Великобритания
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Великобритания — деятели с русскими и советскими корнями
Эта страница документирует 90 выдающихся деятелей, связанных со страной Великобритания, чьи биографии связаны с Российской империей, Советским Союзом или государствами-преемниками — через рождение, происхождение родителей или более раннюю родословную. Каждый профиль снабжён источниками и фиксирует конкретное происхождение и связь.
Бен Уишоу
British actor whose great-grandmother was Russian
Борис Джонсон
UK PM with roots in the Russian Empire
Хелен Миррен
Dame Helen Mirren, royalty with Russian roots
Кэти Мелуа
Kutaisi-born voice behind Britain's quiet revolution
Ник Клегг
UK Deputy PM with Russian imperial roots
Питер Устинов
Polyglot actor-playwright with Russian imperial roots
Александр Герко
Soviet-born mathematician; founder of the algorithmic market maker XTX Markets
Александр Лебедев
KGB spy turned press baron of London
Александр Литвиненко
The spy who came in from the cold—and told all.
Александр Мамут
The Moscow oligarch who saved British books
Александр Никс
Cambridge Analytica CEO whose Russian-connected data scandal shook global democracy
Эми Уайнхаус
Singer and songwriter; great-great-granddaughter of an emigrant from Minsk
Андрей Гейм
Born in Sochi in 1958; shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments on graphene
Эндрю Гарфилд
Actor; grandson of a Kielce-born emigrant to London
Андрей Шевченко
The Ukrainian striker who conquered Europe
Анна Павлова
Prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet; first ballerina to tour the world
Артём Оганов
The algorithmist who maps matter's future
Бернард Делфон
Born in Tokmak, Russian Empire; London theatre impresario and life peer
Билл Браудер
Grandson of a Communist, foe of the Kremlin
Борис Акунин
Georgia-born master who reinvented Russian crime fiction
Борис Берёзовский
From Soviet math labs to London exile.
Борис Гребенщиков
Leningrad-born singer-songwriter, founder of Aquarium (1972)
Карл Бара
The Libertines co-founder with Russian, French and Polish roots who defined British indie rock
Сезар Мильштейн
Argentine-British Nobel laureate from a Russian-immigrant family who invented monoclonal antibodies
Дэниел Рэдклифф
Actor; his mother's Jewish family includes a great-great-grandmother born in Russia
Дэвид Милибэнд
British Foreign Secretary 2007–10 and president of the International Rescue Committee since 2013; grandson of a Warsaw leather worker born in the Russian Empire
Денис Свердлов
Russian entrepreneur who founded Arrival — the electric vehicle startup that shook Detroit
Деннис Габор
Budapest-born British physicist who invented holography and won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
Доминик Рааб
Former UK Deputy Prime Minister whose father fled Czechoslovakia with Russian imperial roots
Эд Милибэнд
British Foreign Secretary since July 2026 and Leader of the Labour Party 2010–15; grandson of a Warsaw leather worker born in the Russian Empire
Евгений Швидлер
Ufa-born oligarch, Roman Abramovich's closest partner and the man behind Sibneft
Евгений Чичваркин
St. Petersburg entrepreneur who built Russia's biggest mobile phone chain and fled to London
Евгений Кисин
Moscow-born pianist who gave his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1990, aged 18
Гэвин Росдейл
Bush frontman whose original family name was Rosenthal — Russian-Jewish roots on his father's side
Джордж Сандерс
British actor born in St Petersburg in 1906; Academy Award for All About Eve, Rebecca, The Picture of Dorian Gray and the voice of Shere Khan
Грант Шаппс
UK Defence Secretary whose family came from Lithuania and Russia in the Russian Empire era
Гарольд Пинтер
Nobel laureate playwright whose grandparents came from Poland and Odesa
Ингеборга Дапкунайте
Vilnius-born actress who starred in Mission: Impossible and became a star across three cultures
Исайя Берлин
Philosopher and historian of ideas, author of 'Two Concepts of Liberty'; born in Riga, a child witness of the Petrograd revolutions of 1917
Джейсон Айзекс
Lucius Malfoy actor with Eastern European Jewish roots who became one of British film's finest character actors
Катя Джонс
St. Petersburg-born multiple world champion who became Strictly Come Dancing's Russian star
Ким Филби
British intelligence officer and Soviet agent who went to Moscow in 1963
Константин Новосёлов
Born in Nizhny Tagil, won the Nobel Prize for isolating graphene with Scotch tape
Кристина Риханофф
Vladivostok-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer
Лен Блаватник
Odessa-born billionaire who bought Warner Music, built Access Industries and became the UK's richest man
Лев Левиев
Born in Tashkent, became the Diamond King of the World and one of the wealthiest Israelis alive
Лью Грейд
Born in Tokmak, Russian Empire; British television producer and impresario
Лилия Копылова
Moscow-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer
Лили Коллинз
Actress of Emily in Paris, To the Bone and Mank, twice nominated for a Golden Globe; Russian Jewish descent through her maternal grandfather
