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
Yul Brynner Mikhail Baryshnikov Anton Yelchin Sofia Vassilieva Eugenia Kuzmina George Gershwin Paul Abrahamian (born 1993), reality television personality, of Russian and Armenian descentOdessa Adlon (born 2000), actress, has Russian ancestry through her motherDianna Agron (born 1986), actress, father of Russian Jewish ancestry[ 1] Monique Alexander (born 1982), pornographic actress, actress and modelWoody Allen (born 1935), actor, writer, director, and musician, mother of Russian Jewish ancestryAlan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrantsRené 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), actress[ 2] Eric Balfour (born 1977), actor, portraying Milo Pressman in 24 , of Russian Jewish descentSasha Barrese (born 1981), actress of Irish, Dutch, American Indian, and Russian descentAnna Baryshnikov (born 1992), actress, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), dancer and actor, immigrant from Russia[ 3] Shura Baryshnikov (born 1981), dancer, choreographer, actressMichael 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 for Academy Awards Emma Berman (born 2008), American actress, of Russian descentJack Black (born 1969), actor, comedian, musician, mother of Russian Jewish descentMichael 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 descentAlexey Brodovitch (1898–1971), the pioneer of graphic design, created a prototype of the modern glossy magazine about fashionAgnes Bruckner (born 1985), actress, mother has Russian backgroundYul Brynner (1920–1985), Russian-born American actor, won Academy Award Cheryl Burke (born 1984), professional dancer known for starring on the television series Dancing with the Stars Semyon Bychkov (born 1952), conductorAmanda Bynes (born 1986), actress, mother of Russian Jewish descentDove Cameron (born 1996), actress of Russian descentEddie Cantor (1892–1964), actor and dancer, parents were Jewish immigrants from RussiaTimothée Chalamet (born 1995), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descentMichael Chekhov (1891–1955), actor and dancer, immigrant from RussiaLily Collins (born 1989), actress, maternal grandfather of Russian Jewish descentJennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress, mother of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descentDavid Copperfield (born 1956), illusionist and stage magician, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from RussiaLydia Cornell (born Lydia Korniloff, 1953), actress, father of Russian descentEric Dane (born 1972), actor, of partial Russian-Jewish descentGavin DeGraw (born 1977), musician, mother of Russian Jewish descent[ 5] Alexis Denisof (born 1966), actor, father of mostly Russian ancestryKat Dennings (born 1986), American actress, grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrantsLeonardo DiCaprio (born 1974), actor, Academy Award winner, maternal grandmother was RussianJim Downey (born 1952), comedy writerMichael Dudikoff (born 1954), actor, father was an immigrant from RussiaAaron Eckhart (born 1968), actor, father of German and Russian descentAnsel Elgort (born 1994), actor, father of Russian-Jewish descentVal Emmich (born 1979), singer-songwriter and actor of Italian, Russian, and German ancestryEvidence , real name Michael Perretta (born 1976), American hip hop musician, Russian motherPeter 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 descentCarrie Fisher (1956–2016), actress, father of Russian Jewish descentMichel Fokine (1880–1942), dancer and choreographerOlga Fonda (born 1982), actress and modelHarrison Ford (born 1942), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descentDave Franco (born 1985), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descentJames Franco (born 1978), actor, mother of Russian Jewish descentIsabelle 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 heritageEdward Furlong (born 1977), actor, the star of such film as Terminator 2: Judgment Day American History X [ 7] George Gaynes (1917–2016), actor, singerGalen Gering (born 1971), actor of Russian Jewish (father) and Basque Spanish (mother) descentGeorge Gershwin (1898–1937), composer and pianist, author of Rhapsody in Blue Alexander Godunov (1949–1995), dancer and choreographerKaterina Graham (born 1989), actress, singer, record producer, dancer, and model, mother of Russian Jewish ancestrySeth Green (born 1974), actor, part Russian Jewish ancestryJake Gyllenhaal (born 1980), mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal of Russian Jewish descent[ 8] Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal of Russian Jewish descent[ 8] Armie Hammer (born 