American people of Russian descent

Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies").

Abraham Rattner
Abraham Rattner was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often with religious subject matter.

Adam Darius
Adam Darius (born 10 May 1930) is an American dancer, mime artist, writer and choreographer.

Adam Darius: international theatrical performances
Adam Darius: international theatrical performances Adam Darius began his professional dance career in 1948 and has since performed in over 85 countries across six continents.

Adolph Bolm
Adolph Rudolphovitch Bolm (September 25, 1884 in Saint Petersburg – April 16, 1951) was a Russian born American ballet dancer and choreographer.

Adrian Pasdar
Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (, ; born April 30, 1965) is an American actor, voice artist, and film director.

Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne Shelly (born Adrienne Levine, June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006), was an American actress, director and screenwriter.

Agnes Bruckner
Agnes Bruckner (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress.

Akim Tamiroff
Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff, Tiflis, Russian Empire was an Armenian actor.

Al Rockoff
Al Rockoff is an American photojournalist made famous by his coverage of the Vietnam War and of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.

Al Sherman
Al Sherman (September 7, 1897 - September 16, 1973) was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century.

Alan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse (born January 23, 1940, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an American writer and critic, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent.

Alec Brook-Krasny
Alec Brook-Krasny is an American Jewish politician and the first Soviet-born Russian language speaker to become a New York State Assembly member elected for the 46th District on November 7, 2006.

Alec Cartio
Alec Cartio AKA Alexander Cartio, is an Iranian music video and Commercial director best known for his revolutionary music video work that improved and changed the entire Iranian Music video bus...

Alec Mazo
Alec Mazo (born April 5, 1978) is a Russian-born American professional ballroom dancer based in San Francisco.

Aleksandr Khazanov
Aleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov was a Russian American mathematician.

Alex Anatole
Alexander Anatole (born 1948 in Moscow, Russia) is an ordained Taoist priest who claims lineage to Lao Zi. He professes to teach original, unadulterated Taoism, but actually teaches "Religious T...

Alex Bogomolov, Jr.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov, most known as Alex Bogomolov Jr. (Александр Александрович «Алекс» Богомолов-младший, born April 23, 1983), nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian professio...

Alex Eskin
Alex Eskin (born May 19, 1965) is a Russian American mathematician.

Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff (born November 4, 1946 in Mount Kisco, New York), is an American writer known for his literary journalism, nature and environmental writing, and books and magazine pieces about p...

Alex Veadov
Alex Veadov is an American film and television actor.

Alex Zablocki
Alex Zablocki (born November 19, 1982) was the Republican candidate for New York City Public Advocate in the 2009 election cycle and ran for citywide office at the age of 26.

Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin is a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician.

Alexander Givental
Alexander Givental is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories.

Alexander Godunov
Alexander Borisovich Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the USA and the USSR.

Alexander Goncharov
Alexander B. Goncharov is a Russian American mathematician and professor at Brown University.

Alexander Gorlov
Alexander M. Gorlov - Ph.D., P.E., Professor Emeritus and Director of Hydro-Pneumatic Power Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexander Kaletski
Alexander Kaletski is a Russian born American artist.

Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский, ;  – 11 June 1970) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Alexander Kirillov, Jr.
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, renowned for his works in the fields of representation theory, topologic...

Alexander Kuznetsov (actor)
Alexander Kuznetsov is a Russian American actor.

Alexander Liberman
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (born in Kiev September 4, 1912 - died in Miami November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.

Alexander Lodygin
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (October 18, 1847 – March 16, 1923) (Александр Николаевич Лодыгин in Russian) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the Incandescent ...

Alexander M. Poniatoff
Alexander Matveevich Poniatoff (Александр Матвеевич Понятов, 25 March 1892 - 24 October 1980) was a Russian-American electrical engineer.

Alexander N. Rossolimo
Alexander N. Rossolimo is an American think tank executive, entrepreneur, and corporate director.

Alexander Nahum Sack
Alexander Nahum Sack or Aleksandr Naumovich Zak, (1890, Moscow, Russia - 1955, New York, United States), was a jurisprudence expert and professor of Russian law, specialized in international fin...

Alexander P. de Seversky
Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Прокофьев-Северский) (June 7, 1894 – August 24, 1974) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and inf...

Alexander Shulgin
Alexander "Sasha" Theodore Shulgin (born June 17, 1925) is an American pharmacologist, chemist, artist, and drug developer.

Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist.

Alexander Varshavsky
Alexander Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist and recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize　from Co...

Alexander Vasiliev (historian)
Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (Александр Александрович Васильев) (1867-1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century.

Alexander Vilenkin
Alexander Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University.

Alexander Vyssotsky
Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky (Александр Николаевич Высоцкий, 23 May 1888 – December 31, 1973) was an astronomer.

Alexander Zhurbin
Alexander Zhurbin is one of the most important Russian composers of his generation.

Alexandra Danilova
Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (Russian: Александра Дионисьевна Данилова) (November 20, 1903–July 13, 1997) was a Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen.

Alexandra Sviridova
Alexandra Sviridova (Александра Свиридова, alternate spellings: Alexandra Sviridov and Aleksandra Sviridov) is a writer, journalist and filmmaker from Moscow, Russia.

Alexandre Kirillov
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, renowned for his works in the fields of representation theory, topologic...

Alexandre Rockwell
Charles Alexandre Rockwell (born August 18, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Alexei Sultanov
Alexei Sultanov (7 August 1969 – 30 June 2005) was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.

Barry Fanaro
Barry Fanaro is an American Emmy Award-winning television producer and screenwriter.

Basil Milovsoroff
Basil Milovsoroff (1906-1992) was an accomplished Russian-American puppeteer.

Basil Ruysdael
Basil Ruysdael (July 24, 1888 - October 10, 1960) was an American film actor and opera singer.

Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (; born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer and dancer.

Becky Hammon
Rebecca Lynn "Becky" Hammon (born March 11, 1977) is a professional basketball player currently under contract with the San Antonio Silver Stars of the WNBA.

Ben Foster (actor)
Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor.

Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht ( ; 1894–1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist.

Benjamin Agosto
Benjamin Alexandro Agosto (born January 15, 1982) is an American ice dancer.

Benjamin Lees
Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.

Benjamin Orr
Benjamin Orr was an American rock musician best known as the bassist and vocalist for the Boston based rock band, The Cars.

Benny Benson
John Ben "Benny" Benson, Jr. (1913–1972) was the Aleut boy who designed the flag of Alaska.

Berl Senofsky
Berl Senofsky (April 19, 1926–June 21, 2002) was a violinist of the twentieth century.

Bernard Barker
Bernard Leon Barker, known as "Macho" or by his mother's maiden name, "Terry", was a Watergate burglar, and burglar of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.

Bernard Kerik
Bernard Bailey "Bernie" Kerik (born September 4, 1955) is a former New York City Police Commissioner, Secretary of Homeland Security nominee, and now a federal felon.

Bernard Rapoport
Bernard Rapoport (born July 17, 1917) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and is the founder of American Income Life Insurance Company.

Bertell Ollman
Bertell Ollman is a professor of politics at New York University.

Betty Freeman
Betty Wishnick-Freeman was an American philanthropist and photographer.

Bijan Kazem
Bijan Kazem (born 1982) is a contemporary American fashion designer.

