List of Russian Americans
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This is a list of notable Russian-Americans.
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[edit] List
[edit] Criminals
- Monya Elson - Brighton Beach mobster
- Marat Balagula - Brighton Beach mobster
- Evsei Agron - Brighton Beach mobster
- Charles Solomon - Boston crime figure
- Meyer Lansky - Notorious gangster
[edit] Entertainment
- Alina Smith - singer/songwriter[1]
- Olga Baclanova - actress[2]
- George Balanchine- dancer/choreographer
- Mikhail Baryshnikov - dancer/actor[3]
- Yul Brynner - hollywood star, 'The King & I', 'The Magnificent Seven'[4]
- Vanessa Carlton (1980 - ) pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her platinum-selling debut album Be Not Nobody (2002)[5]
- Dmitry Chaplin (born 1982) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 10 finalist in the second season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Oleg Cassini - fashion designer[6]
- Artem Chigvintsev (born 1982) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 8 finalist in the first season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Alexandra Danilova - ballerina & teacher[7]
- Andre Eglevsky - ballet dancer & teacher[8]
- Edward Furlong - actor[9]
- Anya Garnis (born 1982) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 12 finalist in the third season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Josef Gingold (1909-1995) violinist[10]
- Alexander Godunov - ballet dancer and actor.
- Alexander Golitzen - 3 time Oscar award winner
- Milla Jovovich - model, actress and fashion designer[11]
- Theodore Kosloff - ballet dancer, choreographer, actor[12]
- Ivan Koumaev (born 1987) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 6 finalist in the second season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance[13]
- Pasha Kovalev (born 1980) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 6 finalist in the third season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Pavel Lychnikoff - Actor, appeared in HBO series Deadwood.
- Debra Messing - Actress (Will & Grace, The Starter Wife)[citation needed]
- Larisa Oleynik - Actress
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - composer, pianist, and conductor[14]
- Olesya Rulin (1988 - ) actress (High School Musical)[15]
- Faina Savich (born 1985) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 18 finalist in the third season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Stanislav Savich (born 1984) dancer, top 20 finalist in the second season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Nicole Scherzinger - member of The Pussycat Dolls[16]
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn - conductor and pianist, music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia[17]
- Regina Spektor - singer and pianist
- Igor Stravinsky - composer[18]
- Genndy Tartakovsky - an Emmy Award-winning animator.
- Alexander Tcherepnin - pianist/composer[19]
- Michelle Trachtenberg - is an American television and film actress
- Snejana "Snow" Urbin (born 1982) dancer, perhaps best known for being a top 12 finalist in the first season of the popular FOX reality show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Vladimir Ussachevsky - composer, tape recorder/live sound experiments[20]
- Walter Winchell - columnist [21]
- Sofia Vassilieva - actress ( Elose in Eloise at the Plaza)
- Natalie Wood - actress[22]
- Anton Yelchin (1989 - ) actor[23]
- Vladimir Zworykin - pioneer of television technology[24]
- James Franco - actor/model[25]
- Michael Chekhov - a Russian director, actor, actor trainer, and acting theorist, nephew of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and student of Stanislavski.
- Jack Gordon - former husband and manager of American singer La Toya Jackson
- Wentworth Miller - Actor from Prison Break [26]
[edit] Literature
- Isaac Asimov - science fiction writer[27]
- Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Prize in Literature 1987[28]
- Vladimir Nabokov - writer[29]
- Ayn Rand - philosopher and novelist[30]
- Michael Rostovtzeff - writer[31]
- Gary Shteyngart (1972 - ) Russian-born writer[32]
[edit] Law
- Soia Mentschikoff, first woman to teach at Harvard Law School, co-drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code
[edit] Medicine
[edit] Science
- Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
- Alexander M. Poniatoff - Engineer, founder of Ampex.
- Selman Waksman - biochemist (Nobel Prize Winner in 1952)
- Lera Boroditsky - cognitive scientist[34]
- Wassily Leontief - economist, Nobel Prize 1973[35]
- Abraham Maslow, psychologist[36]
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff - chemist[37]
- Sergei Khrushchev - professor & son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev[38]
- Simon Ramo - physicist
- Otto Struve - astrophysicist[39]
- Leon Theremin - physicist, inventor of Theremin[40]
- Igor Sikorsky - helicopter designer[41]
- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - one of the inventors of television[42]
- Alexander Shulgin - Pharmacologist, MDMA researcher.
[edit] Military
- Ivan Turchaninov - Union Army general during The Civil war
[edit] Sports
- Sue Bird (1980 - ) professional women's basketball player[43]
- Anna Kournikova - Tennis Player.
