
Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal of Russian Jewish descent
Kyle Gallner (born 1986) actor whose paternal grandparents were both from Russian Jewish immigrant families.
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
Barbara Hershey (born 1948), actress, father of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent
Damian Hurley (born 2002), actor
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 actress Peggy Lipton and musician Quincy Jones; mother of Russian Jewish descent
Rashida Jones (born 1976), actress, model, and musician, daughter of actress Peggy Lipton, mother of Russian Jewish descent
Milla Jovovich (born 1975), actress and model, born in Kyiv to 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, won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Olga Kern (born 1975), Russian-born classical pianist, won the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, direct family ties to both Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky
Justin Kirk (born 1969), stage and film actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
Charles Klapow (born 1980), choreographer and dance instructor, Emmy Award winner, father of Russian origin
Christopher Knight (born 1957), actor
Walter Koenig (1936–2026), actor and screenwriter, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Theodore Kosloff (1882–1956), dancer and choreographer
Lenny Kravitz (born 1964), singer, father of Russian Jewish descent
Zoë Kravitz (born 1988), actress, singer and model daughter of Lenny Kravitz, both parents of half Russian Jewish descent
Feodor Lark (born 1997), Russian-born television actor
Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962), actress, father of Russian Jewish descent
Logan Lerman (born 1992), actor, of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, and Lithuanian Jewish descent
Margarita Levieva (born 1980), actress and professional gymnast, Russian Jewish immigrant
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), Academy Award-winning actress of Russian Jewish descent
Mikey Madison (born 1999), Academy Award-winning actress of three quarters Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry (from Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and Germany).
Kayla Maisonet (born 1999) American actress of Russian and Puerto Rican descent
Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor and comedian, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Blake Michael (born 1996), actor of Russian Jewish descent
Wentworth Miller (born 1972), actor, mother of partial Russian descent
Eugene Mirman (born 1974), actor, Russian Jewish immigrant
Taylor Momsen (born 1993), actress, musician and model, fronts the rock band The Pretty Reckless
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, Russian Jewish immigrant
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
Wyatt Oleff (born 2004), actor of Russian Jewish ancestry. His surname, originally spelled Olefsky, comes from his Russian Jewish heritage.
Larisa Oleynik (born 1981), actress (Mad Men, 3rd Rock from the Sun), father of Russian descent
Piotr Pakhomkin (born 1985), guitarist, half Russian
Mandy Patinkin (born 1952), actor and singer, of Russian Jewish descent
Sean Penn (born 1960), two-time Academy Award winning actor, paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish immigrants
Lee Philips (1927–1999) (born Leon Friedman), parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Joaquin Phoenix (born 1974), actor, mother has Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish ancestry
River Phoenix (1970–1993), actor, mother has Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish ancestry
Bronson Pinchot (born 1959), actor, best known for Perfect Strangers; father, born Henry Poncharavsky, is of Russian ancestry
Alexander Polinsky (born 1974), actor, father is of Russian Jewish descent
Natalie Portman (born 1981), Israeli-born actress, of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish ancestry
Mike Portnoy (born 1967), musician, founding member of American heavy metal band Dream Theater
Ryan Potter (born 1995), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descent
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 of Xena: 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 in Tel Aviv, Israel)
Natalya Rudakova (born 1985), actress
Paul Rudd (born 1969), American actor of Russian Jewish ancestry
Olesya Rulin (born 1986), Russian-born actress and singer
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 the March of Time newsreel series, Crimean Jewish immigrant
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, father of Russian descent
Regina Spektor (born 1980), singer-songwriter and pianist, Russian Jewish immigrant
Leonard Stone (1927–2011), father was a Russian Jewish immigrant
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer and pianist
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, Ukrainian Jewish immigrant
Svoy (born 1980), Russian-born songwriter/producer for Universal Music Group
Max Terr (1889–1951), Russian-born pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer
Tonearm (Ilia Bis), performance musician
Michelle Trachtenberg (1985-2025), television and film actress, mother is a Russian Jewish immigrant
Sofia Vassilieva (born 1992), actress, parents were Russian immigrants
Sasha Velour (born 1987), drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9
Gene Wilder (1933–2016), actor, parents were Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish immigrants
Lana Wood (born 1946), actress, parents were Russian immigrants
Natalie Wood (1938–1981), Academy Award-nominated actress, won a Golden Globe, parents were Russian immigrants
Anton Yelchin (1989–2016), actor, Russian Jewish immigrant
Elena Zoubareva (born 1972), Russian-born opera singer

