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).

Born in Saint Petersburg

1701–1800

• Peter II of Russia (1715–1730) Emperor of Russia from 1727 to 1730.
• Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal.
• Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1728–1803), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist
• Johann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician
• John Julius Angerstein (1735–1823) a London businessman and Lloyd's underwriter.
• 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.
• Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754–1826), Russia's Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor
• Mikhail Miloradovich (1771–1825), Russian general of Serbian origin
• Thomas Tooke (1774 in Kronstadt – 1858) an English economist.
• 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
• Paul von Krüdener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States
• 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
• Maria Danilova (1793–1810), Russian ballet dancer
• 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 organizer 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

1801–1830

• Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwright
• Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1805–1851), French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France
• Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), painter, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• George Busk (1807–1886), British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.
• 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
• 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
• Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), philanthropist and financier
• 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
• Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884), writer, essayist, journalist and literary critic
• Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (1825–1869) a British nobleman and man of letters.
• Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), archaeologist
• Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), Baltic German architect
• Pyotr Shuvalov (1827–1889), influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Emperor Alexander II
• Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830–1895), British artist

1831–1850

• Nikolay Pavlovich 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, philanthropist
• Mariia 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.
• Anna Filosofova (1837–1912), feminist
• Franz Overbeck (1837–1905), German Protestant theologian
• Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), chemist
• Dmitry Chernov (1839–1921), metallurgist
• Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), Finnish-German composer
• Alexander W. von Götte (1840–1922), German zoologist
• Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), internist and neurologist
• Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), daughter of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
• Nikolai Menshutkin (1842–1907), chemist
• Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt (1842–1920), architect, born in Saint Petersburg, left it as a child about 1848
• Mikhail Skobelev (1843–1882), general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War
• Alexander III of Russia (1845–1894), Emperor of Russia, 1881–1894.
• Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician
• Bogomir Korsov (1845–1920), baritone opera singer
• Vladimir Lamsdorf (1845–1907), statesman, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire (1900–1906)
• Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), pianist and composer
• Alexander von Bilderling (1846–1912), general in the Imperial Russian Army
• Anna Dostoevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 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

1851–1860

• Walter W. Winans (1852–1920), American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter
• Nikolai Reitsenshtein (1854–1916), career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy
• Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), Egyptologist
• Marie Petipa (1857–1930), Russian ballerina and the daughter of Marius Petipa and Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa
• Leopold Engel (1858–1931), writer and occultist
• Princess Maria Tenisheva (1858–1928), Princess, a public person, artist, educator, philanthropist and collector
• Emanuel Nobel (1859–1932), Swedish-Russian oil baron
• Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiral
• Victor Ewald (1860–1935), composer
• Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress

1861–1870

• Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and author
• Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932), Finnish judge and writer
• Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologist
• 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.
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866–1941) a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker and literary critic.
• Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent
• Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), Emperor of Russia, 1894–1917.
• Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939), Russian revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin
• Vasily Bartold (1869–1930), historian
• Nikolay Pushnitsky (1870–1921), sailor
• Vera Karelina (1870–1931), labour activist and revolutionary

1871–1880

• Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), one of the founding leaders of Menshevism
• Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor
• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), revolutionary, writer and diplomat
• Mathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971), Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin
• George Washington Lambert (1873–1930), Australian artist
• Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), scientist, weapons designer, professor, lieutenant general of a corps of military engineers
• Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter and writer
• Noë Bloch (1875–1937), film producer
• Carl Enckell (1876–1959), Finnish politician, officer and diplomat
• Herman Gummerus (1877–1948), Finnish classical scholar and diplomat
• Lev Urusov (1877–1933), Russian diplomat, member of International Olympic Committee
• Pavel Pototsky (1879-1932), Polish engineer, born in Saint Petersburg
• Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951), legendary Russian-Armenian ballet teacher and the creator of Vaganova method
• Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), Russian chemist
• Alexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poet
• Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg and worked there

1881–1890

• Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina, born in Saint Petersburg, 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
• Viktor Bulla (1883–1938), photographer and cinema pioneer
• Rusudana Nikoladze (1884–1981), inorganic chemist and educator
• Leopold van der Pals (1884–1966), composer
• Stella Arbenina (1885–1976), Russian-born English actress
• Ivan Abramovich Zalkind (1885–1928), Soviet diplomat
• Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter
• Naum Idelson (1885–1951), Soviet theoretical astronomer and expert in history of physics and mathematics
• Tamara Karsavina (1885–1978), renowned Russian prima ballerina
• Lydia Kyasht (1885–1959), Russian British ballerina and dance teacher
• Nikolai Gumilev (1886–1921), poet
• Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropist
• Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicist
• Varvara Brilliant-Lerman (1888–1954), plant physiologist
• Ludmilla Schollar (1888–1978), Russian-American dancer and educator
• Serge Elisséeff (1889–1975), Russian-French scholar and professor
• Joseph Ruttenberg (1889–1983), Russian-American photojournalist and cinematographer
• Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), opera singer and director, born in Saint Petersburg, emigrated to England in 1913

