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List of people from Saratov

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Saratov, Russia.

Born in Saratov

19th century

1801–1850

1851–1900

20th century

1901–1930

  • Alexander Bek (1903–1972), Soviet novelist and writer
  • Jerzy Pichelski (1903–1963), Polish film and theatre actor
  • Boris Babochkin (1904–1975), Soviet film and theatre actor and director
  • Viktor Wagner (1908–1981), Russian mathematician
  • Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911–1978), Soviet and Russian painter
  • Sweeney Schriner (1911–1990), Russian-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward
  • Sergey Filippov (1912–1990), Soviet film and theatre actor
  • Nikolai Minkh (1912–1982), Soviet composer, conductor and pianist
  • Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), Soviet actor
  • Michel Garder (1916–1993), French author and military man
  • Alexander Obukhov (1918–1989), Russian physicist and applied mathematician
  • Raisa Aronova (1920–1982), Russian Po-2 pilot in World War II
  • Vladimir Vengerov (1920–1997), Soviet film director
  • Jan Białostocki (1921–1988), Polish art historian
  • Boris Balashov (1927–1974), Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR")
  • Nikolai Krogius (1930–2022), Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter, psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator and author

1931–1950

1951–1970

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

Lived in Saratov

  • Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin
  • Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), Russian author and social critic
  • Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French engineer and mathematician (prisoner of war)
  • Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), Russian organic chemist
  • Alexey Bogolyubov (1824–1896), Russian landscape painter
  • Lev Igorev (1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style
  • Ilya Salov (1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator
  • Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter
  • Fyodor Schechtel (1859–1926), Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival
  • Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), 3rd Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911
  • Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Imperial Russian operatic tenor
  • Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian and Soviet painter and writer
  • Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), German Expressionist artist, critic, and courageous promoter of early 20th century avant-garde art. Killed in Saratov in a Soviet camp during Stalin's "Purges."
  • Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in a Saratov jail
  • Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright
  • Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965
  • Lidia Ruslanova (1900–1973), Russian folk singer
  • Lev Kassil (1905–1970), Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life and war
  • Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), Soviet aircraft designer
  • Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Soviet and Russian composer
  • Boris M. Schein (1938–2023), Russian-American mathematician
  • Eduard Limonov (1943–2020), Russian writer, poet, publicist and political dissident
  • Oleg Yankovsky (1944–2009), Soviet Russian actor
  • Valeriya (born 1968), Russian pop singer
  • Anastasia Karpova (born 1984), Russian pop singer
  • Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster
  • Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian pop singer
  • Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), Russian junior world champion and Olympic sabre fencer living in the United States

See also