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List of Russian Americans

This is a list of notable Russian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Russian American or must have references showing they are Russian American and are notable.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Arts

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Performance

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Yul Brynner
 
Mikhail Baryshnikov
 
Anton Yelchin
 
Sofia Vassilieva
 
Eugenia Kuzmina
 
George Gershwin

Visual arts

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Literature

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Isaac Asimov

Science

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Igor Sikorsky on Time magazine cover, 1953
 
Vladimir K. Zworykin

Sports

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Anna Kournikova
 
Maria Sharapova
 
Sue Bird
 
Bill Goldberg
 
Ted Williams

Military

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Business

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Dmitri Alperovitch

Politics

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Economics

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  • 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

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Sasha Pivovarova

Other

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Alsu Kurmasheva

References

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  2. ^ "Olga Baclanova". Olga Baclanova: The Ultimate Cinemantrap. "They called her the Russian Tigress. Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film..."
  3. ^ Jack Bettridge (November–December 1997). "Dancing Free". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from the original on 2006-07-08. "One night in June 1974, the Russian dancer stepped from a stage in Toronto where he was appearing as a guest star with the Bolshoi Ballet concert group and literally ran to freedom. He stepped outside, followed by a crowd of confused fans, and sprinted to a waiting car that spirited him away from Soviet agents into a life of independence in the United States."
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  6. ^ Marx, Arthur (November–December 1997). "Talk with Falk". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  7. ^ "Edward Furlong". TMZ.
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  9. ^ "Ben Harper |Roots |Part one". 2008-02-03. Archived from the original on 2008-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  10. ^ Stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, 4 May 2012
  11. ^ Palm, Matthew J. (23 January 2017). "Pianist Olga Kern is 'citizen of the world'". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  12. ^ a b Jacobs, Alexandra (2003-12-07). "TELEVISION; When It Comes to TV Angels, He's Batting .500". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
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  16. ^ McNamara, Daniel I., ed. (1952). The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers. New York: Crowell. p. 497. LCCN 52-7038. "Terr, Max, composer; b. Odessa, Russia, Nov. 16, 1890; d. Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 2, 1951. ASGAP 1947. U.S. citizen. Has scored motion pictures in Hollywood since 1943. Songs: 'The Lord Is My Shepherd'; 'Forever Free'; 'Joyful Hour'; also march theme of Metro News."
  17. ^ http://www.radiofree.com/profiles/michelle_trachtenberg/interview02.shtml RadioFree.com Exclusive Interview with Michelle Trachtenberg
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  19. ^ "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I shy away from non-consensual violence'". The Independent. June 16, 2012.
  20. ^ Amazon.com: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical: Books: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
  21. ^ "E. R. Bevan: The House of Ptolemy • Preface". penelope.uchicago.edu.
  22. ^ Shteyngart - [2] "Jewish Russian American writer"
  23. ^ "Lera Boroditsky". Archived from the original on July 15, 2006.
  24. ^ Vladimir Zworykin – Electronic Television System
  25. ^ "Adventures in CyberSound: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma". Archived from the original on June 26, 2006.
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  29. ^ "Her Party Life Over, She Returned to Bars" Diane Pucin, Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2001
  30. ^ Sue Bird (2005). "From Russia, With Love..." WNBA. Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2011-02-12. "Some background - my father's name is Herschel Bird and his family is originally from Russia. In fact, our last name is really "Boorda." My great grandfather brought his family through Ellis Island in the early 1900s and we were soon known simply as Bird. This makes me half-Russian (not Czech!). So in my dad's eyes, this gave him a false sense of belonging. Every time I'd say "Dad, stop acting like an American" he would come back with "No one can tell I am not from here" and then attempt to say one of the three Russian words he remembers from his college days. He truly believed that no one would notice, which makes this story even better."
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  32. ^ Paul Farhi, "Goldberg: A David in Goliath's Shoes", Washington Post, December 9, 1999.
  33. ^ Othello Harris, George Kirsch; Claire Nolte (April 2000). Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 222. ISBN 0-313-29911-0.
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  46. ^ McGreal, Chris (26 June 2015). "Russian defectors living the dead end of the American dream in distant Oregon". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  47. ^ Denson, Bryan (November 10, 2016). "How Two Russian Defectors Helped the FBI Nab European Mobsters Then Wound up Stranded in Oregon". Newsweek. Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  48. ^ "Управление «К» и финансовый сектор" [Department "K" and the financial sector]. Центр «Досье» (dossier.center) (in Russian). Archived from the original on September 11, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  49. ^ "Дело Фролова, Черкалина и Васильева" [The case of Frolov, Cherkalin and Vasiliev]. Центр «Досье» (dossier.center) (in Russian). Archived from the original on September 11, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  50. ^ "Российские перебежчики из ФСБ пожаловались в Newsweek на предательство американских разведслужб" [Russian defectors from the FSB complained to Newsweek about the betrayal of American intelligence services]. newsru.com (in Russian). November 11, 2016. Archived from the original on June 18, 2024. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  51. ^ Канев, Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) (27 June 2016). "Большая чистка: В главном институте путинского режима началась большая чистка: из центрального аппарата ФСБ отправили в отставку несколько генералов, которые до этого считались неприкасаемыми, а на некоторых чекистов рангом пониже заведены уголовные дела. Источники на Лубянке утверждают: самое «вкусное» управление ФСБ — Службу экономической безопасности — берет под контроль «сечинский спецназ». The New Times изучал внутривидовую борьбу чекистских кланов" [Big Cleaning: A major purge has begun in the main institution of the Putin regime: several generals who had previously been considered untouchables were dismissed from the central apparatus of the FSB, and criminal cases were opened against some Chekists of a lower rank. Sources in the Lubyanka claim that the most "tasty" department of the FSB - the Economic Security Service - is taking control of the "Sechin special forces". The New Times studied the intraspecific struggle of the Chekist clans]. «Новые Времена» (NewTimes.ru) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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