1891–1900

• Boris Morros (1891–1963), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films and supervised the music department
• Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, born in Saint Petersburg
• Aleksei Uversky (1891–1942), football player
• Erté (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 dancer
• Fyodor Raskolnikov (1892–1939), Bolshevik and Soviet diplomat
• Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976), prince regent of Yugoslavia
• Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist
• Vladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholar
• Sasha Stone (1895–1940), Russian born artist, photographer
• Vera Vinogradova (1895–1982), composer and pianist
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satirist
• Felia Doubrovska (1896–1981), Russian dancer and teacher
• Cleo Nordi (1898–1983), Russo-Finnish ballerina
• Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicist
• Maria Vega (1898–1980), poet, artist and translator
• Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet international footballer
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writer, born in Saint Petersburg
• Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), writer, born in Saint Petersburg
• Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), astronomer, born in Saint Petersburg
• Eugène Vinaver (1899–1979), literary scholar
• Nina Anisimova (1900–1979), Russian ballerina and dance choreographer
• Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
• Léon Motchane (1900–1990), French industrialist and mathematician

1901–1910

• Andrews Engelmann (1901–1992), Russian-born German actor
• Waldemar 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 Nabokov
• Alexandra Danilova (1903–1997), Russian-born American prima ballerina
• 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
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), British film, television and radio actor
• Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
• Tamara Talbot Rice (1904–1993), Russian then English art historian
• Mischa Auer (1905–1967), actor
• Alexey Eisner (1905–1984), poet, translator and writer
• Natalia Gippius (1905–1994), artist
• Oleg Kerensky (1905–1984), civil engineer
• Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), writer and poet
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-American novelist, born in Saint Petersburg
• Andria Balanchivadze (1906–1992), Georgian composer
• Dmitry Likhachev (1906–1999), philologist
• Illaria Obidenna Ladré (1906–1998), Russian ballet dancer
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer and pianist, born in Saint Petersburg and spent most of his life there
• Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter and graphic artist
• Vera Broido (1907–2004), writer
• Olga Sapphire (1907–1981), Russian Japanese ballerina and choreographer (Real Name: Olga Ivanovna Pavlova, )
• 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 II
• Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy (1907–1979), composer, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Edmund Kurtz (1908–2004), cellist and music editor
• Ilya Frank (1908–1990), physicist
• Rostislaw Kaischew (1908–2002), Bulgarian physicochemist
• Alexandre Mnouchkine (1908–1993), French film producer
• Marina Semyonova (1908–2010), first Soviet-trained prima ballerina and 1975's People's Artist of the USSR
• Sergey Urusevsky (1908–1974), cinematographer and film director
• Boris Vildé (1908–1942), linguist and ethnographer
• Nina Anisimova (1909–1979), dancer and choreographer
• Anatole de Grunwald (1910–1967), Russian British film producer and screenwriter
• Barys Kit (1910–2018), rocket scientist
• Nina Tikhonova (1910–1995), ballet dancer and teacher.
• Galina Ulanova (1910–1998), ballet dancer

1911–1920

• Yrjö von Grönhagen (1911–2003), Finnish nobleman and anthropologist
• Nikolay Novotelnov (1911–2006), chess International Master and author
• David Shoenberg (1911–2004), British physicist
• Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator
• Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), economist
• Varvara P. Mey (1912–1995), prima ballerina, ballet instructor and author
• Irina Nijinska (1913–1991), Russian-Polish ballet dancer
• Valentina Khetagurova (1914–1992), founder of the Khetagurovite Campaign
• Assia Noris (1912–1998), Russian-Italian film actress
• Adrian von Fölkersam (1914–1945), German Waffen-SS officer in World War II
• Elena 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 painting
• Anna Marly (1917–2006), singer-songwriter
• Efim Etkind (1918–1999), philologist and translation theorist
• Nathalie Krassovska (1918–2005), Russian born prima ballerina and teacher of classical ballet
• Irina Baronova (1919–2008), Russian ballerina and actress
• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer of classical music
• Tatiana 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