Visual arts

Miya Ando (born 1978), artist
Alan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandparents were Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish and German Jewish immigrants
Andrey Avinoff (1884–1949), artist and painter
Irwin Chanin (1891–1988), architect and builder, parents were Ukrainian Jewish and Polish Jewish immigrants.
Dimitri Devyatkin (born 1949), filmmaker and video artist
Misha Frid (born 1938), Russian-born sculptor, artist, graphic designer and filmmaker, parents were Belarusian Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish immigrants
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), painter and printmaker, Ukrainian Jewish immigrant
Ernst Neizvestny (1925–2016), sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher, Russian Jewish immigrant
Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1888–1980), Russian-born portrait painter
Genndy Tartakovsky (born 1970), animator, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants
Israel Tsvaygenbaum (born 1961), painter, Russian Jewish immigrant

Literature

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), science fiction writer, Russian Jewish immigrant
Saul Bellow (1915–2005), Canadian writer of Russian Jewish descent
Reginald Bretnor (1911–1992), science fiction and fantasy writer, father was a Russian Jewish immigrant
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Nobel Prize in Literature 1987, Russian Jewish immigrant
Michael Dorfman (born 1965), writer, Ukrainian Jewish immigrant
Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), Russian-born short story writer and novelist of Jewish and Armenian descent.
Alexander Genis (born 1953), writer and journalist, Russian Jewish immigrant
Daniel Genis (born 1978), writer and journalist, parents are Russian Jewish and ethnic Russian immigrants
Jacob Gordin (1853–1909), playwright, Russian Jewish immigrant
Michelle Izmaylov (born 1991), science fiction and fantasy writer
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born writer
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), novelist and freelance journalist of French and Ukrainian descent, most known for the award-winning novel Fight Club
Ayn Rand (1905–1982), born as Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, writer, philosopher, novelist, Russian Jewish immigrant
Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), Russian-born writer
Alex Shoumatoff (born 1946), magazine journalist and author
Maxim D. Shrayer (born 1967), bilingual author, literary scholar and translator, Russian Jewish immigrant
David Shrayer-Petrov (born 1936), author, medical scientist, and former refusenik, Russian Jewish immigrant
Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), writer, Russian Jewish immigrant

Science

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 to representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics
Viktor Belenko (born 1947), aerospace engineer, former Soviet Air Force pilot
Alexander Bolonkin (1933–2020), cybernetician
Lera Boroditsky (born 1976), cognitive scientist
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), biologist
Alexei L. Efros (born 1938), physicist, received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924–2016), mathematician
Alex Eskin (born 1965), mathematician
Peter Fireman (born 1863 -1962), chemist, patentist, industrialist, and economist.
Sergey Fomin (born 1958), mathematician
Edward Frenkel (born 1968), mathematician
Lex Fridman (born 1986), computer scientist
Victor Galitski, physicist, theorist in the areas of condensed matter physics and quantum physics
George Gamow (1904–1968), astrophysicist, developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory, theoretical explanation of alpha decay via quantum tunneling
Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), physicist, was one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode lasers and high-power diode lasers
Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), founder of radical chemistry
Lev Gor'kov (1929–2016), pioneering work in the field of superconductivity
Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff (1867–1952), chemist, important contributions are in the field of petroleum chemistry and catalysts
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 former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Olga Kocharovskaya (born 1956), known for her contributions to quantum optics and gamma ray modulation
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 in superconductors, predicted paraconductivity, made essential contributions to the theory of weak localization, as well as developed the concept of the Ehrenfest time and its effect on phenomena of quantum chaos
Andrei Linde (born 1948), developed a theory of cosmological phase transitions, one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and inflationary multiverse
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 from ergodic theory into diophantine 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 and conformal field theory
Guenakh Mitselmakher, physicist who contributed to the discovery of GW150914 using 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 for EPR paradox
Alexander M. Polyakov (born 1945), known for contributions to quantum field theory and vacuum angle in QCD
Gennady Potapenko (1894–1979), radio astronomer
Nikolay Prokof'ev, physicist, known for his works on theory of supersolids includes the theory of superfluidity of 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 on dynamical systems; recipient of Nemmers Prize, Wolf Prize in Mathematics and Abel 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 of American Mathematical Society in 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 the support vector machine also known as the "fundamental theory of learning" an important part of computational learning theory
Leonid Vaseršteĭn (born 1944), mathematician known for providing a proof of Quillen–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 of quantum integrable systems, including the exact solution of Kondo 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 of quarks at CERN, independently of Murray Gell-Mann
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888–1982), one of the inventors of television

