List of Tatars
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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
, Tajikistan
, Kyrgyzstan
, Turkmenistan
, and Azerbaijan
also each have populations greater than 30,000.
Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...
ethnic group numbering 6,7 million in the late 20th Century, including all subgroups of Tatars, such as Volga Tatars
Volga Tatars
The Volga Tatars are the largest subgroup of the Tatars, native to the Volga region.They account for roughly six out of seven million Tatars worldwide....
, and Lipka Tatars
Lipka Tatars
The Lipka Tatars are a group of Tatars who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of 14th century. The first settlers tried to preserve their shamanistic religion and sought asylum amongst the non-Christian Lithuanians...
. Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
is home to the majority of ethnic Tatars, with a population of around 5,500,000. Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
, and Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
also each have populations greater than 30,000.
Artists
- Talgat NigmatulinTalgat NigmatulinTalgat Kadyrovich Nigmatulin was a famous Soviet actor and martial artist. Nigmatullin was born on October 5, 1949 in a Tatar-Uzbek family in Kirgizia. He took part in many action movies. Perhaps his most famous movie was Pirates of the XXth Century...
- movie actor - Chulpan KhamatovaChulpan KhamatovaChulpan Nailevna Khamatova is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Tatar origin. Her name, Chulpan, means "morning star" in Tatar.- Background :...
- actress - Rudolf NureyevRudolf NureyevRudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...
- ballet dancer - Renata LitvinovaRenata LitvinovaRenata Muratovna Litvinova is a Russian actress, director, and screenwriter. She was born to a Russian mother and a Tatar father...
- TV celebrity (Lipka Tatar father) - Charles BronsonCharles BronsonCharles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...
- American tough-guy actor (Tatar father) - Rinat Baibekov - artist
- Marat BasharovMarat BasharovMarat Basharov is a Russian film actor. He has appeared in 30 films since 1994. He starred in the film The Wedding, which was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Barber of Siberia...
- movie actor, TV Show actor - Renata Raksha - photographer (Tatar mother)
- Marat Gaziev - artist, choreographer, ballet dancer
Businessmen
- Shamil Khakimov - businessman, mathematician
- Rinat AkhmetovRinat AkhmetovRinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian businessman. He is the founder and President of System Capital Management, and is ranked among the wealthiest men in the nation. Akhmetov is also the owner and President of the Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk...
- billionaire, Ukraine's richest citizen, leader of the Donetsk business group - Rustam Tariko - billionaire
- Orhan Sadik-Khan - managing director of PaineWebber, one of the largest American stock brokerage firms (now called "UBS Wealth Management USA")
- Megdet RahimkulovMegdet RahimkulovMihail Nyikolajevics Rahimkulov , better known as Megdet Rahimkulov, is a Russian-born Hungarian businessman of Tatar origin. He is former head of Panrusgaz and Altalanos ErtekForgalmi Bank....
- billionaire
Media
- Lilia GildeevaLilia GildeevaLilia Faridovna Gileeva is a Russian journalist working for the NTV news programme Segodnya since 2006. She is famous for joking on air with her partner and collegue Alexey Pivovarov....
(Лилия Гильдеева) - Journalist, Newscaster with NTVNTV RussiaNTV is a Russian television channel. As a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most, it was a pioneer in the post-Soviet independent television media, but was later taken over by state-owned Gazprom.- History :...
http://promo.ntv.ru/programs/newsblock/segodnya/index.jsp?mid=71
- Handan Kirimtay - Journalist, PR specialist
Musicians
- AlsouAlsou- Early life :Alsou was born in Bugulma, Tatarstan. Her father, Ralif Rafilovich Safin is a Russian oligarch, a former LUKoil executive and a current member of the Federal Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. He is also the owner of the FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi football team and was...
- pop singer - Bary Alibasov - one of the first rock music performers in the former USSR, the manager of the boy bandBoy bandA boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
Na Na - Farit YarullinFärit YarullinYarullin Färit Zahidulla ulı aka Färit Yarullin; Tatar Cyrillic: Яруллин Фәрит Заһидулла улы; , Yarullin Farid Zagidullovich; 1914 – 1943) was a Tatar composer, the creator of the first Tatar ballet, Şüräle. His works include chamber music, romances, songs and arrangement of folk music...
