Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998) — cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union
Ilya Bryzgalov (1980) — Russian hockey player, goalkeeper, world champion, Stanley Cup winner
Natalya Varley (1947) — actress, honored artist of the RSFSR
Svetlana Kryuchkova (1950) — a theater and film actress, people’s artist of RSFSR
Otar Kushanashvili (1970) — journalist
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), a German writer (“Three comrades”, “triumphal arch”)