55.7908° N, 49.1149° E
KAZAN
Most Famous People Born in Kazan, Russia
- Notable people
- 328
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1957
- Most distinctive
- Chess 15.0×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kazan during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Kazan Is Known For
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Football is Kazan's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (47).
Kazan over-indexes on chess — 15.0× the global rate.
Kazan under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Kazan's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Writing
- Science
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Other
Feodor Chaliapin
1873 - 1938
Vasily Aksyonov
1932 - 2009
Alexander Luria
1902 - 1977
Gala Dalí
1894 - 1982
Chulpan Khamatova
Born 1975
Evgeny Schwartz
1896 - 1958
Vera Figner
1852 - 1942
Nikolay Zabolotsky
1903 - 1958
MakSim
Born 1983
Mikhail Lavrentyev
1900 - 1980
Aida Garifullina
Born 1987
Alexandre Alexeieff
1901 - 1982
Natalia Gutman
Born 1942
Youri Egorov
1954 - 1988
Nicolai Fechin
1881 - 1955
Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
1530 - 1612
Vladimir Kotelnikov
1908 - 2005
Alexander Burmistrov
Born 1991
Nikolay Bauman
1873 - 1905
Leonid Filatov
1946 - 2003
Mikhail Roshchin
1933 - 2010
Ruslan Nigmatullin
Born 1974
Vadim Shershenevich
1893 - 1942
Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev
1841 - 1910
Eugenia Volodina
Born 1984
Vladimir E. Zakharov
Born 1939
Alisa Galliamova
Born 1972
Sadri Maksudi Arsal
1878 - 1957
Kirill Petrov
Born 1990
Burhan Shahidi
1894 - 1989
Evgeny Chirikov
1864 - 1932
Andrey Makarov (ice hockey)
Born 1993
Karl L. Littrow
1811 - 1877
Veronika Kudermetova
Born 1997
Guzel Yakhina
Born 1977
Rustem Adagamov
Born 1961
Georgy Natanson
1921 - 2017
Vladimir Adoratsky
1878 - 1945
Fatix Ämirxan
1886 - 1926
Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky
1906 - 1975
Dinar Khafizullin
Born 1989
Nicolai A. Vasiliev
1880 - 1940
Sergey Malov
1880 - 1957
Alexandre Fadeev
Born 1964
Irek Mukhamedov
Born 1960
Georg von Albrecht
1891 - 1976
Elmir Nabiullin
Born 1995
Dmitry Fuchs
Born 1939
Şihabetdin Märcani
1818 - 1889
Marat Khairullin
Born 1984
Albert Schwarz
Born 1934
Igor Vulokh
1938 - 2012
Airat Ichmouratov
Born 1973
Venera Gimadieva
Born 1984
Valentin Dogiel
1882 - 1955
Alexander Jakowlewitsch Arossew
1890 - 1938
Denis Arkhipov
Born 1979
Jacob Tsimerman
Born 1988
Valery Gerasimov
Born 1955
Dmitri Obukhov
Born 1983
Evgenia Tarasova
Born 1994
Albert Yarullin
Born 1993
Anna Gourari
Born 1972
Alex Gard
1900 - 1948
Denis Kapustin
Born 1970
Nailya Gilyazova
Born 1953
Aida Vedishcheva
Born 1941
Nikolay Nikiforov
Born 1982
Sara Sadíqova
1906 - 1986
Ivan Martynov
1821 - 1894
Yevgeni Varlamov
Born 1975
Kamilla Gafurzianova
Born 1988
Lew Alexandrowitsch Besymenski
1920 - 2007
Nikolay Gur'yevich Chetaev
1902 - 1959
Emil Garipov
Born 1991
Gregory Freiman
Born 1926
Georgi Vinogradov
1908 - 1980
Pyotr Pertsov
1868 - 1947
Yelena Migunova
Born 1984
Marat Khusnullin
Born 1966
Daria Shkurikhina
Born 1990
Artyom Timofeev (chess player)
Born 1985
Elena Koshka
Born 1993
Ruslan Samitov
Born 1991
Stepan Smolensky
1848 - 1909
Valery Jacobi
1834 - 1902
Valentin A. Bazhanov
Born 1953
Alexander Arkhangelsky (aircraft designer)
1892 - 1978
