List of people from Saint Petersburg
Coat of Arms of Saint Petersburg This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg Russia (1914–1924: Petrograd Leningrad
Born in Saint Petersburg
Peter II of Russia (1715–1730) Emperor of Russia from 1727 to 1730.[ 1] Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal.[ 2] Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin (1728–1803), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogistJohann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematicianJohn Julius Angerstein (1735–1823) a London businessman and Lloyd's underwriter.[ 3] Ivan VI of Russia (1740–1764), Emperor of Russia, 1740–1741.[ 4] Ivan Lepyokhin (1740–1802), naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorerMikhail Kutuzov (1745–1813), Field Marshal of the Russian Empire.[ 5] Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754–1826), Russia's Foreign Minister and Imperial ChancellorMikhail Miloradovich (1771–1825), Russian general of Serbian originThomas Tooke (1774 in Kronstadt – 1858) an English economist.[ 6] Catharina of Württemberg (1783–1835), second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte , Queen consort of Westphalia (1807–1813)Joseph Bové (1784–1834), Russian neoclassical architect with Italian rootsPavel Kridener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United StatesMichael Lunin (1787–1845), political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist and a participant of the Franco-Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788–1819), the fourth daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia , Queen consort of Württemberg (1816–1819)Sylvester Shchedrin (1791–1830), landscape painterGrand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792–1795), Grand Duchess of Russia Maria Danilova (1793–1810), Russian ballet dancerNikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794–1866), Imperial Russian military officer and General of the Russian ArmyKonstantin Thon (1794–1881), official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I Sergey Muravyov-Apostol (1796–1826), Russian Imperial Lieutenant Colonel and organizer of the Decembrist revoltNicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855.[ 7] Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), Romantic poet and DecembristFyodor Litke (1797–1882), navigator, geographer and Arctic explorerKarl Bryullov (1799–1852), painterCountess of Ségur (1799–1874), French writer of Russian birth
Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwrightAlexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1805–1851), French diplomat, historian, and Peer of FranceAlexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), painter, born and died in Saint PetersburgGeorge Busk (1807–1886), British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.[ 8] Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868), Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn originNikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809–1881), statesman and diplomatAlexandre Remi (1809–1871), mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov , born in Saint PetersburgIvan Panaev (1812–1862), publisher of the popular magazine Sovremennik Anatoly Demidov (1813–1870), industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of the Demidov familyNikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activistVladimir Sollogub (1813–1882), writerAlexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), philanthropist and financierEugene Balabin (1815–1895), Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of JesusOtto von Böhtlingk (1815–1904), German Indologist and Sanskrit scholarAlexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorerCount Nikolay Adlerberg (1819–1892), Councilor of State, Chamberlain, governor of Taganrog , Simferopol and Finland Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holderAlexander Serov (1820–1871), composer and music criticMikhail Petrashevsky (1821–1866), thinker and public figureBoleslav Markevich (1822–1884), writer, essayist, journalist and literary criticVladimir Stasov (1824–1906), the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime, born and died in Saint PetersburgPercy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (1825–1869) a British nobleman and man of letters.[ 9] Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), archaeologistOtto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), Baltic German architectPyotr Shuvalov (1827–1889), influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Emperor Alexander II Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830–1895), British artist
