Boris


Gender:
Origin: Slavic, Turkish
1387 famous people named Boris found on Wikipedia.
4339 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 2462-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 870-th in year 1962
Used in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Georgian, German, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene

Meanings

Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Борис; Belarusian: Барыс) is a male name of Bulgarian origin. Nowadays, it is most widely represented in Russia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. In recent generations it has also been used among speakers of Germanic (continental and Anglo-Frisian) and, to a lesser extent, Romance languages.

Slavic masc. proper name, literally "fight," from Slavic root *bor- "to fight, overcome" (from PIE root *bhorh- "hole").

From the personal name Boris, from Boroslav, combine of bor (struggle, conflict) and slav (glory). Slavic origin, means: small, battle glory, warrior. From the Turkic name Bogoris, means: short, wolf, snow leopard.

Famous People: 1387 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Boris Johnson 1964 British politician, historian and journalist
2 Boris Yeltsin 1931 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
3 Boris Kodjoe 1973 Actor
4 Boris Karloff 1887 English actor
5 Boris Spassky 1937 Russian chess player
6 Boris Diaw 1982 Professional basketball player
7 Boris Pasternak 1890 Russian writer
8 Boris Nemtsov 1959 Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
9 Boris Ehrgott 1975 French journalist
10 Boris Sagal 1923 American director, television producer
11 Boris Godunov 1552 Russian Tsar
12 Boris III of Bulgaria 1894 Tsar of Bulgaria
13 Boris McGiver 1962 American actor
14 Boris Epshteyn
15 Boris Vian 1920 French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer
16 Boris Badenov
17 Boris Rehlinger 1974 French actor
18 Boris Malenko 1933 American professional wrestler
19 Boris Pistorius 1960 German politician and jurist
20 Boris Aljinovic 1967 German actor
21 Boris Tadić 1958 Serbian politician, President of Serbia 2004–2012
22 Boris Vallejo 1941 American artist
23 Boris Weisfeiler 1942 Russian mathematician
24 Boris Akunin 1956 Russian writer
25 Boris Gardiner 1943 Jamaican musician
26 Boris Gelfand 1968 Chess player
27 Boris Lushniak United States Surgeon General
28 Boris Kustodiev 1878 Russian painter and stage designer
29 Boris Berian 1992 American athletics competitor
30 Boris Lauterbach 1974 German rapper
31 Boris Said 1962 American racing driver
32 Boris I of Bulgaria Bulgarian emperor
33 Boris Blank 1952 Swiss musician and artist
34 Boris Brejcha 1981 German DJ and music producer
35 Boris Williams 1957 English drummer
36 Boris Pugo 1937 Soviet politician
37 Boris Shaposhnikov 1882 Marshal of the Soviet Union
38 Boris Zhukov 1959 American professional wrestler
39 Boris Gryzlov 1950 Russian politician
40 Boris Tessmann 1963 German actor and voice actor
41 Boris Savinkov 1879 Russian writer
42 Boris Trajkovski 1956 President of Macedonia
43 Boris Skossyreff 1896 Russian adventurer self-declared King of Andorra
44 Boris Gromov 1943 Soviet general and politician
45 Boris Grebenshchikov 1953 Russian singer
46 Boris Reitschuster 1971 German journalist
47 Angel Boris 1974 American model and actress
48 Boris Rotenberg Sr. 1957 Russian businessman
49 Boris Garfunkel 1866 Argentinian businessperson
50 Boris Entrup 1978 German make-up artist and non-fiction writer
