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Dmitry Patrushev
Dmitry Patrushev is a Russian politician and son of former FSB director Nikolai Patrushev who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and previously served as Minister of Agriculture.
Dmitry Pavlov
Dmitry Pavlov, born Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov (Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов), was a Soviet general who led the Red Army's armored forces and commanded the Western Front in 1941.
Dmitry Peskov (Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков)
Dmitry Peskov (Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков) is press secretary and spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a deputy chief of the Presidential Executive Office, and the Kremlin's daily public voice, EU-sanctioned over Crimea statements.
Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог)
Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог), "The Grandmaster," Russian boxer born 1980, WBO middleweight champion 2010-2012, retired 20-0 (15 KOs) after a back injury, later a Russian State Duma deputy.
Dmitry Pisarev
Dmitry Pisarev (Дмитрий Иванович Писарев) was a Russian literary critic and materialist philosopher, leading critic of Russkoe slovo and a dominant influence on radical youth in the 1860s.
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский)
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский, 1577/1578–1642), Rurikid prince and commander of the Second Militia led with Kuzma Minin that liberated Moscow from the Polish garrison in October 1612.
Dmitry Raikov
Dmitry Raikov, full name Dmitry Abramovich Raikov (Дмитрий Абрамович Райков, 1905–1980), was a Soviet mathematician known for his decomposition theorem for the Poisson distribution and work in functional analysis.
Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев)
Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев) is a Russian-born billionaire investor who built Uralkali, sold his stake for billions, and became majority owner of the football club AS Monaco.
Dmitry Rylov
Dmitry Rylov (Дмитрий Вадимович Рылов), born 2001 in Kirov, is a Russian pair skater; with Apollinariia Panfilova he won the 2020 World Junior title and 2020 Winter Youth Olympics pairs gold, and trains in Perm. Not the swimmer Yevgeny Rylov.
Dmitry Sakunenko
Dmitry Sakunenko (Дмитрий Николаевич Сакуненко, 1930–2014), Soviet speed skater; first under 8 minutes for 5,000 m (7:54.9, Medeo 1955), all-around world record 184.638, 1956 Olympian, 1955 European bronze medalist.
Dmitry Sautin
Dmitry Sautin is a Russian diver, born in 1974 in Voronezh, who won eight Olympic medals across five Games from 1992 to 2008, the most of any male diver.
Dmitry Senyavin
Dmitry Nikolaevich Senyavin (1763 to 1831) was a Russian admiral who defeated the Turkish fleet at the battles of the Dardanelles and Athos in 1807, and later commanded the Baltic Fleet.
Dmitry Shemyaka
Dmitry Shemyaka (Дмитрий Юрьевич Шемяка) was a Moscow Rurikovich prince of Galich and Uglich who seized Moscow and blinded Vasily II in 1446, was defeated in 1450, and was poisoned in Novgorod in 1453.
Dmitry Shevchenko
Dmitry Shevchenko names several Russian athletes: foil fencer Dmitry Stepanovich Shevchenko (born 1967, 1996 Olympic team gold, 2000 bronze) and discus thrower Dmitry Igorevich Shevchenko (born 1968, 1993 world silver, three Olympiads).
Dmitry Sidorov
Dmitry Ivanovich Sidorov (1962–2016) was a Russian documentary film director and professor at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television, known for Clean Water (1993) and The Gazes. A Phenomenology (2003).
Dmitry Solovyov
Dmitry Solovyov (Дмитрий Владимирович Соловьёв), born 1989 in Moscow, Russian ice dancer with Ekaterina Bobrova; 2014 Olympic team gold, 2018 team silver, 2013 European champion, 2013 World bronze. Not the swimmer or runner of the same name.
Dmitry Svatkovsky
Dmitry Svatkovsky (Дмитрий Валерьевич Сватковский), born 1971 in Moscow, Russian modern pentathlete; 2000 Sydney Olympic individual champion, 1992 team silver, two-time world champion, later Nizhny Novgorod official and European pentathlon president.
Dmitry Temiakov
Dmitry Temiakov is a structural biologist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, known for Cell papers on mitochondrial RNA polymerase, TFB2, and TEFM.
Dmitry the Pretender
Dmitry the Pretender (Димитрий Самозванец) is a five-act tragedy in verse by Alexander Sumarokov, first performed in 1771 and the first Russian play to bring recent national history to the stage, drawing on False Dmitry I.
Dmitry Tolstoy
Dmitry Tolstoy (Дмитрий Андреевич Толстой), 1823 to 1889, was a Russian statesman who held the Synod, education, and interior posts and directed the educational counter-reforms and reaction of the 1880s.
Dmitry Torgovanov
Dmitry Torgovanov (Дмитрий Николаевич Торгованов, born 1972, Leningrad) is a Russian handball pivot, Olympic champion 2000, world champion 1993 and 1997, later coach of Neva St. Petersburg and the Russian national team.
Dmitry Trubetskoy
Dmitry Trubetskoy, or Dmitry Timofeyevich Trubetskoy (Дмитрий Трубецкой), was a Russian prince and commander who co-led the volunteer army that liberated Moscow in 1612 and was a candidate for the throne in 1613.
Dmitry Trush
Dmitry Trush (Дмитрий Владимирович Труш), born 1973, Russian artistic gymnast with Dynamo Voronezh; 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist, 1994 world and European team silver medalist, later a coach in the USA.
Dmitry Ukolov
Dmitry Ukolov (Дмитрий Матвеевич Уколов, 1929–1992), Soviet ice hockey defenseman for Spartak and CSKA Moscow; 1956 Olympic champion, 1954 and 1956 world champion, seven-time Soviet champion, Hall of Fame 2004.
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин)
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин), call sign 'Wagner', was a retired GRU lieutenant colonel and field commander of the Wagner Group, which took its name from his nom de guerre; he died in the August 2023 plane crash with Prigozhin.
Dmitry V. Bulavin
Dmitry V. Bulavin is a Russian-born biologist known for work on p38 MAPK and the Wip1 phosphatase in cancer and aging, and director of IRCAN in Nice since 2024.
Dmitry Vasilenko
Dmitry Andreyevich Vasilenko (Дмитрий Андреевич Василенко), born 1975 in Cherkessk, Russian artistic gymnast, 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist; also 1994 Worlds team silver, 1997 bronze; died 2019 of ALS. Not the short-track skater or weightlifting official of the same name.
Dmitry Vasilyev
Dmitry Vasilyev (Дмитрий Викторович Васильев), Russian ski jumper born 1979 in Ufa; two-time Olympian (2006, 2014), 5th overall in the 2008/09 World Cup, Four Hills podium finisher; distinct from the 1962-born biathlete of the same name.
Dmitry Volkov
Dmitry Volkov (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Волков), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, 1966-2025; three Olympic medals (two bronze Seoul 1988, silver Barcelona 1992) and 1990 short course 100 m breaststroke world record 59.30.
Dmitry Voskoboynikov
Dmitry Voskoboynikov (Дмитрий Вячеславович Воскобойников), Soviet volleyball player, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist; world champion 1962, World Cup 1965; Burevestnik and CSKA Moskva player, distinct from fencer Pavel Voskoboynikov.