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Template:Use mdy dates Template:MainTatars refer to several related Turkic<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> ethnic group numbering 7.3 million in 21st century, including all Turkic subgroups that are still referred to as Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Tatars in Lithuania, Crimean Tatars, Mishar Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Tatar (Hazara tribe) and Siberian Tatars. Russia is home to the majority of ethnic Tatars, with a population of around 5,500,000. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan also each have populations greater than 30,000.
Crimean Tatars, who are considered the indigenous people of Ukraine and Crimea, live in Ukraine. Template:TOC right
Artists
- Aisa Hakimcan – poet, musician, director (Finnish Tatar)<ref>* Template:Cite book</ref>
- Dajan Ahmet – actor, director (Estonian Tatar)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Ill – sculptor
- Aleksandr Bashirov – actor (Siberian Tatar mother)
- Vadim Abdrashitov – film director (Volga Tatar father)
- Elisabeth Boehm – painter
- Talgat Nigmatulin – movie actor
- Chulpan Khamatova – actress<ref>Template:IMDb name</ref>
- Renata Litvinova – TV celebrity<ref>Template:IMDb name</ref> (Volga Tatar father)
- Charles Bronson – American actor<ref>Template:IMDb name</ref> (Lipka Tatar father)
- Glen Powell – actor
- Marat Basharov – movie actor, TV show actor
- Erté – artist
- Template:Ill – artist, choreographer, ballet dancer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Sergey Shakurov – actor
- Valentina Talyzina – film and stage actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Russified Tatar father)
- Vasily Vereshchagin (Tatar ancestry)
Architecture and design
- Stepan Krichinsky – Russian architect
Businessmen
- Rinat Akhmetov<ref>Template:Cite book (page 204)</ref> – billionaire, Ukraine's richest citizen,<ref>The World's Billionaires, Forbes.com (03.10.10)</ref> leader of the Donetsk business group
- Rustam Tariko – billionaire
- Akhat Bragin – businessman and mentor of Renat Akhmetov, former owner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Dancers
- Galiya Izmaylova – ballerina
- Ilshat Shabaev – Russian dancer
- Rudolf Nureyev – Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Diana Vishneva – ballerina (Volga Tatar mother)
Media
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- Lilia Gildeeva – journalist, newscaster with NTV<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Maxim Sharafutdinov – Russian journalist, television presenter of Channel One.
- Rosa Syabitova – television personality on the Channel One
Models
- Elmira Abdrazakova – Kazakhstani-Russian model and Miss Russia 2013 (Volga Tatar father)
- Diana Galimullina – Russian fashion model
- Irina Shayk Russian Model(Volga Tatar Father)
Musicians
- Sara Sadiqova – composer
- Alfiya Avzalova – singer
- Dima Bilan – singer (Volga Tatar ancestry)
- Roman Kim – violin virtuoso, composer and inventor
- Aida Garifullina – Russian lyric soprano
- Dina Garipova – pop singer
- Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
- Farit Yarullin – composer, author of the music to the first Tatar ballet: Şüräle
- Zemfira – rock singer
- Eldar Djangirov – jazz pianist (Volga Tatar father)
- Halida Dinova – pianist
- Nacip Cihanov – composer
- Rustem Yakhin – composer
- Alina Ibragimova – Russian-British violinist.
- Airat Ichmouratov – composer, conductor, clarinetist
- Vladimir Rebikov – was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist.