1921–1950

• Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978), Greek novelist, poet and translator
• Evegeny Bachurin (1934–2015), poet and composer
• Juri Lotman (1922–1993), literary scholar, semiotician and cultural historian
• Boris Ugarov (1922–1991), Russian Soviet realist painter and art educator
• Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925–2019), hero of the Soviet Union
• Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012), opera singer soprano
• Igor Dmitriev (1927–2008), actor
• Vladimir Kondrashin (1929–1999), basketball coach
• Ninel Kurgapkina (1929–2009), Russian dance teacher and former prima ballerina
• Yuli Vorontsov (1929–2007), Russian and Soviet diplomat
• Boris Parygin (1930–2012), Russian philosopher, sociologist and social psychology
• Georgy Grechko (1931–2017), cosmonaut
• Viktor Korchnoi (1931–2016), chess player
• Evgeny Ukhnalev (1931–2015), artist
• Mark Ermler (1932–2002), conductor
• Alla Osipenko (1931–2025), former Soviet ballerina
• Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012), science fiction author
• Georgy Kovenchuk (1933–2015), artist and writer
• Ilya Averbakh (1934–1986), film director
• Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017), mathematician
• Oleg Golovanov (1934–2019), rower
• Tatiana Samoylova (1934–2014), actress
• Nina Timofeeva (1935–2014), Russian ballet dancer
• Yuri Schmidt (1937–2013), human rights lawyer
• Boris Spassky (1937–2025), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)
• Vitaly Efimov (born 1938), theoretical physicist
• Boris Melnikov (1938–2022), Soviet fencer, won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Alexander Ney (born 1939), artist, born in Leningrad
• Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian and American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)
• Irina Gubanova (1940–2000), Russian ballerina and film actress
• Natalia Makarova (born 1940), Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.
• Leon Petrosyan (born 1940), mathematician
• Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010), Olympic and world champion fencer
• Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematician
• Andrej Hoteev (1946–2021), pianist
• Tatyana Chernigovskaya (born 1947), scientist in neuroscience, psycholinguistics and theory of mind
• Aleksandr Sokolov (born 1949), politician
• Viktor Novozhilov (1950–1991), wrestler

1951–1960

• Alexander Belov (1951–1978), Soviet basketball player
• Vladimir Kishkun (born 1951), athlete
• Ilya Klebanov (born 1951), politician
• Dmitry Stukalov (born 1951), hurdler
• Alexei Uchitel (born 1951), film director
• Vitali Baganov (born 1952), actor of film and television
• Vladimir 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), artist
• Alexander Radvilovich (born 1955), composer, pianist and teacher
• Alexander Dityatin (1957–2025), former Soviet/Russian artistic gymnast Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut

1961–1970

• Igor Butman (born 1961), jazz saxophonist
• Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961-2023), oligarch and former leader of the Wagner Group
• Valeri Broshin (1962–2009), professional football player and manager
• Alexey Parygin (born 1964), artist, art historian
• Peter Chernobrivets (born 1965), composer, musicologist
• Oleg Makarov (born 1962), pair skater
• 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
• Vitaly Pushnitsky (born 1967), artist
• Yulia Makhalina (born 1968), Russian ballet dancer
• Larissa Lezhnina (born 1969), Russian ballerina and a principal dancer with Dutch National Ballet, in Amsterdam
• Anna Podlesnaya (born 1970), Russian ballerina
• Ekaterina Shchelkanova (born 1970), Russian ballerina, singer and actress

1971–1980

• Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), pianist
• Victoria Haralabidou (born 1971), Greek-Russian actress
• Konstantin Khabensky (born 1972), actor, born and raised in Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Volodenkov (born 1972), Olympic rower
• Alexei Urmanov (born 1973), figure skater
• Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), professional boxer
• Vitaly Milonov (born 1974), Russian politician
• Kseniya Rappoport (born 1974), Russian actress
• Konstantin Sakaev (born 1974), chess player
• Andrejs Mamikins (born 1976), Latvian politician and journalist and a Member of the European Parliament
• Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), conductor
• Anastasia Volochkova (born 1976), Russian prima ballerina
• Diana Vishneva (born 1976), principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet
• Yevgeniya Isakova (born 1978), hurdler
• Marina Kislova (born 1978), sprinter
• Veronika Part (born 1978), Russian ballet dancer
• Ivan Urgant (born 1978), television personality, showman, actor and musician
• Vyacheslav Malafeev (born 1979), footballer
• Svetlana Pospelova (born 1979), European Indoor 400m champion
• Svetlana Abrosimova (born 1980), European champion basketball player
• Irina Golub (born 1980), Russian-born ballerina
• Vladimir Karpets (born 1980), road bicycle racer
• Ilona Korstin (born 1980), basketball forward
• Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (born 1980), Olympic gymnast (born in Saint Petersburg and currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 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

