List of people from Saint Petersburg

Coat of Arms of 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

• Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal
• Dmitri Gallitzin (1728–1803), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist
• Johann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician
• 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
• 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
• Pavel Kridener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States, under John Quincy Adams
• 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
• 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 one of the organizers 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 Ivanov (1806–1858), painter, born and died in St. 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
• 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, born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830–1895), British artist

1831–1850

• Nikolay 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
• 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), Swedish-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 of 1877–1878
• 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
• Alexandr von Bilderling (1846–1912), general in the Imperial Russian Army
• Anna Dostoyevskaya (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 Reitsenstein (1854–1916), career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy
• Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), Egyptologist
• 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 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
• Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent
• Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), Emperor of Russia (1894-1917)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), poet
• Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropist
• Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicist
• 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 St. Petersburg, emigrated to England in 1913

1891–1900

• Boris Morros (1891–1963), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films as well as supervising their 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)
• 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
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satirist
• Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicist
• 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 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), Russian-born 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
• 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 Likhachov (1906–1999), philologist
• 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
• 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-Sedoi (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
• 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
• 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
• Valentina Khetagurova (1914–1992), founder of the Khetagourova movement
• 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
• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer of classical music

1921–1950

• Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978), Greek novelist, poet and translator
• Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), literary scholar, semiotician and cultural historian
• Boris Ugarov (1922–1991), Russian Soviet realist painter and art educator
• Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (born 1925), hero of the Soviet Union
• Galina Vishnevskaya (1926-2012), opera singer soprano
• Vladimir Kondrashin (1929–1999), basketball coach
• Yuli Vorontsov (1929–2007), Russian and Soviet diplomat
• Boris Parygin (1930-2012), russian philosopher, sociologist and social psychology
• Georgy Grechko (born 1931), cosmonaut
• Viktor Korchnoi (born 1931), chess player
• Yevgeny Ukhnalyov (born 1931), artist
• Mark Ermler (1932–2002), conductor
• 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 (born 1934), rower
• Tatiana Samoylova (1934–2014), actress
• Yuri Schmidt (1937–2013), human rights lawyer
• Boris Spassky (born 1937), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)
• Vitaly Efimov (born 1938), theoretical physicist
• Boris Melnikov (born 1938), 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)
• Leon Petrosjan (born 1940), mathematician
• Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010), Olympic and world champion fencer
• Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematician
• Andrej Hoteev (born 1946), pianist
• 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
• Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut

1961–1970

• Igor Butman (born 1961), jazz saxophonist
• Valeri Broshin (1962–2009), professional football player and manager
• 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

1971–1980

• 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
• Diana Vishneva (born 1976), principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet
• Yevgeniya Isakova (born 1978), hurdler
• Marina Kislova (born 1978), sprinter
• 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
• Elena Elbe (born 1980), French artist
• Vladimir Karpets (born 1980), road bicycle racer
• Ilona Korstin (born 1980), basketball forward
• Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (born 1980), Olympic gymnast
• Margarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-American actress
• Alexei Manziola (born 1980), swimmer
• Elena Mirolioubova (born 1980), artist
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Nadezhda Skardino (born 1985), Belarusian biathlete
• 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
• 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 Saint Petersburg
• Natalia Shliakhtenko (born 1987), professional triathlete
• 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
• Tatyana McFadden (born 1989), Russian-born United States Paralympian athlete
• Anya Rozova (born 1989), America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 runner-up
• 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

• Alexander Majorov (born 1991), figure skater
• Maxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmaster
• 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
• 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

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

• 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
• 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 became prisoner in St Petersburg (1795-98) of her son and successor, Paul I.
• 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
• Agustín de Betancourt (1754-1824), Spanish engineer urban planner of St. Petersburg
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reign
• Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painter
• James Walker (c.1760-c.1823), mezzotint engraver invited to St. 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 who was for a time "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
• Wladyslaw 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
• 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
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), writer and poet
• Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), 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 St. Petersburg's first photo studio, "Light Painting", on October 22, 1849
• 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, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• 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 Abbott 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
• Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, died in Saint Petersburg and is 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, engineer, and pioneer of television 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
• Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), biologist, 1924–1927 in Leningrad
• George Gamow (1904–1968), physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
• 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), graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Brian Eno (born 1948), 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
• 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), NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg
• Nu-Nation nu-metal musical group

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