Bill Goldberg
William Scott "Bill" Goldberg (born December 27, 1966) is a former professional wrestler best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Bill Idelson
Bill Idelson (August 21, 1919 – December 31, 2007) was an actor and scriptwriter best known for his teenage role as Rush Gook on the radio comedy Vic and Sade and his later, recurring televi...

Bo Svenson
Bo Svenson (born February 13, 1941) is a Swedish-born American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer "Bob" Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author and director.

Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Gail Franklin is an American actress, best known for her starring role in the television series One Day at a Time.

Boo Boo Stewart
Boo Boo Stewart (born Nils Allen Stewart, Jr.; January 21, 1994) is an American singer, dancer, model, child actor, and martial artist.

Booboo Stewart
Boo Boo Stewart (born Nils Allen Stewart, Jr.; January 21, 1994) is an American singer, dancer, model, child actor, and martial artist.

Boris Bogoslovsky
Boris Basil Bogoslovsky was a Russian-American teacher and United Nations official.

Boris Elkis
Boris Elkis (born in Moscow) is a Russian composer.

Boris Jordan
Boris Jordan (Борис Алексеевич Йордан, born June 2, 1966) is an American businessman of Russian origin.

Boris Kostelanetz
Boris Kostelanetz (1911, June 16 - 2006, January 31) was a leading tax lawyer.

Brian Urlacher
Brian Keith Urlacher is an American football linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.

Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Alcott Pinchot is an American actor.

Cait London
Lois Kleinsasser (b. April 11 in Washington, U.S.) of German-Russian ancestry is a USA Today's bestselling American writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as Cait London.

Candice Night
Candice Night (born May 8, 1971) is an American vocalist/songwriter and the musical partner of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.

Carl von Hoffman
Karl von Hoffman (St. Petersburg, Russia, c 1889 – New York, NY, USA, 8 July 1982) was a soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer of German ancestry.

Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane is an American actress.

Casey Serin
Casey Konstantin Serin (born September 10, 1982) is a Uzbek-born American blogger and a former real estate investor.

Catherine Oxenberg
Catherine Oxenberg (Катарина Оксенберг, Katarina Oksenberg; born September 22, 1961, New York City) is an American actress known for her performance as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s America...

Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003), born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent...

Charles D. Gemar
Charles Donald "Sam" Gemar (born 4 August 1955 in Yankton, South Dakota) is a former American astronaut with NASA and a Lt. Col.

Charles Klapow
Charles "Chucky" Klapow (born July 5, 1980) is an American choreographer and dance instructor who has performed and choreographed for various performers and several television and stage productions.

Charles Neidich
Charles Neidich is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor.

Charles S. Dubin
Charles Samuel Dubin is an American film and television director.

Cheryl Burke
Cheryl Stephanie Burke is a professional dancer.

Chris Penn
Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn was an American film and television actor known for his roles in such films as The Wild Life, Reservoir Dogs, Footloose, Rush Hour, True Roman...

Chris Zylka
Chris Zylka is an American actor and model.

Chuck Schumer
Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (, born November 23, 1950) is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party.

Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 18, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester.

Con Slobodchikoff
Constantine 'Con' Slobodchikoff is an animal behaviorist and conservation biologist.

Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov, or Bakaleinikoff (Константин Романович Бакалейников; 26 April 1896 – 3 September 1966) was a Russian-born composer.

Constantine Finehouse
Constantine Finehouse is a Russian-born pianist.

Constantine Gregory
Constantine Gregory Actor and dialect coach.

Courtney Hicks
Courtney Hicks (born December 15, 1995) is an American figure skater.

Cyril Toumanoff
Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff (13 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was an United States-based historian and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval G...

Daniel Ducovny
Daniel Ducovny (known as Danny Ducovny; also credited as Daniel Duchovny) is an award-winning director of commercials.

Daniel Milstein
Daniel Milstein, is an entrepreneur and successful loan officer residing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

Daniil Simkin
Daniil Simkin (born 12 October 1987 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian ballet dancer.

Danny Slavin
Danny Slavin is an American actor best known for playing the role of Leo Corbett in the television show Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, as well as related series.

Daryl Sabara
Daryl Christopher Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American film and television actor.

Daryn Kagan
Daryn A. Kagan is creator and host of the award-winning DarynKagan.com, a media company specializing in inspirational and motivational news content, which has been described as a "Web of Hope".

Dash Mihok
Dashiell "Dash" Mihok (born May 24, 1974) is an American actor.

Dave Franco
David John "Dave" Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American television and film actor who played the role of Cole Aaronson for season nine of Scrubs.

David B. Rivkin
David B. Rivkin Jr., (born in 1956 in the former Soviet Union) is an American attorney, political writer and media commentator on matters of constitutional and international law, as well as for...

David Benioff
David Benioff (born circa 1970) is an American writer.

David Blaine
David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist and endurance artist.

David Chavchavadze
David Chavchavadze (born May 20, 1924) is an American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.

David Dalhoff Neal
David Dalhoff Neal (October 20, 1838 – May 2, 1915), was an American artist.

David Duchovny
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer and director.

David Homyk
David Homyk is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.

David Noel Freedman
David Noel Freedman (May 22, 1922 - 8 April 2008), son of the writer David Freedman, was a biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist, and ordained Presbyterian minister (Th.B., Princeton T...

David Pall
David Boris Pall (2 April 1914 - 21 September 2004), founder of Pall Corporation, was the chemist who invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions.

David Rocker
David A. Rocker (born 1943) is the founder of the hedge fund Rocker Partners, LP (now known as Copper River Management, LLC), and former columnist for TheStreet.com.

David Warshofsky
David Warshofsky (born February 23, 1961) is an American film and television actor.

Debbie Bramwell
Debbie Bramwell is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States.

Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an American actress, voice artist, and comedienne.

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies.

Denis Petukhov
Denis Petukhov is a Russian-American ice dancer.

Dianna Agron
Dianna Elise Agron (; (born April 30, 1986) is an American actress, singer and model, best known for her portrayal of Quinn Fabray on the television series Glee and for her character Sarah H...

Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (; born June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California.

Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality.

DJ Vlad
Vlad Lyubovny, better known as DJ Vlad, is a disc-jockey and currently the Executive Vice President at Loud.com, part of the SRC/Universal family.

Dmitri Nabokov
Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (born May 10, 1934) is an American opera singer and translator.

Dmitry Chaplin
Dmitry Chaplin is an Russian dancer and an Emmy Nominated choreographer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance.

Doc Sarpolis
Karl Sarpolis was a wrestling promoter in Texas.

Don Diamond
Donald Alan "Don" Diamond was an American radio, film, and television actor probably most famous for his comic portrayal as "Crazy Cat", the sidekick and heir apparent to Chief Wild Eagle on the...

Don Lichterman
Don Lichterman (born December 21, 1964) is an American record label executive, music producer, theatrical producer, music historian and activist.

Donna Feldman
Donna Feldman is an American model and actress, represented by Elite Models.

Doris Stevens
Doris Stevens (26 October 1892  – 22 March 1963) was an American suffragist and author of Jailed for Freedom.

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (April 11, 1914 – February 5, 1988) was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Lap...

Douglas D. Osheroff
Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3.

