List of people from Nizhny Novgorod
This is a list of notable people who have lived in Nizhny Novgorod (1932–1990: Gorky), Russia.
(1735–1818)
(1792–1856)
(1838–1898)
(1864–1926)
(1868–1936)
(1884–1966)
(1887–1914)
(1895–1975)
(1950–2001)
(born 1978)
(born 1980)
(born 1982)
(born 1982)
(born 1984)
(born 1987)
Born in Nizhny Novgorod
1301–1800
- Macarius of Unzha (1349–1444), Russian Orthodox saint
- Dmitry Pozharsky (1577–1642), Rurikid prince, led Russian forces against Polish invaders in 1611–1612 towards the end of the Time of Troubles
- Kuzma Minin (end of 16th century–1616), Russian National Hero of 1612
- Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), mechanic and inventor
- Sergei Trubetskoy (1790–1860), one of the organizers of the Decembrist movement
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), mathematician and geometer
1801–1850
- Nikolai Martynov (1815–1875), army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a duel on 27 July 1841
- Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883), writer, ethnographer
- Vasily Vasilyev (1818–1900), sinologist of the Victorian era
- Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836–1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and revolutionary democrat
- Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), writer, playwright, and journalist
- Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), composer, head of The Five
- Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky (1838–1898), painter
- German Lopatin (1845–1918), revolutionary, journalist and writer
- Raphael von Koeber (1848–1923), German-Russian teacher of philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University in Japan
1851–1900
- Mikhail Matyushin (1861–1934), painter and composer
- Constantin Kousnetzoff (1863–1936), painter
- Vladimir Steklov (1864–1926), mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- Anna Ulyanova (1864–1935), revolutionary and Soviet stateswoman
- Zdzisław Lubomirski (1865–1943), Polish aristocrat, landowner, lawyer, conservative politician and social activist
- Dmitriy Sirotkin (1865–1946), twice city head, millionaire
- Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866–1887), revolutionary and older brother of Vladimir Lenin
- Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868–1936), writer and political activist
- Ivan Bubnov (1872–1919), marine engineer and designer of submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy
- Dmitry Nadyozhny (1873–1945), commander in the Russian Imperial Army who later joined the Red Army
- Alexander Samoylovich (1880–1938), Orientalist-Turkologist
- Leonid Vesnin (1880–1933), leading light of Constructivist architecture
- Mikhail Tetyaev (1882–1956), tectonic geologist
- Alexander Krein (1883–1951), composer
- Zinovy Peshkov (1884–1966), Russian-born French general and diplomat
- Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919), Bolshevik party leader and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), military pilot, aircraft technical designer and aerobatics pioneer
- Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953), Russian-Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor
- Nikolay Kolosovsky (1891–1954), economic geographer, economist
- Léon Zack (1892–1980), painter and sculptor
- Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), soviet political, Prime Minister (1955–1958), Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Catherine Doherty (1896–1985), Russian Canadian Roman Catholic social worker
- Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962), poet, novelist and playwright
- Aleksandr Formozov (1899–1973), biologist and environmentalist
1901–1930
- Sergey Lebedev (1902–1974), scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers
- Vladimir Varankin (1902–1938), writer of literature in Esperanto, instructor of western European history
- Andrei Fajt (1903–1976), film actor
- Grigory Ginzburg (1904–1961), pianist, Moscow Conservatory professor
- Alexander Golovanov (1904–1975), pilot, Marshal of Aviation
- Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992), theoretical physicist, mathematician
- Boris Mokrousov (1909–1968), composer
- David Ashkenazi (1915–1997), pianist, accompanist and composer
- Nikolai Khokhlov (1922–2007), KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1953
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), soviet actor
- Margarita Nazarova (1926–2005), actress, circus performer
- Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), physician
1931–1950
- Igor Maslennikov (1931), film director
- Valentin Morkovkin (1933–1999), rower
- Konstantin Kharchev (1934), politician, diplomat and ambassador
- Leonid Volkov (1934), ice hockey player
- Igor Zhukov (1936), pianist, conductor and sound engineer
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Russian-born pianist and conductor of Icelandic and Swiss citizenship
- Yuri Golov (1937–2014), Russian footballer
- German Sveshnikov (1937–2003), Soviet fencer
- Viktor Konovalenko (1938–1996), ice hockey goaltender
