Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States

Russian composer (1882–1971)

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)

Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

Russian occult writer (1831-1891)

American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics

American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)

Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)

American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)

Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)

American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)

American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)

Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)

Russian-American film director (1895-1980)

Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)

Prime Minister of Latvia and agronomist (1877-1942)

Russian actor and director (1891-1955)

Lithuanian-born American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)

American actor (1917–2016)

Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)

Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)

Ukrainian & American artist (1882-1967)

American gangster

Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)

American art critic and collector (1865-1959)

American/Latvian linguist (1894–1969)

American mathematician (1899–1986)

Russian-born American businessman (1891–1971)

American sculptor (1899-1988)

Russian-American physicist (1896-1966)

Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)

Russian artist (1869-1939)

Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality

Soviet Ukrainian politician (1890-1937)

American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.

American cyclist, world traveler (1870-1947)

Russian counter revolutionary (1889–1920)

Lithuanian American rabbi (1881-1983)

American Assyriologist (1897-1990)

Russian noble (1847-1923)

Russian-born American actor (1905-1967)

American painter, graphic designer and photographer of Lithuanian descent (1898–1969)

Ukrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)

American film studio executive (1878-1961)

American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)

Russian spiritual philosopher, occult writer, theosophist (1879—1955)

Russian composer (1894-1995)

American film director and producer (1886-1950)

Lithuanian-American chemist (1869-1940)

American novelist, teacher (1911-2014)

Ukrainian-born US costumer

populariser of theoretical linguistics

American violinist (1891–1967)

Russian-Jewish American writer

American photographer (1897–1990)

Lithuanan-American pilot (1896-1933)