55.7558° N, 37.6178° E — 6,569 FAMOUS PEOPLE
MOSCOW
Most Famous People Born in Moscow, Russia
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Alexander Pushkin
1799 - 1837
Peter the Great
1672 - 1725
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Vladimir Vysotsky
1938 - 1980
Boris Pasternak
1890 - 1960
Mikhail Lermontov
1814 - 1841
Peter Kropotkin
1842 - 1921
Andrei Sakharov
1921 - 1989
Konstantin Stanislavski
1863 - 1938
Marina Tsvetaeva
1892 - 1941
Alexander Scriabin
1872 - 1915
Nikolai Bukharin
1888 - 1938
Nikita Mikhalkov
Born 1945
Alexander Suvorov
1730 - 1800
Alexander Alekhine
1892 - 1946
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Born 1963
Andrei Konchalovsky
Born 1937
Anna of Russia
1693 - 1740
Maya Plisetskaya
1925 - 2015
Alla Pugacheva
Born 1949
Alexander Ostrovsky
1823 - 1886
Roman Jakobson
1896 - 1982
Sofia Kovalevskaya
1850 - 1891
Bulat Okudzhava
1924 - 1997
Alexis of Russia
1629 - 1676
Regina Spektor
Born 1980
Lev Yashin
1929 - 1990
Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
1853 - 1900
Sergey Brin
Born 1973
Svetlana Alliluyeva
1926 - 2011
Ilya Prigogine
1917 - 2003
Anna Kournikova
Born 1981
Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
1946 - 2013
Valery Gergiev
Born 1953
Alexander Herzen
1812 - 1870
Ivan Krylov
1769 - 1844
Nikolai Vavilov
1887 - 1943
Alexander Griboyedov
1795 - 1829
Michael of Russia
1596 - 1645
Lev Kamenev
1883 - 1936
Rodion Shchedrin
Born 1932
Bella Akhmadulina
1937 - 2010
Valery Bryusov
1873 - 1924
Julia Volkova
Born 1985
Ivan III of Russia
1440 - 1505
Vitaly Ginzburg
1916 - 2009
Sergey Mikhalkov
1913 - 2009
Andrei Bely
1880 - 1934
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
1928 - 2017
Aleksandr Dugin
Born 1962
Yegor Gaidar
1956 - 2009
Yury Luzhkov
1936 - 2019
Alexander Ovechkin
Born 1985
Andrei Voznesensky
1933 - 2010
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
1673 - 1729
Genndy Tartakovsky
Born 1970
Henri Troyat
1911 - 2007
Vladimir Tatlin
1885 - 1953
Vasily Smyslov
1921 - 2010
Victor Pelevin
Born 1962
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Born 1979
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
1690 - 1718
Noor Inayat Khan
1914 - 1944
Sergey Lavrov
Born 1950
Evgeny Kissin
Born 1971
Leonid Hurwicz
1917 - 2008
Feodor III of Russia
1661 - 1682
Alexandre Kojève
1902 - 1968
Arkady Babchenko
1977 - 2018
Pavel Milyukov
1859 - 1943
Nikolay Pirogov
1810 - 1881
Denis Fonvizin
1745 - 1792
Dmitry Donskoy
1350 - 1389
Konstantin Paustovsky
1892 - 1968
Timati
Born 1983
Vasili III of Russia
1479 - 1533
Sergei Ignashevich
Born 1979
Elsa Triolet
1896 - 1970
Konstantin Pobedonostsev
1827 - 1907
Viacheslav Fetisov
Born 1958
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
1971 - 2002
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Born 1967
Konstantin Melnikov
1890 - 1974
P. D. Ouspensky
1878 - 1947
Ivan I of Moscow
1288 - 1340
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia
1657 - 1704
Konstantin Korovin
1861 - 1939
Yevgeny Leonov
1926 - 1994
Irina Rodnina
Born 1949
Ivan V of Russia
1666 - 1696
Danila Kozlovsky
Born 1985
Vasily Stalin
1921 - 1962
Sergey Lazarev
Born 1983
Marat Safin
