List of Tatars
Tatars are a Turkic[1] ethnic group numbering 6.7 million in the late 20th century, including all subgroups of Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars and Crimean 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.[2]
Artists
- Rustam Abdrashitov - film director
- Vadim Abdrashitov - film director
- Talgat Nigmatulin - movie actor
- Chulpan Khamatova - actress[3]
- Rudolf Nureyev - ballet dancer[4]
- Renata Litvinova - TV celebrity[5] (Volga Tatar father)
- Charles Bronson - American tough-guy actor[6] (Lipka Tatar father)
- Rinat Baibekov - artist[7]
- Marat Basharov - movie actor, TV Show actor
- Marat Gaziev - artist, choreographer, ballet dancer
Businessmen
- Rinat Akhmetov[8] - billionaire, Ukraine's richest citizen,[9] leader of the Donetsk business group
- Rustam Tariko - billionaire
- Megdet Rahimkulov - billionaire
- Shahibzada Tofikuddin.R - billionaire
- Akhat Bragin - businessman and mentor of Renat Akhmetov, former owner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Dancers
- Ilshat Shabaev - Russian dancer
Media
- Lilia Gildeeva - journalist, newscaster with NTV [10]
Musicians
- Sara Sadiqova - composer
- Alfiya Avzalova - singer
- Dina Garipova - pop singer
- Rustem Hayroudinoff - pianist
- Rinat Rakhmatullin - singer
- Farit Yarullin - composer, author of the music to the first Tatar ballet: Şüräle
- Zemfira - rock singer
- Eldar Djangirov - jazz pianist
- Halida Dinova - pianist
- Nacip Cihanov - composer
- Rustem Yakhin - composer
- Airat Ichmouratov - composer, conductor, clarinetist
- Salih Saidashev - composer
- Timati - rapper, pop-singer (Volga Tatar father)
- Alsou - pop singer (Volga Tatar mother)
- Sofia Gubaidulina - composer (Volga Tatar father)
- Jamala - singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - pianist, composer and conductor
Leaders
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 (Volga Tatar father)
- Musa Jalil - poet, prisoner of war during World War II
- Ghabdulla Tuqay - prominent Volga Tatar poet
- Gavrila Derzhavin - Morza Bagrim, a Tatar, was his ancestor[11]
- Nikolay Karamzin[11]
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 - former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (under Mayor MIchael Bloomberg)
- Aman Tuleyev - governor of Kemerovo oblast (half- Volga Tatar mother)
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev - Volga Tatar bolshevik
- Marat Khusnullin - Deputy Mayor of Moscow
- Mullanur Waxitov - Revolutionary active in the Russian Revolution
Scientists and mathematicians
- Gabdulkhay Akhatov - linguist, professor
- Rifkat Bogdanov - mathematician
- Shigabetdin Marjani - Muslim theologian and historian
- Roald Sagdeev - nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (1973–1988)
- Rashid Syunaev - astrophysicist
- Haroun Tazieff - vulcanologist and geologist (Volga 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 (Volga Tatar mother)
Football(Association)
- Marat Kabaev
- Elmir Nabiullin
- Rinat Bilyaletdinov
- Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
- Rinat Dasayev
- Rustyam Fakhrutdinov
- Ilshat Faizulin
- Viktor Fayzulin
- Vagiz Galiullin
- Marat Izmailov
- Rustem Kalimullin
- Galimzyan Khusainov
- Vagiz Khidiatullin
- Ravil Netfullin
- Ruslan Nigmatullin
- Marat Anvaryevich Safin
- Vladislav Shayakhmetov - (Tatar father)
- Renat Yanbayev - (Volga Tatar father)
- Artur Rimovich Yusupov
Tennis
Boxing
- Ruslan Chagaev
- Oleg Saitov - (Volga Tatar father)