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832–1908), statesman and diplomat.[ 10] Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), realistic painter, born and died in Saint PetersburgAlexander Borodin (1833–1887), composer and chemist.[ 11] Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873), architect and painterNikolai Pomyalovsky (1835–1863), writerMitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904), Imperial Russian music publisher, philanthropistMariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (1836–1886), Russian prima ballerina, wife of Marius Petipa and mother of Marie Petipa John Codman Ropes (1836–1899) an American military historian and lawyer.[ 12] Anna Filosofova (1837–1912), feministFranz Overbeck (1837–1905), German Protestant theologianFriedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), chemistDmitry Chernov (1839–1921), metallurgistIngeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), Finnish-German composerAlexander W. von Götte (1840–1922), German zoologistWoldemar Kernig (1840–1917), internist and neurologistPrincess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), daughter of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of LeuchtenbergNikolai Menshutkin (1842–1907), chemistFriedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt (1842–1920), architect, born in Saint Petersburg, left it as a child about 1848Mikhail Skobelev (1843–1882), general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish WarAlexander III of Russia (1845–1894), Emperor of Russia, 1881–1894.[ 13] Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematicianBogomir Korsov (1845–1920), baritone opera singerVladimir Lamsdorf (1845–1907), statesman, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire (1900–1906)Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), pianist and composerAlexandr von Bilderling (1846–1912), general in the Imperial Russian ArmyAnna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), jewellerWladimir Köppen (1846–1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanistRafail Levitsky (1847–1940), photographer, artist, professorJean Béraud (1849–1935), French painter
Walter W. Winans (1852–1920), American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painterNikolai Reitsenstein (1854–1916), career naval officer in the Imperial Russian NavyVladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), EgyptologistMarie Petipa (1857–1930), Russian ballerina and the daughter of Marius Petipa and Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa Leopold Engel (1858–1931), writer and occultistPrincess Maria Tenisheva (1858–1928), Princess, a public person, artist, educator, philanthropist and collectorEmanuel Nobel (1859–1932), Swedish-Russian oil baronNikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiralVictor Ewald (1860–1935), composerMaria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and authorArvid Järnefelt (1861–1932), Finnish judge and writerFeodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologistKonstantin Fofanov (1862–1911), poetFyodor Sologub (1863–1927), poet and writerVladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), one of the founders of geochemistry Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer.[ 14] Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866–1941) a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker and literary critic.[ 15] Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descentNicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), Emperor of Russia, 1894–1917.[ 16] Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939), Russian revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin Vasily Bartold (1869–1930), historianNikolay Pushnitsky (1870–1921), sailorVera Karelina (1870–1931), labour activist and revolutionary
Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), one of the founding leaders of MenshevismOlga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructorAlexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), revolutionary, writer and diplomatMathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971), Russian ballerina from a family of Polish originGeorge Washington Lambert (1873–1930), Australian artistVladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), scientist, weapons designer, professor, lieutenant general of a corps of military engineersNicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter and writerNoë Bloch (1875–1937), film producerCarl Enckell (1876–1959), Finnish politician, officer and diplomatHerman Gummerus (1877–1948), Finnish classical scholar and diplomatLev Urusov (1877–1933), Russian diplomat, member of International Olympic CommitteePavel Pototsky (engineer) (1879-1932), Polish engineer, born in Saint PetersburgAgrippina Vaganova (1879–1951), legendary Russian-Armenian ballet teacher and the creator of Vaganova method Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), Russian chemistAlexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poetMichel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg and worked there
