To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Russian American or must have references showing they are Russian American and are notable.
Paul Abrahamian (born 1993), reality television personality, of Russian and Armenian descent
Dianna Agron (born 1986), actress, father is of Russian Jewish ancestry.[1]
Monique Alexander (born 1982), pornographic actress, actress and model
Woody Allen (born 1935), actor, writer, director, and musician, his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry
Pamela Anderson (born 1967), Canadian-American actress, sex symbol, activist known for her roles on the television series Baywatch, mother is of Russian ancestry
Alan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrants
René Auberjonois (1940–2019), Tony Award-winning character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Cheryl Burke (born 1984), professional dancer is well known for starring on the television series Dancing with the Stars, father is Russian and Irish descent
Armie Hammer (born 1986), actor, father of part Russian Jewish/Russian descent.
Juliana Harkavy (born 1985), actress, has Russian ancestors.
Ben Harper (born 1969), singer-songwriter, Jewish mother of Russian and Lithuanian ancestry.[9]
Barbara Hershey (born 1948), actress, father of partial Russian Jewish descent.
Fedor Jeftichew (1868–1904), freak show attraction nicknamed "Jojo the dog-faced man" and a star of the Barnum Circus.
Kidada Jones (born 1974), actress, model, and fashion designer, daughter of actress
Peggy Lipton and musician
Quincy Jones; her mother is of Russian Jewish descent.
Rashida Jones (born 1976),[10] actress, model, and musician, daughter of actress
Peggy Lipton, mother is of Russian Jewish descent.
Milla Jovovich (born 1975), actress and model, born in
Kyiv to a Russian mother and a Serbian father.
Stacy Kamano (born 1974), actress of German, Russian, Polish and Japanese descent.
Princess Superstar (born 1971), musician, father is of Russian Jewish descent
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Russian-born composer who immigrated to the US in 1918 and lived there until his death in 1943. He acquired U.S. citizenship in 1943.
Sam Raimi (born 1959), Jewish American film, producer, actor and writer, whose parents came from Russia and Hungary
Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), physicist, was one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode
lasers and high-power
diode lasers
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian, the winner of 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Anatoly Larkin (1932–2005), physicist, discovered collective pinning of magnetic flux in
superconductors, predicted paraconductivity, made essential contributions to the
theory of weak localization, as well as developed the concept of the Ehrenfest time and its effect on phenomena of
quantum chaos
Gary Tabach (born 1962), retired United States Navy captain, the first Soviet-born citizen to be commissioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States
Jim Talent (born 1956), former U.S. Senator, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
Economics
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), contribution to the transformation of economics into an
empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history
Max Factor Sr. (1877–1938), founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, was born in Russian Poland. Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetics expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera
Betty Freeman (1921–2009), art philanthropist, father was a Russian immigrant
Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, author, translator and activist; Russian Jewish immigrant
Loren Leman (born 1950), former lieutenant governor of Alaska, one of his ancestors was a Russian settler who married an indigenous
Alutiiq woman in
Kodiak while Russia claimed and colonized Alaska centuries ago
Janosh Neumann (born 1979), former FSB agent who defected to USA in 2008. His birth name is Alexey Artamonov.[44]
^"Olga Baclanova". Olga Baclanova: The Ultimate Cinemantrap. "They called her the Russian Tigress. Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film..."
^Jack Bettridge (November–December 1997).
"Dancing Free". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from
the original on 2006-07-08. "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."
^Sue Bird (2005).
"From Russia, With Love..."WNBA. Archived from
the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2011-02-12. "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 1900s 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."
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Russian American or must have references showing they are Russian American and are notable.
Paul Abrahamian (born 1993), reality television personality, of Russian and Armenian descent
Dianna Agron (born 1986), actress, father is of Russian Jewish ancestry.[1]
Monique Alexander (born 1982), pornographic actress, actress and model
Woody Allen (born 1935), actor, writer, director, and musician, his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry
Pamela Anderson (born 1967), Canadian-American actress, sex symbol, activist known for her roles on the television series Baywatch, mother is of Russian ancestry
Alan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandchild of Russian immigrants
René Auberjonois (1940–2019), Tony Award-winning character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Cheryl Burke (born 1984), professional dancer is well known for starring on the television series Dancing with the Stars, father is Russian and Irish descent
Armie Hammer (born 1986), actor, father of part Russian Jewish/Russian descent.
Juliana Harkavy (born 1985), actress, has Russian ancestors.
Ben Harper (born 1969), singer-songwriter, Jewish mother of Russian and Lithuanian ancestry.[9]
Barbara Hershey (born 1948), actress, father of partial Russian Jewish descent.
Fedor Jeftichew (1868–1904), freak show attraction nicknamed "Jojo the dog-faced man" and a star of the Barnum Circus.
Kidada Jones (born 1974), actress, model, and fashion designer, daughter of actress
Peggy Lipton and musician
Quincy Jones; her mother is of Russian Jewish descent.
Rashida Jones (born 1976),[10] actress, model, and musician, daughter of actress
Peggy Lipton, mother is of Russian Jewish descent.
Milla Jovovich (born 1975), actress and model, born in
Kyiv to a Russian mother and a Serbian father.
Stacy Kamano (born 1974), actress of German, Russian, Polish and Japanese descent.
Princess Superstar (born 1971), musician, father is of Russian Jewish descent
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Russian-born composer who immigrated to the US in 1918 and lived there until his death in 1943. He acquired U.S. citizenship in 1943.
Sam Raimi (born 1959), Jewish American film, producer, actor and writer, whose parents came from Russia and Hungary
Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), physicist, was one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode
lasers and high-power
diode lasers
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian, the winner of 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Anatoly Larkin (1932–2005), physicist, discovered collective pinning of magnetic flux in
superconductors, predicted paraconductivity, made essential contributions to the
theory of weak localization, as well as developed the concept of the Ehrenfest time and its effect on phenomena of
quantum chaos
Gary Tabach (born 1962), retired United States Navy captain, the first Soviet-born citizen to be commissioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States
Jim Talent (born 1956), former U.S. Senator, paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
Economics
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), contribution to the transformation of economics into an
empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history
Max Factor Sr. (1877–1938), founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, was born in Russian Poland. Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetics expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera
Betty Freeman (1921–2009), art philanthropist, father was a Russian immigrant
Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, author, translator and activist; Russian Jewish immigrant
Loren Leman (born 1950), former lieutenant governor of Alaska, one of his ancestors was a Russian settler who married an indigenous
Alutiiq woman in
Kodiak while Russia claimed and colonized Alaska centuries ago
Janosh Neumann (born 1979), former FSB agent who defected to USA in 2008. His birth name is Alexey Artamonov.[44]
^"Olga Baclanova". Olga Baclanova: The Ultimate Cinemantrap. "They called her the Russian Tigress. Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film..."
^Jack Bettridge (November–December 1997).
"Dancing Free". Cigar Aficionado. Archived from
the original on 2006-07-08. "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."
^Sue Bird (2005).
"From Russia, With Love..."WNBA. Archived from
the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2011-02-12. "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 1900s 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."