Ruslan (given name)

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Gender Male Meaning lion		Word/name Turkic or Persian Region of origin Eurasia
Related names Eruslan, رسلان, Roeslan, Ρουσλάν, რუსლან, Arslan, Aslan, Aryslan, Arıslan, Arislan, Arǝslan, Арыслан, Арыстан

Ruslan (Russian: Руслан) or Rouslan, is a Turkic and Slavic masculine given name used mainly in CIS, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia. It is a Slavic variation of Turkic or Persian name Arslan/Aslan, which is translated as lion. The name Eruslan is another variant of the form Ruslan.

The feminine version is Ruslana, which is just a Slavic name in general.

List of people with the given name Ruslan

Ruslan (born 1984), a hip-hop/spoken-word artist and entreprenur

Ruslan (11th century), the legendary hero named in Pushkin's poem

Ruslan Abdulgani (1914-2005), Indonesian diplomat and Foreign Minister (1956-1957)

Ruslan Aushev (born 1954), Soviet General and former President of Ingushetia

Ruslan Chagaev, an Uzbekistani professional boxer of Tatar ethnic origin

Ruslan Fedotenko (born 1979), Ukrainian professional hockey player

Ruslan Goncharov, Ukrainian figure skater

Ruslan Karaev (born 1983), a Russian kickboxer and martial artist

Ruslan Khasbulatov (born 1942), a Russian economist and politician

Ruslan Kogan (b. 1982), founder and director of Kogan Technologies

Ruslan Mashchenko (born 1971), a Russian hurdler

Ruslan Medzhitov, Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University

Ruslan Nurudinov (born 1991), an Uzbekistani weightlifter of Tatar ethnic origin

Ruslan Ponomariov (born 1983), a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion

Ruslan Provodnikov (born 1984), a Russian boxer

Ruslan Rotan (born 1981), a Ukrainian football player

Ruslan Salei (1974 – 2011), a Belarusian professional hockey defenceman

Ruslan Sirota (born 1980), a jazz, fusion and funk/R&B pianist and keyboardist

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