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina, born in Saint Petersburg, lived and performed in RussiaMikhail Avilov (1882–1954), painter and art educatorIgor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer, pianist and conductor, born in a suburb of Saint PetersburgViktor Bulla (1883–1938), photographer and cinema pioneerLeopold van der Pals (1884–1966), composerStella Arbenina (1885–1976), Russian-born English actressIvan Abramovich Zalkind (1885–1928), Soviet diplomatSacha Guitry (1885–1957), French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriterNaum Idelson (1885–1951), Soviet theoretical astronomer and expert in history of physics and mathematicsTamara Karsavina (1885–1978), renowned Russian prima ballerinaLydia Kyasht (1885–1959), Russian British ballerina and dance teacherNikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), poetElsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropistAlexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicistVarvara Brilliant-Lerman (1888–1954), plant physiologist[ 17] Fyodor Zabelin (1888–unknown), Russian artistic gymnastLudmilla Schollar (1888–1978), Russian-American dancer and educatorSerge Elisséeff (1889–1975), Russian-French scholar and professorJoseph Ruttenberg (1889–1983), Russian-American photojournalist and cinematographerVladimir Rosing (1890–1963), opera singer and director, born in Saint Petersburg, emigrated to England in 1913
Boris Morros (1891–1963), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films and supervised the music departmentAlexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, born in Saint PetersburgAleksei Uversky (1891–1942), football playerErté (1892–1990), designer and illustrator (born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov)Lydia Lopokova (1892–1981), Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.Xenia Makletzova (1892–1974), Russian ballet dancerFyodor Raskolnikov (1892–1939), Bolshevik and Soviet diplomatPrince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976), prince regent of Yugoslavia Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologistVladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholarSasha Stone (1895–1940), Russian born artist, photographerVera Vinogradova (1895–1982), composer and pianistMikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satiristFelia Doubrovska (1896–1981), Russian dancer and teacherCleo Nordi (1898–1983), Russo-Finnish ballerinaVladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicistPyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet international footballerVladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writer, born in Saint PetersburgPyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), writer, born in Saint PetersburgVera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), astronomer, born in Saint PetersburgEugène Vinaver (1899–1979), literary scholarNina Anisimova (1900–1979), Russian ballerina and dance choreographer Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, writer, historian, ethnographerLéon Motchane (1900–1990), French industrialist and mathematician
Andrews Engelmann (1901–1992), Russian-born German actorWaldemar Gurian (1902–1954), German-American political scientist, author, and professor at the University of Notre Dame Véra Nabokov (1902–1991), wife, editor and translator of Russian writer Vladimir NabokovAlexandra Danilova (1903–1997), Russian-born American prima ballerinaYevgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), conductorGeorge Balanchine (1904–1983), one of the 20th century's most prolific choreographersColonel-General Nikolai Berzarin (1904–1945), appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945; the Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honourTom Conway (1904–1967), British film, television and radio actorDaniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis playerTamara Talbot Rice (1904–1993), Russian then English art historianMischa Auer (1905–1967), actorAlexey Eisner (1905–1984), poet, translator and writerNatalia Gippius (1905–1994), artistOleg Kerensky (1905–1984), civil engineerDaniil Kharms (1905–1942), writer and poetAyn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-American novelist, born in Saint PetersburgAndria Balanchivadze (1906–1992), Georgian composerDmitry Likhachov (1906–1999), philologistIllaria Obidenna Ladré (1906–1998), Russian ballet dancerDmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer and pianist, born in Saint Petersburg and spent most of his life thereEvgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter and graphic artistVera Broido (1907–2004), writerOlga Sapphire (1907–1981), Russian Japanese ballerina and choreographer (Real Name: Olga Ivanovna Pavlova , Russian : Ольга Ивановна Павлова )Sofka Skipwith (1907–1994), Russian émigrée to England who became a well-known Communist after working for Laurence Olivier and being interned by the Nazis in France in World War IIVasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979), composer, born and died in Saint PetersburgEdmund Kurtz (1908–2004), cellist and music editorIlya Frank (1908–1990), physicistRostislaw Kaischew (1908–2002), Bulgarian physicochemistAlexandre Mnouchkine (1908–1993), French film producerMarina Semyonova (1908–2010), first Soviet-trained prima ballerina and 1975's People's Artist of the USSR Sergey Urusevsky (1908–1974), cinematographer and film directorBoris Vildé (1908–1942), linguist and ethnographerNina Anisimova (1909–1979), dancer and choreographerAnatole de Grunwald (1910–1967), Russian British film producer and screenwriterBarys Kit (1910–2018), rocket scientistNina Tikhonova (1910–1995), ballet dancer and teacher.