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List of people from Rostov-on-Don

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Born in Rostov-on-Don

19th century

1801–1890

  • George VI of Armenia (1868–1954), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1945 to 1954
  • Mikhail Bernshtein (1875–1960), Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
  • Martiros Saryan (1880–1972), Soviet Armenian painter
  • Mikhail Gnessin (1883–1957), Russian composer and teacher
  • Raïssa Maritain (1883–1960), Russian-born French poet and philosopher
  • Alexander Schapiro (1883–1946), Russian Jewish anarcho-syndicalist militant active in the international anarchist movement
  • Sophie Liebknecht (1884–1964), Russian-born German socialist and feminist
  • Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts
  • Jerzy Å»urawlew (1886–1980), Polish pianist, conductor, teacher
  • Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish and French chess grandmaster
  • Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985), concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music

1891–1900

20th century

1901–1910

  • Marion Gering (1901–1977), Russian-born American stage producer and director
  • Boris Shpitalniy (1902–1972), Soviet designer of aircraft guns and cannons
  • Yevgeny Brusilovsky (1905–1981), Soviet Russian composer
  • Vera Panova (1905–1973), Soviet novelist, playwright and journalist
  • Leonid Sedov (1907–1999), leading physicist of the Soviet Union
  • Rostislav Plyatt (1908–1989), Russian-born Soviet film and television actor
  • John Travlos (1908–1985), Greek architect, architectural historian and archaeologist
  • Tsezar Kunikov (1909–1943), officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry; Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Aleksandr Laktionov (1910–1972), Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union
  • David Lichine (1910–1972), Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Yakov Henkin (1903–1941), notable Russian street photographer, active in Leningrad in the 1930s

1911–1920

1921–1930

  • Isabella Bashmakova (1921–2005), Russian historian of mathematics
  • Mark Stolberg (1922–1942), Russian chess master
  • Daniil Khrabrovitsky (1923–1980), Soviet scriptwriter and film director
  • Victor Glushkov (1923–1982), the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union
  • Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005), Russian chess Grandmaster and chess writer
  • Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet intelligence agent
  • Zinaida Sharko (1929-2016), Soviet and Russian actress of theatre and film
  • Mikhail Simonov (1929–2011), Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber
  • Ashot Melkonian (1930–2009), Armenian artist

1931–1940

  • Yuri Oganessian (born 1933), Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent, namesake of oganesson (element 118)
  • Mikhail Semyonov (1933–2006), Russian basketball player
  • Lev Anninsky (1934–2019), Soviet, Russian literary critic and historian, publicist, essayist, author of more than 30 books
  • Anatoly Kononenko (1935–2010), Soviet sprint canoer
  • Sergei Vronsky (1935–2003), Soviet and Russian cinematographer
  • Izabella Arazova (born 1936), Armenian composer
  • Seiran Khatlamadjian (1937–1994), Armenian painter, graphic artist and public figure
  • Gennadi Matveyev (1937–2014), Soviet football player
  • Viktor Ponedelnik (1937–2020), Soviet football player, regarded as one of the best strikers in Soviet football history
  • Lev Sandakchiev (1937–2006), Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in molecular biology and virology
  • Viktor Zubkov (1937–2016), Soviet basketball player
  • Enver Yulgushov (1938–2022), Russian professional football coach and former player

1941–1950

1951–1960

1961–1970

1971–1975

1976–1980

1981–1985

1986–1990

1991–1995

1996–2000

21st century

2001–2010

Lived in Rostov-on-Don

  • Georgy Sedov (1877–1914), Russian Arctic explorer
  • Evgeny Schwartz (1896–1958), Soviet writer and playwright
  • Alexander Pechersky (1909–1990), one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian novelist, historian and short story writer
  • Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russian ophthalmologist, politician, professor
  • Natalia Duritskaya (born 1960), Russian painter

See also