List of people with given name Boris: Difference between revisions

This is a list of people with given name Boris, sorted by surname.

• People traditionally known only by the first name “Boris”:

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B

• Boris Barnet, Soviet film director
• Boris Becker (born 1967), German professional tennis player
• Boris Bede, French player of gridiron football
• Boris Berezovsky (pianist) (born 1969), Russian pianist
• Boris Berezovsky (businessman) 1946–2013, Russia’s first billionaire businessman
• Boris Berman (born 1948), Russian pianist
• Boris Bizetić (born 1950), Serbian singer and songwriter
• Boris Blank, Swiss artist and musician
• Boris Bobrinskoy (1925–2020), French priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Boris Böhmann (born 1964), German conductor and composer
• Boris Bondarev (born 1980), Russian diplomat
• Boris Brejcha, German DJ and music producer

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D

E

• Boris Ebzeyev, Karachay politician and judge, president of Karachay–Cherkessia and one of the principal commanders of Insurgency in the North Caucasus

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• Boris Gardiner, Jamaican singer-songwriter and bass guitarist
• Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster
• Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries
• Boris Gromov, Russian military and political figure, Governor of Moscow Oblast, one of the principal commanders of Soviet-Afghan War
• Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
• Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter; band leader of Aquarium
• Boris Grishayev, Soviet marathon runner
• Boris Gryzlov, Russian politician, Interior Minister, Speaker of the State Duma, one of the leaders of United Russia
• Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (1937–2020), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
• Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1931) (1931–1995), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler

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J

• Boris Jacobsohn (1918–1966), American physicist
• Boris Johnson (born 1964), British politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
• Boris Jordan (born 1966), American investor involved in the privatization in Russia in the early 1990s
• Boris Jovanović (born 1972), Serbian footballer

K

• Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian academic and political dissident
• Boris Kalin, Slovenian sculptor
• Boris Karloff (1887–1969), English actor; appeared in many horror films
• Boris Khmelnitsky, Russian actor
• Boris Kidrič, Slovenian communist official and resistance leader
• Boris Klyuyev (1944–2020), Russian actor
• Boris Kodjoe, American actor
• Boris Kollár, Slovakian businessman and politician
• Boris Kravtsov (born 1922), Russian jurist and politician
• Boris Kustodiev, Russian artist and painter
• Boris Kočí (born 1964), Czech football player
• Boris Krajný (born 1945), Czech pianist

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• Boris Lushniak, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral who served as the acting Surgeon General of the United States
• Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer

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N

O

• Boris Ord (1897–1961), British organist and choirmaster

P

• Boris Pahor (1913–2022), Slovenian writer
• Boris Paichadze (1915–1990), Georgian football player
• Boris Palmer (born 1972), German politician
• Boris Pash (1900–1995), United States Army military intelligence officer
• Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Soviet author; recipient, 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Boris Perušič (born 1940), Czech volleyball player
• Boris Petrovsky (1908–2004), Russian surgeon and Soviet minister of health
• Boris Plotnikov (1949–2020), Russian actor
• Boris Podrecca (born 1940), Slovenian-Italian architect
• Boris Polak (born 1954), Israeli world champion and Olympic sport shooter
• Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origins
• Boris Zeebroek (born 1985), Belgian musician under the alias Bolis Pupul

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S

• Boris Said (born 1962), American race car driver
• Boris Sarafov (1872–1907), Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary
• Boris Shcherbina (1919–1990), Ukrainian Soviet politician who supervised the crisis management of both the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake
• Boris Serebryakov (1941–1971), Soviet serial killer and mass murderer known as the “Kuybyshev Monster”
• Boris Shaposhnikov (1882–1945), Soviet Russian general, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, and Marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the principal commanders on the Eastern Front and the Battle of Moscow
• Count Boris Sheremetev (1652–1719), Russian diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War
• Boris Sidis (1867–1923), Ukrainian psychiatrist
• Boris Spassky (1937–2025), Russian chess player
• Boris Starling, British novelist and screenwriter
• Boris Stürmer (1848–1917), Russian lawyer, Master of Ceremonies at the Russian Court, member of the Russian Assembly, Prime Minister of Russia, Minister of Internal Affairs and Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire
• Boris Susko (born 1970), Slovak politician
• Borys Szyc (born 1978), Polish actor

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• Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), Soviet-Russian politician; first President of Russia

Z

Fictional characters

• Boris Badenov, the main antagonist in the 1960s animated cartoons The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Boris Bushkin, a character in the cartoon M.A.S.K. (TV series)
• Boris Drubetskoy, an army officer in Leo Tolstoy‘s novel War And Peace
• Boris Grishenko, Russian hacker working for terrorists in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
• Boris Grushenko, the main character in the film Love and Death, played by Woody Allen
• Boris Kropotkin, Jewish character in the television show Rugrats
• Boris Pavlikovsky, character in Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel The Goldfinch
• Boris Podgorny, character in Steven Spielberg’s 2022 film The Fabelmans; he is based on Spielberg’s real-life granduncle of the same name.
• Boris the Animal, main antagonist character in the science fiction film Men in Black 3
• Boris “the Blade” Yurinov, an arms dealer in the film Snatch
• “Boris the Spider“, 1966 song by The Who
• Boris the wolf, a character from the episodic puzzle horror video game Bendy and the Ink Machine
• Boris, a redfish in the eponymous Italian TV series
• Boris, mightiest of the Warriors of Loathing in the Times of Old, from the internet game Kingdom of Loathing
• Boris, fictional character in the Canadian television series Caillou and the father of the titular character
• “Boris”, song from The Melvins’ 1991 album Bullhead that gave its name to the Japanese metal band
• Boris, the Borzoi in the Lady and the Tramp cartoon
• Boris, the Russian goose in the Balto movies
• Boris, the Soviet army unit in strategy game Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge
• Boris, the villain from the Adventures of Tintin series’ 1956 book The Calculus Affair
• Boris Tepes Dracula from the Shaman King series

See also