[ 18] Galina Ulanova (1910–1998), ballet dancer
Yrjö von Grönhagen (1911–2003), Finnish nobleman and anthropologistNikolay Novotelnov (1911–2006), chess International Master and authorDavid Shoenberg (1911–2004), British physicistLev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translatorLeonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), economistVarvara P. Mey (1912–1995), prima ballerina, ballet instructor and authorIrina Nijinska (1913–1991), Russian-Polish ballet dancerValentina Khetagurova (1914–1992), founder of the Khetagurovite Campaign Assia Noris (1912–1998), Russian-Italian film actressAdrian von Fölkersam (1914–1945), German Waffen-SS officer in World War IIElena Shtaerman (1914–1991), Soviet scholar of Roman history, recipient of the State Prize of the USSR Dmitry Maevsky (1917–1992), Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of paintingAnna Marly (1917–2006), singer-songwriterEfim Etkind (1918–1999), philologist and translation theoristNathalie Krassovska (1918–2005), Russian born prima ballerina and teacher of classical balletIrina Baronova (1919–2008), Russian ballerina and actressGalina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer of classical musicTatiana Semenova (1920–1996), Russian-American ballet dancer, dance teacher, founded the Houston Ballet Academy Igor Karassik (1911-1995), Russian-American engineer known for his pioneering work with pumps
Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978), Greek novelist, poet and translatorEvegeny Bachurin (1934-2015), poet and composerJuri Lotman (1922–1993), literary scholar, semiotician and cultural historianBoris Ugarov (1922–1991), Russian Soviet realist painter and art educatorEkaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925–2019), hero of the Soviet UnionGalina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012), opera singer sopranoIgor Dmitriev (1927–2008), actorVladimir Kondrashin (1929–1999), basketball coachNinel Kurgapkina (1929–2009), Russian dance teacher and former prima ballerinaYuli Vorontsov (1929–2007), Russian and Soviet diplomatBoris Parygin (1930–2012), Russian philosopher, sociologist and social psychologyGeorgy Grechko (1931–2017), cosmonautViktor Korchnoi (1931–2016), chess playerYevgeny Ukhnalev (born 1931), contemporary artistYevgeny Ukhnalyov (1931–2015), artistMark Ermler (1932–2002), conductorAlla Osipenko (born 1931), former Soviet ballerinaBoris Strugatsky (1933–2012), science fiction authorGeorgy Kovenchuk (1933–2015), artist and writerIlya Averbakh (1934–1986), film directorLudvig Faddeev (1934–2017), mathematicianOleg Golovanov (1934–2019), rowerTatiana Samoylova (1934–2014), actressNina Timofeeva (1935–2014), Russian ballet dancerYuri Schmidt (1937–2013), human rights lawyerBoris Spassky (born 1937), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)Vitaly Efimov (born 1938), theoretical physicistBoris Melnikov (1938–2022), Soviet fencer, won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1964 Summer OlympicsAlexander Ney (born 1939), artist, born in LeningradJoseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian and American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)Irina Gubanova (1940–2000), Russian ballerina and film actressNatalia Makarova (born 1940), Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.Leon Petrosjan (born 1940), mathematicianEduard Vinokurov (1942–2010), Olympic and world champion fencerYakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematicianAndrej Hoteev (1946–2021), pianistTatyana Chernigovskaya (born 1947), scientist in neuroscience, psycholinguistics and theory of mindAleksandr Sokolov (born 1949), politicianViktor Novozhilov (1950–1991), wrestler
Alexander Belov (1951–1978), Soviet basketball playerVladimir Kishkun (born 1951), athleteIlya Klebanov (born 1951), politicianDmitry Stukalov (born 1951), hurdlerAlexei Uchitel (born 1951), film directorVitali Baganov (born 1952), actor of film and televisionVladimir Putin (born 1952), a Russian politician serving as the current President of the Russian Federation since 7 May 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008.Evgenij Kozlov (born 1955), artistAlexander Radvilovich (born 1955), composer, pianist and teacherAlexander Dityatin (born 1957), former Soviet/Russian artistic gymnast Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut
Igor Butman (born 1961), jazz saxophonistValeri Broshin (1962–2009), professional football player and managerAlexey Parygin (born 1964), artist, art historianPeter Chernobrivets (born 1965), composer, musicologistOleg Makarov (born 1962), pair skaterViktor Tsoi (1962–1990), musicianDmitry Medvedev (born 1965), tenth Prime Minister of Russia and third President of Russia (2008–2012)Alexander Khalifman (born 1966), chessmaster (FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999)Grigori Perelman (born 1966), mathematicianVitaly Pushnitsky (born 1967), artistYulia Makhalina (born 1968), Russian ballet dancerLarissa Lezhnina (born 1969), Russian ballerina and a principal dancer with Dutch National Ballet , in Amsterdam Anna Podlesnaya (born 1970), Russian ballerinaEkaterina Shchelkanova (born 1970), Russian ballerina, singer and actress
Victoria Haralabidou (born 1971), Greek-Russian actressKonstantin Khabensky (born 1972), actor, born and raised in Saint PetersburgVladimir Volodenkov (born 1972), Olympic rowerAlexei Urmanov (born 1973), figure skaterNikolai Valuev (born 1973), professional boxerVitaly Milonov (born 1974), Russian politicianKseniya Rappoport (born 1974), Russian actressKonstantin Sakaev (born 1974), chess playerAndrejs Mamikins (born 1976), Latvian politician and journalist and a Member of the European Parliament Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), conductorAnastasia Volochkova (born 1976), Russian prima ballerina Diana Vishneva (born 1976), principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet Yevgeniya Isakova (born 1978), hurdlerMarina Kislova (born 1978), sprinterVeronika Part (born 1978), Russian ballet dancerIvan Urgant (born 1978), television personality, showman, actor and musicianVyacheslav Malafeev (born 1979), footballerSvetlana Pospelova (born 1979), European Indoor 400m championSvetlana Abrosimova (born 1980), European champion basketball playerIrina Golub (born 1980), Russian-born ballerinaVladimir Karpets (born 1980), road bicycle racerIlona Korstin (born 1980), basketball forwardYevgeniya Kuznetsova (born 1980), Olympic gymnast (born in Saint Petersburg and currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria )Margarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-American actressAlexei Manziola (born 1980), swimmerYevgeny Sudbin (born 1980), concert pianistAlexei Yagudin (born 1980), figure skater, born in Saint Petersburg, lived in US from 1998 but moved back to Saint Petersburg in 2006
Natalya Antyukh (born 1981), Russian athleteAndrey Arshavin (born 1981), Russian footballer, Arsenal FCAnatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian professional footballerOlga Dmitrieva (born 1981), Russian professional triathleteXenia Dyakonova (born 1985), poet, translator, literary critic, and teacher of writingMikhail Elgin (born 1981), professional tennis playerAndrei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey wingerKirill Safronov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey defencemanKseniya Sobchak (born 1981), member of political oppositionGeorgy Grebenkov (born 1982), Russian artistic gymnastSergei Slavnov (born 1982), pair skaterAnastasia Fomina (born 1983), Russian basketball point guardKonstantin Menshov (born 1983), figure skaterJulia Novikova (born 1983), coloratura soprano opera singerPavel Durov (born 1984), entrepreneurSvetlana Bolshakova (born 1984), triple jumperIgor Denisov (born 1984), association footballerDaniil Konstantinov (born 1984), opposition politician, lawyer, human rights activistEvgenia Obraztsova (born 1984), ballerinaAnastasia Stashkevich (born 1984), Russian principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet Mikhail Ignatiev (born 1985), professional track and road bicycle racerMiron Fyodorov aka Oxxxymiron (born 1985), rapperAleksandra Kiryashova (born 1985), pole vaulterSvetlana Kuznetsova (born 1985), tennis playerMaria Mukhortova (born 1985), pair skaterNadezhda Skardino (born 1985), Belarusian biathleteAlina Somova (born 1985), Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Suleimanov (born 1985), former professional footballerEkaterina Yurlova (born 1985), biathleteNatalia Ziganshina (born 1985), former gymnastEvgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian professional basketball playerVadim Bogdanov (born 1986), handball playerOlga Esina (born 1986), Russian ballerina and First Solo Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet Timofey Mozgov (born 1986), professional basketball playerAnna Nazarova (born 1986), track and field athleteOksana Akinshina (born 1987), actressVladimir Garin (1987–2003), actor, born in then-LeningradRoman Ovchinnikov (born 1987), former footballerNatalia Shliakhtenko (born 1987), professional triathleteAleksei Shvalev (born 