List of people from Saint Petersburg
This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Saint Petersburg, if known.
- Svetlana Abrosimova, European champion basketball player
- John Quincy Adams, first U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg
- Viktor Tsoi, musician
- Ella Adaïewsky, pianist and composer
- Anna Akhmatova, spent most of her life and died in Leningrad in 1966* Anton Arensky
- Ernst Moritz Arndt in his function as the secretary of Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein
- Andrei Arshavin, Russian Footballer - Arsenal FC
- Mily Balakirev, composer
- George Balanchine, born in Saint Petersburg in 1904
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
- Alexander Beliaev, writer, 1928–1942
- Vissarion Belinsky, literary critic, 1839–1848
- Nikolai Berdyaev, philosopher, 1908–1922
- Colonel-General Nicholas Berzarin appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945. The Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour.
- Elsa Brändström, born in Saint Petersburg in 1888
- Andrey Bely, wrote the novel Petersburg
- Alexander Berkman, anarchist
- Daniel Bernoulli, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Blok, born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and died there in 1921
- Harmen van Bol'es, royal master builder from 1713 to 1764. Designed the ship wind vane which is used as an emblem of Saint Petersburg.
- Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist.
- Isaak Brodsky, painter
- Joseph Brodsky, born in Leningrad in 1940
- Georg Cantor
- Domenico Cimarosa, wrote two operas in Saint Petersburg
- Marc Chagall, studied in Saint Petersburg
- Pafnuty Chebyshev, math
- Karl Ernst Claus
- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, lived in Saint Petersburg for 22 years
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, biologist, 1924–1927
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, lived in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1881
- 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)
- Brian Eno lived briefly in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s
- Leonhard Euler, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
- Erté, designer and illustrator (born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov)
- Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweller
- Ludvig Faddeev, mathematician
- Anna Filosofova, feminist
- Vladimir Fock, physicist
- Konstantin Fofanov, poet
- Michel Fokine, born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and worked there
- Ilya Frank, physicist
- Alexander Friedmann, mathematician and physicist
- Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
- George Gamow, physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
- Vladimir Garin, actor, born in Saint Petersburg in 1987
- Valery Gergiev, conductor
- Alexander Glazunov, composer
- Mikhail Glinka, composer
- Nikolai Gogol, created the memorable image of Saint Petersburg in his fiction
- Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Ivan Goncharov, writer, died in St.Petersburg
- Maud Gonne, made her debut in Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Grechaninov
- Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
- Alexander Grin
- Sacha Guitry, born in Saint Petersburg in 1885.
- Lev Gumilev, historian
- Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Alexander Herzen
- Mikhail Kalinin mayor after the revolution
- Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich economist
- Nikolay Karamzin , writer and historian, died in Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Kerensky
- Konstantin Khabensky, actor, born and raised in Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Khalifman, chessmaster
- Daniil Kharms, writer and poet
- Eduard Khil, Soviet era singer, 1949 - present
- Andrei Kirilenko, NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg
- Yuri Knorozov linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics
- Alexandra Kollontai revolutionary, writer, and diplomat
- Viktor Korchnoi, chess player
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko, was imprisoned in Saint Petersburg
- August von Kotzebue from 1780 to 1783
- Sergei Krikalyov, cosmonaut
- Peter Kropotkin
- Adam Johann von Krusenstern
- Mathilde Kschessinska
- Boris Kustodiev, painter
- Svetlana Kuznetsova, tennis player
- Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
- Vladimir Lenin
- Mikhail Lermontov, writer and poet
- Rafail Levitsky, photographer, artist, professor
- Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, photographer, opened St. Petersburg's first photo studio called "Light painting" on October 22, 1849
- Nikolai Leskov, writer
- Dmitry Likhachev, philologist
- Yuri Lisyanski, explorer
- Mikhail Lomonosov, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1765
- Ulyana Lopatkina, Principal ballerina with Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet and resident of Saint Petersburg since 1984
- Yuri Lotman 1922-1993
- Joseph de Maistre, lived in Saint Petersburg for 14 years
- Kazimir Malevich, died in Leningrad in 1935
- Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, studied in Saint Petersburg
