List of people with given name Boris

This is a list of people with given name Boris, sorted by surname.

Aristocracy

Boris I of Bulgaria (died 889), first ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire
Boris II of Bulgaria (931–977), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire
Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943), ruler of the Kingdom of Bulgaria
Boris Godunov (1552–1605), Tsar of Russia
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877–1943)
Boris and Gleb (murdered c. 1015 to 1019), Russian princes, the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after its Christianization
Boris Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (born 1997), Prince of Tarnovo, Duke in Saxony, pretender to the defunct Bulgarian throne

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Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1905–1994), Soviet composer
Boris Aleksandrov (ice hockey) (1955–2002), Soviet and Kazakhstani ice hockey player

B

Boris Barnet (1902–1965), Soviet film director
Boris Becker (born 1967), German professional tennis player
Boris Bede (born 1989), French player of gridiron football
Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (1946–2013), Russia's first billionaire businessman
Boris Berezovsky (pianist) (born 1969), Russian pianist
Boris Berman (chekist) (1901–1939), Soviet NKVD member active during the Great Purge
Boris Berman (journalist) (born 1948), Russian journalist and broadcaster
Boris Berman (musician) (born 1948), Russian pianist
Boris Bizetić (born 1950), Serbian singer and songwriter
Boris Blank (born 1952), Swiss artist and musician
Boris Bobrinskoy (1925–2020), French priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Boris Böhmann (born 1964), German conductor and composer
Boris Bondarev (born 1980), Russian diplomat
Boris Brejcha (born 1981), German DJ and music producer

C

Boris Casoy (born 1941), Brazilian journalist
Boris Christoff (1914–1993), Bulgarian opera singer

D

Boris Daenen (born 1989), stage name Netsky, electronic music producer and DJ
Boris Davison (1908–1961), Russian-born Canadian mathematical physicist
Boris Diaw (born 1982), French basketball player
Boris Dlugosch (born 1968), house music producer
Boris Dvornik (1939–2008), Croatian actor
Boris Drangov (1872–1917), Bulgarian colonel and warfare pedagogue

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Boris Ebzeyev (born 1950), Russian politician and judge

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Boris Ford (1917–1998), British literary critic and educationalist
Boris Furlan (1894–1957), Slovenian jurist and politician

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Boris Gardiner (born 1943), Jamaican singer-songwriter and bass guitarist
Boris Gelfand (born 1968), Israeli chess grandmaster
Boris Gromov (born 1943), Russian military and political figure, Governor of Moscow Oblast, one of the principal commanders of Soviet-Afghan War
Boris M. Gombač (born 1945), Slovenian historian
Boris Grebenshchikov (born 1953), Russian singer-songwriter; band leader of Aquarium
Boris Grishayev (1925–1999), Soviet marathon runner
Boris Gryzlov (born 1950), Russian politician, Interior Minister, Speaker of the State Duma, one of the leaders of United Russia
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (1937–2020), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1931) (1931–1995), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler

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Boris Henry (born 1973), German javelin thrower
Boris Hoppek (born 1970), German contemporary artist
Boris Hybner (1941–2016), Czech actor, director, and mime artist

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Boris Izaguirre (born 1965), Venezuelan writer, TV host, screenwriter, journalist and showman

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Boris Jacobsohn (1918–1966), American physicist
Boris Johnson (born 1964), British politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
Boris Jordan (born 1966), American investor involved in the privatization in Russia in the early 1990s
Boris Jovanović (born 1972), Serbian footballer

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Boris Kagarlitsky (born 1958), Russian academic and political dissident
Boris Kalin (1905–1975), Slovenian sculptor
Boris Karloff (1887–1969), English actor; appeared in many horror films
Boris Khmelnitsky (1940–2008), Russian actor
Boris Kidrič (1912–1953), Slovenian communist official and resistance leader
Boris Klyuyev (1944–2020), Russian actor
Boris Kodjoe (born 1973), American actor
Boris Kollár (born 1965), Slovakian businessman and politician
Boris Kravtsov (born 1922), Russian jurist and politician
Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), Russian artist and painter
Boris Kočí (born 1964), Czech football player
Boris Krajný (born 1945), Czech pianist

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Boris Lushniak, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral who served as the acting Surgeon General of the United States
Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895–1968), Ukrainian composer

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Boris Maciejovsky, Austrian behavioral scientist
Boris Marian (born 1934), Moldovan writer, translator, journalist and Soviet dissident
Boris Messerer (born 1933), Soviet and Russian theater artist, set designer and teacher
Boris Miletić (born 1975), Croatian politician and mayor of Pula
Boris Mikšić (born 1948), Croatian businessman and politician