- composer, author of the music to the first Tatar balletBalletBallet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
: ŞüräleSüräleŞüräle , is a male monster in Bashkir and Tatar mythology. According to legends, Şüräle lives in forests. He has long fingers, a horn on its forehead, and a woolly body... - Halida Dinova - pianist
- Nacip CihanovNäcip CihanovNäcip Ğayaz ulı Cihanov — Tatar Cyrillic: Нәҗип Гаяз улы Җиһанов, pronounced ; ; anglicised as Najip Jihanov or, more usually, Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov — was a Tatar composer, teacher and statesman...
- composer - Rashit Kalimullin - composer, manager of the New Music festival "Europe-Asia" in KazanKazanKazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...
, TatarstanTatarstanThe Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan, which is one of Russia's largest and most prosperous cities. The republic borders with Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, and with the Mari El, Udmurt,... - Rustem Yakhin - composer
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
- composer - Sofia GubaidulinaSofia GubaidulinaSofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
- composer (Tatar father) - Salih Saidashev - composer
- Sara SadiqovaSara SadíqovaSadíqova Sara Ğärif qızı Sara Sadíqova; Tatar Cyrillic: Садыйкова Сара Гариф кызы; ; 1 November 1906 - 7 June 1986) was a Tatar actress, singer , and composer. Honoured Artist of Tatar ASSR , People's Artist of Tatar ASSR , Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian SFSR . In 1938-1948 she was a...
- composer - TimatiTimatiTimur Ildarovich Yunusov , better known by his stage name Timati , is an Russian rapper and actor.-Early life:Timur Ildarovich Yunusov was born on August 15, 1983 in Moscow, Soviet Union to an ethnically mixed family of Tatar father Ildar Yunusov and Jewish mother Simona Yunusova , he also has a...
- rapper, pop-singer (Tatar father) - Timur Abdikeyev - BakuBakuBaku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
-born soloist of Mariinsky TheatreMariinsky TheatreThe Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. The...
in Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea... - ZemfiraZemfiraZemfira, officially Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova ; born 26 August 1976 in Ufa, Bashkortostan) is a Russian rock artist of Bashkir descent...
- rock singer (Tatar father)
Naval and military
- Asaf AbdrakhmanovAsaf AbdrakhmanovAsaf Kutdusovich Abdrakhmanov was a Soviet naval figure of Tatar ethnicity and a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II.-Biography:Abdrakhmanov was born on December 20, 1918 in Agryz, which is now located in Tatarstan...
- naval officer, a World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
-era Hero of Soviet Union - Makhmut GareevMakhmut GareevMakhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev is the Russian General of the Army, a historian, and a military scientist. Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Currently the president of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences...
- military strategist and theoretician, President of the Russian Military Academyperation - Shakir GeniatullinShakir GeniatullinShakir Nigmatulinovich Geniatullin was a Soviet military officer and Red Army major-general during World War II.An ethnic Tatar from a peasant background, Geniatullin served in the cavalry forces of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the pro-Bolshevik Bukharan People's Soviet...
- Soviet general
Poets
- Bella Akhmadulina - poet (Tatar father)
- Musa Jalil - poet, prisoner of war during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
- Ghabdulla Tuqay - prominent Tatar poet
Politicians and public figures
- Aleksander SulkiewiczAleksander SulkiewiczAleksander Sulkiewicz - actually Iskander Mirza Huzman Beg Sulkiewicz, - was a Polish politician of Tatar ethnicity, activist in socialist and independence movements and one of the co-founders of Polish Socialist...
- co-founder of the Polish Socialist PartyPolish Socialist PartyThe Polish Socialist Party was one of the most important Polish left-wing political parties from its inception in 1892 until 1948... - Rashid NurgaliyevRashid NurgaliyevRashid Gumarovich Nurgaliyev is a Russian general and politician of the Tatars descent. Since 2002, he has been the minister of the Internal Affairs of Russia.-Early years:...
- RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
`s Minister of Internal Affairs - Elvira NabiullinaElvira NabiullinaElvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina is a Russian economist who was appointed as Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia on September 24, 2007...
- Russia's Minister of Economic Development and Trade - Mintimer Shaimiev - Tatarstan's first president
- Ravil GeniatullinRavil GeniatullinRavil Faritovich Geniatulin is the Governor of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, an office he has held since February 1, 1996.-Biography:Ravil Geniatulin was born in a mixed family, to Russian mother and Tatar father. He refers to himself as Russian. From 1973 to 1975, Geniatulin served in the Soviet...
