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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Famous quotes containing the word famous:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)