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.

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• Fedor Emelianenko, Heavyweight Mixed Martial Artist and Sambo fighter
• 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
• Oksana Akinshina, Actress
• 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
• Andrej Hoteev, pianist
• 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, 1949–2012
• 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 19th century
• Vladimir Sollogub, writer
• Fyodor Sologub, poet and writer
• Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, composer, born and died in Saint Petersburg (1907–1979).
• 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

• Victoria Haralabidou (1972) Greek-Russian actress

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)

External links

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