Drew Fuller
Drew Fuller (born Andrew Alan Fuller on May 19, 1980) is an American actor and former male model.

E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.

Ed Savitz
Edward Isadore Savitz (also known as Uncle Ed, Fast Eddie and Dr. Feel Good) (February 22, 1942 – March 27, 1993) was an American businessman who was arrested for paying thousa...

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter.

Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine was an American actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe.

Eddie Mayehoff
Eddie Mayehoff was an American actor.

Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov (Эдуард Лимонов, real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko, Эдуа́рд Вениами́нович Саве́нко; born February 22, 1943) is Russian writer and political dissident, and is the founde...

Edward Asner
Edward Asner, commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winnin...

Edward Clark (actor)
Edward Clark (6 May 1878 – 18 November 1954) was a Russian-born American actor of the silent era.

Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (Born August 2, 1977) is an American actor whose best known film roles are John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (born November 30, 1918) is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring char...

Egor Popov
Egor P. Popov (February 6, 1913–April 19, 2001) was a structural and seismic engineer who helped to transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering marvels around earthquake...

Elayne Boosler
Elayne Boosler is an American comedian.

Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya
Elena Donaldson Akhmilovskaya (born 11 March 1957 in St. Petersburg) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess.

Elena Lomakin
Elena Lomakin is a contemporary Russian-American Artist.

Elena Zoubareva
Elena Zoubareva is a Russian American soprano specializing in opera and classical crossover.

Elina Fuhrman
Elina Fuhrman, is a Russian American travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles.

Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin is an American film, television and theatre actress.

Ellie Greenwich
Eleanor Louise "Ellie" Greenwich (October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009) was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Ely Culbertson
Ely Culbertson (July 22, 1891 – December 27, 1955) was an entreprenurial American contract bridge personality dominant during the Thirties and Forties.

Elya Baskin
Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin is an American actor.

Emil Cadkin
Emil Cadkin (Эмиль Cadkin) is a Russian TV and Movie composer who worked mainly as a production music composer, working with Bill Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone (1907–1992).

Emilio Kosterlitzky
Emilio Kosterlitzky, also known as Emil Kosterlitzky, was a Russian-born polyglot linguist and soldier of fortune who eventually became a spy for the United States.

Eppie Lederer
Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer, better known by the pseudonym Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity who began her career writing the 'As...

Eric Balfour
Eric Salter Balfour is an American singer and actor of film and television.

Erica Jong
Erica Jong is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.

Erika Harold
Erika N. Harold was Miss America 2003, having qualified for the pageant by being selected Miss Illinois 2002.

Esther Wojcicki
Esther Hochman 'Woj' Wojcicki is an American journalist, educator, and vice chair of the Creative Commons board of directors.

Ethan Bortnick
Ethan Bortnick (born December 24, 2000 in Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA) is a pianist, singer, composer, songwriter, actor, musician and one of the youngest philanthropists in the world.

Eugene Istomin
Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist.

Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman (Russian: Евгений Борис Мирман, Yevgeniĭ Boris Mirman; born July 24, 1974) is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker.

Eugene Nalimov
Eugene Nalimov (born 1965 in Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R.) is a chess programmer and former Microsoft employee.

Eugene Plotkin
Eugene Plotkin, formerly a research analyst at Goldman Sachs, was convicted of insider trading, and sentenced on January 4, 2008 to 57 months in jail.

Eugene Starikov
Yevgeni Starikov, also known as Eugene Starikov (Евгений Стариков; born November 17, 1988) is an American soccer player of Russian-Ukrainian descent who currently plays for Tom Tomsk on lo...

Eugenia Paul
Eugenia Paul (March 3, 1935 – May 24, 2010) was an American actress and dancer best known for her role as Elena Torres in the television series, Zorro, which aired on the American television...

Evan Sabara
Evan Michael Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American actor.

Eve Mauro
Eve Mauro (born December 21, 1981, Atlanta, Georgia) is an Italian-American actress and fashion model.

Evidence (musician)
Michael Perretta, better known as Evidence (born December 10, 1976 in Los Angeles, California), is an American hip hop artist, producer, and member of the rap group Dilated Peoples.

Five Moons
The Five Moons are five Native American ballerinas from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who achieved international prominence during the 20th century.

Frank Mir
Francisco Santos Miranda, better known as Frank Mir, is an American mixed martial artist, as well as a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kenpō Karate, who competes in the heavyweight d...

Fred Biletnikoff
Frederick S. "Fred" Biletnikoff is a former American football wide receiver and coach.

Frederica Sagor Maas
Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas is an American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants.

Fyodor Kamensky
Fyodor Fyodorovich Kamensky (Фёдор Фёдорович Каменский; Lesnoye, suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia - 26 August 1913, Clearwater, Florida, United States) was a Russian sculptor.

Gabriel Almond
Gabriel A. Almond was an American political scientist best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, political development, and political culture.

Galen Gering
Galen Laius Gering (born February 13, 1971) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions.

Gary Johnson
Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, former Governor of New Mexico, and candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in the 2...

Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky is a Russian-American television animator, director and producer.

George Balabushka
George Balabushka (December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to a...

George Balanchine
George Balanchine, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States and the co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet.

George Cherepov
George Cherepov was a painter of Russian origin known for his use of color in a wide variety of subjects, including landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes.

George de Mohrenschildt
George de Mohrenschildt (April 17, 1911 – March 29, 1977) was a petroleum geologist and professor who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1962 and maintained that friendship until Oswa...

George Gamow
George Gamow, born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

George Gaynes
George Gaynes is a Finnish-born American actor of stage, screen and television.

George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist.

George Hoyningen-Huene
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900 - 1968) was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s.

George Sossenko
George Sossenko (sometimes Georges Sossenko) (born c. December 20, 1918) is a Russian-born American lecturer and activist.

George Tuska
George Tuska (April 26, 1916 – October 15, 2009), who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist bes...

George Vernadsky
George Vernadsky (August 20, 1887 – June 20, 1973), Russian: Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Верна́дский) was a Russian-American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history.

Georges Lakhovsky
Georges Lakhovsky (1869 in Russia – 1942 in New York City, USA) was a Russian engineer, scientist, author and inventor.

Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American attorney, journalist, author, reporter, and talk show host.

Grace (Singer)
Grace is a Russian-born actress, singer and musician.

Grace (singer)
Grace V is a Russian-born actress, singer and musician.

Greg Kasavin
Gregory A. Kasavin is the former site director and executive editor at the gaming website GameSpot.

Greg Patent
Greg Patent is an American award-winning cookbook author and baker.

Gregory (Afonsky) of Sitka
Archbishop Gregory (Afonsky) (Russian: Архиепископ Григорий (Афонский)) (April 17, 1925 - April 14, 2008) was the Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska from 1973 to 1995, and author of books on Theolo...

Gregory Gaye
Gregory Gaye was a Russian-American actor.

Griffin O'Neal
Griffin Patrick O'Neal (born October 28, 1964) is an American actor.

Gus J. Solomon
Gus Jerome Solomon (August 29, 1906 – February 15, 1987) was a United States federal judge.

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (born 27 June 1929) is a prominent historian and public intellectual who focuses on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Louisiana (United States), an...

Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and singer.

