Ruslan (given name)
Ruslan is a masculine given name, a variant of the Turkic word aslan or arslan, meaning 'lion'. The name was popularized in the Russian Empire by the poem of Alexander Pushkin, Ruslan and Ludmila. Earlier, a version Yeruslan was attested. There is no established opinion whether one name was derived from another.
The feminine version is Ruslana.
Fictional characters
- Ruslan from Ruslan and Ludmila, 1820 poem by Alexander Pushkin
- Ruslan the guard dog, the protagonist of Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov
People with the given name Ruslan
- Ruslan Abdulgani, Indonesian diplomat and Foreign Minister
- Ruslan Abışov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Ruslan Agalarov, Uzbekistani football manager
- Ruslan Akhmadullin, Russian ice hockey player
- Ruslan Alekhno, Russian and Belarusian singer
- Ruslan Aushev, Soviet General and former President of Ingushetia
- Ruslan Baltiev, Kazakh footballer
- Ruslan Beslaneyev, Russian footballer
- Ruslan Chagaev, an Uzbekistani professional boxer
- Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian professional hockey player
- Ruslan Gelayev, commander in the Chechen separatist movement against Russia
- Ruslan Glebov, Ukrainian orienteer
- Ruslan Honcharov, Ukrainian figure skater
- Ruslan Kapantsow, Belarusian footballer
- Ruslan Karaev, a Russian kickboxer and martial artist
- Ruslan Khairov, Russian-born Azerbaijani boxer
- Ruslan Khasbulatov, a Russian economist and politician
- Ruslan Kogan, founder and director of Kogan Technologies
- Ruslan Lyubarskyi, Ukrainian footballer
- Ruslan Majidov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Ruslan Malinovskyi, Ukrainian footballer
- Ruslan Mashchenko, a Russian hurdler
- Ruslan Maynov, Bulgarian singer
- Ruslan Medzhitov, Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University
- Ruslan Mingazow, Turkmenistani footballer
- Ruslaan Mumtaz, an Indian actor
- Ruslan Nurudinov, an Uzbekistani weightlifter
- Ruslan Pidhornyy, Ukrainian road bicycle racer
- Ruslan Ponomariov, a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion
- Ruslan Provodnikov, a Russian boxer
- Ruslan Rotan, a Ukrainian football player
- Ruslan Salei, a Belarusian professional hockey defenceman
- Ruslan Sidiki, Russian-Italian anarchist who was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment for a drone strike on a Russian airbase
- Ruslan Sirota, a jazz, fusion and funk/R&B pianist and keyboardist
- Ruslan Solyanyk, a Ukrainian footballer
- Ruslan Yamadayev, a Chechen military leader and politician
- Ruslan Zakharov, Russian speed skater