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

[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

  • Lilia Gildeeva (Лилия Гильдеева) - Journalist, Newscaster with NTV [5]

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Poets

[edit] Politicians and public figures

[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

[edit] Football

[edit] Tennis

[edit] Other

[edit] Theologians

[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

[edit] See also

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