- Nikolay Valuev - (Volga Tatar maternal grandfather)
Gymnastics
- Galima Shugurova
- Amina Zaripova
- Dinara Gimatova
- Aliya Garayeva
- Aliya Yusupova
- Laysan Utiasheva - (Volga Tatar ancestry)
- Alina Kabayeva - (Volga Tatar father)
- Nellie Kim - (Volga Tatar mother)
- Yanina Batyrchina - (Volga Tatar father)
- Aliya Mustafina - (Volga Tatar father)
Ice Hockey
- Rafael Batyrshin
- Ruslan Batyrshin
- Nail Yakupov
- Renat Mamashev
- Denis Abdullin
- Rafael Akhmetov
- Ilshat Bilalov
- Zinetula Bilyaletdinov
- Stanislav Galiev
- Emil Galimov
- Eduard Gimatov
- Irek Gimayev
- Ravil Gusmanov
- Rinat Ibragimov
- Marat Kalimulin
- Dinar Khafizullin
- Enver Lisin
- Evgeny Muratov
- Grigory Shafigulin
- Vadim Sharifijanov
- Danis Zaripov
- Albert Yarullin
- Ruslan Zainullin
Other
- Denis Galimzyanov - racing cyclist
- Radion Gataullin - pole vaulter
- Farhat Mustafin - wrestler
- Gulnara Samitova
- Aydar Akhatov - ecologist and economist
- Emil Sayfutdinov - (Volga Tatar father)
- Irina Shayk - model, (Volga Tatar father)
- Mikhail Koklyaev - strongman, (Volga Tatar mother)
- Svetlana Ishmouratova - biathlete
- Ruslan Nurudinov - Weightlifter
Theologians
- Musa Bigiev - one of the prominent representatives of the Jadid movement
- Gabdennasir Kursawi - Islamic reformist, innovator (Jadidist)
- Muhammad Murad Ramzi Muḥammad Murād Ramzī (محمد مراد الرمزي) - author of Talfīq al-akhbār wa-talfīḥ al-āthār fī waqāʼiʻ Qazān wa-Bulghār wa-mulūk al-Tātār (تلفيق الاخبار وتلقيح الآثار في وقائع قزان وبلغار وملوك التتار)[12]
Writers
- Cengiz Dağcı - writer, novelist and poet
- Sergey Lukyanenko - writer (Volga Tatar mother)
- Aleksandr Kuprin - Russian writer (Volga 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 - (Volga Tatar mother)
See also
- List of Kazan khans
- List of Astrakhan khans
- List of Crimean khans
- List of Crimean Tatars
- List of Volga Bulgaria kings
References
- ^ "Turkic people definition of Turkic people in the Free Online Encyclopedia". Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ Joshua Project. "Tatar Ethnic People in all Countries". Joshua Project. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ Biography for Chulpan Khamatova at IMDb
- ^ "Rudolf Nureyev". American Ballet Theater. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ^ Biography for Renata Litvinova at IMDb
- ^ Biography for Charles Bronson at IMDb
- ^ "Rinat Baibekov-Art". Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ^ Ukraine:birth of a modern nation by Serhy Yekelchyk, Oxford University Press, USA, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530546-3 (page 204)
- ^ The World's Billionaires, Forbes.com (03.10.10)
- ^ "НТВ.Ru // Новости, видео, передачи телеканала НТВ, онлайн-вещание НТВ, программа передач". Promo.ntv.ru. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ a b Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (2000). Russian Nationalism from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Imagining Russia. E. Mellen Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7734-7671-4.
- ^ Muhammad Murad Ramzi (محمد مراد الرمزي) (1908), Talfīq al-akhbār wa-talfīḥ al-āthār fī waqāʼiʻ Qazān wa-Bulghār wa-mulūk al-Tātār (تلفيق الاخبار وتلقيح الآثار في وقائع قزان وبلغار وملوك التتار), First edition (الطبعة الاولي) Volume 1 (المجلد الاول) Printed at the Al-Karīmiyyah and Al-Ḥussayniyyah printing shop in the town of "Orenburg" upon committed expenses (طبع بالمطبعة الكريمية والحسينية ببلدة "اورنبورغ" على مصاريف ملتزمه).