1986), actor, father of part Russian Jewish/Russian descentJuliana Harkavy (born 1985), actress, has Russian ancestorsBen Harper (born 1969), singer-songwriter, Jewish mother of Russian and Lithuanian ancestry[ 9] Barbara Hershey (born 1948), actress, father of partial Russian Jewish descentFedor Jeftichew (1868–1904), freak show attraction nicknamed "Jojo the dog-faced man" and a star of the Barnum CircusKidada Jones (born 1974), actress, model, and fashion designer, daughter of actress Peggy Lipton and musician Quincy Jones ; mother of Russian Jewish descentRashida Jones (born 1976),[ 10] Peggy Lipton , mother of Russian Jewish descentMilla Jovovich (born 1975), actress and model, born in Kyiv to a Russian mother and a Serbian fatherStacy Kamano (born 1974), actress of German, Russian, Polish and Japanese descentLila 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 [ 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 Award winner, father of Russian originChristopher Knight (born 1957), actorWalter Koenig (born 1936), parents were Russian Jewish immigrantsTheodore Kosloff (1882–1956), dancer and choreographerLenny Kravitz (born 1964), American singer, father of Russian Jewish descentZoë Kravitz (born 1988), American actress, singer and model daughter of Lenny Kravitz , both parents of half Russian Jewish descentMila Kunis (born 1983), Russian Jewish immigrant (born in Ukrainian SSR)Joe Lando (born 1961), film actorFeodor Lark (born 1997), Russian-born television actorLogan Lerman (born 1992), of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, and Lithuanian Jewish descentMargarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-born Jewish American actress; born in the Soviet Union ; professional gymnast before starring in the films The Invisible Adventureland Spread Peggy Lipton (1946–2019), actress, of Russian Jewish ancestryKarina Lombard (born 1969), actress and singer of Lakota Sioux, Russian, Italian and Swiss descentAnnet Mahendru (born 1985), actress, mother of Russian descentJames Maslow (born 1990), actor and singer of Scots Irish, English, and Russian Jewish descentMarlee Matlin (born 1965), actress who starred in Children of a Lesser God Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor and comedian, parents were Jewish immigrants from RussiaBlake Michael (born 1996), actor of Russian Jewish descentWentworth Miller (born 1972), actor, mother of partial Russian descentEugene Mirman (born 1974), actor, born in RussiaTaylor Momsen (born 1993), actress, musician and model, fronts the rock band The 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 immigrantsSarah Natochenny (born 1987), voice actressAlla Nazimova (1879–1945), theater and film actress, Jewish immigrant from Russia Alexander Nevsky (born 1971), actor, producer, writer, bodybuilder, immigrant from RussiaNancy Novotny (born 1963), voice actress, radio personalityPat O'Brien (born 1965), guitarist, half RussianLarisa Oleynik (born 1981), actress (Mad Men 3rd Rock from the Sun Mandy Patinkin (born 1952), actor and singer, of Russian Jewish descentSean Penn (born 1960), two-time Academy Award winning actor, paternal grandparents Jewish immigrants from Russia and LithuaniaLee Philips (1927–1999) (born Leon Friedman), parents were Russian Jewish immigrantsJoaquin 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 for Perfect Strangers Alexander Polinsky (born 1974), actorNatalie Portman (born 1981), actress, of Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish ancestryMike Portnoy (born 1967), musician, founding member of American heavy metal band Dream Theater Princess Superstar (born 1971), musician, father of Russian Jewish descentSergei 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 1943Sam Raimi (born 1959), Jewish American film, producer, actor and writer, whose parents came from Russia and HungaryTed Raimi (born 1965), actor and brother of Sam Raimi, star of Xena: Warrior Princess Raven (born 1979), drag queen and reality-television starJoan Rivers (1933–2014), comedian, parents were Russian Jewish immigrantsSasha Roiz (born 1973), Russian Jewish immigrant (born in Tel Aviv, Israel )Natalya Rudakova (born 1985), actressPaul Rudd (born 1969), American actor of Russian Jewish ancestryOlesya Rulin (born 1986), actress and singer, immigrant from RussiaMelanie Safka-Schekeryk (born 1947), folk singer, father of Russian and Ukrainian ancestrySteven Seagal (born 1952), actor, father of Russian Jewish descentJack Shaindlin (1909–1978), composer, musical director of the March of Time Peter Shukoff (born 1979), YouTuber, co-founded ERB, of Russian descentJenny Slate (born 1982), actress, comedian and author, of