List of Tatars

Artists

* Chulpan Khamatova - famous actress [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451122/bio]
* Rudolf Nureyev - one of the greatest ballet dancers in history [http://www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/nureyev_r.html]
* Renata Litvinova [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514852/] (Tatar father)
* Rinat Baibekov [http://www.rinat-baibekov.com/]
* Talgat Nigmatullin - movie actor

Businessmen

* Shamil Khakimov - businessman, mathematician
* Rinat Akhmetov - Ukraine's richest citizen, leader of the Donetsk business group
* Rustam Tariko - billionaire
* Orkhan Sadik-Khan - managing director of PaineWebber, one of the largest American stock brokerage firms (now called "UBS Wealth Management USA")
* Megdet Rahimkulov - billionaire

Media

* Lilia Gildeeva (Лилия Гильдеева) - Journalist, Newscaster with NTV [http://promo.ntv.ru/programs/newsblock/segodnya/index.jsp?mid=71]

Musicians

* Alsou - pop singer
* Bary Alibasov - one of the first rock music performers in the former USSR, the manager of the boy band Na Na
* Farit Yarullin - composer, author of the music to the first Tatar ballet: Şüräle
* Halida Dinova - pianist
* Nacip Cihanov - composer
* Rashit Kalimullin - composer, manager of the New Music festival "Europe-Asia" in Kazan, Tatarstan
* Rustem Yakhin - composer
* Sofia Gubaidulina - composer (Tatar father)
* Salih Saidashev - composer
* Sara Sadiqova - composer
* Timur Abdikeyev - Baku-born soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg
* Youri Egorov - pianist
* Zemfira - rock singer

Poets

* Anna Akhmatova - poet (Tatar ancestry)
* Bella Akhmadulina - poet (Tatar father)
* Musa Jalil - poet, prisoner of war during World War II
* Qol Ghali (or Kul Gali) - Tatar/Bulgar medieval poet
* Ghabdulla Tuqay - considered to be the greatest Tatar poet of all timesWho|date=September 2007

Politicians and public figures

* Rashid Nurgaliyev - Russia`s Minister of Internal Affairs
* Elvira Nabiullina - Russia's Minister of Economic Development and Trade
* Mintimer Shaimiyev - Tatarstan's first president
* Ravil Geniatullin - governor of the Chita region (oblast) in Russia
* Ravil Gainutdin - Grand Mufti of Russia
* Felix Yusupov - Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer (Tatar ancestry)
* Ural Latypov - high-ranking government official in Belarus, former Foreign Minister of Belarus (1998-2000)
* Rafis Kashapov - one of the leaders of the opposition in Tatarstan, head of the Tatar Public Center in Naberezhniye Chelni
* Fikryat Tabeev - former USSR's ambassador in Afghanistan, former first secretary of Tatarstan's Communist party organization
* Fauzia Bayramova - one of the leaders of the opposition in Tatarstan
* Dzamila Stehlikova - member of parliament of the Czech Republic (Tatar-Kazakh ancestry) [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/01/715289eb-74f9-4a5e-a2cc-c569a6d507b2.html]
* Janette Sadik-Khan - commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation

cientists and mathematicians

* Renat Akchurin - outstanding cardiologist who performed the quadruple bypass surgery on President Boris Yeltsin in 1996
* 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 Muslim theologian and scientist
* Gilem Kamay - prominent chemist, one of the first Tatar professors of Kazan University
* Kayum Nasyri - influential writer (18th century), scientist
* Roald Sagdeev - prominent nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (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)
* Makhmut Gareev - outstanding military strategist and theoretician, President of the Russian Military Academy
* Kamil Valiev - member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, physicist
* Haroun Tazieff - prominent vulcanologist and geologist

ports and games persons

Chess

* Alisa Galliamova - chess player
* Gata Kamsky - chess player
* Rashid Nezhmetdinov - chess and checkers player
* Rustam Dautov - chess player
* Artur Yusupov - chess player (Tatar father)
* Rashit Ziatdinov - chess player
* Ildar Ibragimov - chess player
* Evgeny Bareev - chess player
* Konstantin Sakaev - chess player
* Timur Gareev - chess player

Football

* Kurban Berdiev - football trainer
* Zinnatulla Bilyaletdinov - Soviet ice hockey player and coach
* Rinat Dasayev - football player
* Marat Izmailov - football player
* Diniyar Bilyaletdinov - football player
* Galimzyan Khusainov - football player
* Ruslan Nigmatullin - football player
* Vagiz Khidiatullin - football player
* Renat Yanbayev - football player
* Atik Ismail - Former striker of the Finnish national team

Tennis

* Marat Safin - tennis player
* Dinara Safina - tennis player
* Shamil Tarpischev - manager of Russia's tennis team

Other

* Alina Kabaeva - gymnast (Tatar father)
* Gulnara Samitova - runner (Tatar father)
* Nikolai Khabibulin - ice hockey (NHL) goalie
* Nikolai Valuev - Boxer
* Ruslan Chagaev - Boxer

Theologians

* Musa Bigiev - one of the prominent representatives of the Jadid movement
* Gabdennasir Kursawi - Islamic reformist, innovator (Jadidist)
* Ravil Gainutdin- head of Russia's Muslim Religious Board
* Gusman Iskhakov - mufti of Tatarstan

Writers

* Aleksandr Kuprin - Russian writer (Tatar ancestry)
* Gayaz Iskhaki - 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 Arsal - writer, scholar, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thought
* Yusuf Akçura - writer, publicist, and theorist of Turkish nationalist thought
* Abdurakhman Absalyamov - writer, author of books about World War II
* Dias Valeev - Tatar playwright who writes mostly in Russian
* Kayum Nasiry - Tatar writer,
* Ildar Abuzyarov - modern writer of Tatar origin, writes in Russian

ee also

*List of Volga Bulgaria kings
*List of Kazan khans
*List of Astrakhan khans
*List of Crimean khans
*List of Crimean Tatars