1987), professional ice hockey playerSofya Skya (born 1987), Russian actress, ballet dancer and acting coach.Kinuski Kakku [fr ] (born 1988), pornographic modelPolina Miller (born 1988), Russian artistic gymnastAlexander Enbert (born 1989), pair skaterSergey Fesikov (born 1989), swimmerKatarina Gerboldt (born 1989), figure skaterNadezhda Grishaeva (born 1989), Russian professional basketball playerKatya Jones (born 1989), Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer, oil heiressTatyana McFadden (born 1989), Russian-born United States Paralympian athleteAndriy Yarmolenko (born 1989), Ukrainian football wingerAnton Yelchin (1989–2016), American-raised actor, born in Saint Petersburg, who left with his parents at the age of six months; best known for his role in Star Trek Pavel Chekov , a character who is often implied to be from the cityAlena Leonova (born 1990), figure skaterKsenia Polikarpova (born 1990), Russian female badminton playerJulia Vlassov (born 1990), Russian American figure skater
Ekaterina Kramarenko (born 1991), artistic gymnastAlexander Majorov (born 1991), figure skaterMaxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmasterOlga Smirnova (born 1991), prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet Alexey Stadler (born 1991), cellistIlya Zakharov (born 1991), diver, Olympics gold medalist (2012)Ksenia Makarova (born 1992), figure skaterViktor Manakov (born 1992), professional racing cyclistAlexey Romashov (born 1992), ski jumperKsenia Stolbova (born 1992), pair skaterSergey Karasev (born 1993), professional basketball playerSamira Mustafaeva (born 1993), Russian Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnastAlexander Barabanov (born 1994), ice hockey playerAnish Giri (born 1994), Russian-born Dutch chess prodigy and GrandmasterTatiana Nabieva (born 1994), gymnast, born in Saint PetersburgAlexandra Stepanova (born 1995), ice dancerAleksei Gasilin (born 1996), professional football playerRamil Sheydayev (born 1996), Russian-Azerbaijani professional footballerLilia Akhaimova (born 1997), artistic gymnastDaniel Koperberg (born 1997), Israeli basketball playerColton Gordon (born 1998), baseball pitcherMikhail Maltsev (born 1998), ice hockey playerAlexander Alexeyev (born 1999), ice hockey playerPasha Pozdniakova (born 1999), Finnish-Russian Playboy [ 19] [ 20] Natalia Safonova (born 1999), rhythmic gymnastMaria Khoreva (born 2000), ballet dancer and first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet
21st century
Date of birth unknown
Alice Edun , Gospel and Dance music singer; born in Saint Petersburg before moving to Nigeria at age five (Her mother is Russian, father is Nigerian)
Lived in Saint Petersburg
Domenico Trezzini (1670–1734), Swiss Italian architectJoseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), French astronomer and cartographer, lived in Saint Petersburg for 22 yearsHarmen van Bol'es (1689–1764), royal master builder from 1713 to 1764. Designed the ship wind vane which is used as an emblem of Saint Petersburg.Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist, lived and worked in Saint PetersburgFrancesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700–1771), architectLeonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there.[ 21] Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian polymath, scientist and writer, worked in Saint Petersburg and died thereGabriel François Doyen (1726–1806) a French painter.[ 22] Christian Friedrich von Völkner (1728–1796), German translator and historian, worked in Saint Petersburg and died thereAlexander Suvorov (1730–1800), national hero of Russia, Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, died in Saint Petersburg.[ 23] Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), Last elected King of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , lover of Catherine the Great, after the Third and final Partition of Poland prisoner in St Petersburg (1795–98) of her son and successor, Paul I.[ 24] Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), rabbi , philosopher, writer, founder and spiritual-leader of Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Recognized as militar supporter of Tsar Alexander I in French Invasion of Russia .Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), architectTadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), Polish military leader, was imprisoned in Saint PetersburgDomenico Cimarosa (1749–1801), Italian opera composer, wrote two operas in Saint PetersburgAlexander Radishchev (1749–1802), poet and writerJoseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, freemason and diplomat, lived in Saint Petersburg for 14 yearsLouis Philippe, comte de Ségur (1753–1830) a French diplomat and historian.[ 25] Agustín de Betancourt (1754–1824), Spanish engineer urban planner of Saint PetersburgHeinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reignAndrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painterÉtienne Dumont (1759–1829), a Swiss French political writer.