- Salih Saidashev – composer
- Albina Shagimuratova – opera singer
- Irina Smelaya – female hip-hop artist
- Timati – rapper, pop singer (Volga Tatar father)
- Alsou – pop singer (Volga Tatar mother)
- Sofia Gubaidulina – composer (Volga Tatar father)
- Jamala – singer, composer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 (Crimean Tatar father)
- Räşit Wahapov – singer
- Zulya Kamalova – Russian-born Australian singer
Noble families
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- Stroganov family
- Birkin family
- Cantemirești
- Chelishchev family
- House of Izmaylov
- Kochubey family
- House of Siberia
- Meshchersky
- Naryshkin family<ref>Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and World, Random House Publishing Group (2012), p. 19</ref><ref>W. E. D. Allen, The Ukraine, Cambridge University Press (2014), p. 121</ref>
- Sheremetev
- Somov
- Urusov
- Verderevsky
- Yaushev family
- Yenikeyev
- House of Yusupov
- Karamzin
- Tatarinov
- Ushakov
- Likharev
- Semyonov
- Saburov
- Godunov
- Engalychev
Leaders
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- Simeon Bekbulatovich – Russian statesman
- Sayed Borhan – was Khan of the Qasim Khanate
- Elena Glinskaya<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (Lipka Tatar father)
- Boris Godunov – was the de facto regent of Russia
- Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov – Tatar noble family Maksutov
- Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan – was the last khan of the Kazan Khanate
- Utameshgaray of Kazan – was Khan of the Kazan Khanate
- Natalya Naryshkina<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>– Victoria of Baden and Juliana of the Netherlands are related to Natalya 8 generations
Military personnel
- Raushan Abdullin, reconnaissance engineer, participated in the Russo–Georgian War, was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation for bravery
- Asaf Abdrakhmanov, naval officer, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Iskander Dautov, machine-gunner, fought in the Great Patriotic War, was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Makhmut Gareyev, author, military strategist and theoretician, participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Afghan War, served as advisor to the Presidents of Egypt and Afghanistan, served as the President of the Academy of Military Science
- Shakir Geniatullin, major general in the Red Army, fought in the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, received numerous military awards
- Tamerlan Ishmukhamedov, military pilot, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for heroism
- Anvar Kaliyev, reconnaissance officer, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery
- Khamit Niyeatbakov, medical instructor, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery, killed in battle
- Khabibulla Yakin, telephone operator and soldier, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the Order of Glory for bravery
- Pyotr Gavrilov, Soviet officer, World War II-era Hero of Soviet Union
- Dmitry Karbyshev, was a Red Army general
- Fatyh Sharipov, was a participant of the Second World War
Poets
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- Anna Achmatova – poet (Tatar grandmother)
- Bella Akhmadulina – poet (Volga Tatar father)
- Denis Davydov – russian soldier-poet
- Gavrila Derzhavin – poet (distant Tatar ancestry)
- Vladimir Nabokov – poet
- Musa Jalil – poet, prisoner of war during World War II
- Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz – poet
- Ghabdulla Tuqay – prominent Volga Tatar poet
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko – poet (partially Tatar origin)
Politicians and public figures
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- Nafigulla Ashirov – mufti, president of the spiritual association of Muslims of the Asiatic part of Russia
- Aydar Aganin – Russian diplomat
- Aydar Akhatov – political and public figure, journalist, scientist-economist,
- Kamil Iskhakov - State Councillor of the Russian Federation, the initiator and organizer of the celebration of the millennium of Kazan and the construction of the Kazan metro.
- Edkham Akbulatov – Russian politician who
- George Bakhmeteff – Imperial Russian Ambassador to the United States.