1981–1990

• Natalya Antyukh (born 1981), Russian athlete
• Andrey Arshavin (born 1981), Russian footballer, Arsenal FC
• Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian professional footballer
• Olga Dmitrieva (born 1981), Russian professional triathlete
• Mikhail Elgin (born 1981), professional tennis player
• Andrei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey winger
• Kirill Safronov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
• Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), member of political opposition
• Georgy Grebenkov (born 1982), Russian artistic gymnast
• Ilya Gringolts (born 1982), Russian violinist and educator
• Sergei Slavnov (born 1982), pair skater
• Anastasia Fomina (born 1983), Russian basketball point guard
• Konstantin Menshov (born 1983), figure skater
• Julia Novikova (born 1983), coloratura soprano opera singer
• Pavel Durov (born 1984), entrepreneur
• Svetlana Bolshakova (born 1984), triple jumper
• Igor Denisov (born 1984), association footballer
• Daniil Konstantinov (born 1984), opposition politician, lawyer, human rights activist
• Evgenia Obraztsova (born 1984), ballerina
• Anastasia Stashkevich (born 1984), Russian principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet
• Mikhail Ignatiev (born 1985), professional track and road bicycle racer
• Miron Fyodorov aka Oxxxymiron (born 1985), rapper
• Aleksandra Kiryashova (born 1985), pole vaulter
• Svetlana Kuznetsova (born 1985), tennis player
• Maria Mukhortova (born 1985), pair skater
• Xenia Dyakonova (born 1985), poet, translator, literary critic, and teacher of writing
• Nadezhda Skardino (born 1985), Belarusian biathlete
• Alina Somova (born 1985), Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Suleimanov (born 1985), former professional footballer
• Andrey Timofeev (born 1985), musician
• Ekaterina Yurlova (born 1985), biathlete
• Natalia Ziganshina (born 1985), former gymnast
• Evgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian professional basketball player
• Vadim Bogdanov (born 1986), handball player
• Olga Esina (born 1986), Russian ballerina and First Solo Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet
• Timofey Mozgov (born 1986), professional basketball player
• Anna Nazarova (born 1986), track and field athlete
• Oksana Akinshina (born 1987), actress
• Vladimir Garin (1987–2003), actor, born in then-Leningrad
• Roman Ovchinnikov (born 1987), former footballer
• Natalia Shliakhtenko (born 1987), professional triathlete
• Aleksei Shvalev (born 1987), professional ice hockey player
• Sofya Skya (born 1987), Russian actress, ballet dancer and acting coach.
• (born 1988), pornographic model
• Polina Miller (born 1988), Russian artistic gymnast
• Alexander Enbert (born 1989), pair skater
• Sergey Fesikov (born 1989), swimmer
• Katarina Gerboldt (born 1989), figure skater
• Nadezhda Grishaeva (born 1989), Russian professional basketball player
• Katya Jones (born 1989), Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer, oil heiress
• Tatyana McFadden (born 1989), Russian-born United States Paralympian athlete
• Andriy Yarmolenko (born 1989), Ukrainian football winger
• Anton 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 as Pavel Chekov, a character who is often implied to be from the city
• Alena Leonova (born 1990), figure skater
• Ksenia Polikarpova (born 1990), Russian female badminton player
• Julia Vlassov (born 1990), Russian American figure skater