Aleksey Zhivotov
1904 - 1964
Pavel Antipov
Born 1991
Albert Kapengut
Born 1944
Evgeny Konstantinov
Born 1981
Olga Knyazeva
1954 - 2015
Wassili Wassiljewitsch Parin
1903 - 1971
Taliya Habrieva
Born 1958
Ruslan Mukhametshin
Born 1981
Galina Kozhevnikova
1974 - 2011
Igor Igorevich Wagner
1849 - 1903
George Alexander Hill
1892 - 1968
Vasily Mosin
Born 1972
Valentina Nikonova
Born 1952
Sofya Gulyak
Born 1979
Yana Martynova
Born 1988
Galina Kravchenko
1905 - 1996
Xenia Fedorova
Born 1980
Nail Zamaliyev
Born 1989
Veronika Tushnova
1911 - 1965
Ildar Ibragimov
Born 1967
Marat Ganeyev
Born 1964
Marina Razbejkina
Born 1948
Ruslan Zainullin
Born 1982
Nikolaï Petrovitch Andreev (folkloriste)
1892 - 1942
Nikolai Galakhov
Born 1928
Ivan Grave
1874 - 1960
Maria Manakova
Born 1974
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
1881 - 1968
Valery Tscheplanowa
Born 1980
Aleksandr Kotelnikov
1865 - 1944
Yitzchok Zilber
1917 - 2004
Alexandre Dinerchtein
Born 1980
Michail Nikolajewitsch Galkin-Wraskoi
1832 - 1916
Kārlis Šteins
1911 - 1983
Salix Säydäş
1900 - 1954
Sergey Naydyonov
1868 - 1922
Viktor Yerin
1944 - 2018
Vladimir Sichov
Born 1945
Alexeï Panfilov
1898 - 1966
Rustem Mukhametshin
Born 1984
Valery Popov (writer)
Born 1939
Anastasiya Kolesnikova
Born 1984
Alexander Jewgenjewitsch Porai-Koschiz
1877 - 1949
Dayana Kirillova
Born 2002
Alexander Rybakov (ice hockey)
Born 1985
Ğäliäsğar Kamal
1879 - 1933
Lyudmila Shubina
Born 1948
Daniel Elmen
1885 - 1932
Artyom Kosov
Born 1986
Natalia Zhukova (skier)
Born 1992
Nikolaï Manassein
1834 - 1895
Dmitrij Erastovich Janischewsky
1875 - 1944
Sergei Abramov (ice hockey, born 1959)
Born 1959
Söyembikä of Kazan
1516 - 1557
Färit Yarullin
1913 - 1943
Sophie Ehrhardt
1902 - 1990
Maksim Zhestokov
Born 1991
Alexander Dubyago
1903 - 1959
Alsu Murtazina
Born 1987
Albert Asadullin
Born 1948
Amina Adil
1930 - 2004
Xösäyen Yamaşev
1882 - 1912
Renad Sinnurowitsch Sagdejew
Born 1941
Röstäm Yaxin
1921 - 1993
Mansur Muzafarov
1902 - 1966
Gavriil Kamenev
1772 - 1803
Niyaz Nabeev
Born 1989
Evgeny Afineevsky
Born 1972
Tatiana Kovylina
Born 1981
Boris Alexander Krukoff
1898 - 1983
Maxim Sharafutdinov
Born 1980
Aleksandr Pantsyrev
Born 1993
Yuri Otkupshchikov
1924 - 2010
Ilia Spiridonov
Born 1998
Rais Rawkatowitsch Suleimanow
Born 1984
Lidiya Loginova
Born 1951
Vasili Stepanovich Popov
1745 - 1822
Olga Lebedeva
1854 - 1912
Rem Urasin
Born 1976
Kamil Iskhakov
Born 1949
Rustem Khuzin
Born 1972
Lenar Gilmullin
1985 - 2007
Leonid Lavrov
1906 - 1943
Aleksandr Vinogradov (hockey sur glace, 1970)
Born 1970
Semën Vasil'evič Ėl'ger
1894 - 1966
Leonid Vološin
Born 1964
Gennadi Iwanowitsch Banschtschikow
Born 1943
Lucian Ippolitowitsch Klimowitsch
1907 - 1989
Ahmet Temir
1912 - 2003
Karina Ambartsumova
Born 1989
Svetlana Shikshina
Born 1980
Ruslan Galiakberov
Born 1989
Igor' Maslennikov
Born 1965
Ilya Mokretsov
Born 1984
Vladimir Gakov
Born 1951
Aleksey Sukletin
1943 - 1987
Airat Khamatov
Born 1965
Tatiana Repeikina
1973 - 2017
Leonid Alekseevich Kamarovsky
1846 - 1912
Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Jakowlew (Geologe)
1870 - 1966
Roustem Saïtkoulov
Born 1971
Gleb Ilyin
1889 - 1968
Vladislav Babitchev
Born 1981
Roman Shaykhutdinov
Born 1974
Talgat Tadzhuddin
Born 1948
Nikolai Markovnikov
1869 - 1942
Nadezhda Chernyshyova