Лидия Кавина
Moscow-born grandniece of Leon Theremin — the world's foremost theremin virtuoso
Малкольм Рифкинд
Foreign Secretary 1995–97, Defence, Transport and Scottish Secretary under Thatcher and Major; his family came from Mosėdis in the Kovno Governorate
Марк Болан
T. Rex glam rock pioneer whose father Simeon Feld came from Polish-Russian Jewish roots
Маргарет Ходж
UK Labour politician with Russian-Jewish roots who became the most feared tax investigator in Parliament
Марк Ронсон
London-born producer of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black; his Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors came from Austria, Lithuania and Russia
Марти Фелдман
The goggle-eyed comic genius of Young Frankenstein — his parents came from Kyiv
Мик Джонс
The Clash guitarist whose mother fled Russian Jewish pogroms — co-wrote London Calling
Михаил Ходорковский
Russia's richest man, jailed by Putin for 10 years — now runs the anti-Putin opposition from London
Наум Габо
Constructivist sculptor born Naum Pevzner in 1890; co-author of the Realistic Manifesto (Moscow, 1920); later in Berlin, England and the United States
Найджел Лоусон
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer with Latvian-Russian Jewish roots who engineered the Lawson Boom
Найджелла Лоусон
Food writer and broadcaster — How to Eat, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, Nigella Bites; great-granddaughter of a merchant from Mitau in Courland
Николай Медтнер
Moscow-born composer and pianist of German parentage — Rachmaninoff called him the greatest composer of our time
Николай Сторонский
Dolgoprudny-born physicist who co-founded Revolut — Europe's most valuable fintech startup
Оксимирон (Мирон Фёдоров)
Leningrad-born rapper educated at Oxford who became Russia's greatest lyricist — now an anti-war exile
Пит Доэрти
Libertines co-frontman whose Russian roots come via maternal family lines and a teenage poetry prize trip to Russia
Питер Грин
Fleetwood Mac founder whose parents came from Russia and Poland — one of the greatest blues guitarists ever
Саша Барон Коэн
Comedian and actor from a Belarusian Jewish family on his father's side
Сергей Скрипаль
Former GRU colonel and double agent poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury — one of the Cold War's most dramatic epilogues
Софи Уинклман
British actress with Russian-Jewish grandmother who married into the British royal family
Султан Саидов
Chechen-British entrepreneur building international technology ventures from London
Тамара Карсавина
Born in St. Petersburg — Diaghilev's prima ballerina and Nijinsky's partner in The Firebird and Petrushka
Виктория Теннант
British actress with Russian grandfather — married Steve Martin and starred in LA Story
Владимир Кара-Мурза
Moscow journalist who survived two poisoning attempts and was imprisoned by Putin — then won the Pulitzer Prize
Владимир Лисин
Steel magnate from Ivanovo who became Russia's richest man and a champion clay-target shooter
Юрий Шефлер
Exiled Moscow businessman who owns the Stolichnaya vodka brand and runs SPI Group from London
Михаил Прохоров
Moscow billionaire who owned the Brooklyn Nets and ran against Putin — then lost everything
Олег Тиньков
Founded Tinkoff Bank, renounced Russian citizenship in 2022 after publicly opposing the Ukraine war
Никита Витюгов
Former Russian Chess Champion who moved to the English Chess Federation after 2022
Анатолий Кузнецов
Born in Kyiv — survived Babi Yar as a boy, wrote the first eyewitness account of the massacre
Абакар Саидов
Dagestani-born AI entrepreneur who co-founded Beamery — a $800M+ AI talent management platform
Дмитрий Токарев
Russian-born founder of Copper.co — one of the world's leading institutional crypto custodians
Евгений Лебедев
Son of a KGB officer — owns the Evening Standard and The Independent, sits in the House of Lords
Андрей Андреев
Russian-born founder of Badoo who launched Bumble — the dating app that made women message first
Игорь Бухман
Vologda-born co-founder of the mobile game company Playrix
Принц Филипп, герцог Эдинбургский
Grandson of a Romanov grand duchess born at Pavlovsk, whose DNA identified the last imperial family
Принцесса Марина, герцогиня Кентская
Daughter of a Russian grand duchess, the last foreign princess to marry into the British royal family
Принц Майкл Кентский
Grandson of a Russian grand duchess, qualified Russian interpreter, whose DNA helped identify the Romanovs
Король Карл III
King of the United Kingdom, great-grandson of a Russian grand duchess born at Pavlovsk
Айра Олдридж
African-American Shakespearean tragedian who toured the Russian Empire from 1858, befriended Taras Shevchenko and died on tour in Łódź
Эдмунд де Вааль
British ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes; great-grandson of Viktor von Ephrussi, born in Odessa in 1860
Владимир Чернавин
Ichthyologist born in Tsarskoye Selo in 1887 who, with his wife and son, crossed from a Soviet labour camp into Finland in 1932 and later worked at the Natural History Museum in London