- Nastia Liukin (1989 - ) gymnast[44]
- Denis Petukhov - figure skater[45]
- Sergei Raad - soccer player[46]
- Sasha Cohen - Figure Skater, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Maria Sharapova - Tennis Player, Former World no.1
- Tom Meschery- Former Professional NBA Player
[edit] Other
- David Axelrod - National Political Advisor
- Sergey Brin - co-founder of Google. He was born in Moscow.[48]
- Oleg Kalugin - former head of KGB operations in the United States[49]
- Boris Chaikovsky - founder of Tele-King International [50]
- Peter Demens - founder of Saint Petersburg, Florida.
- Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, industrial designer
- David Sarnoff - founded NBC & RCA[51]
- Pitirim Sorokin - founded Harvard Sociology Dept 1930[52]
[edit] References
- ^ [1] "She is truly a talent music lovers will enjoy for many years to come."
- ^ [2] "They called her the Russian Tigress. Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film..."
- ^ [3] "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."
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ [4] "TeenMusic: What is your nationality? Vanessa: Half Scandinavian/Half Russian."
- ^ [5] "Cassini, an actual Russian count..."
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ [6] " . . greatest male classical dancer of his generation "
- ^ [7] "I’m part Mexican and part Russian..."
- ^ Gingold - [8] "His teacher was Joseph Gingold, and as Bell fondly recalled him, "He was a Russian Jewish violinist..."
- ^ [9] "On the one side were the media and paparazzi, who couldn't get enough of the young Russian beauty..."
- ^ [10] "Theodore Kosloff, the Russian dancer-cum-movie star..."
- ^ [11] "Russian-born and Seattle-trained Koumaev"
- ^ Great Russian Composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - New York Times
- ^ Rulin - [12] "Olesya is originally from Russia and can read, write and speak Russian fluently"
- ^ [13] "Scherzinger is Hawaiian/Russian/Filipino"
- ^ Welcome to the Chestnut Hill Local
- ^ TIME 100: Igor Stravinsky
- ^ [14]"Known for stylistic mixture of Romanticism & Modern Experimentation."
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ [15] "Walter Winchell, a lower class Russian-American Jewish boy who morphed..."
- ^ [16] "The Russian princess of Hollywood"
- ^ [17] "A Russian immigrant who came to the United States with his figure-skater parents when he was merely six months old..."
- ^ Adventures in CyberSound: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
- ^ [18]"My grandfather and then I'm also Russian and Swedish. "
- ^ Wentworth Miller » Biography, Pictures, Forum, Videos, News, Photos
- ^ [19] "Although now an American national, Isaac Asimov was Russian by birth..."
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ Vladimir Nabokov - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research
- ^ Amazon.com: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical: Books: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
- ^ E. R. Bevan: The House of Ptolemy • Preface
- ^ Shteyngart - [20] "Jewish Russian American writer"
- ^ [21] "Although now an American national, Boris Vinogradsky is Russian by birth..."
- ^ Lera Boroditsky
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ [22]" . . born to Russian-Jewish parents."
- ^ [23]
- ^ Salon People | A conversation with Sergei Khrushchev
- ^ [24]" . . made detailed spectroscopic studies of close binary stars; discovered interstellar matter."
- ^ RAAAD.org
- ^ Sikorsky Archives News
- ^ Vladimir Zworykin - Electronic Television System
- ^ [25] "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 1900's 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."
- ^ [26] "So much has been said about Liukin’s potential it’s hard to believe that the tiny, Russian-born beauty won’t turn 16 until October." [27] "INSIDE GYM: You were born in the Soviet Union, but you’ve lived in the U.S. since you were two. How much influence does your Russian heritage have on your day-to-day life? LIUKIN: I have to say that I don’t really feel Russian, but I am surrounded by Russian coaches—most of the coaches in our gym are Russian, so I still hear the language all the time. My grandparents are staying with us right now, so I talk Russian to them, and that helps. You know, I’ve never really thought about what my life would have been like if [we’d stayed] in Russia. I’ve been back to visit and I trained in the gym there. I just did a little bit, but it’s a lot different there than it is here."
- ^ [28] "Russian skater Denis Petukhov" [29] "Denis Petukhov Becomes A United States Citizen"
- ^ [30] "Russian-born American Sergei Raad"
- ^ Chargers.com - Team » Roster » #99 Igor Olshansky | DE
- ^ [31] "Russian immigrant Brin met Page at Stanford grad school..."
- ^ [32] "Former Russian spy now a proud American"
- ^ [33] Founder of Tele-King International
- ^ [34]"Pioneered development of both radio and television broadcasting . . ."
- ^ RAAAD.org