[ 26] James Walker (c. 1760 - c. 1823), mezzotint engraver invited to Saint Petersburg by Catherine the Great and appointed as "Engraver to Her Imperial Majesty" for a duration of 20 yearsAugust von Kotzebue (1761–1819), German dramatist and writer, consul in Russia and Germany, from 1780 to 1783 in Saint PetersburgNikolay Karamzin (1766–1826), writer and historian, died in Saint PetersburgJohn Quincy Adams (1767–1848), first U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg & 6th President of the United States.[ 27] Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German patriotic author and poet, in his function as the secretary of Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein Vasily Stasov (1769–1848), architectAdam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), Polish statesman, friend of tsars and Tsar Alexander's foreign minister and key in forming the Third Coalition against France.[ 28] Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), admiral and explorer, led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globeYuri Lisyansky (1773–1837), explorerJoseph Saunders (1773–1845), noted English engraver, "Historical engraver to the Hermitage" under Paul IPierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist, worked there from 1804 until 1809Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian architectFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) a French composer of operas, called "the French Mozart" .[ 29] Wladyslaw Grzegorz Branicki (1783–1843), Polish nobleman, landowner, Russian senator and army generalVasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), poetAuguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), architectKarl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Baltic German chemist and naturalistImam Shamil (1797–1871), Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern CaucasusAlexander Pushkin (1799–1837), great Russian poet, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg.[ 30]
19th C.
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), poetMikhail Glinka (1804–1857), composer.[ 31] Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), created the memorable image of Saint Petersburg in his fictionVissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), literary critic, 1839–1848 in Saint PetersburgIvan Goncharov (1812–1891), writer, died in Saint PetersburgAlexander Herzen (1812–1870), writer and thinkerNikolay Zinin (1812–1880) a Russian organic chemist.Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), writer and poet.[ 32] Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), a Ukrainian poet, writer and artist died in Saint Petersburg.[ 33] Marius Petipa (1818–1910), Marseille -born Ballet master who worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre Sergey Levitsky (1819–1898), photographer, opened Saint Petersburg's first photo studio, "Light Painting"Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894), mathematicianFyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), writer lived in Saint Petersburg and died there.[ 34] Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), poetHeinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), archaeologist worked as a tradesman based in Saint PetersburgAleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), poetMikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), writer, satiristCarl Heinrich von Siemens (1829–1906), German entrepreneur, had lived there in 1853–1867Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895), writerAlfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.[ 35] Feliks Sobański (1833–1913), Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist, held in Peter and Paul Fortress on sedition chargesDmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist and inventor, died in Saint PetersburgJames Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American painter, went to school in Saint Petersburg.[ 36] Nicholas of Japan (1836–1912), Russian Orthodox priest, monk, bishop, and saintMily Balakirev (1837–1910), pianist, conductor and composer.[ 37] Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), composer, died in Saint Petersburg and is buried there.[ 38] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, died in Saint Petersburg, buried there.[ 39] Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), geographer, economist, activist, philologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, writer and prominent anarchist.[ 40] Ilya Repin (1844–1930), painterNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), composer, worked primarily in Saint Petersburg.