Dancer and defector from the former Soviet Union. Inspired by a need for artistic as well as personal freedom, he became one of the leading male dancers of his era, famous for his high leaps as well as director of American Ballet Theater.
| 1896–1974 | Giorgiy Zhukov |
| 1931–2007 | Boris Yeltsin |
| 1883–1954 | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| 1902–1982 | Mikhail Suslov |
| 1906–1977 | Alexey Stakhanov |
| 1918–2008 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Born 1948 | Natan Shcharansky |
| 1921–1989 | Andrey Sakharov |
| 1938–1993 | Rudolf Nureyev |
| 1890–1950 | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| 1902–1977 | Alexander Luria |
| 1894–1971 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| 1881–1970 | Alexander Kerensky |
| Born 1963 | Gary Kasparov |
| 1893–1991 | Lazar Kaganovich |
| 1909–1997 | Sir Isaiah Berlin |
| 1899–1953 | Lavrenti Beria |
| 1904–1983 | George Balanchine |
| 1920–1992 | Isaac Asimov |
