This category brings together articles about executives and administrators connected to Nizhny Novgorod and the region: governors, mayors, city managers, and directors of major organizations. The management decisions made by these people shaped the city's policy, infrastructure, and economic life of the region.

Among the most extensively covered figures are Valery Shantsev, who headed the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Oleg Sorokin, who held the post of mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, and Oleg Kondrashov, who served as the city's city manager. A separate place is held by Ilya Khalturin — former general director of "Teploenergo)", who became a defendant in a criminal case.