[ 41] Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846–1888), ethnologist, anthropologist and biologistAnna Shabanova (1848–1932), one of the first women doctors in Russia and a women's rights activist; worked all her career at Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint PetersburgIvan Pavlov (1849–1936), physiologist, died in LeningradOpanas Slastion (1855–1933), studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg for several years before returning to Ukraine at the end of 19th centuryAndrey Markov (1856–1922), mathematicianAlexander Makarov (1857–1919), Imperial Russian Politician, lived in Saint Petersburg 1857–1917Alexander Popov (1859–1906), physicist, died in Saint PetersburgAnton Arensky (1861–1906), composerAlexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Romantic composerMaud Gonne (1866–1953), Irish actress made her debut in Saint PetersburgCarl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), Finnish military leader and statesman, 6th President of Finland, studied in Saint PetersburgEmma Goldman (1869–1940), anarchistGrigori Rasputin (1869–1916), Svengali of the last Tsarina murdered in Saint PetersburgAlexander Berkman (1870–1936), anarchistVladimir Lenin (1870–1924), communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist took over the capital in 1917.[ 42] Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composerNikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), philosopher, 1908–1922 in Saint PetersburgMikhail Kalinin (1875–1946), mayor after the revolutionAleksey Remizov (1877–1957), writerBoris Kustodiev (1878–1927), painterKazimir Malevich (1879–1935), painter and art theoretician, died in LeningradAndrei Bely (1880–1934), wrote the novel Petersburg Alexander Grin (1880–1932), writerAlexander Kerensky (1881–1970), lawyer and major political leader before the Russian Revolutions of 1917 belonging to a moderate socialist partyNikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), composerNicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), Baltic German philosopherAlexander Belyaev (1884–1942), writer, 1928–1942 in LeningradIsaak Brodsky (1884–1939), painterYevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), writerMarc Chagall (1887–1985), painter who studied in Saint PetersburgNikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), biologistVladimir K. Zworykin (1888–1982), Russian-American inventor and pioneer of TV technology, studied in Saint PetersburgAnna Akhmatova (1889–1966), spent most of her life and died in LeningradIgor Sikorsky (1889–1972), pioneer of aviation, 1903–1906, 1907–1909, 1912–1919Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Ballerino lived and worked in Saint PetersburgSergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), studied since 1904 at the Petersburg ConservatoriumVladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet, lived there from 1915 to 1918
20th C.
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), Russian and American biologist, 1924–1927 in LeningradGeorge Gamow (1904–1968), Soviet and American physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Vilnius-born, lived in Saint Petersburg, German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis playerYuri Knorozov (1922–1999), linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), mathematicianArkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), science fiction authorEduard Khil (1934–2012), Soviet era singer, 1949–2012 in Leningrad/Saint PetersburgRudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Ballerino graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov BalletYuri Temirkanov (born 1938), conductorMikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), Latvian and American, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov BalletBrian Eno (born 1948), English, lived briefly in Saint Petersburg during the 1990sValery Gergiev (born 1953), conductorRolandas Paksas (born 1956), Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004Alexander Sizonenko (1959–2012), Russia's largest man, standing 7 feet 10 inches tallMaxim Petrov (born 1965), doctor who killed 12 patients between 1998 and 2000Ulyana Lopatkina (born 1973), principal ballerina with Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, resident of Saint Petersburg since 1984Ilyas Vasipov (1974—2016), journalistDenis Ugarov (born 1975), professional football coach and a former player; made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1993 for FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), heavyweight mixed martial artist and Sambo fighterAndrei Kirilenko (born 1981), Russian-American NBA player, grew up in Saint PetersburgNu-Nation (formed 2009), nu-metal musical groupEdita Piekha (born 1937) People's Artist of the USSR. Born in France in Noyelles-sous-Lens to Polish immigrants. Came to Saint Petersburg (Leningrad at the time) in 1955 to study at the University of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg); has remained ever since and named Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg in 2023
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