- Alexei Manziola, born in St. Petersberg in 1980
- Andrey Markov, mathematician
- Anna Marly, born in St. Petersberg in 1917
- Vladimir Mayakovsky lived there from 1915 to 1918
- Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, died in Saint Petersburg in 1907
- Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist
- Auguste de Montferrand, architect
- Modest Mussorgsky, died in Saint Petersburg in 1881 and is buried there
- Nikolai Myaskovsky
- Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
- Tatiana Nabieva, gymnast, born in Saint Petersburg in 1994
- Vladimir Nabokov, writer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1899
- Nikolay Nekrasov, poet
- Alexander Ney, artist, born in Leningrad in 1939
- Vaslav Nijinsky, lived and worked in Saint 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 Saint Petersburg
- Rolandas Paksas
- Boris Palatnik, professional sculptor
- Ivan Panaev, publisher of the popular magazine Sovremennik
- Pyotr Pavlenko, writer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1899
- Ivan Pavlov, died in Leningrad in 1936
- Anna Pavlova, born in Saint Petersburg in 1881, lived and performed in Russia
- Grigori Perelman, mathematician
- Marius Petipa, worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
- Maxim Petrov, doctor who killed 12 patients between 1998 and 2000
- Aleksey Plescheev, poet
- Nikolay Pomyalovsky, writer
- Aleksandr Popov, died in Saint Petersburg in 1906
- Aleksandr Pushkin, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg in 1837
- Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad in 1952
- Imam Shamil
- Sergei Prokofiev studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
- Giacomo Quarenghi, architect
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer
- Alexander Radishchev, poet and writer
- Ayn Rand, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905
- Kseniya Rappoport, Russian actress
- Grigory Rasputin, was murdered in Saint Petersburg in 1916
- Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect
- Alexandre Remi, mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in St.Petersburg in 1807
- Aleksey Remizov, writer
- Ilya Repin, painter
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, worked primarily in Saint Petersburg
- Alexandr Rodchenko, born in Saint Petersburg 1891
- Pierre Rode, violinist, was working there from 1804 until 1809
- Nicholas Roerich, painter and writer
- Vladimir Rosing, opera singer and director, born in St. Petersburg in 1890, emigrated to England in 1913
- Carlo Rossi (architect)
- Anya Rozova, America's Next Top Model Runner-Up Cycle 10
- Konstantin Sakaev, chess player
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, writer, satirist
- Heinrich Schliemann, was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
- Taras Shevchenko, died in Saint Petersburg in 1861
- Dmitry Shostakovich, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905 and spent most of his life there
- Carl von Siemens had lived there in 1853-1867
- Igor Sikorsky, pioneer of aviation, 1903–1906, 1907–1909, 1912–1919
- Alexander Sizonenko, Russia's largest man, standing 7 feet 10 inches tall.
- Anna Shabanova, (1848–1932) One of the first women doctors in Russia and a women's rights activist. She worked all her career at Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg.
- Opanas Slastion studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg for several years before returning to Ukraine at the end of XIX century
- Fyodor Sologub, poet and writer
- Vladimir Sollogub, writer
- Boris Spassky, born in Leningrad in 1937
- Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, lover of Catherine the Great, after the third Polish division became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
- Vasily Stasov, architect
- Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein exile during Napoleon's reign
- Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt, architect, born in Saint Petersburg in 1842, left it as a child about 1848
- Igor Stravinsky, born in a suburb of Saint Petersburg in 1882
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Alexander Suvorov, died in Saint Petersburg in 1800
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, died in Saint Petersburg in 1893 and is buried there
- Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
- Domenico Trezzini, architect
- Fyodor Tyutchev, poet
- Nikolai Valuev, professional boxer
- Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, one of the founders of geochemistry
- Diana Vishneva, Principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet
- Julia Vlassov, figure skater
- Andrey Voronikhin, architect and painter
- James McNeill Whistler, went to school in Saint Petersburg
- Alexei Yagudin, figure skater, born in Saint Petersburg, lived in US from 1998 but moved back to Saint Petersburg in 2006
- Anton Yelchin, an 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 as Pavel Chekov, a character who is often implied to be from the city.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, writer
- Mikhail Zoshchenko, writer, satirist
- Vasily Zhukovsky, poet
- Vladimir Zworykin, studied in Saint Petersburg
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