List of Tatars

Main article: Tatars

Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group numbering 6.7 million in the late 20th Century, including all subgroups of Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, and Lipka Tatars. Russia is home to the majority of ethnic Tatars, with a population of around 5,500,000. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan also each have populations greater than 30,000.

Artists

• Talgat Nigmatulin - movie actor
• Chulpan Khamatova - actress
• Rudolf Nureyev - ballet dancer
• Renata Litvinova - TV celebrity ( Tatar father)
• Charles Bronson - American tough-guy actor (Tatar father)
• Renata Raksha - artist ( Tatar Mother)
• Rinat Baibekov - artist
• Marat Basharov - movie actor, TV Show actor
• Marat Gaziev - artist, choreographer, ballet dancer

Businessmen

• Rinat Akhmetov - billionaire, Ukraine's richest citizen, leader of the Donetsk business group
• Rustam Tariko - billionaire
• Megdet Rahimkulov - billionaire
• Akhat Bragin - Businessman and mentor of Renat Akhmetov, former owner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Media

• Lilia Gildeeva - Journalist, Newscaster with NTV

Musicians

• Rustem Hayroudinoff - pianist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - composer
• Alsou - pop singer
• Farit Yarullin - composer, author of the music to the first Tatar ballet: Şüräle
• Halida Dinova - pianist
• Nacip Cihanov - composer
• Rustem Yakhin - composer
• Sofia Gubaidulina - composer (Tatar father)
• Salih Saidashev - composer
• Sara Sadiqova - composer
• Timati - rapper, pop-singer (Tatar father)
• Zemfira - rock singer (Tatar father)
• Eldar Djangirov - jazz pianist

Naval and military

• Asaf Abdrakhmanov - naval officer, a World War II-era Hero of Soviet Union
• Makhmut Gareev - military strategist and theoretician, President of the Russian Military Academyperation
• Pyotr Gavrilov - Soviet officer, a World War II-era Hero of Soviet Union
• Shakir Geniatullin - Soviet general

Poets

• Bella Akhmadulina - poet (Tatar father)
• Musa Jalil - poet, prisoner of war during World War II
• Ghabdulla Tuqay - prominent Tatar poet

Politicians and public figures

• Aleksander Sulkiewicz - co-founder of the Polish Socialist Party
• Rashid Nurgaliyev - former Russia`s Minister of Internal Affairs
• Elvira Nabiullina - former Russia's Minister of Economic Development and Trade
• Mintimer Shaimiev - Tatarstan's first president
• Ravil Geniatullin - governor of the Chita region (oblast) in Russia (Tatar father)
• Ravil Gainutdin - Grand Mufti of Russia
• Felix Yusupov - Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer (Tatar ancestry)
• Janette Sadik-Khan - commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
• Aman Tuleyev - governor of Kemerovo oblast (half-Tatar mother)
• Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev - Tatar bolshevik
• Marat Khusnullin - Deputy Mayor of Moscow

Scientists and mathematicians

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov - linguist, Professor
• Renat Akchurin - cardiologist who performed the quadruple bypass surgery on President Boris Yeltsin in 1996
• Rifkat Bogdanov - Mathematician
• Nighmat Ibrahimov - Lobachevsky's teacher and the author of the text of the popular Russian folk song "Vo pole berezon'ka stoyala"
• Shigabetdin Marjani - Muslim theologian and historian
• Gilem Kamay - chemist, one of the first Tatar professors of Kazan University
• Kayum Nasyri - influential writer (18th century), scientist
• Roald Sagdeev - nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (1973–1988)
• Myakzyum Salakhov - physicist, Professor
• Rashid Syunaev - astrophysicist
• Albert Galeev - nuclear physicist, former Director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow (1988–2002)
• Kamil Valiev - member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, physicist
• Haroun Tazieff - vulcanologist and geologist (Tatar father)
• Vil Mirzayanov - chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA

Sports and games persons

Chess Grandmasters

• Gata Kamsky
• Rashid Nezhmetdinov
• Rashit Ziatdinov
• Ildar Ibragimov
• Evgeny Bareev
• Konstantin Sakaev
• Timur Gareev
• Alisa Galliamova (Tatar mother)

Football(Association)

• Marat Kabaev
• Galimzyan Khusainov
• Rinat Dasayev
• Vagiz Khidiatullin
• Ruslan Nigmatullin
• Marat Izmailov
• Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
• Renat Yanbayev - (Tatar father)
• Rinat Bilyaletdinov

Tennis

• Rauza Islanova
• Marat Safin
• Dinara Safina

Boxing

• Ruslan Chagaev
• Oleg Saitov - (Tatar father)
• Nikolay Valuev - (Tatar grandfather)

Gymnastics

• Galima Shugurova
• Amina Zaripova
• Dinara Gimatova
• Aliya Garayeva
• Aliya Yusupova
• Laysan Utiasheva - (Tatar ancestry)
• Alina Kabayeva (Tatar father)
• Nellie Kim (Tatar mother)
• Yanina Batyrchina (Tatar father)
• Aliya Mustafina

Ice Hockey

• Zinetula Bilyaletdinov
• Irek Gimayev
• Danis Zaripov
• Nail Yakupov
• Nikolai Khabibulin

Figure Skating

• Ruslan Zhiganshin, (Tatar father)
• Nelli Zhiganshina, (Tatar father)

Other

• Radion Gataullin
• Gulnara Samitova
• Emil Sayfutdinov, (Tatar father)
• Irina Shayk model, (Tatar father)

Theologians

• Musa Bigiev - one of the prominent representatives of the Jadid movement
• Gabdennasir Kursawi - Islamic reformist, innovator (Jadidist)

Writers

• Sergey Lukyanenko - writer (Tatar mother)
• Aleksandr Kuprin - Russian writer (Tatar ancestry)
• Ayaz İshaki - emigree writer, prominent member of the Turkish elite during the first half of the 20th century, one of the founders of Pan-Turkism
• Sadri Maksudi Arsal - writer, scholar, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thought
• Yusuf Akçura - writer, publicist, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thought
• Ğädel Qutuy - writer
• Abdulla Aliş - writer
• Hadi Taqtaş - writer
• Fatix Ämirxan - writer
• Näqi İsänbät - writer
• Ğäliäsğar Kamal - writer and playwright
• Tufan Miñnullin - writer and playwright
• Chingiz Aitmatov (Tatar mother)

See also

• List of Volga Bulgaria kings
• List of Kazan khans
• List of Astrakhan khans
• List of Crimean khans
• List of Crimean Tatars