Harold Koplar
Harold Koplar (February 27, 1915-May 3, 1985) was a Russian-American hotelier and businessman in St. Louis, Missouri.

Harold W. Bauer
Lieutenant Colonel Harold William Bauer, commonly referred to as "Joe" Bauer, was a United States Marine Corps air group commander and fighter pilot ace credited with destroying 11 Japanese airc...

Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American film actor and producer.

Harvey L. Wollman
Harvey L. Wollman was the 26th Governor of South Dakota.

Hayley Marie Norman
Hayley Marie Norman (born March 3, 1989) is an American actress and model.

Heather McCartney
Heather Louise McCartney (née See; born December 31, 1962) was born in Tucson, Arizona to Linda McCartney (née Eastman) and Joseph Melville See Jr., an American geologist.

Helen Rose
Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 - November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Helen Rose was born on February ...

Henry M. Cist
Henry Martyn Cist (February 20, 1839 – December 16, 1902) was an American soldier, lawyer, and author who became a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Henry Polic II
Henry Polic II (born February 20, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a stage, screen, and voice actor best known for his role as Jerry Silver in the American 1980s television series Webster'...

Herb Denenberg
Herb Denenberg (November 20, 1929 - March 18, 2010) was a television consumer advocate and newspaper columnist since the mid 1970s.

Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff was a seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology.

Ian Gomez
Ian Gomez (born December 27, 1964) is an American actor best known for his comedic TV work, the most notable of which are his series-regular stints as Javier on Felicity and Andy on Cougar...

Idina Menzel
Idina Kim Menzel (; born Mentzel on May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.

Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Ignat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn (Игнат Александрович Солженицын; born 1972) is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia a...

Igor Ansoff
H. Igor Ansoff (December 12, 1918 – July 14, 2002) was a Russian American, applied mathematician and business manager.

Igor Cassini
Igor Cassini (September 15, 1915 – January 5, 2002) was an American syndicated gossip columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain.

Igor Jijikine
Igor Jijikine (Russian: Игорь Жижикин; born October 8, 1965) is a Russian actor working in Los Angeles and Moscow.

Igor Kipnis
Igor Kipnis (27 September 193023 January 2002) was a well-known American harpsichordist and pianist.

Igor Olshansky
Igor Olshansky is a Ukrainian-born American football defensive end free agent in National Football League.

Igor Pak
Igor Pak (Игорь Пак) (born 1971, Moscow, Russia) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in combinatorics and discrete probability.

Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (January 8, 1947 – November 17, 2005) was a Russian Grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist.

Igor Yefimov
Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov, Russian Игорь Маркович Ефимов (born August 8, 1937) is an American (since 1978) philosopher, writer and publisher of Russian origin.

Ilana Alazzeh
Ilana Alazzeh was born in San Francisco to an Israeli mother and a Palestinian father with a family with an ethnic mix of Palestinian, Israeli, Pakistani and Russian heritage.

Illich Guardiola
Illich Auyapah Guardiola (Born July 5, 1974 in Honduras) is an American actor and voice actor for ADV Films, Funimation Entertainment, and Seraphim Digital.

Ira Bernstein
Ira Bernstein (b. Malverne, New York, 1959) is a dancer and teacher in the United States who specializes in traditional American dance forms such as Appalachian-style clogging, flatfoot dancing,...

Irene Gorovaia
Irene Gorovaia (born June 13, 1989) is an American actress born in Russia and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Irene Miracle
Irene Miracle (born January 24, 1954 in Stillwater, Oklahoma) is an American film and television actress and director.

Irina Belotelkin
Irina Roudakoff Belotelkin (January 1, 1913 – January 21, 2009) was an American artist and fashion designer.

Irina Falconi
Irina Falconi (born May 4, 1990 in Portoviejo, Ecuador) is a professional American tennis player.

Irina Shabayeva
Irina Shabayeva is the winner of the sixth season of Project Runway along with her model, Kalyn Hemphill.

Irv Kupcinet
Irv Kupcinet was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a broadcast personality based in Chicago, Illinois.

Irving Jaffee
Irving Warren Jaffee was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there along with his compatriot Jack Shea.

Irving Leroy Ress
Irving Leroy Ress was a prominent Beverly Hills physician and obstetrician.

Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

Isabelle Fuhrman
Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American teen actress.

Ivan Koumaev
Ivan Koumaev (born October 16, 1987) is an American dancer.

Ivan Lebedeff
Ivan Lebedeff (18 June 1895 – 31 March 1953) was a Russian film actor.

Ivan Petrof (explorer)
Ivan Petrof (commonly spelled "Petroff" in sources) was a soldier, writer, and translator who for many years was regarded a a major authority on Alaska.

Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky
Ivan Sergeievich 6th Prince Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky (born 15 May 1925) is a Russian American New York City-based financial analyst and corporate officer.

Ivan Turchaninov
Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov, better known by his Americanized name of John Basil Turchin, was a Union army brigadier general in the American Civil War.

Ivana Chubbuck
Ivana Chubbuck is an acting coach and author and is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio.

Jack Gordon (entertainment manager)
Jack Leon Gordon was the former manager and husband of singer La Toya Jackson.

Jack Larson
Jack Edward Larson (born February 8, 1928) is an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer.

Jack Micheline
Jack Micheline, born Harold Martin Silver, was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jacob Kogan
Jacob Kogan (born May 28, 1995) is an American actor.

Jacob Tamarkin
Jacob David Tamarkin (Я́ков Дави́дович Тама́ркин, Yakov Davidovich Tamarkin; 11 July 1888 – 18 November 1945) was a Russian-American mathematician best known for his work in mathematical an...

Jake Paltrow
Jacob Danner "Jake" Paltrow is an American film director.

James D. Brubaker
James D. Brubaker (born March 30, 1937) is an American film producer, production manager, and film actor.

James Franco
James Kadir Franco is an American actor, artist, and filmmaker.

James Gray (film director)
James Gray is an American film director and screenwriter.

Jan Schakowsky
Janice D. "Jan" Schakowsky is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1999.

Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.

Jason Spisak
Jason Spisak is an American voice actor in animation and video games.

Jean Danilovich
Jean Danilovich (born July 29, 1946) was an American amateur tennis player.

Jeff Chiba Stearns
Jeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animated filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques.

Jeff Thisted
Jeffrey "Jeff" Thisted (born October 10, 1968 in Brunswick, Maine) is an American game show host.

Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress, who began her career as a child model.

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn...

Jenny Jones (presenter)
Jenny Jones (born Janina Stronski; June 7, 1946) is a former Canadian American stand-up comedian and talk show host.

Jenya Lano
Jenya Lano (Же́ня Ла́но) is a Russian-born actress and comedian, best known for her recurring role as Inspector Sheridan on the American television series Charmed (Ten episodes total over tw...

Jeremy Maxwell
Jeremy Maxwell Kramer (born April 30, 1975), known professionally as Jeremy Maxwell, is an American film/voice actor.

Jerry Berger
Jerry Berger, born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 30, 1933, is a retired iconic press agent, journalist, and PR man.

Jessica Long
Jessica Long is a United States Paralympic swimmer.

Jessica Sara
Jessica Sara (born April 7, 1992) is an American actress who has guested on various television series, and had roles in some movies.