51 Boris Yuzhin 1942 American spy against the Soviet Union
52 Boris Malagurski 1988 Serbian-Canadian film director
53 Boris Groys 1947 Soviet art historian
54 Boris Berezovsky 1969 Russian virtuoso pianist
55 Boris Podolsky 1896 American physicist
56 Boris Bazhanov 1900 Secretary of the Soviet Union's Politburo
57 Boris Onishchenko 1937 Modern pentathlete
58 Boris Bergman 1944 British Russian actor
59 Boris Pahor 1913 Slovenian writer
60 Boris Rotenberg 1986 Footballer
61 Boris Sidis 1867 American psychiatrist
62 Boris Christoff 1914 Bulgarian bass singer
63 Boris Volynov 1934 Soviet cosmonaut
64 Boris Dolto 1899
65 Boris Stürmer 1848 Prime Minister of Russia
66 Boris Cyrulnik 1937 French psychiatrist
67 Boris Rosing 1869 Russian television pioneer
68 Boris Lennerhov 1955
69 Boris Sheremetev 1652 Russian noble
70 Boris Radunović 1996 Serbian footballer
71 Boris Eifman 1946 Russian choreographer
72 Boris Filan 1949 Slovak poet, writer and lyricist
73 Boris Pash 1900 United States Army officer
74 Boris Dvornik 1939 Croatian actor
75 Boris Pfeiffer 1964 German author
76 Boris Bizetić 1950 Serbian musician
77 Boris Gulko 1947 Chess player
78 Boris Kaufman 1906 American cinematographer
79 Boris Hagelin 1892 Swedish businessman and inventor
80 Boris Delaunay 1890 Russian mathematician
81 Boris Schneider-Johne 1966 German journalist
82 Boris Bukowski 1946 Austrian composer
83 Boris Shakhlin 1932 Gymnast
84 Boris Živković 1975 Croatian footballer
85 Boris Barnet 1902 Soviet film director, screenwriter
86 Boris Cabrera 1980 Actor
87 Boris Novković 1967 Croatian singer-songwriter
88 Boris Bidjan Saberi 1978 Fashion designer
89 Boris Titulaer 1980 Dutch singer
90 Boris Rhein 1972 German politician
91 Boris Mikhailov 1938 Ukrainian photographer
92 Boris Collardi 1974 Swiss manager
93 Boris Artzybasheff 1899 Ukrainian American illustrator
94 Boris Kagarlitsky 1958 Soviet dissident
95 Boris Morros 1891 American spy
96 Boris Yegorov 1937 Soviet cosmonaut
97 Boris Moiseev 1954 Russian singer
98 Boris Tchaikovsky 1925 Russian composer
99 Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov 1905 Composer
100 Boris Nayfeld American drug trafficker
101 Boris Giuliano 1930 Italian police officer
102 Boris Dallo 1994 French basketball player
103 Boris Savović 1987 Serbian basketball player
104 Boris Dlugosch 1968 German musician
105 Boris Galerkin 1871 Russian mathematician
106 Boris II of Bulgaria 0931 King of the Bulgarians
107 Boris Pelekh
108 Boris Tishchenko 1939 Soviet composer
109 Boris Klaiman 1990 Professional footballer
110 Boris Kidrič 1912 Prime Minister of Slovenia
111 Boris Smyslovsky 1897 German general
112 Boris Lumbana 1991 Swedish footballer, musician
113 Boris Roatta 1980 French actor
114 Trevor Boris 1978 Canadian comedian and writer
115 Boris Iofan 1891 Soviet architect
116 Boris Eikhenbaum 1886 Russian historian
117 Boris Giltburg 1984 Israeli musician
118 Boris Izaguirre 1965 Venezeulan-born Spanish writer
119 Boris the Bear US comic book character
120 Boris Galchev 1983 Bulgarian footballer
121 Boris Blacher 1903 German composer
122 Boris Fomin 1900 Russian composer
123 Boris Chertok 1912 Soviet rocket designer
124 Boris Dekanidze 1962 Lithuanian murderer
125 Boris Jordan 1966 Russian businessman
126 Boris Vilkitsky 1885 Russian polar explorer
127 Boris Valábik 1986 Slovak ice hockey player
128 Boris Anrep 1883 Russian artist, active in Britain
129 Boris Starling 1969 British writer
130 Boris Ponomarev 1905 Soviet historian and politician
131 Boris Berman 1948 Russian/American musician
