List of people from Saint Petersburg

This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1914–1924: Petrograd, 1924–1991: Leningrad). Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Saint Petersburg, if known.

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Born in Saint Petersburg

1700–1799

• Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal
• Johann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician
• Ivan VI of Russia (1740–1764), Emperor of Russia (1740–1741)
• Ivan Lepyokhin (1740–1802), naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer
• Mikhail Kutuzov (1745–1813), Field Marshal of the Russian Empire
• Mikhail Miloradovich (1771–1825), Russian general of Serbian origin
• 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 roots
• Pavel Kridener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States, under John Quincy Adams
• Michael 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 painter
• Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792–1795), Grand Duchess of Russia as the second youngest daughter and seventh child of Emperor Paul I of Russia
• Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794–1866), Imperial Russian military officer and General of the Russian Army
• Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I
• Sergey Muravyov-Apostol (1796–1826), Russian Imperial Lieutenant Colonel and one of the organizers of the Decembrist revolt
• Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), Emperor of Russia (1825–1855)
• Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), Romantic poet and Decembrist
• Fyodor Litke (1797–1882), navigator, geographer and Arctic explorer
• Karl Bryullov (1799–1852), painter
• Countess of Ségur (1799–1874), French writer of Russian birth

1800–1849

• Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwright
• Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1805–1851), French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France
• Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858), painter. He was born and died in St. Petersburg.
• Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868), Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin
• Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809–1881), statesman and diplomat
• Alexandre Remi (1809–1871), mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in Saint Petersburg in 1809
• Ivan Panaev (1812–1862), publisher of the popular magazine Sovremennik
• Anatoly Demidov (1813–1870), industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of the Demidov family
• Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activist
• Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882), writer
• Eugene Balabin (1815–1895), Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus
• Otto von Böhtlingk (1815–1904), German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
• Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
• Count 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 holder
• Alexander Serov (1820–1871), composer and music critic
• Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821–1866), thinker and public figure
• Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), archaeologist
• Pyotr Shuvalov (1827–1889), influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Emperor Alexander II, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolay Ignatyev (1832–1908), statesman and diplomat
• Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), realistic painter, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), composer and chemist
• Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873), architect and painter
• Nikolai Pomyalovsky (1835–1863), writer
• Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904), Imperial Russian music publisher, outstanding philanthropist
• Anna Filosofova (1837–1912), feminist
• Franz Overbeck (1837–1905), German Protestant theologian
• Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), chemist
• Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt (1842–1920), architect, born in Saint Petersburg in 1842, left it as a child about 1848
• Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician
• Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), pianist and composer
• Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), jeweller
• Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
• Rafail Levitsky (1847–1940), photographer, artist, professor
• Jean Béraud (1849–1935), French painter

1850–1899

• Leopold Engel (1858–1931), writer and occultist
• Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiral
• Victor Ewald (1860–1935), composer
• Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911), poet
• Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927), poet and writer
• Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), one of the founders of geochemistry
• Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
• Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent
• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), revolutionary, writer and diplomat
• Mathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971), Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin
• Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter and writer
• Carl Enckell (1876–1959), Finnish politician, officer and diplomat
• Alexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poet
• Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and worked there
• Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina, born in Saint Petersburg in 1881, lived and performed in Russia
• Mikhail Avilov (1882–1954), painter and art educator
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer, pianist and conductor, born in a suburb of Saint Petersburg in 1882
• Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter
• Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), poet
• Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropist
• Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicist
• Serge Elisséeff (1889–1975), Russian-French scholar and professor
• Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), opera singer and director, born in St. Petersburg in 1890, emigrated to England in 1913
• Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, born in Saint Petersburg 1891
• Erté (1892–1990), designer and illustrator (born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov)
• Vladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholar
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satirist
• Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicist
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1899
• Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), writer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1899

