Tatars - Famous Tatars

Famous Tatars

• Gabdulkhay Akhatov, scientist, linguist.
• Marat Kabaev, footbaler and coach
• Aliya Garayeva, rhythmic gymnast
• Ğabdulla Tuqay, classic of the Tatar literature, a critic and a publisher.
• Hadi Taqtaş, Soviet Tatar poet, writer and publicist.
• Ğäliäsğar Kamal, Tatar writer, dramatist and playwright. Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre is named after him.
• Ayaz İshaki, eading figure of the Tatar national movement, author, journalist, publisher and politician.
• Sadri Maksudi Arsal, prominent Tatar and Turkish statesman, scholar and thinker.
• Yusuf Akçura, prominent Tatar activist and ideologue of Turanism in the late Ottoman Empire.
• Musa Cälil, he is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting, and the Lenin Prize for authoring The Moabit Notebooks; both the awards were awarded to him posthumously.
• Sara Sadíqova, actress, singer (soprano), and composer.
• Marat Safin, tennis player and politician.
• Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast.
• Irina Shayk, Russian model (was born to ethnic Tatar father and Russian mother).