132 Boris Gudz 1902 OGPU agent
133 Boris Aronson 1900 American scenic designer for Broadway/Yiddish theatre
134 Boris Thomashefsky 1861 Ukrainian-born American Jewish singer, stage actor, publisher, and educator
135 Boris O'Klein 1893 French artist
136 Boris Pilnyak 1894 Soviet writer
137 Boris Kochno 1904 Russian ballet dancer
138 Boris Mathis
139 Boris Yefimov 1900 Soviet and Russian political and propaganda artist
140 Boris Gusakov 1938
141 Boris Grundl 1965 German author
142 Boris Nicolaevsky 1887 Russian historian
143 Boris Stein 1984 German triathlete
144 Boris Bede 1989 French American football player and player of Canadian football
145 Boris Büchler 1969 German contributing editor
146 Boris Demidovich 1906 Russian mathematician
147 Boris Hessen 1893 Russian philosopher and physicist
148 Boris Bershteyn 1977 American lawyer, law clerk and Obama Administration official
149 Boris Grigoriev 1886 Russian artist
150 Boris Sarafov 1872 Bulgarian revolutionary
151 Boris Babaian 1933 Russian supercomputer architect
152 Boris Mironov 1972 Ice hockey player
153 Boris de Rachewiltz 1926 Egyptologist
154 Boris Asafyev 1884 Soviet-russian compositor
155 Boris Titov 1960
156 Boris Paichadze 1915 Footballer
157 Boris Vasilyev 1924 Soviet and Russian writer
158 Boris Konrad 1984 German writer and physicist
159 Boris Souvarine 1895 French politician and writer
160 Boris Uran 1983 Austrian singer
161 Boris Trakhtenbrot 1921 Russian mathematician
162 Boris Palmer 1972 German politician, Mayor of Tübingen
163 Boris Becker 1961 German film maker
164 Boris Schatz 1867 Jewish sculptor
165 Boris Polevoy 1908 Soviet writer
166 Boris Belkin 1948 Soviet violinist
167 Boris Lyatoshinsky 1894 Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher
168 Boris van der Ham 1973 Dutch politician and actor
169 Boris Pavlovich Belousov 1893 Soviet chemist / biophysicist who discovered the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
170 Boris Podrecca 1940 Austrian architect (1940)
171 Boris Jirka 1969 Austrian television presenter
172 Boris Tomashevsky 1890 Literary scholar
173 Boris, Hereditary Prince of Montenegro 1980 Montenegrin prince; French designer
174 Boris Stankovich 1980 New Zealand rugby union player
175 Boris Ord 1897 British musician
176 Boris Koltsov 1988
177 Boris Uspensky 1937 Russian philologist
178 Boris Rankov 1954 British historian
179 Boris Gostev 1927 Soviet politician
180 Boris Papandopulo 1906 Croatian composer
181 Boris Brott 1944 Canadian conductor
182 Boris Morukov 1950 Russian cosmonaut and physician
183 Boris Grebennikov 1958 Russian volleyball player
184 Boris Bazarov 1893 Soviet secret police officer
185 Boris A. Novak 1953 Poet, dramaturge and editor
186 Boris Dežulović 1964 Writer and journalist
187 Boris Dittrich 1955 Dutch politician and gay rights activist
188 Boris Pandža 1986 Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
189 Boris Cmiljanić 1996 Montenegrin footballer
190 Boris Rubaja 1956 Argentinian actor
191 Boris Nikolov Bulgarian association football player
192 Boris Leven 1908 American art director and production designer
193 Boris Vadimovich Sokolov 1957 Russian historian
194 Boris Avrukh 1978 Chess player
195 Boris Braun 1920 Croatian university professor
196 Boris Brasol 1885 Russian lawyer and literary critic
197 Boris Rybakov 1908 Soviet archaeologist
198 Boris Pankin 1931 Soviet diplomat
199 Boris Shumyatsky 1886 Soviet film producer
200 Boris Raspudić 1982 Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer