List of Tatars
s refer to several related Turkic ethnic group numbering 7.3 million in 21st century, including all Turkic subgroups that are still referred to as Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Tatars in Lithuania, Crimean Tatars, Mishar Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Tatar and Siberian 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.
Crimean Tatars, who are considered the indigenous people of Ukraine and Crimea, live in Ukraine.
Artists
- Aisa Hakimcan – poet, musician, director
- Dajan Ahmet – actor, director
- – sculptor
- Aleksandr Bashirov – actor
- Vadim Abdrashitov – film director
- Elisabeth Boehm – painter
- Talgat Nigmatulin – movie actor
- Chulpan Khamatova – actress
- Renata Litvinova – TV celebrity
- Charles Bronson – American actor
- Glen Powell – actor
- Marat Basharov – movie actor, TV show actor
- Erté – artist
- – artist, choreographer, ballet dancer
- Sergey Shakurov – actor
- Valentina Talyzina – film and stage actress
- Vasily Vereshchagin
Architecture and design
- Stepan Krichinsky – Russian architect
Businessmen
- Rinat Akhmetov – billionaire, Ukraine's richest citizen, leader of the Donetsk business group
- Rustam Tariko – billionaire
- Akhat Bragin – businessman and mentor of Renat Akhmetov, former owner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Dancers
- Galiya Izmaylova – ballerina
- Ilshat Shabaev – Russian dancer
- Rudolf Nureyev – Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Diana Vishneva – ballerina
Media
- Lilia Gildeeva – journalist, newscaster with NTV
- Maxim Sharafutdinov – Russian journalist, television presenter of Channel One.
- Rosa Syabitova – television personality on the Channel One
Models
- Elmira Abdrazakova – Kazakhstani-Russian model and Miss Russia 2013
- Diana Galimullina – Russian fashion model
- Irina Shayk Russian Model
Musicians
- Sara Sadiqova – composer
- Alfiya Avzalova – singer
- Dima Bilan – singer
- Roman Kim – violin virtuoso, composer and inventor
- Aida Garifullina – Russian lyric soprano
- Dina Garipova – pop singer
- Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
- 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
- Alina Ibragimova – Russian-British violinist.
- Airat Ichmouratov – composer, conductor, clarinetist
- Vladimir Rebikov – was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist.
- Salih Saidashev – composer
- Albina Shagimuratova – opera singer
- Irina Smelaya – female hip-hop artist
- Timati – rapper, pop singer
- Alsou – pop singer
- Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
- Jamala – singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- Räşit Wahapov – singer
- Zulya Kamalova – Russian-born Australian singer
Noble families
- Stroganov family
- Birkin family
- Cantemirești
- Chelishchev family
- House of Izmaylov
- Kochubey family
- House of Siberia
- Maksutov
- Meshchersky
- Naryshkin family
- Sheremetev
- Somov
- Urusov
- Verderevsky
- Yaushev family
- Yenikeyev
- House of Yusupov
- Karamzin
- Tatarinov
- Ushakov
- Likharev
- Semyonov
- Saburov
- Godunov
- Engalychev
Leaders
- Simeon Bekbulatovich – Russian statesman
- Sayed Borhan – was Khan of the Qasim Khanate
- Elena Glinskaya
- Boris Godunov – was the de facto regent of Russia
- Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov – Tatar noble family Maksutov
- Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan – was the last khan of the Kazan Khanate
- Utameshgaray of Kazan – was Khan of the Kazan Khanate
- Natalya Naryshkina– Victoria of Baden and Juliana of the Netherlands are related to Natalya 8 generations
Military personnel
- Raushan Abdullin, reconnaissance engineer, participated in the Russo–Georgian War, was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation for bravery
- Asaf Abdrakhmanov, naval officer, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Iskander Dautov, machine-gunner, fought in the Great Patriotic War, was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Makhmut Gareyev, author, military strategist and theoretician, participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Afghan War, served as advisor to the Presidents of Egypt and Afghanistan, served as the President of the Academy of Military Science
- Shakir Geniatullin, major general in the Red Army, fought in the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, received numerous military awards
- Tamerlan Ishmukhamedov, military pilot, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for heroism
- Anvar Kaliyev, reconnaissance officer, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Khamit Niyeatbakov, medical instructor, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery, killed in battle
- Khabibulla Yakin, telephone operator and soldier, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Order of Glory for bravery
- Pyotr Gavrilov, Soviet officer, World War II-era Hero of Soviet Union
- Dmitry Karbyshev, was a Red Army general
- Fatyh Sharipov, was a participant of the Second World War
Poets
- Anna Achmatova – poet
- Bella Akhmadulina – poet
- Denis Davydov – russian soldier-poet
- Gavrila Derzhavin – poet
- Gabdrakhim Utyz Imyani - poet
- Vladimir Nabokov – poet
- Musa Jalil – poet, prisoner of war during World War II
- Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz – poet
- Ghabdulla Tuqay – prominent Volga Tatar poet
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko – poet
Politicians and public figures
- Nafigulla Ashirov – mufti, president of the spiritual association of Muslims of the Asiatic part of Russia
- Aydar Aganin – Russian diplomat
- Aydar Akhatov – political and public figure, journalist, scientist-economist,
- Kamil Iskhakov - State Councillor of the Russian Federation, the initiator and organizer of the celebration of the millennium of Kazan and the construction of the Kazan metro.