Jessica Sutta
Jessica Lynn Sutta (born May 15, 1982) is an American dancer, showgirl, singer, recording artist, model, and actress.

Jim Siedow
Jim Nash Siedow was an American actor, best known for his role of Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Jo Davidson
Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor of Russian-Jewish descent.

Joan Rivers
Joan Alexandra Molinsky, publicly known as Joan Rivers, is an American comedian, television personality and actress.

Joe Brown (sculptor)
Joe Brown (March 20, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 14, 1985) was an American figurative sculptor, specializing in athletes.

Joe Galkin
Joe Galkin was a Russian-born American record producer and musician, best known for his producing at Atlantic Records and his own Gerald Record label and work with Otis Redding and Phil Walden.

Joe Lando
Joseph John Lando (born December 9, 1961 in Prairie View, Illinois) is an American actor, most recognizable for playing Byron Sully on the TV series Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.

Joe Zaso
Joseph Zaso (born on November 20, 1970 in Queens, New York) is an American actor and filmmaker.

John Hoover (artist)
John Hoover was an American artist, known for his creation of contemporary art pieces based on Native Alaskan traditions.

John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) is an American chemist and civil servant.

Johnny Crawford
John Ernest "Johnny" Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is a prolific American character actor, singer and musician.

Joie Davidow
Joie Davidow is an author and editor.

Jon Foster
Jon Foster is an American actor.

Jonathan Biss
Jonathan Biss (born September 18, 1980) is an American classical pianist.

Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the co-founder and CEO of Picture of Health.

Jonathan Littell
Jonathan Littell (born 10 October 1967 in New York) is a bilingual (English / French) writer living in Barcelona.

Joseph F. Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
Joseph F. Smith, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the Ninety-seventh United States Congress.

Joseph T. Zoline
Joseph T. Zoline (September 5, 1912 – September 23, 2004) was the founder and developer of Telluride Ski Resort.

Joshua Radin
Joshua Radin is an American recording artist, songwriter and actor.

Josie Maran
Johanna Selhorst "Josie" Maran is an American model and actress.

Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander is an American actor and comedian, known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance, which he retains in many of his screen roles.

Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics.

Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress.

Julia Loktev
Julia Loktev, is a Russian-American film director and video artist.

Julia Powers
Julia Powers (née Gorchakova) is a ballroom dance champion and fitness program creator.

Juliette Passer
Juliette M. Passer is an American attorney, writer, music director for E.S. Records and founder of Panamanagement Corporation.

Karina Lombard
Karina Lombard is an actress and singer.

Karina Smirnoff
Karina Smirnoff (born Karina Smirnova January 2, 1978) (Карiна Смiрнова) (Кapинa Cмиpнoвa) is a Ukrainian professional ballroom dancer.

Katerina Graham
Katerina Alexandre "Kat" Graham is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and model.

Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein, August 16, 1953) is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run (1985–2000) on the talk show '...

Keith Gessen
Keith Gessen is a co-editor of n+1, a thrice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City.

Kerri Strug
Kerri Allyson Strug is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.

Kid Beyond
Kid Beyond (real name Andrew Chaikin) is a singer, beat boxer and live looper based in the San Francisco area.

Kira Madallo Sesay
Kira Madallo Sesay is an American film producer, writer, and actor.

Kreayshawn
Natassia Gail Zolot (born September 24, 1989), better known by her stage name Kreayshawn, is an American rapper and music video director.

Kristina Rihanoff
Kristina Rihanoff is a world finalist professional ballroom dancer, instructor and author, born on 22 September 1977 in Russia.

Ksenia Makarova
Ksenia Olegovna Makarova (Ксения Олеговна Макарова, born December 20, 1992 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-American figure skater.

Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (born December 31st 1918, Crimea) is a Russian-born American author.

Kyrie Maezumi
Kyrie Mimi Maezumi (born September 24) is an American actress and musician of Russian, British and Japanese descent.

Lana Wood
Lana Wood (born Svetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko Светла́на Николаевна Захаренко on March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer.

Lara Vapnyar
Lara Vapnyar (1971-) is a Russian-born author of short stories living in the United States.

Lara Veronin
Lara Veronin, also known as Lara Liang, is a Russian-Taiwanese-American musician, currently signed by JVR.

Larisa Migachyov
Larisa Migachyov is a Russian-born composer and ragtime enthusiast.

Larisa Oleynik
Larisa Romanovna Oleynik is an American actress who used to get young boys watching Nickelodian too hot to trot.

Larry Borenstein
Larry Borenstein (1919–1981) was an American property owner and art dealer.

Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.

Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman, born Leopold Vail Epstein, (12 January 1910 - 30 July 1991) was a New York show business attorney, and art collector the son of Louis (b.

Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul,...

Leo Rangell
Leo Rangell was an American psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California.

Leon Ames (actor)
Leon Ames was an American film and television actor.

Leon Belasco
Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky) (11 October 1902 Odessa, Ukraine – 1 June 1988, Orange, California, USA) was a Russian-American musician and actor who had a 60-year career...

Leonard Koppett
Leonard Koppett (September 15, 1923 - June 22, 2003) was one of the most influential sportswriters of the 20th century.

Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.

Leonid Bunimovich
Leonid Bunimovich is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the U.S., who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards (the "Bunimovich stad...

Leonid Kinskey
Leonid Kinskey (April 18, 1903 – September 8, 1998) was a Russian-born movie and television actor who enjoyed a long career.

Leonid Kozlov
Leonid Kozlov (born 1947 in Moscow, Russia) is a former principal dancer of the Bolshoi and New York City Ballet.

Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is an American actress and singer.

Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new medi...

Lev Zhurbin
Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a composer, violist, and arranger.

Liana Forest
Liana Forest is a Russian-born classical pianist and recording artist.

Linda McCartney
Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman, formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist.

Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8, 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player.

Lisa Janti
Lisa Janti (born July 5, 1933) is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and...

Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress.

Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model.

Liz Claman
Elizabeth Kate "Liz" Claman (born December 12, 1963) is the anchor of the Fox Business Network show Countdown to the Closing Bell at 3pm ET and co-anchor at 2pm ET and 4pm ET of Fox Busine...

Lola Montes (dancer)
Lola Montes is the stage name used by Chita Equizabal (born Gertrude Tashma), a Spanish dancer who performed throughout the United States for nearly 70 years.

Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft (born November 21, 1952) is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer.

Lotfi A. Zadeh
Lotfali Askar Zadeh, better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artifical intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer scien...

Lou Scheimer
Louis Scheimer (born October 19, 1928) is an Emmy and Grammy-award winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of m...

Louis Hartz
Louis Hartz (April 8, 1919 – January 20, 1986) was an American political scientist and influential liberal proponent of the idea of American exceptionalism.

Louis Simpson
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is an American poet.

Lusia Strus
Lusia Strus is a US-American writer and stage and film actress with Neo-Futurists.

Lyubov Brezhneva
Lyubov Yakovlevna Brezhneva (Любовь Яковлевна Брежнева) was a niece of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (an illegitimate but acknowledged daughter of Leonid's brother, Yakov Brezhnev).

Léon Theremin
Léon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen; Ле́в Серге́евич Терме́н) ( – 3 November 1993) was a Russian and Soviet inventor.

Madame Turchin
Nadine Lvova Turchin (November 26, 1826 – July 17, 1904) was the wife of Union Brig.