Sports

Benjamin Agosto (born 1982), ice dancer
Doc Alexander (1897–1975), NFL football 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
Shirley Babashoff (born 1957), Olympic swimmer, gold/silver medalist
Bo Belinsky (1936–2001), baseball player
Mohini Bhardwaj (born 1978), gymnast
Fred Biletnikoff (born 1943), football wide receiver and coach
Sue Bird (born 1980), professional women's basketball player
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
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 NFL football player and undefeated wrestler
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
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
Vladimir Kozlov (born 1979), professional wrestler
Travis Kvapil (born 1976), race car driver
Varvara Lepchenko (born 1986), professional tennis player
Nastia Liukin (born 1989), gymnast
Valeri Liukin (born 1966), artistic gymnast
Ilia Malinin (born 2004), U.S. Olympic figure skater, first skater to land a quad axel
Cade McNown (born 1977), football player
Frank Mir (born 1979), mixed martial artist
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
Denis Petukhov (born 1978), figure skater
Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985), hockey player
Sergei Raad (born 1982), soccer player
Jack Sack (1902–1980), American football player 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
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
Anna Zatonskih, chess player

Military

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 army general in the American Civil War

Business

Dmitri Alperovitch (born 1980)
Marc Benioff (born 1964), founder of Salesforce
Sergey Brin (born 1973), co-founder of Google, Russian-Jewish immigrant
Boris Chaikovsky (1925–1996), founder of Tele-King International
Valentin Gapontsev (1939–2021), fiber laser technology pioneer, founder of IPG Photonics
Alexander Poniatoff (1892–1980), founder of Ampex Corporation
Abram Nicholas Pritzker, real estate investor and member of the Pritzker family
Alexander P. de Seversky (1894–1974), founder of the Seversky Aircraft Corporation, founder and trustee of the New York Institute of Technology
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, founder of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a leading US helicopter manufacturer
Serge Sorokko (born 1954), art dealer, publisher and patron
Michael Stroukoff (1883–1973), President of the Chase Aircraft Company, founder of the Stroukoff Aircraft Corporation
André Tchelistcheff (1901–1994), America's most influential post-Prohibition winemaker
Ratmir Timashev (born 1966), founder and CEO of Veeam Software

Politics

Bella Abzug (1920–1998), former Representative from New York (Both of her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants)
Alec Brook-Krasny (born 1958), first Soviet-born Russian speaker to become a member of the New York State Assembly
Ben Cardin (born 1943), politician of Russian Jewish descent
William Cohen (born 1940), father of Russian Jewish descent
John M. Deutch (born 1938), former Director of Central Intelligence, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
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
Scott Stringer (born 1960), New York City Comptroller and Borough President of Manhattan, of part Russian Jewish descent
David Storobin (born 1979), former New York State Senator (born in the Soviet Union to Russian Jewish parents)
Jim Talent (born 1956), former U.S. Senator, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia

Economics

Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and 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 Belarusian Jewish Menshevik immigrant family

Modeling

Angelika Kallio (born 1972), model born in Riga
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 in Vologda
Irina Pantaeva (born 1972), model and actress born in Ulan-Ude
Irina Shayk (born 1986), model and actress of Russian and Tatar descent, born in Yemanzhelinsk
Kristina Pimenova (born 2005), child model and actress
Sasha Pivovarova (born 1985), model born in Moscow
Natasha Poly (born 1985), model born in Perm
Vlada Roslyakova (born 1987), model born in Omsk
Tatiana Sorokko (born 1971), model and fashion writer born in Arzamas-16
Daria Strokous (born 1990), model born in Moscow
Eugenia Volodina (born 1984), model born in Kazan
Anne Vyalitsyna (born 1986), model and actress

Other

Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin
Ksenia Karelina (born 1991), ballet dancer; Russian immigrant
Leo Portnoff (1875 – 1940), musician, teacher, and composer
David I. Arkin (1906–1980), teacher, painter, writer, lyricist, parents were Russian immigrants
Benny Benson (1913–1972), designer of flag of Alaska
Antuan Bronshtein (1972–1973), convicted murderer; Russian immigrant
Jacob W. Davis (1831–1908), tailor, invention of Jeans
Peter Demens (1850–1919), one of the founders of the U.S. city of Saint 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 in Moldovan SSR)
John A. Gotti (born 1964), leader of the Gambino crime family of the Cosa Nostra; mother of Russian descent
Oleg Kalugin (born 1934), former head of KGB operations in the United States
Taras Kulakov (born 1987), YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos, of Ukrainian descent
Loren Leman (born 1950), former lieutenant governor of Alaska, one of his ancestors was a Russian settler who married an indigenous Alutiiq woman in Kodiak while Russia claimed and colonized Alaska centuries ago
Doctor Mike, real name Mikhail Varshavski (born 1989), Russian-born internet personality and family medicine physician, moved to the U.S. with his family at age six
Janosh Jovan Neumann (born 1979), former "K" department SEB FSB (Russian: Службы экономической безопасности ФСБ) agent who was associated with "shadow finance" and defected to USA in 2008; birth name is Alexy Yurievich Artamonov (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Артамонов)
Boris Perchatkin (born 1 July 1946), the most famous participant in Nakhodka'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 the United States from the countries of the former USSR
Neil Sedaka (born 1939), singer-songwriter
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), founded Harvard Sociology Department in 1930
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (born 1992), Russian Jewish YouTube personality known for his adult rated pranks, was born in Murmansk
Virsaviya Borum-Goncharova (born 2009) Russian born-American artist born with Pentalogy of Cantrell
Lana Lokteff (born 1979), YouTuber