Born 1980
Nastia Liukin
Born 1989
Nikolai Medtner
1879 - 1951
False Dmitry I
1581 - 1606
Hans Pfitzner
1869 - 1949
Lilya Brik
1891 - 1978
Pavel Pogrebnyak
Born 1983
Andrei Sinyavsky
1925 - 1997
Pyotr Chaadayev
1794 - 1856
Lena Katina
Born 1984
Vladimir Komarov
1927 - 1967
Roman Eremenko
Born 1987
Vasily Livanov
Born 1935
Dinara Safina
Born 1986
Olesya Rulin
Born 1986
Urie Bronfenbrenner
1917 - 2005
Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)
1866 - 1949
Svetlana Khodchenkova
Born 1983
Yulian Semyonov
1931 - 1993
Aleksandr Samedov
Born 1984
Pavel Lungin
Born 1949
Lev Pontryagin
1908 - 1988
Vladimir Voevodsky
1966 - 2017
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
1931 - 2018
Wladimir Kaminer
Born 1967
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
1890 - 1938
Oleg Gordievsky
Born 1938
Artem Dzyuba
Born 1988
Oleg Yefremov
1927 - 2000
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
Born 1985
Apollon Maykov
1821 - 1897
Yevgenia Ginzburg
1904 - 1977
Solomon Lefschetz
1884 - 1972
Kristina Orbakaitė
Born 1971
Kir Bulychev
1934 - 2003
Pavel Filonov
1883 - 1941
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov
1891 - 1951
Alexei Savrasov
1830 - 1897
Léonide Massine
1896 - 1979
Aleksey Khomyakov
1804 - 1860
Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Born 1966
Andrei Mironov (actor)
1941 - 1987
Polina Gagarina
Born 1987
Alexander Sumarokov
1717 - 1777
Ladislas Starevich
1882 - 1965
Ekaterina Gordeeva
Born 1971
Pavel Bure
Born 1971
Paul Karrer
1889 - 1971
Ivan Ilyin
1883 - 1954
Alexander Guchkov
1862 - 1936
Marat Izmailov
Born 1982
Valeri Kharlamov
1948 - 1981
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Born 1938
Nikolai Rubinstein
1835 - 1881
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
1777 - 1861
Igor Netto
1930 - 1999
Ivan Shmelyov
1873 - 1950
Anton Delvig
1798 - 1831
Nikolai Yudenich
1862 - 1933
Nikolay Baskov
Born 1976
Vladimir Odoyevsky
1804 - 1869
Nyusha
Born 1990
Sergey Bezrukov
Born 1973
Nikolai Karachentsov
1944 - 2018
Andrey Makarevich
Born 1953
Olga Baclanova
1900 - 1974
Jeanna Friske
1974 - 2015
Boris Sheremetev
1652 - 1719
Alexey Venetsianov
1780 - 1847
Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
1877 - 1970
Adelina Sotnikova
Born 1996
Katarzyna Kobro
1898 - 1951
Yury Yakovlev
1928 - 2013
Sergey Solovyov
1820 - 1879
Konstantin Makovsky
1839 - 1915
Vera Zvonareva
Born 1984
Leonid Leonov
1899 - 1994
Yakov Sinai
Born 1935
Sergei Grinkov
1967 - 1995
Shlomo Mintz
Born 1957
Michael Lucas (director)
Born 1972
Yevgeny Svetlanov
1928 - 2002
Dmitry Bykov
Born 1967
Pyotr Rumyantsev
1725 - 1796
Alexey Pajitnov
Born 1956
Vasily Bazhenov
1737 - 1799
Eugene Mirman
Born 1974
Caran d'Ache
1858 - 1909
Anatoly Tarasov
1918 - 1995
Dmitri Kombarov
Born 1987
Andrei Amalrik
1938 - 1980
Denis Davydov
1784 - 1839
Vladimir Bortko
Born 1946
Viktor Abakumov
1908 - 1954
Leonid Kuravlyov
Born 1936
Boris Berezovsky (pianist)
Born 1969
Sergey Uvarov
1786 - 1855
Edvard Radzinsky
Born 1936
Alexander Gretchaninov
1864 - 1956
Viktor Yerofeyev
Born 1947
Masha Gessen
Born 1967
Pavel Pestel
1793 - 1826
Pavel Fedotov
1815 - 1852
Igor Ivanov
Born 1945
