This category gathers articles about outstanding and influential people whose activity shaped the character of Nizhny Novgorod and the region: politicians, entrepreneurs, military figures, and figures of culture and the church. Among them are medieval princes and merchant dynasties, Soviet heroes and present-day officials, reformers, and Urban Legends).
The Nizhny Novgorod land has given the country figures of the most varied scale: from the city's founder Yuri Vsevolodovich and the pilot Valery Chkalov to the politician Nemtsov, who started out as governor of the region, and the merchant dynasty of the The Bashkirovs, whose mills Volga Region. Here too are the current and former governors, mayors, and other people whose decisions the city still feels the consequences of today.