Scientists and Mathematicians
- Gabdulkhay Akhatov - linguist, Professor
- Renat Akchurin - cardiologist who performed the quadruple bypass surgery on President Boris Yeltsin in 1996
- Rifkat Bogdanov - Mathematician
- Nighmat Ibrahimov - Lobachevsky's teacher and the author of the text of the popular Russian folk song "Vo pole berezon'ka stoyala"
- Shigabetdin Marjani - Muslim theologian and historian
- Gilem Kamay - chemist, one of the first Tatar professors of Kazan University
- Kayum Nasyri - influential writer (18th century), scientist
- Roald Sagdeev - nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (1973–1988)
- Myakzyum Salakhov - physicist, Professor
- Rashid Syunaev - astrophysicist
- Albert Galeev - nuclear physicist, former Director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow (1988–2002)
- Kamil Valiev - member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, physicist
- Haroun Tazieff - vulcanologist and geologist (Tatar father)
- Vil Mirzayanov - chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA
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