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Boris Nachamkin (1933–2018), American basketball player
Boris Nayfeld (born 1947), Belarusian gangster
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015), Russian scientist and politician

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Boris Ord (1897–1961), British organist and choirmaster

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Boris Pahor (1913–2022), Slovenian writer
Boris Paichadze (1915–1990), Georgian football player
Boris Palmer (born 1972), German politician
Boris Pash (1900–1995), United States Army military intelligence officer
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Soviet author; recipient, 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
Boris Perušič (born 1940), Czech volleyball player
Boris Petrovsky (1908–2004), Russian surgeon and Soviet minister of health
Boris Plotnikov (1949–2020), Russian actor
Boris Podrecca (born 1940), Slovenian-Italian architect
Boris Polak (born 1954), Israeli world champion and Olympic sport shooter
Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origins
Boris Zeebroek (born 1985), Belgian musician under the alias Bolis Pupul

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Boris Razinsky (1933–2012), Soviet Olympic footballer and manager
Boris Roatta (1980–1994), French child actor
Boris Rösner (1951–2006), Czech actor

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Boris Said (born 1962), American race car driver
Boris Sarafov (1872–1907), Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary
Boris Shcherbina (1919–1990), Ukrainian Soviet politician who supervised the crisis management of both the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake
Boris Serebryakov (1941–1971), Soviet serial killer and mass murderer known as the "Kuybyshev Monster"
Boris Shaposhnikov (1882–1945), Soviet Russian general, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, and Marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the principal commanders on the Eastern Front and the Battle of Moscow
Count Boris Sheremetev (1652–1719), Russian diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War
Boris Sidis (1867–1923), Ukrainian psychiatrist
Boris Spassky (1937–2025), Russian chess player
Boris Starling, British novelist and screenwriter
Boris Stürmer (1848–1917), Russian lawyer, Master of Ceremonies at the Russian Court, member of the Russian Assembly, Prime Minister of Russia, Minister of Internal Affairs and Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire
Boris Susko (born 1970), Slovak politician
Borys Szyc (born 1978), Polish actor

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Boris Tadić (born 1958), Yugoslav-Serb politician, President of Serbia from 2004 to 2012
Borys Tarasyuk (born 1949), Ukrainian politician
Boris Titulaer (born 1980), Dutch singer
Boris Trajkovski (1956–2004), politician, President of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004

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Boris Vallejo (born 1941), Peruvian-American fantasy artist
Boris van der Ham (born 1973), Dutch politician and actor
Boris Verho, Finnish poet
Boris Vladimirov (1905–1978), Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union
Boris Vian (1920–1959), French polymath
Boris Volosatîi (born 1956), Moldovan professor and member of the Parliament of Romania

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Boris Williams (born 1951), British musician; former member of The Cure

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Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), Soviet-Russian politician; first President of Russia

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Boris Žabka (born 1977), Slovak ice hockey coach
Boris Zaitchouk (born 1947), Soviet hammer thrower
Boris Zeisser (born 1968), Dutch architect
Boris Zhukov (born 1959), stage name for American professional wrestler James Kirk Harrell
Boris Živković (born 1975), Croatian footballer

Fictional characters

Boris Badenov, the main antagonist in the 1960s animated cartoons The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Boris Bushkin, in the cartoon M.A.S.K. (TV series)
Boris Drubetskoy, an army officer in Leo Tolstoy's novel War And Peace
Boris Grishenko, Russian hacker working for terrorists in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
Boris Grushenko, the main character in the film Love and Death, played by Woody Allen
Boris Kropotkin, Jewish character in the television show Rugrats
Boris Pavlikovsky, in Donna Tartt's 2013 novel The Goldfinch
Boris Podgorny, in Steven Spielberg's 2022 film The Fabelmans
Boris the Animal, main antagonist in the science fiction film Men in Black 3
Boris "the Blade" Yurinov, an arms dealer in the film Snatch
Boris the wolf, a character from the episodic puzzle horror video game Bendy and the Ink Machine
Boris, a redfish in the eponymous Italian TV series
Boris, mightiest of the Warriors of Loathing in the Times of Old, from the internet game Kingdom of Loathing
Boris, in the Canadian television series Caillou and the father of the titular character
Boris, the Borzoi in the Lady and the Tramp animated film
Boris, the Russian goose in the Balto movies
Boris, the Soviet army unit in strategy game Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
Boris, the villain from the Adventures of Tintin series' 1956 book The Calculus Affair
Boris Tepes Dracula from the Shaman King series

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