Marc Germain
Marc Germain, previously known as Mr. KFI, Mr. KABC or simply Mr. K, is an American radio talk show host, formerly broadcasting from Los Angeles, California.

Marc Lawrence
Marc Lawrence (December 17, 1909 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types.

Margarita Levieva
Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva is an American actress.

Maria Karnilova
Maria Karnilova (August 3, 1920 – April 20, 2001) was an American actress.

Maria Lark
Maria Lark (Russian: Мария Ларк) (born June 20, 1997) is an Russian/American television actress known for her role as Bridgette DuBois in the NBC/CBS television series Medium.

Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya (Мария Алeкceeвнa Успенская; July 29, 1887 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and a...

Maria Rasputin
Maria Rasputina, born Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina, was the daughter of the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin and his wife Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina.

Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes is an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Marina Orlova
Marina Orlova is a Russian philologist who has become an Internet celebrity, hosting a popular channel on YouTube, HotForWords, and a corresponding website.

Marina Oswald Porter
Marina Oswald Porter, (born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova (Марина Николаевна Прусакова); July 17, 1941) is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, ac...

Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American business magnate and investor.

Mark Russinovich
Mark E. Russinovich (born 1966) is a Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft.

Marla Sokoloff
Marla Lynne Sokoloff (born December 19, 1980) is an American actress and musician, known for playing the part of Lucy Hatcher on the TV show The Practice, and Gia Mahan on the ABC sitcom, ...

Marlee Matlin
Marlee Bethany Matlin is an American actress.

Martin Kosleck
Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 – January 15, 1994) was a German film actor.

Marvin Mitchelson
Marvin M. Mitchelson (7 May 1928 in Detroit, Michigan - 18 September 2004 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American celebrity lawyer who pioneered the concept of palimony, calling it "marria...

Masha Kirilenko
Masha Lopatov "Marina" Kirilenko (born 1974) is a Russian pop singer, wife of Russian basketball player Andrei Kirilenko, and the daughter of the famous CSKA and Russian National Team basketball...

Matt Wayne (magician)
Matt Wayne (born Matthew Wayne Tomasko; March 17, 1986) is an American illusionist, producer and television personality.

Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff (August 18, 1890 - November 24, 1985) was a U.S. lawyer and basketball and ice hockey administrator.

Max Lerner
Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column.

Maxim Dlugy
Maxim Dlugy is a Grandmaster of chess.

Mel Gorham
Mel Gorham (born Marilyn Gorham) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Violet in Wayne Wang's films Smoke and Blue in the Face.

Mia Tyler
Mia Abagale Tallarico, better known as Mia Tyler, is an American actress, plus-size model, public speaker and advocate.

Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton (born Michael Bolotin, February 26, 1953) is an American singer and songwriter.

Michael Callan
Michael Callan (born November 22, 1935) is an American actor.

Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov (Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner.

Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television.

Michael Dudikoff
Michael Joseph Dudikoff II is an American actor who has been in numerous films, including the American Ninja series, Tron, Bachelor Party, Platoon Leader, River of Death, S...

Michael Mark (actor)
Michael Mark was a Russian-born American film actor.

Michael Penn
Michael Dennis Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter and composer.

Michael Rostovtzeff
Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev (Михаи́л Ива́нович Росто́вцев) (, Zhitomir, Ukraine – October 20, 1952, New Haven, USA) was one of the 20th century's foremost authorities on a...

Michael Stoyanov
Michael Stoyanov is an American actor and television writer.

Michael Stroukoff
Michael Stroukoff was a Russian-born aircraft designer, who served in the White Army before emigrating to the United States.

Michael Visaroff
Michael Visaroff (December 18, 1892 – February 27, 1951) was a Russian-born film actor.

Michele Lee
Michele Lee (born June 24, 1942) is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s.

Michele Merkin
Michele Merkin (born June 25, 1975) is an American model and television host.

Michelle Banzer
Michelle Stephanie Banzer (born December 2, 1982) also known as Michelle Zen is a model and beauty queen from Louisville, Kentucky who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.

Michelle Izmaylov
Michelle L. Izmaylov is an accomplished writer of fantasy-fiction books for young adults and the author of bestseller "Dream Saver".

Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American actress.

Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931) is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian.

Mike Saulter
Michael Salter (1868 – December 15, 1922) was an American saloon keeper, ward heeler and underworld figure in New York City.

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Михаил Николаевич Барышников, Mihails Barišņikovs) (born January 27, 1948) is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vasla...

Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich ( ; born Milica Jovović, Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Јововић, Милица Йовович; December 17, 1975) is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer.

Milton Petrie
Milton Petrie (August 5, 1902 – November 6, 1994) was a Russian American retailer, investor and philanthropist.

Mischa Auer
Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was an American actor of Russian origin.

Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Mikhail Romanovich Bakaleinikov or Mischa Bakaleinikoff (Михаил Романович Бакалейников; 10 November 1890 – 10 August 1960) was a noted musical director, film composer and conductor.

Miya Ando
Miya Ando is an American post-minimalist artist whose most notable public commissions include “8-Fold Path” in Los Angeles's Against the Stream Buddhist Temple, “Fiat Lux” for St. John’s Bread a...

Mohini Bhardwaj
Mohini Bhardwaj (ਮੋਹਿਨੀ ਭਾਰਦਵਾਜ ) (born September 29, 1978) is a retired American gymnast who competed at the 1997 and 2001 World Championships and earned a team silver medal at the 2004 ...

Nahum Korzhavin
Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (Нау́м Моисе́евич Коржа́вин; real surname Mandel, Мандель; 14 October 1925, Kiev) is a Russian poet of Jewish descent, a dissident and emigra...

Nastia Liukin
Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin is a Russian-American artistic gymnast.

Nat Holman
Nat Holman (October 19, 1896 in New York, NY – February 12, 1995 in Bronx, New York) was one of the early pro basketball players and one of the game's most important innovators.

Natalia Makarova
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova (Наталья Романовна Макарова, born October 21, 1940) is the legendary Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina.

Natalia Sokolova (model)
Natalia Sokolova (born October 15, 1976) is a Russian model and actress.

Natalie Darryl
Natalie Darryl was an American actress who made her only screen appearance in the 1957 exploitation film The Girl in the Kremlin in the role of a young woman who Joseph Stalin forces to hav...

Natalie Gal
Natalia Ivanovna Galkina is a Russian-born American fashion model and actress, who made her television debut as runner-up on the eighth series of America's Next Top Model.

Natalie Smith
Natalie Smith is an American model and actress.

Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an Russian-American film and television actress best known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass'...

Natasha Alam
Natasha Alam is a Uzbekistani-American actress and model currently living in Los Angeles.

Natasha Borovsky
Natasha Borovsky (born 1924 Paris) is a Russian American poet and novelist.

Natasha Gregson Wagner
Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29, 1970) is an American actress.

Nathan Bor
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Nicholas Guest
Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951) is an American actor.

Nicholas Schenck
Nicholas M. Schenck (14 November 1881, Rybinsk, Russia – 4 March 1969, Florida) was a motion picture mogul and impresario.

Nicholas von Hoffman
Nicholas von Hoffman (born October 16, 1929 in New York City) is an American journalist and author.