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↑ Lepchenko Adjusts Well to Life in the U.S. Retrieved September 19, 2007
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[1] "HollyLesson! 'Glee' Star Dianna Agron Tweets How to Pronounce Her Name – Hollywood Life". Archived from the original on September 22, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2012.

[2] "Olga Baclanova". Olga Baclanova: The Ultimate Cinemantrap.^{[dead link]} "They called her the Russian Tigress. Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film..."

[3] Jack Bettridge (November–December 1997). "Dancing Free". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from the original on July 8, 2006. "One night in June 1974, the Russian dancer stepped from a stage in Toronto where he was appearing as a guest star with the Bolshoi Ballet concert group and literally ran to freedom. He stepped outside, followed by a crowd of confused fans, and sprinted to a waiting car that spirited him away from Soviet agents into a life of independence in the United States."

[4] www.davidovit.com https://web.archive.org/web/20200710022055/http://www.davidovit.com/articles/Bolton.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 10, 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[5] "Gavin DeGraw speaks out on life, music". Today Music. December 26, 2010. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010.

[6] Marx, Arthur (November–December 1997). "Talk with Falk". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from the original on January 27, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2009.

[7] "Edward Furlong". TMZ.

[talktalk2-8] 1 2 UK Entertainment News - British Film, TV and Music | HuffPost UK

[9] "Kyle Gallner - Biografia". IMDb (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved May 1, 2025.

[10] "Ben Harper |Roots |Part one". February 3, 2008. Archived from the original on February 3, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2023.

[11] Stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, 4 May 2012

[12] Palm, Matthew J. (January 23, 2017). "Pianist Olga Kern is 'citizen of the world'". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 8, 2017.

[auto-13] 1 2 Jacobs, Alexandra (December 7, 2003). "TELEVISION; When It Comes to TV Angels, He's Batting .500". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 21, 2023.

[14] "Mikey Madison - Biografia". IMDb (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved May 1, 2025.

[15] "The Candy Bowl: Disney's Kayla Maisonet on being biracial". New York Daily News. July 29, 2017.

[16] Momsen, Taylor (July 8, 2013). "Twitter: taylormomsen: @Zheka_Kinoman yes, I'm part Russian". Twitter.com. Retrieved July 16, 2013.

[17] "Wyatt Oleff - Biografia". IMDb (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved May 1, 2025.

[18] Jacobs, Alexandra (December 7, 2003). "TELEVISION; When It Comes to TV Angels, He's Batting .500". The New York Times.

[19] "Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Biography". Biography.com. A&E Television Networks. January 18, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

[20] McNamara, Daniel I., ed. (1952). The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers. New York: Crowell. p. 497. LCCN 52-7038. "Terr, Max, composer; b. Odessa, Russia, Nov. 16, 1890; d. Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 2, 1951. ASGAP 1947. U.S. citizen. Has scored motion pictures in Hollywood since 1943. Songs: 'The Lord Is My Shepherd'; 'Forever Free'; 'Joyful Hour'; also march theme of Metro News."

[21] ttp://www.radiofree.com/profiles/michelle_trachtenberg/interview02.shtml RadioFree.com Exclusive Interview with Michelle Trachtenberg

[22] {[link removed]} "Although now an American national, Isaac Asimov was Russian by birth..."

[23] "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I shy away from non-consensual violence'". The Independent. June 16, 2012.

[24] Amazon.com: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical: Books: Chris Matthew Sciabarra

[25] "E. R. Bevan: The House of Ptolemy • Preface". penelope.uchicago.edu.

[26] Shteyngart - Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine "Jewish Russian American writer"

[27] "Lera Boroditsky". Archived from the original on July 15, 2006.

[28] Vladimir Zworykin – Electronic Television System^{[link removed]}

[29] "Adventures in CyberSound: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma". Archived from the original on June 26, 2006.

