All articles starting with B

Boris Savinkov

Boris Savinkov (Борис Савинков), pen name V. Ropshin, was a Russian revolutionary terrorist and Socialist-Revolutionary leader who took part in the assassinations of Pleve and Grand Duke Sergei in 1904 and 1905.

Boris Selitsky

Boris Selitsky (Борис Сергеевич Селицкий, born 22 September 1938) is a Soviet weightlifter, 1968 Olympic, World, and European light-heavyweight champion, later a coach in Leningrad.

Boris Senior

Boris Senior (1923–2012) was a Ukraine-born pediatric endocrinologist, professor at Tufts University in Boston, known for describing Senior-Loken syndrome and functional tests for glycogen storage diseases.

Boris Shakhlin

Boris Shakhlin (Борис Анфіянович Шахлін), Soviet gymnast (1932-2008) nicknamed the Man of Iron; 13 Olympic medals with 7 golds across 1956-1964 and 1960 all-around champion.

Boris Shcherbina (Борис Евдокимович Щербина)

Boris Shcherbina (Борис Евдокимович Щербина, 1919–1990), Soviet deputy premier, Tyumen obkom first secretary who built West Siberian oil and gas, chaired the government commission managing Chernobyl and told the Politburo RBMK reactors were inherently dangerous.

Boris Sheremetev

Boris Sheremetev, also known as Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (Борис Петрович Шереметев), was a Russian general field marshal and diplomat under Peter the Great, made the first count of Russia in 1706.

Boris Shilkov

Boris Shilkov (Борис Арсеньевич Шилков, 1927-2015), Soviet speed skater, 1956 Olympic 5,000 m champion (7:48.7 OR) and 1954 world all-round champion; set the 5,000 m world record 7:45.6 at Medeo in 1955, unbeaten until 1963; later head coach of the USSR team.

Boris Shklovskii

Boris Shklovskii (Шкловский Борис Ионович), born 1944, is a condensed-matter physicist at the University of Minnesota, best known for the Coulomb gap and the Efros–Shklovskii hopping law.

Boris Shukhov

Boris Shukhov (Борис Хабалович Шухов), born 1947, Soviet road cyclist; 1972 Munich Olympic gold and 1970 Leicester world champion in the 100 km team time trial; first Olympic champion from Kabardino-Balkaria.

Boris Sokolov (paleontologist)

Boris Sokolov, or Boris Sergeevich Sokolov (1914–2013), was a Russian paleontologist and stratigrapher who founded Precambrian paleontology and defined the Vendian system, winning the Lenin Prize.

Boris Spassky (Борис Васильевич Спасский)

Boris Spassky (Борис Васильевич Спасский, 1937–2025), Soviet-French grandmaster, tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972); beat Petrosian 1969, lost the 1972 'Match of the Century' to Fischer 12½–8½ in Reykjavik.

Sep 27, 2026

Boris Šťastný

Boris Šťastný is a Czech politician, physician, and health care manager of the Motorists for Themselves party, serving as Minister of Sport, Prevention and Health and chairing its parliamentary group.

Boris Striepen

Boris Striepen is a parasitologist and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Pennsylvania whose lab pioneered genetic manipulation of Cryptosporidium, a leading cause of childhood diarrhea.

Boris Stürmer

Boris Stürmer (Борис Владимирович Штюрмер) was a Russian statesman of German descent who served as prime minister of the Russian Empire under Nicholas II from January to November 1916.

Sep 27, 2026

Boris Susko

Boris Susko is a Slovak politician of the Smer-SD party who serves as Minister of Justice of Slovakia in the government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Boris Svistunov

Boris Svistunov, born in 1959, is a condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on superfluidity, supersolidity, and the worm algorithm.

Boris Tabakoff

Boris Tabakoff is a neuropharmacologist and behavioral geneticist at the University of Colorado known for research on the genetics and biological markers of alcoholism risk.

Boris Tatushin

Boris Tatushin (Борис Георгиевич Татушин, 1933–1998), Soviet right winger for Spartak Moscow and the USSR national team, 1956 Melbourne Olympic football champion, disqualified in the 1958 Streltsov affair until 1961.

Boris Tereshchuk

Boris Tereshchuk (Борис Павлович Терещук), Soviet volleyball setter born 1945 in Kyiv, died 2011; 1968 Olympic champion with the USSR, 1971 European champion, later Honored Coach of the USSR.

Boris Trakhtenbrot

Boris Trakhtenbrot (Борис Трахтенброт), known in Israel as Boaz Trakhtenbrot, was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician and founding father of theoretical computer science who worked at Novosibirsk and Tel Aviv University.

Boris Tsirelson

Boris Tsirelson (Борис Цирельсон, 1950–2020) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University known for Tsirelson's bound in quantum mechanics and Tsirelson's space in Banach space theory.

Sep 27, 2026

Boris Vallaud

Boris Vallaud, born 1975 in Beirut, is a French Socialist politician who has been deputy for the Landes since 2017 and leads the Socialist group in the National Assembly.

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo, also signed simply "Boris", is a Peruvian-born American fantasy painter (born 1941, Lima) famed for Tarzan, Conan, and Doc Savage covers, oil technique, collaboration and 1994 marriage to Julie Bell, and 2026 retirement.

Boris Vannikov

Boris Lvovich Vannikov (Борис Львович Ванников, 1897 to 1962) was a Soviet colonel-general who headed the armaments and ammunition commissariats during World War II and directed the Soviet atomic bomb project from 1945 to 1953.

Oct 22, 2026

Boris Vian

Boris Vian was a French novelist, jazz trumpeter, and songwriter, author of L'Écume des jours (1947) and, as Vernon Sullivan, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes.

Boris Vilkitsky

Boris Andreevich Vilkitsky (Борис Андреевич Вилькицкий) was a Russian naval officer and hydrographer who discovered Severnaya Zemlya in 1913 and led the first east-to-west through voyage of the Northern Sea Route, 1914–1915.

Boris Weisfeiler

Boris Weisfeiler (Борис Юльевич Вейсфейлер) was a Soviet-born group theorist at Penn State who co-invented the Weisfeiler–Leman graph isomorphism test and disappeared while hiking in Chile in January 1985.

Sep 20, 2026

Boris Worm

Boris Worm is a German marine ecologist and conservation biologist, a professor of biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax since 2004, known for studies of global fisheries decline.

Boris Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин)

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин), first president of Russia 1991–1999, ex-Sverdlovsk party chief; won the 1991 election with 57.30%, dissolved parliament by Decree 1400 in 1993, resigned 31 December 1999 in favor of Putin.