List of Chuvashes

A Chuvash is a member of the Chuvash people, an ethnic group living in Russia.

Leaders and politicians

Daniil Elmen

Military figures

Vasily Chapayev

Religious figures

Academic figures

Ivan Yakovlev (educator).

Educators

  • Ivan Yakovlev (1848–1930) - Chuvash patriarch, inventor of modern Chuvash alphabet.
  • Gennady Volkov (1927–2010) - Chuvash educator, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, founder of the ethnopedagogics.

Linguists

Atner Husankaj
  • Atner Husankaj (b. 1948) - linguist and philologist, first president of Chuvash National Congress. Son of poet Petĕr Husankaj.

Journalists

  • Nikolai Yut - Chuvash writer, folklorist and literary critic.

Cultural figures

Actors and actresses

  • Tany Youne (1903–1977) - first Chuvash theater actress, the first Chuvash film actress.
  • Boris Markov - actor, famous music director, People's Artist of the Russia and Chuvash ASSR.

Architects

  • Pyotr Yegorov (1731–1789) - author of the railing of Summer Garden.

Ballet dancers

Musicians

Painters

Sculptors

  • Gerasim Pileš (1913–1994) - writer, playwright, sculptor and graphicist.

Writers and poets

Mišši Śeśpĕl

Other figures

Cosmonauts

Sportspersons

See also

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