[30] "Interview with Ice Dancers Benjamin Agosto and Tanith Belbin". goldenskate.com. April 28, 2003. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2008.

[Babashoff,_Shirley-31] 1 2 "Babashoff, Shirley". Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures. November 5, 2013. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013 – via HighBeam Research.

[32] "He Was No Koufax, But…". The New York Observer. December 17, 2001.

[latimes-33] "Her Party Life Over, She Returned to Bars" Diane Pucin, Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2001

[34] Sue Bird (2005). "From Russia, With Love..." WNBA. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2011. "Some background - my father's name is Herschel Bird and his family is originally from Russia. In fact, our last name is really "Boorda." My great grandfather brought his family through Ellis Island in the early 1900s and we were soon known simply as Bird. This makes me half-Russian (not Czech!). So in my dad's eyes, this gave him a false sense of belonging. Every time I'd say "Dad, stop acting like an American" he would come back with "No one can tell I am not from here" and then attempt to say one of the three Russian words he remembers from his college days. He truly believed that no one would notice, which makes this story even better."

[35] "Thunder sign Dyachenko, Costanzo". Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2011.

[36] Paul Farhi, "Goldberg: A David in Goliath's Shoes", Washington Post, December 9, 1999.

[bookref1-37] Othello Harris, George Kirsch; Claire Nolte (April 2000). Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 222. ISBN 0-313-29911-0.

[38] "Russian-born Kournikova now an American citizen". Tennis.com. Retrieved December 12, 2016.

[39] Lepchenko Adjusts Well to Life in the U.S. Retrieved September 19, 2007

[40] Barron, David (August 9, 2008). "Nastia Liukin a gymnast by birth". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved September 11, 2008.

[41] "No fear for Mir". Torontosun.com. April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 11, 2010.

[42] O'Neal, Tatum (October 14, 2004). "Excerpt from 'A Paper Life'". USA Today. Retrieved May 25, 2009.

[43] "USATODAY.com - U.S. ice dancers keep it in the family". usatoday30.usatoday.com.

[Andy_Seminick_Biography_at_The_Baseball_Biography_Project-44] Berger, Ralph. "Andy Seminick Biography at The Baseball Biography Project". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved May 3, 2010.

[45] Bill Nowlin, "The Kid: Ted Williams in San Diego", p. 324

[46] "Famous Russian Americans". THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER. Archived from the original on March 1, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2011.

[Love2006-47] Barbara J. Love (2006). Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2. Retrieved January 4, 2012.

[48] "Bessie Glassberg". 1876.

[49] "The Real-Life Dr. McDreamy" (video). The Doctors. October 1, 2015. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2017.

[50] McGreal, Chris (June 26, 2015). "Russian defectors living the dead end of the American dream in distant Oregon". The Guardian. Retrieved August 20, 2023.

[51] Denson, Bryan (November 10, 2016). "How Two Russian Defectors Helped the FBI Nab European Mobsters Then Wound up Stranded in Oregon". Newsweek. Retrieved June 18, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[52] "Управление "К" и финансовый сектор" [Department "K" and the financial sector]. Центр «Досье» (dossier.center) (in Russian). Retrieved June 18, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[53] "Дело Фролова, Черкалина и Васильева" [The case of Frolov, Cherkalin and Vasiliev]. Центр «Досье» (dossier.center) (in Russian). Retrieved June 18, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[54] "Российские перебежчики из ФСБ пожаловались в Newsweek на предательство американских разведслужб" [Russian defectors from the FSB complained to Newsweek about the betrayal of American intelligence services]. newsru.com (in Russian). November 11, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[NewTimes27062016-55] Канев, Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) (June 27, 2016). "Большая чистка: В главном институте путинского режима началась большая чистка: из центрального аппарата ФСБ отправили в отставку несколько генералов, которые до этого считались неприкасаемыми, а на некоторых чекистов рангом пониже заведены уголовные дела. Источники на Лубянке утверждают: самое "вкусное" управление ФСБ — Службу экономической безопасности — берет под контроль "сечинский спецназ". The New Times изучал внутривидовую борьбу чекистских кланов" [Big Cleaning: A major purge has begun in the main institution of the Putin regime: several generals who had previously been considered untouchables were dismissed from the central apparatus of the FSB, and criminal cases were opened against some Chekists of a lower rank. Sources in the Lubyanka claim that the most "tasty" department of the FSB - the Economic Security Service - is taking control of the "Sechin special forces". The New Times studied the intraspecific struggle of the Chekist clans]. «Новые Времена» (NewTimes.ru) (in Russian). Archived from the original on November 8, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)