Avar people

Northeast Caucasian ethnic group

Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He was the longest-reigning UFC Lightweight Champion ever, having held the title from April 2018 to March 2021. With 29 wins and no losses, he retired with an undefeated record. Nurmagomedov is widely considered to be among the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on June 30, 2022.

North Caucasian imam and warrior (1797-1871)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Russian wrestler (born 1996)

Avar leader (1795-1852)

Russian poet (1932–2016)

Russian judoka

Russian judoka

Azerbaijani sport wrestler

Russian diplomat

boxer

Russian-Bahraini freestyle wrestler (born 2003)

Imam of Dagestan (1795–1832)

Dagestani Imam

Russian politician

Russian handball player (1983-)

Olympic wrestler

Olympic wrestler

Magomed Alibulatovich Ankalaev is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. As of October 7, 2025, he is #1 in the UFC light heavyweight rankings and as of March 17, 2026, he is #14 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.

Soviet wrestling coach (1962-2020)

Olympic wrestler

Russian mixed martial arts fighter

Kyrgyz-American man convicted of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15th, 2013

Russian-Bahraini amateur wrestler

Dagestani militant Islamist in Russia and the leader of the Caucasus Emirate

Olympic wrestler

Soviet submarine commander (1907-1942)

Russian mixed martial arts fighter

Russian author

Russian writer, poet and qadi (1877-1951)

Uzun-Hajji of Salta (1848 – 30 March 1920) was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who was Emir of the North Caucasian Emirate during the Russian Civil War. The sheikh of a Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa and a political exile prior to the Russian Revolution, he was one of the leaders of the in the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, and he served as a member of parliament for the country.

Russian amateur wrestler

Chechen perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (1986–2013)

Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter

Russian amateur wrestler (1937-1995)

Russian association football player

Russian amateur wrestler

Olympic wrestler

Dagestani qadi (1976-2015)

Soviet test pilot

Russian footballer

mufti of Dagestan, Russia (b. 1959)

Russian mixed martial artist

Russian Imam (1937–2012)

Russian footballer of Avar ethnicity

Russian-Bahraini freestyle wrestler (born 1997)

Azerbaijani amateur wrestler

Russian amateur wrestler

Russian mixed martial arts fighter

Russian martial artist

Hero of the Soviet Union (1913-1948)

North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader (1859–1925)

Canadian swimmer

Russia born Bahraini freestyle wrestler (born 2003)

naib of Imam Shamil, one of Caucasian leaders in Caucasus War

persian Empire campaigns (1741–1743)

Russian freestyle wrestler

Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter

Russian wrestler