1900–1949

• Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
• Andrews Engelmann (1901–1992), Russian-born German actor
• Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), conductor
• George Balanchine (1904–1983), one of the 20th century's most prolific choreographers
• Colonel-General Nikolai Berzarin (1904–1945), appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945. The Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour.
• Alexey Eisner (1905–1984), poet, translator and writer
• Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), writer and poet
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-American novelist, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905
• Andria Balanchivadze (1906–1992), Georgian composer
• Dmitry Likhachov (1906–1999), philologist
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer and pianist, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905 and spent most of his life there
• Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter and graphic artist
• Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979), composer, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Ilya Frank (1908–1990), physicist
• Sergey Urusevsky (1908–1974), cinematographer and film director
• Galina Ulanova (1910–1998), ballet dancer
• Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator
• Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), economist
• Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991), Soviet scholar of Roman history, recipient of the State Prize of the USSR
• Anna Marly (1917–2006), singer-songwriter
• Efim Etkind (1918–1999), philologist and translation theorist
• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer of classical music
• Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), literary scholar, semiotician and cultural historian
• Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (born 1925), Hero of the Soviet Union
• Georgy Grechko (born 1931), cosmonaut
• Viktor Korchnoi (born 1931), chess player
• Mark Ermler (1932–2002), conductor
• Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012), science fiction author
• Ilya Averbakh (1934–1986), film director
• Ludvig Faddeev (born 1934), mathematician
• Boris Spassky (born 1937), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)
• Alexander Ney (born 1939), artist, born in Leningrad in 1939
• Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian and American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)
• Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematician
• Andrej Hoteev (born 1946), pianist

1950–1999

• Boris Palatnik (born 1950), professional sculptor
• Alexei Uchitel (born 1951), film director
• Vitali Baganov (born 1952), actor of film and television
• Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia, born in Leningrad in 1952
• Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut
• Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990), musician
• Dmitry 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), mathematician
• Victoria Haralabidou (born 1971), Greek-Russian actress
• Konstantin Khabensky (born 1972), actor, born and raised in Saint Petersburg
• Alexei Urmanov (born 1973), figure skater
• Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), professional boxer
• Kseniya Rappoport (born 1974), Russian actress
• Konstantin Sakaev (born 1974), chess player
• Diana Vishneva (born 1976), Principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet
• Yevgeniya Isakova (born 1978), hurdler
• Marina Kislova (born 1978), sprinter
• Ivan Urgant (born 1978), television personality, showman, actor and musician
• Vyacheslav Malafeev (born 1979), footballer
• Svetlana Abrosimova (born 1980), European champion basketball player
• Elena Elbe (born 1980), French artist
• Vladimir Karpets (born 1980), road bicycle racer
• Margarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-American actress
• Alexei Manziola (born 1980), swimmer
• Yevgeny Sudbin (born 1980), concert pianist
• Alexei Yagudin (born 1980), figure skater, born in Saint Petersburg, lived in US from 1998 but moved back to Saint Petersburg in 2006
• Andrey Arshavin (born 1981), Russian Footballer - Arsenal FC
• Mikhail Elgin (born 1981), professional tennis player
• Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), member of political opposition
• Sergei Slavnov (born 1982), pair skater
• Konstantin Menshov (born 1983), figure skater
• Igor Denisov (born 1984), association footballer
• Daniil Konstantinov (born 1984), opposition politician, lawyer, human rights activist
• Evgenia Obraztsova (born 1984), ballerina
• Mikhail Ignatiev (born 1985), professional track and road bicycle racer
• Aleksandra Kiryashova (born 1985), pole vaulter
• Svetlana Kuznetsova (born 1985), tennis player
• Maria Mukhortova (born 1985), pair skater
• Nadezhda Skardino (born 1985), Belarusian biathlete
• Ekaterina Yurlova (born 1985), biathlete
• Timofey Mozgov (born 1986), professional basketball player
• Oksana Akinshina (born 1987), actress
• Vladimir Garin (1987–2003), actor, born in Saint Petersburg in 1987
• Alexander Enbert (born 1989), pair skater
• Sergey Fesikov (born 1989), swimmer
• Katarina Gerboldt (born 1989), figure skater
• Anya Rozova (born 1989), America's Next Top Model Runner-Up Cycle 10
• Anton Yelchin (born 1989), 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.
• Alena Leonova (born 1990), figure skater
• Julia Vlassov (born 1990), Russian American figure skater
• Maxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmaster
• Ksenia Makarova (born 1992), figure skater
• Ksenia Stolbova (born 1992), pair skater
• Sergey Karasev (born 1993), professional basketball player
• Anish Giri (born 1994), Russian-born Dutch chess prodigy and Grandmaster
• Tatiana Nabieva (born 1994), gymnast, born in Saint Petersburg in 1994

