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Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt is a German cognitive neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, known for multimodal brain mapping, connectomics, and neuroimaging of epilepsy and autism.
Boris Chicherin
Boris Chicherin (Борис Николаевич Чичерин, 1828–1904) was a Russian jurist, historian, and philosopher who founded the state school of Russian historiography and served as Moscow's city head from 1881 to 1883.
Boris D. Lubachevsky
Boris D. Lubachevsky was a Soviet-trained computer scientist at AT&T Bell Labs known for bounded-lag synchronization in parallel discrete-event simulation and the Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm for dense random particle packings.
Boris Delaunay
Boris Delaunay, born Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, was a Soviet mathematician in the geometry of numbers and algebra, known for the Delaunay triangulation from his 1934 paper Sur la sphère vide.
Boris Derjaguin
Boris Derjaguin, fully Boris Vladimirovich Derjaguin (1902–1994), was a Soviet physical chemist who founded modern colloid and surface science, known for DLVO theory, disjoining pressure, and the Derjaguin approximation.
Boris Diaw
Boris Diaw, French basketball forward-center (born 1982), NBA 2003-17 with Hawks, Suns, Bobcats, Spurs, Jazz; 2006 Most Improved Player, 2014 NBA champion, EuroBasket 2013 gold with France; retired 2018.
Boris Dubrovsky
Boris Yakovlevich Dubrovsky (Борис Яковлевич Дубровский, 1939–2023), Soviet rower, won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold in men's double sculls with Oleg Tyurin; also 1962 world silver and three European medals. Not the Chelyabinsk governor.
Boris Ephrussi
Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979) was a Russian-born geneticist who spent his career in France and the United States, discovered the petite mutation in yeast, and opened mitochondrial genetics.
Boris Epshteyn
Boris Epshteyn, Moscow-born American lawyer and Trump adviser: 2016 campaign surrogate, Sinclair commentator, White House communications aide, alternate-elector strategist arraigned in Arizona 2024, and personal senior counsel since January 2025.
Boris Gnedenko
Boris Gnedenko, also known as Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, was a Soviet mathematician who proved the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko extreme value theorem in 1943 and led probability at Moscow State University.
Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов) (opera)
Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов), Mussorgsky's only completed opera, on the guilty tsar and the Russian people; 1869 version rejected, 1872 version premiered 1874, Rimsky-Korsakov edition standard from 1896.
Boris Godunov (Борис Фёдорович Годунов)
Boris Godunov (Борис Фёдорович Годунов), c. 1551–1605, was tsar of Russia 1598–1605, the first elected Russian monarch; former de facto ruler under Fedor, his reign saw the 1589 patriarchate, the 1597 serfdom decree, and the famine that opened the Time of Troubles.
Boris Grekov
Boris Grekov (Борис Греков), 1882 to 1953, was a Soviet historian of medieval Russia who directed the Academy of Sciences' Institute of History from 1937 to 1953.
Boris Grigoriev
Boris Grigoriev, full name Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (Борис Григорьев), was a Russian painter of the School of Paris, known for psychological portraits and the peasant cycle Raseya.
Boris Gulyayev
Boris Gulyayev (Борис Иванович Гуляев, born 1941) is a Soviet speed skater, 1964 Olympic 500 m 15th, five-time world 500 m champion, and 500 m world record holder (39.03, Medeo, January 1970).
Boris Gurevich (olympedia 60469)
Boris Maksovich Gurevich (Борис Максович Гуревич, 1931–1995), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, first Soviet Olympic wrestling champion (1952 Helsinki flyweight gold), World champion 1953 and 1958; distinct from the 1968 freestyle champion Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich.
Boris Gurevich (olympedia 60470)
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (Борис Михайлович Гуревич, 1937–2020), Soviet Ukrainian freestyle wrestler, 1968 Olympic middleweight champion, world champion 1967 and 1969; distinct from the 1931-born Greco-Roman wrestler of the same name.
Boris I of Bulgaria
Boris I of Bulgaria (Борис I), baptized Michael, ruled Bulgaria from 852 to 889 and converted his country to Christianity, founding its Slavonic literary culture.
Boris I. Shraiman
Boris I. Shraiman is an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara who applies statistical physics to biology, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Boris I. Yakobson
Boris I. Yakobson is a materials scientist holding the Karl F. Hasselmann Chair at Rice University since 1999, known for carbon nanotube mechanics and 2D materials theory, including borophene.
Boris III of Bulgaria
Boris III (1894–1943), tsar of Bulgaria 1918–1943, succeeded his father Ferdinand after the WWI defeat and Neuilly treaty. He led a royal dictatorship from 1935, joined the Axis, recovered southern Dobruja, and died mysteriously in 1943 amid the contested record of saving Bulgaria's Jews while deporting over 11,000 from Macedonia and Thrace.
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson (Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson), British Conservative politician and journalist; UK Prime Minister 2019–2022, Foreign Secretary 2016–2018, London mayor 2008–2016; delivered Brexit, led the Covid response, resigned over Partygate and the Pincher scandal.
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt and known as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor (1887–1969) who played the monster in Frankenstein (1931) and starred in The Mummy (1932).
Boris Khrolovich
Boris Khrolovich (Борис Антонович Хролович, born 16 April 1936) is a Belarusian-born Soviet race walker, 7th in the 20 km walk at Tokyo 1964, 1963 USSR champion, and 1966 two-hour walk world best holder (26,657 m).
Boris Kodjoe
Boris Kodjoe (born 1973, Vienna) is a German-Ghanaian actor known for Soul Food, Brown Sugar, Resident Evil, and Captain Robert Sullivan on ABC's Station 19, plus Full Circle Africa and Sophie's Voice Foundation.
Boris Kokorev
Boris Kokorev (Борис Борисович Кокорев, 1959-2018), Russian pistol shooter, five-time Olympian, won 50 m free pistol gold at Atlanta 1996 with an Olympic final record 666.4; also multiple World Cup and European champion.
Boris Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов)
Boris Aleksandrovich Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов, 1937–1961), Soviet Navy engineer-lieutenant and remote-control group commander aboard submarine K-19, died of radiation exposure after leading the 4 July 1961 reactor repair; posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin.
Boris Koretsky
Boris Koretsky (Борис Николаевич Корецкий), born 1961, Soviet foil fencer; 1988 Seoul Olympic team foil gold, 1989 world team foil gold, 1985 and 1990 world team bronze; not the French mountain biker Victor Koretzky.
Boris Kurakin
Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (Борис Иванович Куракин, 1676–1727) was a Russian diplomat of the Petrine era and a companion and relative by marriage of Peter I.
Boris Kustodiev
Boris Kustodiev (Борис Кустодиев) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, and theater designer, 1878 to 1927, best known for festive images of fairs, Maslenitsa, and merchant women.