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List of Buryats

This is a list of notable ethnic Buryats, sorted by field and last name regardless of citizenship / nationality.

Buryat ethnicity is associated with one's father's ethnicity alone. In case mother is of another ethnicity it is not specifically expressed.

Buryats are also sorted in . Territorially related are List of Mongolians, , .

Scientists

  • Byambyn Rinchen (1905–1977) — Mongolian linguist and historian, also fiction writer and poet
  • Gombojab Tsybikov (1873–1930) — early photographer of Tibet, ethnographer and historian
  • Tsyben Zhamtsarano (1881–1942) — ethnographer and historian, Corresponding Member of the Academy of the Soviet Union, also a politician in Russia and Mongolia, pan-mongolist

Writers

  • Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940) — poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
  • Sengiin Erdene (1929–2000) — novelist from Mongolia

Actors

  • Irina Pantaeva (born 1967) — model and actress in Russia, Germany, and the U.S.
  • Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972) — Russian playwright / screenwriter
  • Yul Brynner (born Yuliy Borisovich Briner, Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) — Russian-born film and stage actor of partial Buryat ancestry

Musicians

  • Namgar Lhasaranova — female singer, leader of traditional / ethno rock group Namgar

Political figures

For politicians, only highest achieved positions are given in this list.

Religious figures

  • Bidia Dandaron (1914–1974) — Buddhist teacher and writer in the Soviet Union
  • Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov (1852–1927) — mummified Buddhist leader of Siberia

Sportspeople

See also