Russian Jewish originSasha Alex Sloan (born 1995), singer-songwriterRegina Spektor (born 1980), Russian born American singer-songwriter and pianist, born in Moscow Leonard Stone (1927–2011), father Russian Jewish immigrant from RussiaIgor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer and pianist[ 15] Michael Strong (1918–1980) (born Cecil Natapoff), parents were Russian Jewish immigrantsTara Strong (born 1973), Canadian-born actor whose family is of Russian Jewish descentGene Stupnitsky (born 1977), screenwriter, born in Kyiv, now UkraineSvoy (born 1980), Russian-born American songwriter/producer for Universal Music Group Max Terr (1889–1951), Russian-born American pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer[ 16] Tonearm (Ilia Bis), performance musicianMichelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), television and film actress, mother is an immigrant Jewish from Russia[ 17] Sofia Vassilieva (born 1992), actress, parents were Russian immigrantsSasha Velour (born 1987), drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Gene Wilder (1933–2016), actor, father was a Russian immigrant and mother was of Polish descentLana Wood (born 1946), actress, parents were immigrants from RussiaNatalie Wood (1938–1981), Academy Award-nominated actress, won a Golden Globe, parents were immigrants from RussiaAnton Yelchin (1989–2016), actor, Jewish immigrant from RussiaElena Zoubareva (born 1972), opera singer, immigrant from Russia
Visual arts
Jane Aaron (1948–2015), filmmakerMiya Ando (born 1978), artistAlan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrants), artist and painterAndrey Avinoff (1884–1949), artist and painterIrwin Chanin (1891–1988), architect and builder whose skyline signature was formed of jazzy Art Deco towers and six elegant Broadway theatersDimitri Devyatkin (born 1949), filmmaker and video artistMisha Frid (born 1938), sculptor, artist, graphic designer and filmmakerAlexander Golitzen (1908–2005), TV and theater art directorIlya Kabakov (born 1933), sculptor, painter, installation artistAlexander Kaletski , artist and playwrightFyodor Kamensky (1836–1913), sculptorLouis Lozowick (1892–1973), American painter and printmaker; born in the Russian Empire, came to the United States in 1906Ernst Neizvestny (1925–2016), sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopherElizabeth Shoumatoff (1888–1980), portrait painterIsrael Tsvaygenbaum (born 1961), Russian-American painter of Russian Jewish descent
Literature
Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), science fiction writer[ 18] Saul Bellow (1915–2005), writerReginald Bretnor (1911–1992), science fiction and fantasy writerJoseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Nobel Prize in Literature 1987Michael Dorfman (born 1965), writerSergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), short story writer and novelistAlexander Genis (born 1953), writer and journalist, emigrated from Russian in 1977Daniel Genis (born 1978), writer and journalist, parents emigrated from Russian in 1977Jacob Gordin (1853–1909), playwrightMichelle Izmaylov (born 1991), Russian-American science fiction and fantasy writerVladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writerChuck Palahniuk (born 1962),[ 19] Fight 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 authorMaxim D. Shrayer (born 1967), Moscow-born bilingual author, literary scholar and translatorDavid Shrayer-Petrov (born 1936), Moscow-born author, medical scientist, and former refusenikGary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer[ 22]
Science
Igor Sikorsky on Time magazineVladimir K. Zworykin Alexei A. Abrikosov (1928–2017), theoretical physicistBoris Altshuler (born 1955), contributed to the theory of universal conduction fluctuationsAndrey 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 pilotAlexander Bolonkin (1933–2020), cyberneticianLera Boroditsky (born 1976), cognitive scientist[ 23] Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), biologistAlexei L. Efros (born 1938), physicist, received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924–2016), mathematicianAlex Eskin (born 1965), mathematicianSergey Fomin (born 1958), mathematicianEdward Frenkel (born 1968), mathematicianLex Fridman (born 1986), computer scientistVictor 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 chemistryLev 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 physicistMorris S. Kharasch (1895–1957), chemistryMikhail Khovanov (born 1972), mathematicianSergei 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 modulationSimon Kuznets (1901–1985), economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian, the