List of Buryats
This is a list of notable ethnic Buryats, sorted by field and last name regardless of citizenship / nationality.
Buryat ethnicity is associated with one's father's ethnicity alone. In case mother is of another ethnicity it is not specifically expressed.
Buryats are also sorted in :Category:Buryat people. Territorially related are List of Mongolians, :Category:People from Buryatia, :Category:People from Zabaykalsky Krai.
Scientists
- Byambyn Rinchen — Mongolian linguist and historian, also fiction writer and poet
- Gombojab Tsybikov — early photographer of Tibet, ethnographer and historian
- Tsyben Zhamtsarano — ethnographer and historian, Corresponding Member of the Academy of the Soviet Union, also a politician in Russia and Mongolia, pan-mongolist
Writers
- Bavasan Abiduev — poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
- Sengiin Erdene — novelist from Mongolia
Actors
- Valéry Inkijinoff — film and theatre actor in the Soviet Union and France
- Irina Pantaeva — model and actress in Russia, Germany, and the U.S.
- Alexander Vampilov — Russian playwright / screenwriter
- Yul Brynner — Russian-born film and stage actor of partial Buryat ancestry
Musicians
- Namgar Lhasaranova — female singer, leader of traditional / ethno rock group Namgar
Political figures
For politicians, only highest achieved positions are given in this list.- Dashiin Byambasüren — Prime Minister of Mongolia
- Agvan Dorzhiev — Minister of Finance in Tibet
- Rinchingiin Elbegdorj — Russian revolutionary, Mongolian Government member
- Yuriy Yekhanurov — Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Said Buryatsky — Jihadist ideologue in Chechnya and Ingushetia
- Gunsyn Tsydenova — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR
- Bolot Ayushiyev
- Tsyren-Dashi Dorzhiev
- Sanjaasürengiin Zorig – pro-democracy leader and Minister of Infrastructure, assassinated in 1998
- Erdeniin Bat-Üül – Mongolian politician, democracy activist, former mayor of Ulaanbaatar
Religious figures
- Bidia Dandaron — Buddhist teacher and writer in the Soviet Union
- Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov — mummified Buddhist leader of Siberia
Sportspeople
- Yuliya Adushnayeva — female taekwondo athlete, champion of the 2008 European Taekwondo Championships
- Oleg Aleksandrovich Alekseev — wrestler for the Soviet Union, champion of 1979 FILA Wrestling European Championships
- Bair Badënov — archer for Russia, bronze medalist of the 2008 Olympics
- Boris Baglayev — champion of the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships
- Aldar Balzhinimaev — Russian wrestler
- Velikton Barannikov — boxer for the Soviet Union, bronze medalist of the 1964 Olympics
- Bazar Bazarguruev — freestyle wrestler for Kyrgyzstan, bronze medalist of the 2007 World Wrestling Championships
- Boris Budayev — freestyle wrestler for Soviet Union, champion of the 1989 FILA Wrestling World Championships
- Irina Ologonova — female freestyle wrestler for Russia, silver medalist of the 2014 World Wrestling Championships
- Natalia Bolotova — female archer for Russia, silver medalist of the 1993 World Championships
- Miroslava Dagbaeva — female archer for Mongolia
- Alexander Dambaev — archer for Russia, silver medalist of the 2013 World Championships.
- Tuyana Dashidorzhieva — female Russian archer
- Natalia Erdyniyeva — female archer for Russia, bronze medalist of the 2007 World Championships
- Sergey Khalmakshinov — champion of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics
- Inna Stepanova — female Russian archer
- Bolot Tsybzhitov — Russian archer
- Balzhinima Tsyrempilov — archer for Russia, silver medalist of the 2007 World Championships
- Bair Vanjilov — combat sambo athlete for Russia, champion of the World Sambo Championships
- Bato-Munko Vankeev — boxer from Belarus
- Vladimir Yesheyev — archer for the Soviet Union, world champion of 1987
- Orora Satoshi — sumo wrestler
- Lada Baglaeva female tennis player