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Andrey Lomakin

Andrey Lomakin (Андрей Вячеславович Ломакин), Soviet-Russian ice hockey forward, 1988 Olympic gold medalist with the USSR, later Philadelphia Flyers and Florida Panthers NHL winger; died 2006 in Detroit.

Andrey Lyapchev

Andrey Lyapchev (Андрей Ляпчев) was a Bulgarian statesman from Resen in Ottoman Macedonia who served as prime minister from 1926 to 1931, leading refugee settlement and League of Nations loans.

Andrey Malyavin

Andrey Malyavin (Андрей Максимович Малявин), Russian ice hockey defenseman born 2004 in Voronezh; won boys' ice hockey gold for Russia at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics, later played OHL/WHL juniors and VHL for Molot Perm.

Andrey Markov

Andrey Andreyevich Markov (Андрей Андреевич Марков; 1856–1922) was a Russian mathematician of the St Petersburg school who created Markov chains in his 1906 paper extending the law of large numbers to dependent random variables.

Andrey Melnichenko (Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко) (industrialist)

Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko (Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко) is a Belarus-born billionaire industrialist who founded fertilizer producer EuroChem and coal producer SUEK, and was sanctioned by the EU, US, and Canada in 2022.

Andrey Moiseyev

Andrey Moiseyev (Андрей Сергеевич Моисеев), Russian modern pentathlete born 1979 in Rostov-na-Donu; won Olympic individual gold at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, first repeat champion since Lars Hall, later Russia head coach.

Andrey Nikitin (Russian transport minister)

Andrey Nikitin (born 1979) is a Russian politician serving as Minister of Transport, appointed by President Putin after Roman Starovoit's dismissal; he previously headed the Novgorod Region.

Andrey Perlov

Andrey Perlov (Андрей Борисович Перлов), born 1961 in Novosibirsk, Soviet and Unified Team race walker; 1992 Olympic 50 km walk gold medalist and former world record holder at 50 km (3:37:41) and 20 km (1:18:20).

Andrey Pushkarev

Andrey Pushkarev (born 1981) is a Russian DJ and producer known for vinyl-only deep, minimal, and dub techno, based in Lisbon after Moscow and Berlin.

Andrey Rublev (Андрей Андреевич Рублёв)

Andrey Rublev (Андрей Андреевич Рублёв), Russian tennis player, career-high No. 5, 18 ATP titles, Masters 1000 wins at Monte-Carlo 2023 and Madrid 2024, 0-10 in Grand Slam quarter-finals, mental-health advocate.

Andrey Rzhetsky

Andrey Rzhetsky is a computational biologist and geneticist, Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for biomedical text mining and genetics of complex disease.

Andrey S. Klymchenko

Andrey S. Klymchenko, also published as Andrii Klymchenko, is a Ukrainian-born chemist at CNRS and the Université de Strasbourg who designs fluorescent probes and nanoparticles for bioimaging.

Andrey Santos

Andrey Santos, Brazilian box-to-box midfielder born 2004, ex-Vasco da Gama and Chelsea, Strasbourg loan standout, joined Manchester United in July 2026 for a reported €58m as Michael Carrick's first signing; six Brazil caps.

Andrey Shabasov

Andrey Shabasov (Андрей Дмитриевич Шабасов), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1994 in St. Petersburg; 2016 Rio Olympian (200 m backstroke, 12th), double world short-course relay champion at Windsor 2016, and 2014 mixed medley relay world record holder.

Andrey Shaw

Andrey S. Shaw is a physician-scientist in immunology and kidney biology who spent 25 years at Washington University and is now at Genentech, known for co-creating the immunological synapse concept.

Andrey Sheptytsky

Andrey Sheptytsky, also known as Andrzej Szeptycki, was the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Metropolitan of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944, leading some five million faithful under seven successive regimes.

Andrey Silnov

Andrey Silnov (Андрей Сильнов), born 1984 in Shakhty, Russian high jumper, 2008 Beijing Olympic champion at 2.36 m and 2006 European champion; personal best 2.38 m; later banned four years for doping but kept his gold.

Andrey Tikhonov (mathematician)

Andrey Nikolaevich Tikhonov (Андрей Николаевич Тихонов, 1906–1993) was a Soviet mathematician known for the Tikhonov theorem in topology and for founding the theory of ill-posed problems and regularization.

Andrey Travnikov

Andrey Travnikov is a Russian politician of the United Russia party who has served as Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast since 2018, after being mayor of Vologda.

Andrey Trefilov

Andrey Trefilov (Андрей Викторович Трефилов), Russian ice hockey goaltender born 1969 in Kirovo-Chepetsk; 1992 Olympic gold and 1998 silver, 1993 world champion, 54 NHL games with Calgary, Buffalo, and Chicago.

Andrey Turchak

Andrey Turchak is a Russian politician and former general secretary of United Russia who became Head of the Altai Republic in 2024 after Putin appointed him acting head.

Andrey Tyumentsev

Andrey Tyumentsev (Андрей Алексеевич Тюменцев), Soviet-Russian handball playmaker born 1963 in Vladivostok; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold with USSR (21 goals in 6 matches), 1990 world silver, Dynamo Astrakhan and Spanish clubs.

Andrey V. Chubukov

Andrey V. Chubukov (Андрей Вадимович Чубуков) is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Minnesota who received the 2018 John Bardeen Prize for his work on unconventional superconductivity.

Andrey V. Kravtsov

Andrey V. Kravtsov (Андрей В. Кравцов) is a computational cosmologist and professor at the University of Chicago, known for the ART N-body code and the halo occupation distribution.

Andrey V. Zavialov

Andrey V. Zavialov is a molecular biologist who identified the gene for adenosine deaminase 2 and has been a principal investigator at Hainan Medical University, China, since 2022.

Andrey Vinius

Andrey Andreyevich Vinius (Андрей Андреевич Виниус, 1641–1716) was a Dutch-born Russian official who headed the postal service, the Siberian Prikaz, and the artillery under Peter I.

Andrey Vlasov

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Андрей Андреевич Власов, 1901–1946) was a Soviet Red Army lieutenant general who, captured by German forces in 1942, defected and led the Russian Liberation Army.

Andrey Vorobyov

Andrey Vorobyov is a Russian politician who serves as Governor of Moscow Oblast, the region surrounding Moscow, and chairs the State Council Commission on Data Economy.

Andrey X

Andrey X is the handle of Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a Russian-born journalist and Israeli citizen documenting West Bank settler violence, co-founder of Kompas Media, with hundreds of thousands of followers and 14 pending Israeli court cases.

Andrey Zaliznyak

Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist whose 1977 Grammatical Dictionary reorganized Russian inflection and who reconstructed the Old Novgorod dialect from birch-bark letters.