winner of 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesAnatoly 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 bulbMikhail Lukin (born 1971), theoretical and experimental physicistGrigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician known for his introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologistAlexander A. Maximow (1874–1928), in the fields of medicine, histology, embryology and hematologyAlexander 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 conductorAndrei Okounkov (born 1969), winner of the Fields Medal (2006)Ivan Ostromislensky (1880–1939), chemistry, pharmacyAlexey Pajitnov (born 1956), software engineer and video game designer, inventor of TetrisVladimir Pentkovski (1946–2012), researcher who led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processorBoris 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 astronomerNikolay Prokof'ev , physicist, known for his works on theory of supersolids includes the theory of superfluidity of crystalline defectsTatiana Proskouriakoff (1909–1985), Russian-American MayanistIvan Raimi (born 1956), Doctor of Medicine , osteopathic Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), American mathematical psychologistVladimir Rojansky (1900–1981), physicistAlexander L. Rosenberg (1946–2012), mathematicianJames Alexander Shohat (1886–1944), mathematicianDavid Shrayer-Petrov (born 1936), medical scientist, microbiologist, immunologist, biophage specialistAlexander Shulgin (1925–2014), pharmacologist, chemist and drug developerYakov 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), physicistOtto Struve (1897–1963), astronomerBoris Svistunov (born 1959), physicist, co-inventor of the widely used Worm Monte-Carlo algorithmJacob Tamarkin (1888–1945), mathematician and vice-president of American Mathematical Society in 1942-43Leon Theremin (1896–1993), physicist, inventor of the ThereminPeter Turchin (born 1957), biologist and the father of cliodynamicsPetr Ufimtsev (born 1931), Russian-American mathematician and physicistJ. V. Uspensky (1883–1947), mathematicianArkady Vainshtein (born 1942), theoretical physicistVladimir 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), psychologistVladimir Voevodsky (1966–2017), the winner of the Fields Medal (2002)Alexander Vyssotsky (1888–1973), astronomerPaul 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 architectBoris Zeldovich (1944–2018), physicistEfim Zelmanov (born 1955), winner of the Fields Medal (1994), professor at the University of California, San DiegoGeorge 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[ 24] [ 25]
Sports
Anna Kournikova Maria Sharapova Sue Bird Bill Goldberg Ted Williams Benjamin Agosto (born 1982), ice dancer[ 26] Doc Alexander (1897–1975), NFL football player and coachLyle Alzado (1949–1992), NFL All Pro defensive tackleAmanda Anisimova (born 2001), tennis playerAl Axelrod (1921–2004), Olympic fencer, bronze medalistDeborah Babashoff (born 1970), competition swimmerJack 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 coachSue Bird (born 1980), professional women's basketball player[ 30] Alex Bogomolov, Jr. (born 1983), professional tennis playerNathan Bor (1913–1972), boxerAlex Bregman (born 1994), baseball playerDaniel Bukantz (1917–2008), four-time Olympic fencerMaxim Dlugy (born 1966), grandmaster of chessBrandon Dubinsky (born 1986), hockey playerRod Dyachenko (born 1983), footballer[ 31] Curtis Enis (born 1976), football playerBenny Friedman (1905–1982), NFL Hall of Fame football playerAlex Galchenyuk (born 1994), hockey playerNastasya Generalova (born 2000), rhythmic gymnast, Russian motherBill Goldberg (born 1966), professional NFL football player and undefeated wrestler [ 32] Charles Goldenberg (1911–1986), All-Pro NFL playerAlexander Goldin (born 1964), chess grandmasterJon Robert Holden (born 1976), basketball player for Russian national teamNat Holman (1896–1995), Hall of Fame basketball playerRed Holzman (1920–1998), NBA Hall of Fame basketball player and coach[ 33] Irving Jaffee (1906–1981), Olympic speed skater; two gold medalsSofia Kenin (born 1998), tennis playerAndrei Kirilenko (born 1981), basketball playerAnna Kotchneva (born 1970), gymnastAnna Kournikova (born 1981), tennis player and model[ 34] Vladimir Kozlov (born 1979), professional wrestlerTravis Kvapil (born 1976), race car driverVarvara Lepchenko (born 1986), professional tennis player[ 35] Nastia Liukin (born 1989), gymnast[ 36] Valeri Liukin (born 1966), artistic gymnastIlia Malinin (born 2004), figure skater, first skater to land a quad axel Cade McNown (born 1977), football playerFrank Mir (born 1979), mixed martial artist[ 37] Evgeni