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Andrey Khomutov

Andrey (Andrei) Khomutov, Андрей Хомутов, born 1961 in Yaroslavl, Soviet and Russian ice hockey right winger: three Olympic golds, seven world titles, CSKA Moscow and HC Fribourg-Gottéron star, IIHF Hall of Fame 2014.

Andrey Kolmogorov (Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров)

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров, 1903–1987) was a Soviet mathematician who axiomatized probability theory and made fundamental contributions to turbulence, dynamical systems, and information theory.

Andrey Koreshkov

Andrey Koreshkov (Андрей Корешков), 'Spartan', Russian welterweight MMA fighter from Omsk, born 1990; former Bellator welterweight champion who beat Douglas Lima and Benson Henderson, won two Bellator tournaments, later fought in the PFL.

Andrey Kovalenko

Andrey Nikolayevich Kovalenko (Андрей Николаевич Коваленко), born 1970 in Balakovo, Russian ice hockey right wing nicknamed the Russian Tank; 1992 Olympic gold and 1998 silver, nine NHL seasons, later KHL players' union chairman; distinct from the water polo player and swimmer of the same name.

Andrey Kovatchev

Andrey Kovatchev, born in 1967 in Sofia, is a Bulgarian GERB politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 and a Quaestor of the Parliament.

Andrey Krylov

Andrey Ivanovich Krylov (Андрей Иванович Крылов), Soviet freestyle swimmer born 1956 in St. Petersburg; 1976 and 1980 Olympian with one gold and three silver medals, later a coach and university sports administrator.

Andrey Kulbachinskiy

Andrey Kulbachinskiy (Кульбачинский) is a Russian molecular biologist who heads the RNA Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, known for work on bacterial Argonaute proteins.

Andrey Kursanov

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov was a Soviet plant physiologist and biochemist who directed the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology for 37 years and developed a doctrine of assimilate transport in plants.

Andrey Lavrov

Andrey Lavrov (Андрей Иванович Лавров) is a retired Russian handball goalkeeper, born 1962 in Krasnodar, who won Olympic gold with three different teams in 1988, 1992, and 2000.

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.