Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein (14 September 1912 – 17 November 2018) was a Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist, and sportsman.

Von Falz-Fein was born in Havrylivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine).

[1] His Father Alexander Eduardovich is an agronomist, brother of the founder of the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve in Southern Ukraine, Friedrich von Falz-Fein, mother Vera Nikolaevna is from a family of generals and admirals of the Russian fleet Yepanchins.

[9] Falz-Fein is credited in Russia with helping bring the 1980 Summer Olympics to Moscow.

Ideologically unfriendly to communism, he still considered Russia [the Soviet Union] his homeland and lobbied IOC members to vote for Moscow.