- Ural Latypov – Belarusian politician
- Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky – Marxist, economist, and politician.
- Aleksander Sulkiewicz – co-founder of the Polish Socialist Party
- Rashid Nurgaliyev – former Russia`s Minister of Internal Affairs
- Elvira Nabiullina – former Russia's Minister of Economic Development and Trade
- Mintimer Shaimiev – Tatarstan's first president
- Ravil Geniatullin – governor of the Chita region (oblast) in Russia (Tatar father)
- Ravil Gainutdin – Grand Mufti of Russia
- Felix Yusupov – Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer (Tatar ancestry)
- Janette Sadik-Khan – former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (under Mayor Michael Bloomberg)
- Rustam Temirgaliev – is the Director General Russia-China Investment Fund
- Aman Tuleyev – governor of Kemerovo oblast (half-Volga Tatar mother)
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev – Volga Tatar Bolshevik
- Tatiana C. Gfoeller – is a veteran American diplomat
- Karim Khakimov – revolutionary who became a diplomat
- Marat Khusnullin – Deputy Mayor of Moscow
- Vladimir Kara-Murza – political activist
- Georgi Plekhanov – father of Russian Marxism
- Mullanur Waxitov – Revolutionary active in the Russian Revolution
- Ravil Safiullin – Ukrainian football executive and politician who served as Minister of Youth and Sports
- Emine Dzhaparova – politician. She was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- Olgierd Najman-Mirza Kryczyński - Polish lawyer
Scientists and mathematicians
- Gabdulkhay Akhatov – linguist, professor
- Reşid Rahmeti Arat – professor
- Yuri Leonidovich Belousov – was a researcher and engineer in the field of Materials Science: glass and Glass-ceramic technologies. (Volga Tatar mother)
- Rifkat Bogdanov – mathematician
- Nail H. Ibragimov – was a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist
- Roald Sagdeev – nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (1973–1988)
- Russ Salakhutdinov – working in the field of artificial intelligence
- Edl Schamiloglu – electrical engineer and physicist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rashid Syunaev – astrophysicist
- Leon Najman-Mirza Kryczyński - historian
- Haroun Tazieff – vulcanologist and geologist (Volga Tatar father)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Volga Tatar ancestry)
- Vil Mirzayanov – chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA
- Bashir Rameev – was a Soviet inventor and scientist
Sports and games persons
Chess Grandmasters
- Alisa Galliamova
- Gata Kamsky
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov
- Raset Ziatdinov
- Ildar Ibragimov
- Evgeny Bareev
- Timur Gareev
- Alisa Galliamova (Volga Tatar mother)
Football (Association)
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- Marat Kabaev
- Elmir Nabiullin
- Yuri Utkulbayev
- Marat Garayev
- Rinat Bilyaletdinov
- Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
- Rinat Dasayev
- Rustyam Fakhrutdinov
- Ilshat Faizulin
- Viktor Fayzulin
- Vagiz Galiullin
- Marat Izmailov
- Rustem Kalimullin
- Ruslan Mingazow
- Galimzyan Khusainov
- Vagiz Khidiatullin
- Ravil Netfullin
- Ruslan Nigmatullin
- Marat Anvaryevich Safin
- Vladislav Shayakhmetov (Tatar father)
- Renat Yanbayev (Volga Tatar father)
- Artur Rimovich Yusupov
- Rifat Zhemaletdinov
- Danil Akhatov
- Kamil Mullin
- Daler Kuzyayev
- Ravil Sabitov
- Arminas Narbekovas (Volga Tatar father)<ref>https://nailtimler.com/people_page/people_13n/narbekovas_arminas_andriyovych.html Narbekov Arminas Andreyevich</ref>
- Ildar Akhmetzyanov
Tennis
- Timur Khabibulin
- Rauza Islanova
- Marat Safin
- Dinara Safina
- Roman Safiullin (Tatar father)
- Shamil Tarpishchev
- Kamilla Rakhimova
- Veronika Kudermetova (Volga Tatar father)
Boxing
- Airat Khamatov
- Ruslan Chagaev
- Danis Latypov
- Zakir Safiullin
- Oleg Saitov (Volga Tatar father)
- Nikolai Valuev (Tatar grandfather)
Gymnastics
- Galima Shugurova
- Venera Zaripova
- Amina Zaripova
- Dinara Gimatova
- Aliya Garayeva
- Aliya Yusupova
- Laysan Utiasheva (Volga Tatar ancestry)
- Alina Kabayeva (Volga Tatar father)
- Nellie Kim (Volga Tatar mother)
- Yanina Batyrchina (Volga Tatar father)
- Hanna Rizatdinova
- Aliya Mustafina (Volga Tatar father)
