Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Óblast de Kostromá

Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev, also spelled Sergey Pugachyov, is an ex-Russian investor and former member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle. He is a Doctor of Technical Sciences and a member of the International Engineering Academy as well as the author of three monographs and 40 research papers.

Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.

Dmitri Konstantínovich Beliáyev (1917-1985) fue un científico ruso que trabajó como Director del Instituto de Citología y Genética (IC&G) de la Academia rusa de las Ciencias entre 1959 y 1985 e hizo importantes contribuciones a la restauración y el avance de la investigación genética en la URSS.

Yelena Borisovna Mizulina is a Russian politician serving as a member of the Russian Parliament between 1995 and 2003 and again since 2007. Since 2012, she has been the center of attention in regard to a set of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She is currently Chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs. She has changed her political affiliation several times, having served public office on behalf of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties and is currently representing the region of Omsk in the Duma as a representative of the social democratic A Just Russia party.

Dmitri Grigórievich Pávlov. Fue un militar soviético que luchó en la Guerra Civil Española, enviado por la URSS como apoyo al bando republicano. Iniciada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, fue el comandante en jefe a cargo del sector central del Frente Oeste durante los primeros días de la invasión alemana de la Unión Soviética, en junio de 1941. General del ejército (1941), Héroe de la Unión Soviética (1937).

Saint Philip II of Moscow was a Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account. He is venerated as a saint and martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, once a member of the Petrashevsky Circle.

Román Valentínovich Kopin es el gobernador en funciones del Distrito autónomo de Chukotka, en la Rusia asiática. Sucedió a Roman Abramovich en julio de 2008 tras la dimisión al cargo de este.

Alexandr Viacheslávovich Gólubev –en ruso, Александр Вячеславович Голубев– es un deportista ruso que compitió en patinaje de velocidad sobre hielo.