- governor of the ChitaChita OblastChita Oblast was a federal subject of Russia in southeast Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita. It had extensive international borders with China and Mongolia and internal borders with Irkutsk and Amur Oblasts, as well as with the Buryat and the Sakha Republics. Its...
region (oblast) in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
(Tatar father) - Ravil GainutdinRavil GainutdinRawil Gaynetdin ; born on August 25, 1959 in the village of Shali of Pestrechinsky District of the Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union) has served as the Grand Mufti of Russia since July 1, 1996...
- Grand MuftiGrand MuftiThe title of Grand Mufti refers to the highest official of religious law in a Sunni or Ibadi Muslim country. The Grand Mufti issues legal opinions and edicts, fatwā, on interpretations of Islamic law for private clients or to assist judges in deciding cases...
of Russia - Felix YusupovFelix YusupovPrince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston , was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.-Biography:...
- Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer (Tatar ancestry) - Ural Latypov - high-ranking government official in BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, former Foreign Minister of Belarus (1998-2000) - Rafis Kashapov - one of the leaders of the opposition in TatarstanTatarstanThe Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan, which is one of Russia's largest and most prosperous cities. The republic borders with Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, and with the Mari El, Udmurt,...
, head of the Tatar Public Center in Naberezhniye Chelni - Fikryat Tabeev - former USSR's ambassador in AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
, former first secretary of Tatarstan's Communist partyCommunist partyA political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...
organization - Fauzia Bayramova - one of the leaders of the opposition in Tatarstan
- Janette Sadik-KhanJanette Sadik-KhanJanette Sadik-Khan is the current Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on April 27, 2007, to replace Iris Weinshall....
- commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation - Aman TuleyevAman TuleyevAman Gumirovich Tuleyev , born 13 May 1944, is the governor of Kemerovo Oblast. He ran for President of Russia in 1991, 1996 and 2000, both times coming fourth....
- governor of KemerovoKemerovoKemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...
oblast (half-Tatar mother) - Sergey Farhutdinov - Ex-Governor of Sakhalin oblast, died in helicopter crash
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev - Tatar bolshevik
Scientists and mathematicians
- Renat Akchurin - outstanding cardiologist who performed the quadruple bypass surgeryCoronary artery bypass surgeryCoronary artery bypass surgery, also coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease...
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 - outstanding MuslimMuslimA Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
theologian and historian - Gilem Kamay - prominent chemist, one of the first Tatar professors of Kazan University
- Kayum Nasyri - influential writer (18th century), scientist
- Roald SagdeevRoald SagdeevRoald Zinnurovich Sagdeev is a Soviet and Russian expert in plasma physics and former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of the...
- prominent nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research InstituteRussian Space Research InstituteThe Russian Space Research Institute is the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences on space exploration to benefit fundamental science....
in MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
(1973–1988) - Myakzyum Salakhov - Kazan University's rector, physicist
- Rashid Syunaev - outstandng astrophysicist
- Albert Galeev - prominent nuclear physicist, former Director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow (1988–2002)
- Kamil Valiev - member of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Academy of SciencesThe Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
, physicist - Haroun TazieffHaroun TazieffHaroun Tazieff was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books about volcanoes....
- prominent vulcanologist and geologist (Tatar father) - Vil Mirzayanov - chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA
Chess Grandmasters
- Gata KamskyGata KamskyGata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
- Rashid NezhmetdinovRashid NezhmetdinovRashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov was an eminent Soviet chess player, chess writer, and Checkers player.-Early life:Nezhmetdinov was born in Aktubinsk, Russian Empire, in what is now Aqtöbe, Kazakhstan, of Tatar ethnicity. His parents died when he was very young, leaving him and two other siblings...
- Rustam Dautov
- Rashit Ziatdinov
- Ildar IbragimovIldar IbragimovIldar Ibragimov is a chess Grandmaster. Born in Kazan, Russia, he was equal first alongside Kramnik and Kharlov at the 1991 USSR Under 26 Championship. He received the Grandmaster title in 1993. He now competes for the United States, where he has lived since 2002. He was a co-winner of the 2004...
- Evgeny BareevEvgeny BareevEvgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
- Konstantin SakaevKonstantin SakaevKonstantin Sakaev is a Russian chess Grandmaster , from St Petersburg and Russian Champion in 1999. He is also a chess writer. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmaster Chess School in St...
- Timur GareevTimur GareevTimur Gareev is a chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In 2004 he became the youngest-ever chess grandmaster from Asia at age 16. Timur was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's Chess Team from August 2005 to August 2006 where he helped the University obtain its first National...
