A Chuvash is a member of the subset of Turkic peoples living in Russia. Chuvashs traditionally come from Volga Bulgaria and Mari tribes. In Russia, this includes Chuvashia, Tatarstan, and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

• Boris Çindikov , author
• Nikolai Fyodorov, philosopher
• Konstantin Ivanov , poet
• Andrian Nikolayev, the third man in space
• Ivan Yakovlev , teacher