- Edkham Akbulatov – Russian politician who
- George Bakhmeteff – Imperial Russian Ambassador to the United States.
- Ural Latypov – Belarusian politician
- Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky – Marxist, economist, and politician.
- 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 in Russia
- Ravil Gainutdin – Grand Mufti of Russia
- Felix Yusupov – Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer
- Janette Sadik-Khan – former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
- Rustam Temirgaliev – is the Director General Russia-China Investment Fund
- Aman Tuleyev – governor of Kemerovo oblast
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev – Volga Tatar Bolshevik
- Tatiana C. Gfoeller – is a veteran American diplomat
- Karim Khakimov – revolutionary who became a diplomat
- Marat Khusnullin – Deputy Mayor of Moscow
- Vladimir Kara-Murza – political activist
- Georgi Plekhanov – father of Russian Marxism
- Mullanur Waxitov – Revolutionary active in the Russian Revolution
- Ravil Safiullin – Ukrainian football executive and politician who served as Minister of Youth and Sports
- Emine Dzhaparova – politician. She was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- Olgierd Najman-Mirza Kryczyński - Polish lawyer
Scientists and mathematicians
- Gabdulkhay Akhatov – linguist, professor
- Mirfatyh Zakiev - Soviet and Russian Turkologist
- Reşid Rahmeti Arat – professor
- Yuri Leonidovich Belousov – was a researcher and engineer in the field of Materials Science: glass and Glass-ceramic technologies.
- Rifkat Bogdanov – mathematician
- Nail H. Ibragimov – was a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Roald Sagdeev – nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow
- Russ Salakhutdinov – working in the field of artificial intelligence
- Edl Schamiloglu – electrical engineer and physicist
- Rashid Syunaev – astrophysicist
- Leon Najman-Mirza Kryczyński - historian
- Haroun Tazieff – vulcanologist and geologist
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Vil Mirzayanov – chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA
- Bashir Rameev – was a Soviet inventor and scientist
Sports and games persons
Chess Grandmasters
- Alisa Galliamova
- Gata Kamsky
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov
- Raset Ziatdinov
- Ildar Ibragimov
- Evgeny Bareev
- Timur Gareev
- Alisa Galliamova
Football (Association)
- Marat Kabaev
- Elmir Nabiullin
- Yuri Utkulbayev
- Marat Garayev
- Rinat Bilyaletdinov
- Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
- Rinat Dasayev
- Rustyam Fakhrutdinov
- Ilshat Faizulin
- Viktor Fayzulin
- Vagiz Galiullin
- Marat Izmailov
- Rustem Kalimullin
- Ruslan Mingazow
- Galimzyan Khusainov
- Vagiz Khidiatullin
- Ravil Netfullin
- Ruslan Nigmatullin
- Marat Anvaryevich Safin
- Vladislav Shayakhmetov
- Renat Yanbayev
- Artur Rimovich Yusupov
- Rifat Zhemaletdinov
- Danil Akhatov
- Kamil Mullin
- Daler Kuzyayev
- Ravil Sabitov
- Arminas Narbekovas
- Ildar Akhmetzyanov