1991–2000

• Ekaterina Kramarenko (born 1991), artistic gymnast
• Alexander Majorov (born 1991), figure skater
• Maxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmaster
• Olga Smirnova (born 1991), prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet
• Alexey Stadler (born 1991), cellist
• Ilya Zakharov (born 1991), diver, Olympics gold medalist (2012)
• Ksenia Makarova (born 1992), figure skater
• Viktor Manakov (born 1992), professional racing cyclist
• Alexey Romashov (born 1992), ski jumper
• Ksenia Stolbova (born 1992), pair skater
• Sergey Karasev (born 1993), professional basketball player
• Samira Mustafaeva (born 1993), Russian Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast
• Alexander Barabanov (born 1994), ice hockey player
• Anish Giri (born 1994), Russian-born Dutch chess prodigy and Grandmaster
• Tatiana Nabieva (born 1994), gymnast, born in Saint Petersburg
• Alexandra Stepanova (born 1995), ice dancer
• Aleksei Gasilin (born 1996), professional football player
• Ramil Sheydayev (born 1996), Russian-Azerbaijani professional footballer
• Lilia Akhaimova (born 1997), artistic gymnast
• Daniel Koperberg (born 1997), Israeli basketball player
• Colton Gordon (born 1998), baseball pitcher
• Mikhail Maltsev (born 1998), ice hockey player
• Alexander Alexeyev (born 1999), ice hockey player
• Pasha Pozdniakova (born 1999), Finnish-Russian Playboy model and social media influencer
• Natalia Safonova (born 1999), rhythmic gymnast
• Maria Khoreva (born 2000), ballet dancer and first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet

21st century

• Yuri Busse (born 2001), artistic gymnast
• Elena Eremina (born 2001), artistic gymnast
• Maria Sergeeva (born 2001), individual rhythmic gymnast
• Anastasia Smirnova (born 2001), ballet dancer
• Petr Gumennik (born 2002), figure skater athlete

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

17th C. & 18th C.

• 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
• Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806) a French painter.
• Christian Friedrich von Völkner (1728–1796), German translator and historian, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
• Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), national hero of Russia, Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, died in Saint Petersburg.
• 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.
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), rabbi, philosopher, writer, founder and spiritual-leader of Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Recognized as military supporter of Tsar Alexander I in French Invasion of Russia.
• 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
• Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (1753–1830) a French diplomat and historian.
• Agustín de Betancourt (1754–1824), Spanish engineer urban planner of Saint Petersburg
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reign
• Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painter
• Étienne Dumont (1759–1829), a Swiss French political writer.
• 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 years
• 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 Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), Polish statesman, friend of tsars and Tsar Alexander's foreign minister and key in forming the Third Coalition against France.
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), admiral and explorer, led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
• Yuri Lisyansky (1773–1837), explorer
• Joseph Saunders (1773–1845), noted English engraver, "Historical engraver to the Hermitage" under Paul I
• Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist, worked there from 1804 until 1809
• Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian architect
• François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) a French composer of operas, called "the French Mozart".
• Władysław Grzegorz Branicki (1783–1843), Polish nobleman, landowner, Russian senator and army general
• 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), great Russian poet, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg.

19th C.

• 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
• Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), a Russian organic chemist.
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), writer and poet.
• Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), a Ukrainian poet, writer and artist died in Saint Petersburg.
• 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), mathematician
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), writer lived in Saint Petersburg and died there.
• Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), poet
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), archaeologist worked 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.
• Feliks Sobański (1833–1913), Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist, held in Peter and Paul Fortress on sedition charges
• Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist and inventor, died in Saint Petersburg
• James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American painter, 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 and is buried there.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, died in Saint Petersburg, 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; worked all her career at Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg
• Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), physiologist, died in Leningrad
• 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 Makarov (1857–1919), Imperial Russian Politician, lived in Saint Petersburg 1857–1917
• Alexander Popov (1859–1906), physicist, died in Saint Petersburg
• Anton Arensky (1861–1906), composer
• Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Romantic composer
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953), Irish actress 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), Svengali of the last Tsarina murdered in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), anarchist
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist took over the capital in 1917.
• 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
• 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), painter who studied in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), biologist
• Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888–1982), Russian-American inventor and pioneer of TV technology, studied in Saint Petersburg
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), spent most of her life and died in Leningrad
• Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), pioneer of aviation, 1903–1906, 1907–1909, 1912–1919
• Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Ballerino 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

20th C.

• Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), Russian and American biologist, 1924–1927 in Leningrad
• George Gamow (1904–1968), Soviet and American physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
• Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Vilnius-born, lived in Saint Petersburg, German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
• 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), Ballerino graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Yuri Temirkanov (born 1938), conductor
• Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), Latvian and American, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Brian Eno (born 1948), English, 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, resident of Saint Petersburg since 1984
• Ilyas Vasipov (1974—2016), journalist
• Denis 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 fighter
• Andrei Kirilenko (born 1981), Russian-American NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg
• Nu-Nation (formed 2009), nu-metal musical group
• Edita 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

See also

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

External links

• Celebrities of Saint-Petersburg
• Personalities of Saint-Petersburg

References