- Alisa GalliamovaAlisa GalliamovaAlisa Galliamova is a Russian chess player, who was born to Russian father and Tatar mother. She holds the FIDE titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master. In 1988 she won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship...
(Tatar mother)
Football(Association)
- Galimzyan KhusainovGalimzyan KhusainovGalimzyan Salikhovich Khusainov was a Soviet football player of Tatar extraction.-Honours:* Soviet Top League winner: 1962, 1969.* Soviet Cup winner: 1963, 1965, 1971.* 1964 European Nations' Cup runner-up....
- Rinat Dasayev
- Vagiz Khidiatullin
- Ruslan NigmatullinRuslan NigmatullinRuslan Karimovich Nigmatullin is a retired association footballer who played goalkeeper of Tatar ethnicity. He has appeared for the Russian national team 24 times and was their starting keeper at the 2002 World Cup...
- Marat IzmailovMarat IzmailovMarat Nailevich Izmailov is a Russian footballer who plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal. He is an ethnic Volga Tatar.Mainly a right midfielder, he can also appear as an attacking midfielder, being best known for his one-on-one skills and pace, while also possessing a good long-distance...
- Diniyar BilyaletdinovDiniyar BilyaletdinovDiniyar Rinatovich Bilyaletdinov -Lokomotiv Moscow:A native of Moscow, Bilyaletdinov began his career in the Lokomotiv Moscow youth teams. After making his debut in 2004, he became a first team regular. In his first season the club won the Russian Premier League and was named the league's Young...
- Renat YanbayevRenat YanbayevRenat Rudolfovich Yanbayev is an association footballer who played midfielder who plays for FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He was born to a Tatar father and a Russian mother.- Career :...
- Peter OdemwingiePeter OdemwingiePeter Osaze Odemwingie is a footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Premier League side West Bromwich Albion. His name, Osaze, means "God chooses "....
(Tatar mother) - Viktor FayzulinViktor FayzulinViktor Igorevich Fayzulin is a Russian football midfielder, who currently plays for Zenit.A graduate of CYSS based in his hometown Nahodka, he started his professional career with Okean. Later he played for SKA-Energia and Spartak Nalchik. In December 2007 he signed a contract with Zenit until...
Gymnastics
- Galima ShugurovaGalima ShugurovaGalima Shugurova is a Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast born in Omsk on November 8, 1953. She was the third Soviet Rhythmic Gymnast to become World All-Around champion and the first ever European All-Around champion in 1978. Shugurova is an ethnic Tatar...
- Amina ZaripovaAmina ZaripovaAmina Zaripova is a retired rhythmic gymnast with Tatar roots. She competed for Russia. Her older sister, Venera Zaripova, is also a retired rhythmic gymnast. Her husband is Alexei Kortnev, lead singer of Neschastny Sluchai.-External links:...
- Dinara GimatovaDinara GimatovaDinara Gimatova is an Azerbaijani gymnast of Tatar ethnicity, 4 time Azerbaijan champion, participant of World and European championships and many international tournaments...
- Aliya Yusupova
- Alina Kabayeva (Tatar father)
- Yanina Batyrchina (Tatar father)
- Aliya MustafinaAliya MustafinaAliya Fargatovna Mustafina , born 30 September 1994 in Yegorievsk, Russia is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 All Around World Champion. She also won Gold with the Russian team at the same championships and was the 2009 Russian national champion in the all around and on the balance beam...
Ice Hockey
- Zinetula BilyaletdinovZinetula BilyaletdinovZinetula "Bill" Khaidarovich Bilyaletdinov is a former Russian ice hockey player of Tatar roots, who competed for the USSR. In 1973-1988 he competed for HC Dynamo Moscow...
- Irek GimayevIrek GimayevIrek Gimayev is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982....
- Nikolai KhabibulinNikolai KhabibulinNikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League...
- Danis ZaripovDanis ZaripovDanis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...
- Nail YakupovNail YakupovNail Yakupov is a Russian junior ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League ....
Other
- Radion Gataullin
- Gulnara SamitovaGulnara SamitovaGulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina is a Russian middle-distance runner. In July 2004 she ran 3000 metres steeplechase in a new world record of 9:01.59. Early that year she won a bronze medal over 1500 metres at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.Gulnara Samitova-Galkina is of mixed Tatar...
- Almaz Gismeev
- Firdaus Kabirov
- Emil Sayfutdinov (Tatar father)
Theologians
- Musa BigievMusa BigievMusa Yarulla ulı Bigiev was a Volga Tatar Jadid who translated the Qur'an to the Tatar language....