1951 - 2019
German Zonin
Born 1926
Alexander Grebenshchikov
1880 - 1941
Danil Faizullin
Born 1993
Eduard Damirowitsch Kudermetow
Born 1972
Ibrahim Chalfin
1778 - 1829
Fatyh Zaripovich Sharipov
1921 - 1996
Fyodor Radetsky
1820 - 1890
Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Jatschanow
Born 1972
Sergey Mavrin
Born 1963
Artem Anisimov (ice hockey, born 1976)
Born 1976
Maksim Lazarev
Born 1996
Bulat Rawilewitsch Schawalejew
Born 1992
Damir Musin
Born 1994
Era Ziganshina
Born 1944
Diana Mashkova
Born 1977
Boris Lukitsch Laptew
1905 - 1989
Dmitry Balmin
Born 1970
Aleksandr Ustinov
1968 - 1996
Valeri Yandemirov
1963 - 2017
Anna Smolina
Born 1994
Peter Zheltukhin
1777 - 1829
Vlady Bystrov
Born 1967
Aleksei Berezin
Born 1993
Radel Fazleïev
Born 1996
Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Dmitrijew
Born 1957
Gennady Obaturov
1915 - 1996
Andrian de Moscou
1951 - 2005
Irina Polyakova
Born 1961
Alexander Lvovich Kazembek
1902 - 1977
Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov
1907 - 1944
Lidija Figner
1853 - 1920
Ramil Kharisov
Born 1977
Marta Martyanova
Born 1998
Ildar Rakhmatullin (racing driver)
Born 1986
Rinat Baibekov
Born 1962
Yuri Utkulbayev
Born 1969
Dmytro Kiwa
Born 1942
Yevgeni Borisovich Yefremov
Born 1970
Rustem Bulatov
1974 - 2008
Sergueï Stolboun
Born 1954
Svetlana Lipatova
Born 1993
Vyacheslav Bulavin
Born 1946
Anastasia Luppova
Born 1985
Shaukat Galiev
1928 - 2011
Konstantin Wassiljewitsch Uchanow
1891 - 1937
Aleksandr Berkoutov (pilote de chasse)
1911 - 1962
Gertrud Westermann
1908 - 1995
Andrei Mironov (footballer, born 1997)
Born 1997
Vassili Maksimovitch Zatsarenny
1852 - 1917
Ivan Fëdorovič Lichačëv
1826 - 1907
Alexander Solovtsov
1847 - 1923
Marat Sitdikov
Born 1991
Dmitri Kirilov
Born 1980
Pavel Jacobi
1841 - 1913
Aleksandr Tatarkin
Born 1966
Arseni Nailewitsch Alawkin
Born 1969
Sergei Nikolayevich Zhukov
Born 1967
Timur Boguslavskiy
Born 2000
Yevgeni Kranatov
Born 1962
Sergei Kharlamov
Born 1973
Ildar Ferdinandowitsch Achmerow
Born 1965
Ravil Fazleyev
Born 1960
Sergueï Kotov
Born 1950
Gallie Åkerhielm
1907 - 1968
Marsel Tukhvatullin
Born 1974
Halida Hayrutdinova
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Ayrat Kashaev
Born 1984
Viktor Novikov
1905 - 1979
Raisa Atambayeva
Born 1956
Marat Sagirov
Born 1986
Leon Litinetsky
Born 1967
Pavel Prygunov
Born 1976
Polina Mendeléef
1888 - 1958
Teodoro Juan Schestakow
1867 - 1958
Wadim Georgijewitsch Solowjow
1925 - 1998
Daniel Radikowitsch Nasybullin
Born 1986
Alexander Nedoshivin
1868 - 1943
Renata Lusin
Born 1987
Victor Pokrovsky
1897 - 1990
Igor Dmitrijewitsch Ado
1910 - 1983
Iwan Karlowitsch Tscherlizki
1799 - 1867
Rustem Kanipov
Born 1982
Enver Galim
1915 - 1988
Ol'ga Nikolaevna Figner
1862 - 1919
Yevgeny Katsura
1937 - 1967
Denis Loginov
Born 1985
Nikolai Demert
1835 - 1876
Makar Bestoujev
Born 1987
Aleksandr Motchalov
Born 1982
Makarij (monaco)
1851 - 1917
Remir Khaidarov
1977 - 2012
Aydar Lisinkov
Born 1994
Alexei Blinov
1964 - 2019
Ilya Sharipov
Born 1995
Ramil Valeyev
Born 1973
Aydar Khabibullin
Born 1995
Klaus Hoheisel
1906 - 1998
Władysław Kuncewicz
1888 - 1974
Anatoli Malashenko
Born 1994
Julija Mazurova
Born 1989
Ildar Shaymardanov
Born 1963
Vyacheslav Artashin
1972 - 2014
Robert Ilyasov
Born 1973
Irek Ganiyev
Born 1986
Oleg Engachev
Born 1967