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Boris Kuznetsov (olympedia 8511)
Boris Georgiyevich Kuznetsov (Борис Георгиевич Кузнецов), Soviet featherweight boxer, 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist who beat Philip Waruinge 3-2; two-time USSR champion, 1974 world silver medalist, 237-249 amateur record.
Boris Lagutin
Boris Lagutin (Борис Николаевич Лагутин, 1938–2022), Soviet light-middleweight amateur boxer, two-time Olympic champion (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968), bronze at Rome 1960, 287 wins in 298 bouts, later Soviet boxing federation chairman.
Boris Levitan
Boris Moiseevich Levitan (Левитан Борис Моисеевич; 1914–2004) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, co-creator of the Gelfand–Levitan method and winner of the 1962 Lenin Prize.
Boris Magaš
Boris Magaš (1930–2013), Croatian architect and architecture theorist, HAZU academician. Designer of Poljud Stadium in Split, Solaris and Haludovo hotels, Mihaljevac kindergarten, and author of Arhitektura (2012).
Boris Magasanik
Boris Magasanik (1919–2013) was an American microbiologist and biochemist, the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus at MIT, best known for working out how bacteria sense and respond to nitrogen availability.
Boris Martinac
Boris Martinac is a German-trained Australian biophysicist who recorded the first mechanosensitive ion channels of E. coli in 1987, work credited by the 2021 Nobel Committee.
Boris Mayorov
Boris Mayorov (Борис Александрович Майоров, born 1938) is a Soviet ice hockey forward, Spartak Moscow captain and USSR national captain, two-time Olympic champion 1964 and 1968, later coach of Spartak and Jokerit and IIHF Hall of Famer.
Boris Melnikov
Boris Melnikov (Борис Борисович Мельников, 1938–2022), Soviet sabre fencer from Leningrad; won 1964 Tokyo Olympic team sabre gold, world team titles 1965 and 1967, later coach and referee.
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov, born 25 August 1938 in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian photographer and Hasselblad and Deutsche Börse prize winner whose series Case History documented homelessness in post-Soviet Kharkiv.
Boris Mikhaylov
Boris Mikhaylov (Борис Петрович Михайлов), born 1944 in Moscow, Soviet ice hockey right wing and captain of CSKA and the USSR national team; two-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976), eight-time world champion, Soviet-era record 428 league goals, and coach of Russia's 1993 world title.
Boris Morozov
Boris Morozov (Борис Иванович Морозов, around 1590 to 1661) tutored Tsar Alexis and led the Russian government from 1645 until the Salt Riot of 1648 forced his removal.
Boris Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов)
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов), Russian physicist, Nizhny Novgorod governor and Yeltsin-era deputy prime minister turned Putin critic, co-led PARNAS and Solidarity; assassinated 27 February 2015 on Moscow's Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Boris Nikitin
Boris Vasilyevich Nikitin (Борис Васильевич Никитин), Soviet freestyle swimmer from Tbilisi (1938-1984); 1956 Olympic 4x200 m relay bronze medalist, 1956 world record holder, and 1958 European relay champion.
Boris Onishchenko
Boris Onishchenko (Борис Онищенко), Soviet modern pentathlete born 1937 in Ukraine; 1972 Olympic team gold and individual silver; disqualified at Montreal 1976 for a rigged épée with a hidden touch button, banned for life.
Boris Pash
Boris Pash (Boris Pashkovsky, 1900–1995), US Army intelligence colonel who ran Manhattan Project counterintelligence at Berkeley and commanded the Alsos Mission, capturing the Haigerloch lab and Werner Heisenberg in 1945.
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (Борис Пастернак), 1890–1960, Russian poet, translator, and author of Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго); won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature and was forced by Soviet authorities to decline it.
Boris Pilnyak
Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк), born Boris Andreyevich Vogau, was a leading Russian Soviet prose writer of the 1920s, best known for The Naked Year and executed in 1938.
Boris Pistorius
Boris Pistorius (born 1960) is a German politician of the SPD who has served as Federal Minister of Defence since 2023, after leading Osnabrück and Lower Saxony.
Boris Plotkin
Boris Isaakovich Plotkin (Борис Исаакович Плоткин; 1925–2023) was a Soviet and Israeli algebraist known for his 1966 monograph on automorphism groups and for founding universal algebraic geometry.
Boris Rajewsky
Boris Rajewsky (1893–1974) was a Ukrainian-born German biophysicist and radiologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm, later Max Planck, Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt from 1937 to 1966.
Boris Razinsky
Boris Razinsky (Борис Давидович Разинский, 1933–2012) was a Soviet football goalkeeper who won gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and spent his club career mainly with CSKA Moskva.
Boris Reizis
Boris Reizis is an immunologist who studies dendritic cell development, immune tolerance to self-DNA, and stem cell renewal, and joined the University of Chicago in 2025.
Boris Rhein
Boris Rhein is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022 and leads the CDU-SPD coalition governing the state.
Boris Rybakov
Boris Rybakov (Борис Рыбаков) was a Soviet and Russian archaeologist specializing in the early Eastern Slavs and Old Rus', who led Soviet archaeology for decades.
Boris Rybtchinski
Boris Rybtchinski (born 1971) is an Israeli materials chemist who heads the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Boris Ryzhy
Boris Ryzhy (Борис Рыжий, 1974–2001) was a Russian poet from Yekaterinburg whose verse fused classical form with the industrial Urals; he won the AntiBooker prize in 1999.
Boris Sagal
Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American director whose career spanned the 1950s through the 1970s. He died in a helicopter accident in Oregon in 1981.
Boris Sanson
Boris Sanson is a French sabre fencer, born in 1980 in Bordeaux, who won Olympic gold in the team event at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2006 World Championship.
Boris Sarafov
Boris Sarafov (Борис Сарафов, 1872–1907) was a Bulgarian army officer and revolutionary who chaired the Supreme Macedonian Committee and served on the Ilinden uprising general staff.
Boris Savchuk
Boris Savchuk (1943–1996) was a Soviet sprinter from the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine who competed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and won European Championship and indoor medals.