- Sergei Novikov (1938), mathematician
- Mikhail Rabinovich (1941), influential physicist
- Pavel Lednyov (1943–2010), modern pentathlete and Olympic champion
- Valeri Zykov (1944), football player
- Vladimir Denisov (1947), fencer
- Gariy Napalkov (1948), ski jumper
- Tatyana Averina (1950–2001), speed skater
1951–1970
- Sergey Mitin (1951), Governor of Novgorod Oblast since 2007
- Vladimir Kovin (1954), ice hockey player
- Alexander Skvortsov (1954), ice hockey player
- Galina Kakovkina (1957), painter
- Serhii Plokhii (1957), professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University
- Mikhail Varnakov (1957), ice hockey player
- Gennadi Maslyayev (1958), professional football coach and player
- Sergey Ryabtsev (1958), plays violin and provides backing vocals for the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello
- Tatyana Shvyganova (1960), field hockey player and Olympic medalist
- Evgeny Sheyko (1962), conductor
- Yevgeny Erastov (1963), writer
- Valery Rozov (1964), BASE jumper
- Ilya Segalovich (1964–2013), co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex
- Andrey Sigle (1964), film producer, film music composer and musician
- Maya Usova (1964), ice dancer
- Natalia Pankova (1965), artist, art manager
- Dimitri Konyshev (1966), former road bicycle racer
- Alexander Baburin (1967), Russian-Irish Grandmaster of chess
- Tahir Taghizadeh (1967), Azerbaijani diplomat
- Igor Egorov (1968), football referee and former player
- Dmitri Cheryshev (1969), footballer
- Alexei Ivanov (1969), writer
- Vladimir Kurayev (1969), professional footballer
- Sergei Sorokin (1969), ice hockey player
- Valeri Popovitch (1970), football striker
- Alyaksandr Taykow (1970), footballer
1971–1980
- Vladislav Leontyev (1971), crime figure
- Dmitry Mazunov (1971), table tennis player
- Natalya Sadova (1972), discus thrower
- Aleksei Gerasimov (1973), professional footballer
- Andrej Krementschouk (1973), photographer
- Albert Oskolkov (1973), professional footballer
- Ilya V. Osipov (1975), entrepreneur, puzzle designer
- Alexander Guskov (1976), professional ice hockey defenceman
- Sergei Nakariakov (1977), virtuoso trumpeter
- Svetlana Ganina (1978), table tennis player
- Evgeny Aleshin (1979), swimmer
- Pyotr Bystrov (1979), association footballer
- Artem Chubarov (1979), professional ice hockey player
- Natalya Bochkareva (1980), stage and film actress, television presenter
- Irina Kotikhina (1980), professional table tennis player
1981–1990
- Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (1981), biathlete
- Dmitry Aydov (1982), professional association football player
- Vladimir Gusev (1982), professional road racing cyclist
- Yekaterina Kondratyeva (1982), sprinter
- Natalia Vodianova (1982), supermodel, philanthropist and occasional film actress
- Ilya Korotkov (1983), javelin thrower
- Sergey Shiryayev (1983), cross country skier
- Ivan Usenko (1983), Belarusian ice hockey defenceman
- Mikhail Tyulyapkin (1984), professional ice hockey defenceman
- Ekaterina Vilkova (1984), actress of film, theater and television
- Dmitri Kosmachev (1985), professional ice hockey player
- Mikhail Varnakov (1985), professional ice hockey player
- Maria Borodakova (1986), volleyball player
- Denis Kornilov (1986), ski jumper
- Denis Kozhukhin (1986), pianist, winner of the Vendome Prize in Lisbon in 2009
- Svetlana Mironova (1986), orienteering competitor
- Vera Ulyakina (1986), volleyball player
- Anne Vyalitsyna (1986), supermodel
- Artem Lobov (1986), UFC Fighter
- Igor Levit (1987), Russian-German pianist
- Ilya Maksimov (1987), football midfielder
- Ruslan Zakharov (1987), short-track speed-skater
- Nikolai Zhilyayev (1987), footballer
- Vladimir Galuzin (1988), professional ice hockey player
- Valeri Zhukov (1988), professional ice hockey player
- Denis Cheryshev (1990), footballer, Real Madrid forward
- Pavel Karelin (1990–2011), ski jumper
1991–2000
- Dmitriy Kokarev (1991), swimmer
- Alexander Sharychenkov (1991), professional ice hockey goaltender
- Daniil Trifonov (1991), concert pianist and composer
- Dmitri Karasyov (1992), professional football player
- Ekaterina Pushkash (1992), ice dancer
- Mikhail Maksimochkin (1993), ski jumper
Lived in Nizhny Novgorod
- Alexander Dubček (1921–1992), Czechoslovak politician, in Nizhny Novgorod 1933–1938
- Nikolay Kruglov (born 1950), biathlete
- Nina Makarova (1908–1976), composer
- Anatoly Moskvin (1968), academic and linguist; arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home
- Andrei Rumyantsev (born 1969), professional footballer
- Aleksandr Shchukin (1969–2000), professional footballer (1987–1993: FC Lokomotiv Gorky)
- Igor Shelushkov (born 1946), mental calculator; postgraduate at Gorki Polytechnic Institute (now Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University)
Exiles to Nizhny Novgorod
As a closed city that was inaccessible to foreign observers, this was a city for internal exiles.
- Andrei Sakharov (1980–1989), eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner
See also
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