Nicolai Ouroussoff
Nicolai Ouroussoff (born October 3, 1962) is the architecture critic for The New York Times.

Nicolas Rossolimo
Nicolas Rossolimo (February 28, 1910, Kiev – July 24, 1975, New York) was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster.

Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995) was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author.

Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente; June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, model and actress.

Nikki Keddie
Nikki R. Keddie is an professor of Eastern, Iranian, and women's history.

Nikolai Fraiture
Nikolai Philippe Fraiture (born November 13, 1978 in New York City, United States) is the bass player for the American indie rock band, The Strokes.

Nikolai Sokoloff
Nikolai Sokoloff (28 May 1886 – 25 September 1965), was a Russia-American conductor and violinist.

Nikolai Volkoff
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Noel Ignatiev
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Nora Volkow
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Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini (April 11, 1913 – March 17, 2006) was born a Count and is a French-born American fashion designer.

Oleg Kalugin
Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, is a former KGB general.

Oleg Pantyukhov
Colonel Oleg Ivanovich Pantyukhov (Олег Иванович Пантюхов; 25 March 1882 – 1973) was the founder of Russian Scouting.

Olesya Rulin
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Olga Fonda
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Olga Volchkova
Olga Volchkova is a Russian-born artist currently resident in Eugene, Oregon.

Oscar Shumsky
Oscar Shumsky (March 23, 1917 in Philadelphia – July 24, 2000 in Rye, New York) was an American violinist and conductor born to Russian-Jewish parents.

Otto Struve
Otto Struve (August 12, 1897 – April 6, 1963) was a Russian and American astronomer.

Pamela Anderson
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Pamela Tiffin
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Pati Behrs
John Derek (August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998) was an American actor, director and photographer most famous for the women to whom he was married.

Patricia Polacco
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Patrick O'Neal (sportscaster)
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal III is a studio host and reporter for Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket in Los Angeles.

Patrick Thomas (actor)
Patrick Thomas (born February 21, 19??) is an American actor and voice actor.

Patrizia von Brandenstein
Patrizia von Brandenstein (born 15 April, 1943) is an American production designer.

Patti Stanger
Patti Stanger (born May 31, 1961) is a Jewish-American matchmaker and television producer with her own Bravo TV show called The Millionaire Matchmaker.

Paul Gallo (radio personality)
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Paul Klebnikov
Paul Klebnikov (Па́вел Ю́рьевич Хле́бников) (June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was a Russian-American journalist and historian of Russian history.

Paul Rudd
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Paul Sand
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Paul Secon
Paul Secon (July 13, 1916 – February 24, 2007) was an American entrepreneur song-writer who co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother, Morris, in 1950.

Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, voice actor and comedian, whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s.

Peter A. Boodberg
Peter Alexis Boodberg in American spelling, was an American sinologist of Russian origin.

Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books.

Peter Demens
Peter Demens born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev is one of the founders of the U.S. city of Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo.

Peter Jansen
Peter Jansen (1852–1923) was a Beatrice, Nebraska sheep rancher and Nebraska state representative and senator.

Peter Orlovsky
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Peter Turchin
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Phil Friendly
Phil Friendly (born Philip Izvarin, May 30, 1977) is an American rockabilly and country rock singer, guitarist and songwriter of Russian descent.

Philip Markoff
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Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born Phoebe Belle Cates; July 16, 1963) is an American film actress, model, and entrepreneur known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont...

Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, '...

Pitirim Sorokin
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi.

Plato Malozemoff
Plato Malozemoff (1909 – 1997) was born in Russia and immigrated to the US as a child.

Polina Frantsena
Polina Frantsena is a Russian film actress and model.

Polly Adler
Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900 – June 11, 1962) was an American madam and author of Russian-Jewish origin.

Prince Andrew Romanov
Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanoff is a Russian prince and artist.

Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow (; born April 1, 1973) is an American television host and political commentator.

Randee Heller
Randy M. "Randee" Heller (born June 10, 1947) is an American television and film actress.

Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American film and television actress, comic book author, screenwriter and occasional singer.

Raven (drag queen)
Raven (born David Petruschin, April 18, 1979) is an American drag queen and reality television personality from Riverside, California.

Raya Garbousova
Raya Garbousova (Ра́я Га́рбузова; 25 September 1909, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire - January 28, 1997, DeKalb, Illinois, United States) was a cellist and teacher.

Rebecca Brown (actress)
Rebecca Julia Brown is an American teen actress and musician from Chicago, Illinois.

Red Holzman
William "Red" Holzman (August 10, 1920 – November 13, 1998) was an NBA basketball player and coach probably best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1982.

Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор,, ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian American singer-songwriter and pianist.

Reinaldo Povod
Reinaldo Povod (1960 - July 30, 1994 Brooklyn) was an American playwright.

René Auberjonois (actor)
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Richard Lazarus
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Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard S. Horvitz, Richard Horvitz, or Richard Wood, is an American actor and voice actor best known for his work as the voice of...

Rick Vallin
Rick Vallin was an actor who appeared in over 150 films between 1938 and 1966.

Robert Axelrod (actor)
Robert Axelrod (born May 29, 1949) is a U.S. actor who has been in several movies and lent his voice to countless televisual shows including Digimon, having started vocal acting for the Engl...

Robert Downey, Jr.
Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.

Robert Harrison (publisher)
Robert Harrison (1905–1978) was an American publisher who created the bi-monthly magazine Confidential in 1952.

Robert Lentz
Robert Lentz OFM (born 1946) is an American Franciscan friar and religious icon painter.

Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.

Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle and The Nation.

Robert Straniere
Robert Alan Straniere (born March 28, 1941) is a Republican politician from New York City.

Robert Thompson (Soviet spy)
Robert Thompson (born 1935) was a U.S. Air Force clerk that confessed, in 1965, to passing hundreds of photos of secret documents to the Soviets while he was based in West Berlin.

Robert Thompson (spy)
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Robert Towne
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Rod Dyachenko
Rodion Sergeyevich "Rod" Dyachenko (Родион Сергеевич Дьяченко; born September 22, 1983 in Georgiyevsk) is a Russian footballer who currently plays for Samut Songkhram in the Thai Premier League.

Ronald C. Wornick
Ronald C. Wornick (born 1932) is an American food scientist, entrepreneur, art collector, philanthropist and vintner.

Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
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Ross Mirkarimi
Ross Mirkarimi is sheriff of San Francisco.

Russian American
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Russian American Medical Association
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Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) was an American actress.

Ryan O'Neal
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Sam B. Jacobson
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Sam Dolgoff
Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist.

Sam Eig
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Sam Phillips (model)
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Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer.

Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee (April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress.

Sang Yoon
Sang Yoon is a restaurateur, chef and owner of Father's Office gastropub which has locations in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California.

Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician.

Sascha Jacobsen
Sascha Jacobsen (1895 – 1971 or 1972) was an American violinist and teacher of Russian descent.

Sasha Barrese
Alexandra "Sasha" Barrese is an American actress known for her roles in The Hangover and The Hangover Part II.

Sasha Mitchell
Sasha Mitchell (born July 27, 1967) is an American actor best known for his television roles as James Richard Beaumont on Dallas and Cody Lambert on Step by Step.

Sasha Primak
Sasha Primak is the president and owner of the NY-based jewelry company that goes by the same name.