• 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 architect
• Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), French astronomer and cartographer, lived in Saint Petersburg for 22 years
• Harmen 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 Petersburg
• Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700–1771), architect
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian polymath, scientist and writer, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1765
• Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), national hero of Russia, Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, died in Saint Petersburg in 1800
• Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), lover of Catherine the Great, after the third Polish division became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
• Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), architect
• Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), Polish military leader, was imprisoned in Saint Petersburg
• Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801), Italian opera composer, wrote two operas in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), poet and writer
• Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, freemason and diplomat, lived in Saint Petersburg for 14 years
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reign
• Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painter
• August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), German dramatist and writer, consul in Russia and Germany, from 1780 to 1783 in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826), writer and historian, died in Saint Petersburg
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), first U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg (6th President of the United States)
• 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), architect
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
• Yuri Lisyansky (1773–1837), explorer
• Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist, was working there from 1804 until 1809
• Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian architect
• Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), poet
• Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), architect
• Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Baltic German chemist and naturalist
• Imam Shamil (1797–1871), Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), the greatest Russian poet, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg in 1837
• Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), poet
• Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857), composer
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), created the memorable image of Saint Petersburg in his fiction
• Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), literary critic, 1839–1848 in Saint Petersburg
• Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), writer, died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), writer and thinker
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), writer and poet
• Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), died in Saint Petersburg in 1861
• Marius Petipa (1818–1910), worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
• Sergey Levitsky (1819–1898), photographer, opened St. Petersburg's first photo studio called "Light painting" on October 22, 1849
• Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894), mathematician
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), lived in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1881
• Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), poet
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
• Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), poet
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), writer, satirist
• Carl Heinrich von Siemens (1829–1906), German entrepreneur, had lived there in 1853–1867
• Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895), writer
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist and inventor, died in Saint Petersburg in 1907
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), went to school in Saint Petersburg
• Nicholas of Japan (1836–1912), Russian Orthodox priest, monk, bishop, and saint
• Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), pianist, conductor and composer
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), composer, died in Saint Petersburg in 1881 and is buried there
• Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, died in Saint Petersburg in 1893 and is buried there
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), geographer, economist, activist, philologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, writer and prominent anarchist
• Ilya Repin (1844–1930), painter
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), composer, worked primarily in Saint Petersburg
• Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846–1888), ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist
• 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.
• Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), physiologist, died in Leningrad in 1936
• Opanas 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 century
• Andrey Markov (1856–1922), mathematician
• Alexander Popov (1859–1906), physicist, died in Saint Petersburg in 1906
• Anton Arensky (1861–1906), composer
• Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Romantic composer
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953), made her debut in Saint Petersburg
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), Finnish military leader and statesman, 6th President of Finland, studied in Saint Petersburg
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940), anarchist
• Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916), was murdered in Saint Petersburg in 1916
• Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), anarchist
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer
• Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), philosopher, 1908–1922 in Saint Petersburg
• Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946), mayor after the revolution
• Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957), writer
• Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), painter
• Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935), painter and art theoretician, died in Leningrad in 1935
• Andrei Bely (1880–1934), wrote the novel Petersburg
• Alexander Grin (1880–1932), writer
• Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), lawyer and major political leader before the Russian Revolutions of 1917 belonging to a moderate socialist party
• Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), composer
• Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), Baltic German philosopher
• Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942), writer, 1928–1942 in Leningrad
• Isaak Brodsky (1884–1939), painter
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), writer
• Marc Chagall (1887–1985), studied in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), biologist
• Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888–1982), Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology, studied in Saint Petersburg
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), spent most of her life and died in Leningrad in 1966
• Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), pioneer of aviation, 1903–1906, 1907–1909, 1912–1919
• Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet, lived there from 1915 to 1918
• Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), biologist, 1924–1927 in Leningrad
• George Gamow (1904–1968), physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
• Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics
• Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), mathematician
• Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), science fiction author
• Eduard Khil (1934–2012), Soviet era singer, 1949–2012 in Leningrad/Saint Petersburg
• Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Yuri Temirkanov (born 1938), conductor
• Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Brian Eno (born 1948), lived briefly in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s
• Valery Gergiev (born 1953), conductor
• Rolandas Paksas (born 1956), Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004
• Alexander Sizonenko (1959–2012), Russia's largest man, standing 7 feet 10 inches tall
• Maxim Petrov (born 1965), doctor who killed 12 patients between 1998 and 2000
• Ulyana Lopatkina (born 1973), Principal ballerina with Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet and resident of Saint Petersburg since 1984
• Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Heavyweight Mixed Martial Artist and Sambo fighter
• Andrei Kirilenko (born 1981), NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg

See also

• List of Russians
• List of Russian-language poets
• List of famous Russians
• Ves Petersburg (a series of directories of residents and streets in Saint Petersburg)

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