Ekaterina Maximova
1939 - 2009
Stepan Krasheninnikov
1711 - 1755
Pyotr Vyazemsky
1792 - 1878
Irina Khakamada
Born 1955
Yuli Daniel
1925 - 1988
Alexander Rou
1906 - 1973
Elena Dementieva
Born 1981
Mikhail Prokhorov
Born 1965
Vasily I of Moscow
1371 - 1425
Yakov Protazanov
1881 - 1945
Andrei Linde
Born 1948
Valentin Pavlov
1937 - 2003
Andrei Gavrilov
Born 1955
Vladimir Sokoloff
1889 - 1962
Mikhail Pokrovsky
1868 - 1932
Vera Menchik
1906 - 1944
Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin
1693 - 1768
Yulia Latynina
Born 1966
Vladislav Listyev
1956 - 1995
Dmitri Bulykin
Born 1979
Vasili Berezutski
Born 1982
Andrey Korotayev
Born 1961
Sergei Nilus
1862 - 1929
Pavel Tretyakov
1832 - 1898
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Born 1944
Anastasia Myskina
Born 1981
Grigory Margulis
Born 1946
Aleksei N. Leontiev
1903 - 1979
Yury Trifonov
1925 - 1981
Konstantin Beskov
1920 - 2006
Irina Arkhipova
1925 - 2010
Marina Raskova
1912 - 1943
Svetlana Savitskaya
Born 1948
Alexander Men
1935 - 1990
Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
Born 1961
Vladimir Jurowski
Born 1972
Igor Ilyinsky
1901 - 1987
Dmitry Rogozin
Born 1963
Yuri Ozerov (director)
1921 - 2001
Viktor Tikhonov (ice hockey, born 1930)
1930 - 2014
Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer)
Born 1940
Ania Bukstein
Born 1982
Nikolai Lugansky
Born 1972
Serge Poliakoff
1906 - 1969
Yuri Vizbor
1934 - 1984
Georgi Shchennikov
Born 1991
Kirill Kondrashin
1914 - 1981
Anna Semenovich
Born 1978
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
1906 - 1989
Tatyana Lioznova
1924 - 2011
Igor Semshov
Born 1978
Semyon Frank
1877 - 1950
Dmitry of Uglich
1582 - 1591
Darya Dontsova
Born 1952
Pyotr Lebedev
1866 - 1912
Andrey Zaliznyak
1935 - 2017
Natalya Arinbasarova
Born 1946
Alexander Morozevich
Born 1977
Boris Polevoy
1908 - 1981
Natalya Bondarchuk
Born 1950
Alexander Izvolsky
1856 - 1919
Yury Kazakov
1927 - 1982
Vladimir Makovsky
1846 - 1920
Boris Barnet
1902 - 1965
Pyotr Mamonov
Born 1951
Nikolai Burlyayev
Born 1946
Lyudmila Zykina
1929 - 2009
Dmitri Tarasov (footballer)
Born 1987
Natalya Gundareva
1948 - 2005
Yuri Orlov
1924 - 2020
Ivan Shuvalov
1727 - 1797
Marina Anissina
Born 1975
Mikhail Katkov
1818 - 1887
Osip Brik
1888 - 1945
Alexander Mitta
Born 1933
Dmitri Prigov
1940 - 2007
Lev Artsimovich
1909 - 1973
Oleg Basilashvili
Born 1934
Agniya Barto
1906 - 1981
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
1905 - 1992
Lydia Litvyak
1921 - 1943
Vladislav Khodasevich
1886 - 1939
Vladimir Etush
1922 - 2019
Max Boot
Born 1969
Kristian Kostov
Born 2000
Valentin Ivanov (footballer, born 1934)
1934 - 2011
Alexander Chayanov
1888 - 1937
Mikhail Yefremov (actor)
Born 1963
Nilus of Sora
1433 - 1508
Apollon Grigoryev
1822 - 1864
Mikhail Pogodin
1800 - 1875
Sergey Obraztsov
1901 - 1992
Matvey Kazakov
1738 - 1812
Natalia Bessmertnova
1941 - 2008
Ivan Kireyevsky
1806 - 1856
Nikolai Erdman
1900 - 1970
Pavel Mamayev
Born 1988
Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Born 1945
Felix Browder
1927 - 2016
Vladislav Volkov
1935 - 1971
Vasily Lanovoy
Born 1934
Artur Yusupov (chess player)
Born 1960
Sergei Khrushchev
1935 - 2020