# List of people with given name Boris

Boris is a given name (see: Boris (given name)).
This is a list of people with given name Boris, sorted by surname.

## Rulers, nobles and saints

* Knyaz Boris I of Bulgaria (?–889), canonized after his death
* Tsar Boris II (931–977), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire
* Tsar Boris III (1894–1943), ruler of the Kingdom of Bulgaria
* Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia
* Boris and Gleb, Russian princes; murdered 1015; first Russian saints
* Boris, Prince of Turnovo

## A

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

## B

* Boris Barnet, Soviet film director
* Boris Becker (born 1967), German professional tennis player
* Boris Bede, French player of gridiron football
* Boris Berezovsky (pianist) (born 1969), Russian pianist
* Boris Berezovsky (businessman) 1946–2013, Russia's first billionaire businessman
* Boris Berman (born 1948), Russian pianist
* Boris Bizetić (born 1950), Serbian singer and songwriter
* Boris Blank, Swiss artist and musician
* Boris Böhmann (born 1964), German conductor and composer
* Boris Bondarev (born 1980), Russian diplomat
* Boris Brejcha, German DJ and music producer

## C

* Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer

## D

* Boris Daenen, electronic music producer and DJ known as Netsky
* Boris Davison, mathematical physicist
* Boris Diaw, French basketball player
* Boris Dlugosch, house music producer
* Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor
* Boris Drangov, Bulgarian colonel and warfare pedagogue

## E

* Boris Ebzeyev, Karachay politician and judge, president of Karachay–Cherkessia and one of the principal commanders of Insurgency in the North Caucasus

## F

* Boris Ford, British literary critic and educationalist
* Boris Furlan, Slovenian jurist and politician

## G

* Boris Gardiner, Jamaican singer-songwriter and bass guitarist
* Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster
* Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries
* Boris Gromov, Russian military and political figure, Governor of Moscow Oblast, one of the principal commanders of Soviet-Afghan War
* Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
* Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter; band leader of Aquarium
* Boris Grishayev, Soviet marathon runner
* Boris Gryzlov, 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

## H

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

## J

* 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

## K

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

## L

* Boris Lushniak, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral who served as the acting Surgeon General of the United States
* Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer

## M

* 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, Croatian businessman and politician

## N

* Boris Nachamkin (1933–2018), American basketball player
* Boris Nayfeld, Belarusian gangster
* Boris Nemtsov, Russian scientist and politician

## O

* Boris Ord, British organist and choirmaster

## P

* Boris Pahor (1913–2022), Slovenian writer
* Boris Paichadze, Georgian football player
* Boris Palmer (born 1972), German politician
* Boris Pasternak, 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

## R

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

## S

* Boris Said, American race car driver
* Boris Sarafov, Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary
* Boris Shcherbina, Ukrainian Soviet politician who supervised the crisis management of both the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake
* Boris Serebryakov, Soviet serial killer and mass murderer known as the "Kuybyshev Monster"
* Boris Shaposhnikov, 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, Russian diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War
* Boris Sidis, 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, Polish actor

## T

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

## U-V

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

## W

* Boris Williams, British musician; former member of The Cure

## X-Y

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

## Z

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