List of Tatars
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This is a list of notable Tatars (in the modern meaning of this term) and Volga Bulgars.
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[edit] Artists
- Chulpan Khamatova - famous actress [1]
- Rudolf Nureyev - one of the greatest ballet dancers in history [2]
- Renata Litvinova [3]
- Rinat Baibekov [4]
[edit] Businessmen
- 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")
[edit] Media
[edit] 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
- Salih Saidashev - composer
- Sara Sadiqova - composer
- Timur Abdikeyev - Baku-born soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg
- Youri Egorov - pianist
- Zemfira - rock singer
[edit] 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 - the greatest Tatar poet of all times[who?]
[edit] 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) [6]
- Janette Sadik-Khan - commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
[edit] Scientists 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
[edit] Sports and games persons
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Ruslan Nigmatullin - football player
- Vagiz Khidiatullin - football player
- Atik Ismail - Former striker of the Finnish national team
[edit] Tennis
- Marat Safin - tennis player
- Dinara Safina - tennis player
- Shamil Tarpischev - manager of Russia's tennis team
[edit] Other
- Alina Kabaeva - gymnast (Tatar father)
- Gulnara Samitova - runner
- Nikolai Khabibulin - ice hockey (NHL) goalie
- Nikolai Valuev - Boxer
- Ruslan Chagaev - Boxer
[edit] 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
[edit] 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