Politicians and Public Figures
- Aleksander Sulkiewicz - co-founder of the Polish Socialist Party
- Rashid Nurgaliyev - former Russia`s Minister of Internal Affairs
- Elvira Nabiullina - former Russia's Minister of Economic Development and Trade
- Mintimer Shaimiev - Tatarstan's first president
- Ravil Geniatullin - governor of the Chita region (oblast) in Russia (Tatar father)
- Ravil Gainutdin - Grand Mufti of Russia
- Felix Yusupov - Russian nobleman, Rasputin's killer (Tatar ancestry)
- Ural Latypov - high-ranking government official in Belarus, former Foreign Minister of Belarus (1998-2000)
- Rafis Kashapov - one of the leaders of the opposition in Tatarstan, head of the Tatar Public Center in Naberezhniye Chelni
- Fikryat Tabeev - former USSR's ambassador in Afghanistan, former first secretary of Tatarstan's Communist party organization
- Fauzia Bayramova - one of the leaders of the opposition in Tatarstan
- Janette Sadik-Khan - commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
- Aman Tuleyev - governor of Kemerovo oblast (half-Tatar mother)
- Sergey Farhutdinov - Ex-Governor of Sakhalin oblast, died in helicopter crash
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev - Tatar bolshevik
- Marat Khusnullin - Deputy Mayor of Moscow
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