Savely Kramarov
Savely Viktorovich Kramarov (Саве́лий Ви́кторович Кра́маров; 13 October 1934 – 6 June 1995) was a well known Soviet actor, known for his comedic roles in Soviet films of the 1970s.

Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American humanitarian, actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism.

Sebastian Arcelus
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Serge Chermayeff
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Serge Schmemann
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Serge Sorokko
Serge Sorokko is a American art dealer, publisher and owner of the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco.

Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (Mechik) (Серге́й Дона́тович Довла́тов (Ме́чик); 3 September 1941, Ufa, USSR – 24 August 1990, New York, USA) was a Russian journalist and writer.

Sergei Fedorov
Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward, and occasionally a winger or defenceman.

Sergei Khrushchev
Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Серге́й Ники́тич Хрущёв, born in 1935), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Ins...

Sergei Raad
Sergei Raad (born August 3, 1982 in Leningrad) is a Russian footballer who currently plays for FC JAX Destroyers in the USL Premier Development League.

Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest Internet companies.

Sergey Ivanov (American football)
Sergey Ivanov (born March 1, 1985 in Moscow, Russia) is an American football safety who is an international practice squad member for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League.

Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer.

Shirley Babashoff
Shirley Frances Babashoff is a former swimmer from the United States, who set six world records and earned a total of eight individual Olympic medals in her career.

Sidney Luft
Sidney Luft (November 2, 1915 – September 15, 2005) was an American show business figure best known as the third husband of iconic American actress and singer Judy Garland.

Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American writer.

Skyler Shaye
Skyler Anna Shaye (born October 14, 1986) is an American actress.

Slava Yastremski
Slava I. Yastremski (born 1952, Moscow) is a Russian-American literary scholar, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University.

Sofia Vassilieva
Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva is an American actress.

Sofya Skya
Sofya Skya (born Sofya Arzhakovskaya in 1987) is a Russian ballerina and actress.

Soia Mentschikoff
Soia Mentschikoff (April 5, 1915 - June 18, 1984) was an American lawyer, law professor, and legal scholar, best known for her work in the development and drafting of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Sol Leshinsky
Solomon Aaron Lischinsky was born March 27, 1908 in Montreal to Jewish parents originally from a region near Odessa, Russian Empire.

Sophie Maslow
Sophie Maslow (March 22, 1911 - June 25, 2006) was an American choreographer, modern dancer and teacher, and founding member of New Dance Group.

Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1886 – February 9, 1966) was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress.

SoShy
Deborah Epstein, better known by her stage name SoShy, is a French singer and songwriter.

Stacey Kent
Stacey Kent is a Grammy nominated Anglo-American jazz singer.

Stacy Kamano
Stacy Lee Kamano (born September 17, 1974 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American television actress, best known for her role on Baywatch Hawaii.

Stanford J. Shaw
Stanford Jay Shaw (May 5, 1930 – December 16, 2006) was an American historian, best known for his works on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkish Jews, and the early Turkish Republic.

Stephanie Romanov
Stephanie A. Romanov (born January 24, 1969) is an American model and actress, best known for playing Lilah Morgan on Angel.

Stephanie St. James
Stephanie St. James is an American born Actress, Singer, and Advocate for the disease Endometriosis.

Stephanie Zimbalist
Stephanie Zimbalist is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.

Stephen Slesinger
Stephen Slesinger (December 25, 1901 – December 17, 1953), was an American radio/television/film producer, creator of comic strip characters and the father of the licensing industry.

Steve Pieczenik
Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD (born December 7, 1943 in Havana, Cuba) is an American psychiatrist, former State Department official, author and publisher.

Steven A. Vasilev
Steven Anatol Vasilev, MD, FACOG, FACS, (born July 17, 1954) is a gynecologist, obstetrician, gynecological oncologist, researcher, educator and author.

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The Struve family (pronounced in German, in Russian) were a dynasty of five generations of astronomers from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Stuart Margolin
Stuart Margolin is an American film and television actor and director.

Sue Bird
Suzanne Brigit "Sue" Bird (born October 16, 1980) is an American professional women's basketball player for the Seattle Storm and WBC Spartak Moscow Region.

Sully Boyar
Irving "Sully" Boyar was an actor of Russian American descent not Turkish.

Taina Elg
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Tala Golzar
Tala Golzar (born February 10, 1989) is an American-born model and actress of Iranian and Russian descent.

Tanaya Henry
Tanaya K. Henry, known professionally as Tanaya Henry is an American model, actress, and jewelry designer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Tanya Anisimova
Tanya Anisimova (born February 15, 1966) is a Russian cellist.

Tatiana Platt
Tatiana Platt is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and co-founder of FameGame.com, a social networking start-up launched in August 2007.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff
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Tatiana Semenova
Tatiana Semenova (July 17, 1920 - September 24, 1996) was the founding director of the Houston Ballet Academy.

Tatiana Sorokko
Tatiana Sorokko is a Russian-born American model, fashion journalist and haute couture collector.

Tatianna Mollmann
Tatianna Mollmann (born on February 1, 1983 in Santa Monica, CA) is a professional Competitive dancer.

Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s.

Ted Levine
Frank Theodore "Ted" Levine (born May 29, 1957) is an American actor.

Ted Sorensen
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Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager.

Teller (entertainer)
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Terence Ford
Terence Ford is an American actor turned photographer.

Teymuraz Bagration
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Theodore Kosloff
Theodore Kosloff was a Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and film and stage actor.

Theresa Rose Bajt
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Thomas Seltzer (translator)
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Tiffany Claus
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Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson is an American director, writer, singer, and actor.

Timothy Olyphant
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Tina Fey
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Tom Meschery
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Val Emmich
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Valentina Zimina
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Valeri Liukin
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Vaneza Pitynski
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Varvara Lepchenko
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Vera Katz
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Vernon Duke
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Vic Morrow
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Victor A. Vyssotsky
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Victor Alexeeff
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Victor Ginzburg
Victor Ginzburg (born 1957) is a Russian American mathematician who works in representation theory and in noncommutative geometry.

Victor Posner
Victor Posner (September 18, 1918 – February 11, 2002) was an American businessman, millionaire and philanthropist.

Victor Sheymov
Victor Sheymov is an inventor and patent holder of computer security inovations.

Victor Skrebneski
Victor Skrebneski (born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) is a photographer born to parents of Polish and Russian heritage.

Victor Sokolov
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Victoria Redel
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Viktor Chernov
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Viktoria Mullova
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Virginia Vestoff
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Vladimir Bakaleinikov
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Vladimir K. Zworykin
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Vladimir Karapetoff
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Vladimir Kozlov
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Vladimir Padwa
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Vladimir Rosing
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Vladimir Ussachevsky
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Vladimir Woytinsky
Vladimir Savelyevich Woytinsky (Владимир Савельевич Войтинский) (November 12, 1885 – June 11, 1960) was a Russian politician and economist.

Vladimir Yourkevitch
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Vladlena Funk
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Vladimir (born September 15, 1987), known as Vova, and Olga Galchenko (born July 31, 1990) are a brother and sister juggling team originally from Russia.

Vyacheslav Polozov
Vyacheslav Polozov is an operatic spinto tenor from the former Soviet Union.

Vyto Ruginis
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