List of people in St. Petersburg

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This is a list of famous people who have lived in St. Petersburg, Russia. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in St. Petersburg, if known.

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John Quincy Adams, first U.S. ambassador in St. Petersburg
Ella Adaïewsky, pianist and composer
Anna Akhmatova, spent most of her life and died in Leningrad in 1966
Nicholas Aladov, composer
Anton Arensky
Ernst Moritz Arndt in his function as the secretary of Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein
Yuri Arnold, composer
Boris Assavyev, composer
George Balanchine, born in St. Petersburg in 1904
Mikhail Baryshnikov, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
Colonel-General Nicholas Bersarin appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945. The Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour.
Elsa Brändström, born in St. Petersburg in 1888
Andrey Bely, wrote the novel Petersburg
Ludwig Berger (composer)
Alexander Berkman
Daniel Bernoulli, lived and worked in St. Petersburg
Alexander Blok, born in St. Petersburg in 1880 and died there in 1921
Joseph Brodsky, born in Leningrad in 1940
Georg Cantor
Domenico Cimarosa, wrote two operas in St. Petersburg
Marc Chagall, studied in St. Petersburg
Karl Ernst Claus
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, lived in St. Petersburg for 22 years
Fyodor Dostoevsky, lived in St. Petersburg and died there in 1881
Brian Eno lived briefly in St. Petersburg during the 1990s
Leonhard Euler, worked in St. Petersburg and died there
Erté, designer and illustrator
Alexander Friedmann, mathematician and physicist
Michel Fokine, born in St. Petersburg in 1880 and worked there
Ilya Frank, physicist
Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
Diana Georgie, born in St. Petersburg, model
Alexander Glasunov, composer
Nikolai Gogol, created the memorable image of St. Petersburg in his fiction
Emma Goldman, anarchist
Maud Gonne, made her debut in St. Petersburg
Sacha Guitry, born in St. Petersburg in 1885.
Alexander Grechaninov
Alexander Grin
Nicolai Hartmann
Alexander Herzen
Alexandra von Hessen-Darmstadt
Mikhail Kalinin mayor after the revolution
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich economist
Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Khalifman, chessmaster
Daniil Kharms
Andrei Kirilenko, NBA player, grew up in St. Petersburg
Yuri Knorosov linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics
Alexandra Kollontai revolutionary, writer, and diplomat
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg
August von Kotzebue from 1780-1783
Peter Kropotkin
Mathilde Kschessinska
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Vladimir Lenin
Yuri Lisyanski, explorer
Mikhail Lomonosov, worked in St. Petersburg and died there in 1765
Yuri Michailovich Lotman 1922-1993
Konstantine Lyavdansky, a former lead member of the KGB; offered a high ranking position in the FSB; declined this position in the early 1990s and became a Russian language teacher in the USA.
Joseph de Maistre, lived in St. Petersburg for 14 years
Kazimir Malevich, died in Leningrad in 1935
Tatyana Mamonova, author, artist, poet, journalist, lecturer, producer, international women's leader; editor and publisher of samizdat Woman and Russia Almanac, now called Woman and Earth Almanac, Succes d'estime and Fotoalbum: Around the World; first feminist dissident exiled from St. Petersburg in 1980 to Vienna, Austria; founder of modern Russian women's movement; first woman painter in non-conformist artists movement; founder of Woman and Russia NGO now called Woman and Earth Global Eco Network -- still without citizenship, has been able to return periodically by visa to her native St. Petersburg since the early '90's to lecture, exhibit her art and continue her NGO activities
Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, studied in St Petersburg
Alexei Manziola, born in St. Petersberg in 1980
Anna Marly, born in St. Petersberg in 1917
Armand Marseille, born 1856 in St. Petersburg
Vladimir Mayakovsky lived there from 1915-1918
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, died in St. Petersburg in 1907
Nicolai Miklouho-Maclay
Modest Mussorgsky, died in St. Petersburg in 1881 and is buried there
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg in 1899
Vaslav Nijinsky, lived and worked in St. Petersburg
Nikolai of Japan
Rudolf Nureyev, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, lived and worked in St. Petersburg
Rolandas Paksas
Ivan Pavlov, died in Leningrad in 1936
Anna Pavlova, born in St. Petersburg in 1881
Ekaterina Pawlowna queen of Württemberg
Marius Petipa, worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
Aleksandr Popov, died in St. Petersburg in 1906
Aleksandr Pushkin, died following a duel in St. Petersburg in 1837
Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad in 1952
Imam Shamil
Sergei Prokofiev studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
Ayn Rand, born in St. Petersburg in 1905
Grigory Rasputin, was murdered in St. Petersburg in 1916
Alexandre Remi, mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in St.Petersburg in 1807
Ilya Repin
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, worked primarily in St. Petersburg
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Alexandr Rodchenko, born in St. Petersburg 1891
Pierre Rode, violinist, was working there from 1804 until 1809
Nicholas Roerich painter and writer
Heinrich Schliemann, was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
Irina Semenova, artist, writer, philosopher, lived there between 2002 and 2005
Taras Shevchenko, died in St. Petersburg in 1861
Dmitry Shostakovich, born in St. Petersburg in 1905 and spent most of his life there
Sergei Shnurov, lead singer of rock group Leningrad
Carl von Siemens had lived there in 1853-1867
Opanas Slastion studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, lived and worked in St. Petersburg for several years before returning to Ukraine at the end of XIX century
Vladimir Sollogub
Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, lover of Catherine the Great, after the third polish devision became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein exile during Napoleon's reign
Igor Stravinsky, born in a suburb of St Petersburg in 1882
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Alexander Suvorov, died in St. Petersburg in 1800
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, died in St. Petersburg in 1893 and is buried there
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, one of the founders of geochemistry
Arcadi Volodos pianist
James McNeill Whistler, went to school in St. Petersburg
Boris Zubry, inventor, writer and an educator, born in Leningrad in 1951
Vladimir Zworykin, studied in St. Petersburg