Ice Hockey
- Denis Abdullin
- Rafael Akhmetov
- Rafael Batyrshin
- Ruslan Batyrshin
- Eduard Kudermetov
- Rushan Rafikov
- Ilshat Bilalov
- Zinetula Bilyaletdinov
- Valeri Bragin
- Ansel Galimov
- Emil Galimov
- Eduard Gimatov
- Irek Gimayev
- Ravil Gusmanov
- Räshid Hakimsan<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Finnish Tatar)
- Rinat Ibragimov
- Marat Kalimulin
- Nikolai Khabibulin
- Dinar Khafizullin
- Renat Mamashev
- Evgeny Muratov
- Lotfi Nasib<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Finnish Tatar)
- Grigory Shafigulin
- Vadim Sharifijanov
- Nail Yakupov
- Albert Yarullin
- Danis Zaripov
- Ruslan Zainullin
- Rinat Valiev
- Artyom Gareyev
Other
- Inal Aflitulin – handball player
- Albina Akhatova – biathlete
- Timur Safin – foil fencer
- Gulnaz Gubaydullina – modern pentathlete
- Artur Akhmatkhuzin – foil fencer
- Anvar Ibragimov – foil fencer
- Kamil Ibragimov – foil fencer (Volga Tatar father)
- Adelina Zagidullina – foil fencer
- Yuliya Garayeva – fencer
- Ilfat Abdullin – archer
- Danil Khalimov – Greco-Roman wrestler
- Dina Aspandiyarova – sports shooter
- Ildar Akhmadiev – sprinter
- Ruslan Kurbanov – épée fencer
- Alise Fakhrutdinova – modern pentathlete
- Rishat Khaibullin – climber
- Malika Khakimova – épée fencer
- Zilia Batyrshina – sports shooter
- Veronika Vakhitova – water polo player
- Ilmir Hazetdinov – ski jumper
- Rinat Fakhretdinov – MMA fighter
- Ildar Fatchullin – ski jumper
- Denis Galimzyanov – racing cyclist
- Radion Gataullin – pole vaulter
- Ildar Hafizov – wrestler
- Aigul Gareeva – racing cyclist
- Ilnur Zakarin – racing cyclist
- Gulnaz Khatuntseva – racing cyclist
- Elvira Khasanova – racewalking athlete
- Irek Rizaev – BMX rider
- Elvina Karimova – water polo player
- Yulia Karimova – sport shooter
- Vadim Mukhametyanov – sports shooter
- Alsu Minazova – slalom canoeist
- Halina Konopacka – athlete (Lipka Tatar mother)
- Svetlana Ishmouratova – biathlete
- Batu Khasikov – former professional kickboxer and politician, (Tatar mother)
- Mikhail Koklyaev – strongman, (Volga Tatar mother)
- Rinat Mardanshin
- Zemfira Meftahatdinova
- Viktor Minibaev – Olympic diver
- Farhat Mustafin – wrestler
- Rozaliya Nasretdinova – swimmer (Volga Tatar father)
- Ruslan Nurudinov – weightlifter
- Aydar Nuriev – racing driver
- Ilgizar Safiullin – athlete
- Gulnara Samitova – distance runner
- Imil Sharafetdinov – wrestler
- Rosa Salikhova – volleyball player
- Emil Sayfutdinov (Volga Tatar father)
- Sariya Zakyrova – rower
- Alina Zagitova – figure skater, 2018 Olympic champion
- Kamila Valieva – figure skater, 2019 Junior Grand Prix champion, 2020 Russian junior champion
- Aleksandr Galliamov – figure skater
- Karina Safina – figure skater
- Rustam Valiullin – biathlete
- Irek Zinnurov – water polo player
Theologians
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Ravil Gainutdin
- Musa Bigiev – one of the prominent representatives of the Jadid movement
- Sergei Bulgakov (distant Tatar ancestry)
- Gabdennasir Kursawi – Islamic reformist, innovator (Jadidist)
- Talgat Tadzhuddin
- Said Ismagilov
Writers
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- Mikhail Artsybashev – writer
- Mikhail Bulgakov – writer, novelist
- Pyotr Chaadayev – russian philosopher. He was one of the Russian Schellingians
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – novelist
- Ivan Turgenev – writer, novelist
- Alexander Radishchev – author
- Hryhorii Skovoroda – writer, poet
- Vladimir Volkoff – writer
- Aleksandr I. Kuprin – writer, novelist
- Saadet Çağatay – writer and professor
- Cengiz Dağcı – writer, novelist and poet
- Näqi İsänbät – writer
- Ayaz İshaki – 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
- Ğädel Qutuy – writer
- Abdulla Aliş – writer
- Hadi Taqtaş – writer
- Şärif Kamal – writer, novelist and playwright
- Fatix Ämirxan – writer
- Näqi İsänbät – writer
- Ğäliäsğar Kamal – writer and playwright
- Tufan Miñnullin – writer and playwright
- Chingiz Aitmatov (Volga Tatar mother)
Journalists
See also
- List of Kazan khans
- List of Astrakhan khans
- List of Crimean khans
- List of Crimean Tatars
- List of Volga Bulgaria kings
- Tatar name
- Serving Tatars
- List of Russian princely families
- Princely houses of Poland and Lithuania