Famous Russian-Germans
- Adam Johann von Krusenstern (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) - navigator and naval explorer (1770–1846)
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen) - navigator, explorer of the Antarctic (1778–1852)
- Karl Nesselrode - count and diplomat (1780–1862)
- Vyacheslav von Plehve (Vyacheslav Pleve) - Minister of the Interior (1846–1904)
- Eduard Toll - explorer of the Arctic (1858–1902)
- Vladimir Pachmann - pianist (1848–1933)
- Andreas Wolf - Football Player(1982–)
- Alexander Merkel Football Player (1992-)
- Aleksey Bach - biochemist (1857—1946)
- Olga Knipper-Chekhova - actress, wife of Anton Chekhov (1868–1959)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold (Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold) - actor and theatre director (1874—1940)
- Gustav Klinger - communist politician (1876–1937)
- Friedrich Zander - rocket engineer (1887–1933)
- Reinhold Glière (Reinhold Ernst Glier) - composer (1875–1956)
- Oskar Anderson - statistician (1887–1960)
- Alfred Rosenberg - one of Nazi Germany's leaders, tried at Nuremberg (1893–1946)
- Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (née Maria Blank) - Mother of Vladimir Lenin
- Vasiliy Ulrikh - Soviet political judge (1889–1951)
- Nikolai Erdman - dramatist (1900—1970)
- Tatyana Peltzer - actress (1904—1992)
- Boris Rauschenbach - physicist and engineer (1915–2001)
- Patriarch Alexy II (Alexey Ridiger) - primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
- Alfred Schnittke - composer (1934–1998)
- Alisa Freindlich - actress
- Eduard Rossel - governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Viktor Kress - governor of Tomsk Oblast
- German Gref (Hermann Gräf) - Minister of Economics and Trade
- Alexei Miller - Gazprom CEO
- Edgar Gess - footballer
- Peter Neustädter - one of the notorious post-Soviet footballers and a descendant of the deported Russian Germans
- Georgy Boos - governor of Kaliningrad Oblast
- Julia Neigel - singer and songwriter
- Wladimir Köppen - meteorologist
- Irina Mikitenko - long-distance runner
- Dennis Siver - Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
- Brad Wall - Premier of Saskatchewan
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“Those famous men of old, the Ogres—
They had long beards and stinking arm-pits,
They were wide-mouthed, long-yarded and great-bellied
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—Robert Graves (1895–1985)