- one of the prominent representatives of the JadidJadidThe Jadids were Muslim modernist reformers within the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. They normally referred to themselves by the Turkic terms Taraqqiparvarlar , Ziyalilar , or simply Yäşlär/Yoshlar...
movement - Gabdennasir Kursawi - Islamic reformist, innovator (Jadidist)
- Ravil GainutdinRavil GainutdinRawil Gaynetdin ; born on August 25, 1959 in the village of Shali of Pestrechinsky District of the Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union) has served as the Grand Mufti of Russia since July 1, 1996...
- head of Russia's Muslim Religious Board - Gusman Iskhakov - mufti of Tatarstan
Writers
- Sergey LukyanenkoSergey LukyanenkoSergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer...
- writer (Tatar mother) - Aleksandr KuprinAleksandr KuprinAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin , was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel . Other well-known works include Moloch , Olesya , Junior Captain Rybnikov , Emerald , and The Garnet Bracelet...
- 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 ArsalSadri Maksudi ArsalSadreddin Nizamettinovich Maksudov or Sadri Maksudi Arsal was a prominent Tatar and Turkish statesman, scholar and thinker.-Biography:...
- writer, scholar, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thoughtTurkish nationalismTurkish nationalism is a political ideology that promotes and glorifies the Turkish people, as either a national, ethnic or linguistic group and puts the interests of the state over other influences, including religious ones.-Pan-Turkism:... - Yusuf AkçuraYusuf AkçuraYusuf Akçura was a prominent Tatar activist and ideologue of Turanism in the late Ottoman Empire.-Biography:He was born in Ulyanovsk, Russia to a Tatar family and lived there until he and his mother emigrated to Turkey when he was seven...
- writer, publicist, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thoughtTurkish nationalismTurkish nationalism is a political ideology that promotes and glorifies the Turkish people, as either a national, ethnic or linguistic group and puts the interests of the state over other influences, including religious ones.-Pan-Turkism:... - Abdurakhman Absalyamov - writer, author of books about World War II
- Kayum Nasiry - Tatar writer
- Ildar Abuzyarov - modern writer of Tatar origin, writes in Russian
- Ğädel QutuyGädel QutuyQutuyıv Ğädelşa Nurmöxämmät ulı , better known as Ğädel Qutuy was a Soviet Tatar poet, writer and playwright.-Life:Qutuy moved to Kazan in 1922, and 5 year later gained recognition as one of five the most prominent Tatar writer. Impressed by Mayakovsky, he established Tatar analogue of LEF, SULF,...
- writer - Abdulla AlişAbdulla AlisAlişev Ğabdullacan Ğäbdelbari ulı , best known as Abdulla Aliş was a Soviet Tatar poet, playwright, writer and resistance fighter. He wrote mostly novels for children, the most notable writings being: Dulqınnar , Ant , Minem abí Alişev Ğabdullacan Ğäbdelbari ulı , best known as Abdulla Aliş was a...
- writer - Hadi TaqtaşHadi TaqtasTaqtaşev Möxämmäthadi Xäyrulla ulı , better known as Hadi Taqtaş was a Soviet Tatar poet, writer and publicist.His early verses have a tendency to symbolism: romantic ballades Газраилләр , Үтерелгән пәйгамбәр , tragedy verse Җир уллары , poems Гасырлар һәм минутлар...
- writer - Fatix ÄmirxanFatix ÄmirxanÄmirxanov Möxämmätfatix Zarif ulı Фатих Зариф улы; , Amirkhan Fatikh Zarifovich, , Fatikh Amirkhan; 1886–1926) was a Tatar classic writer, editor and publicist.Ämirxan was born in 1886 in Kazan, Russian Empire...
- writer - Näqi İsänbätNäqi IsänbätNäqi İsänbät 1899-1992) was a Tatar writer, an encyclopaedist, a poet, a playwright, a prosaist, a children's writer, a specialist in folklore and a philologist. He is the one who had collected and composed defining and phraseological Tatar dictionaries....
- writer - Ğäliäsğar Kamal - writer and playwright
- Tufan MiñnullinTufan MiñnullinMiñnullin Tufan Ğabdulla ulı aka Tufan Miñnullin is a famous Tatar writer, playwright. He is a permanent member of State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan since 1990. International PEN club member .-External links:...
- writer and playwright - Chingiz Aitmatov (Tatar mother)