Nabokov (born 1975), San Jose Sharks' former GoalieBoris Nachamkin (born 1933), NBA basketball playerPatrick O'Neal (born 1967), studio host and reporter[ 38] Denis Petukhov (born 1978), figure skater[ 39] Sergei Raad (born 1982), soccer playerJack Sack (1902–1980), American football player and coachDmitry Salita (born 1982), boxerOssie Schectman (1919–2013), basketball player who scored the first basket in National Basketball Association historyAndy Seminick (1920–2004), professional baseball player[ 40] Maria Sharapova (born 1987), tennis playerAllie Sherman (1923–2015), National Football League player and head coachMose Solomon (1900–1966), the "Rabbi of Swat," Major League Baseball playerKerri Strug (born 1977), gymnastPeter Tchernyshev (born 1971), ice-dancerPhil Weintraub (1907–1987), Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielderTed Williams (1918–2002), Major League Baseball left fielder[ 41]
Military
Business
Dmitri Alperovitch Dmitri Alperovitch (born 1980)Marc Benioff (born 1964), founder of Salesforce Sergey Brin (born 1973), co-founder of Google , Russian-Jewish immigrantBoris Chaikovsky (1925–1996), founder of Tele-King InternationalValentin Gapontsev (1939–2021), fiber laser technology pioneer, founder of IPG Photonics Alexander Poniatoff (1892–1980), founder of Ampex Corporation 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 manufacturerSerge Sorokko (born 1954), art dealer, publisher and patronMichael 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 winemakerRatmir 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[ 43] 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 descentWilliam Cohen (born 1940), father of Russian Jewish descentRuss Feingold (born 1953), partial Russian Jewish descentAl Franken (born 1951), maternal grandmother of Russian Jewish descentGary Johnson (born 1953), mother of partial Russian descentJon Ossoff (born 1987), father of partial Russian Jewish descentBernie Sanders (born 1941), mother of partial Russian descent[ 44] Scott Stringer (born 1960), New York City Comptroller and Borough President of Manhattan , of part Russian Jewish descentJim 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 historyWassily Leontief (1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize 1973Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), economist, renowned for his research on financial crisis; born to a Belarussian Jewish Menshevik immigrant family
Modeling
Sasha Pivovarova Angelika Kallio (born 1972), model born in Riga Tatiana Kovylina (born 1981), model born in KazanJosie Maran (born 1978), model of Russian descentMichele Merkin (born 1975), model and television host, also of Swedish and Russian Jewish descentAnya Monzikova (born 1984), model and actress born in Vologda Irina Pantaeva (born 1972), model and actress born in Ulan-Ude Kristina Pimenova (born 2005), child model and actressSasha Pivovarova (born 1985), model born in Moscow Natasha Poly (born 1985), model born in PermVlada 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 MoscowEugenia Volodina (born 1984), model born in Kazan Anne Vyalitsyna (born 1986), model and actress
Other
Alsu Kurmasheva Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin Ksenia Karelina (born 1991), ballet dancer; Russian immigrantDavid I. Arkin (1906–1980), teacher, painter, writer, lyricist, parents were Russian immigrantsBenny Benson (1913–1972), designer of flag of Alaska Antuan Bronshtein (1972–1973), convicted murderer; Russian immigrantJacob 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 OperaBetty Freeman (1921–2009), art philanthropist, father was a Russian immigrantMasha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, author, translator and activist; Russian Jewish immigrantAlsu Kurmasheva (born 1976), journalist; Russian Tatar immigrantBianna 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 descentOleg Kalugin (born 1934), former head of KGB operations in the United StatesTaras Kulakov (born 1987), YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos, of Ukrainian descentLoren 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 agoDoctor 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[ 45] 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 )[ 46] [ 47] [ 48] [ 49] [ 50] [ 51]
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-songwriterPitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), founded Harvard Sociology Department in 1930Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (born 1992), Russian Jewish YouTube personality known for his adult rated pranks, was born in Murmansk
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