List of Russian Americans

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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[edit]

Performance[edit]

Woody Allen
George Gershwin
Natalie Portman

Visual arts[edit]

Literature[edit]

Isaac Asimov

Science[edit]

Sports[edit]

Sue Bird
Bill Goldberg
Ted Williams

Military[edit]

Business[edit]

Politics[edit]

Economics[edit]

  • Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history
  • Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize 1973
  • Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), economist, renowned for his research on financial crisis. Born to a Belarussian Jewish Menshevik immigrant family.

Modeling[edit]

Michele Merkin

Other[edit]

References[edit]

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