55.7558° N, 37.6178° E
MOSCOW
Most Famous People Born in Moscow, Russia
- Notable people
- 6,609
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1954
- Most distinctive
- Skater 13.5×
A capital whose 20th century is the data's center of mass. Moscow's most distinctive shelves are the institutions of the long Soviet century — figure skaters at more than thirteen times the global rate, chess masters, pianists, mathematicians, and physicists — and they sit alongside hundreds of footballers, hockey players, and painters. The bench stretches back to the 13th century, with the Tsars and the founders of Russian letters in the older half, but the postwar Soviet decades are where most of the names live.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Moscow Is Known For
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Football is Moscow's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (833).
Moscow over-indexes on skater — 13.5× the global rate.
Moscow under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Moscow's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Alexander Pushkin
1799 - 1837
Alexander Griboyedov
1795 - 1829
Pyotr Chaadayev
1794 - 1856
Anton Delvig
1798 - 1831
Pavel Pestel
1793 - 1826
Pyotr Vyazemsky
1792 - 1878
Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky
1796 - 1866
Ivan Pushchin
1798 - 1859
Nikolai Borisovich Galitzine
1794 - 1866
Ivan Snegiryov
1793 - 1868
Olga Sergueïevna Pavlichtcheva
1797 - 1868
Vassili Lvovitch Davydov
1793 - 1855
Alexander Smirdin
1795 - 1857
Nicola Cianfanelli
1793 - 1848
Aleksandr Muravjov
1792 - 1863
Pavel Stroyev
1796 - 1876
Michail Michajlovič Naryškin
1798 - 1863
W. Lafontaine
1796 - 1861
Pjotr Pawlowitsch Kawerin
1794 - 1855
Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov
1790 - 1863
Sofja Shcherbatova
1798 - 1885
Yevgraph Tyurin
1792 - 1875
Nikolay Maykov
1794 - 1873
Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov
1797 - 1867
Alexandre Kaveline
1793 - 1850
Natal'ja Stepanovna Apraksina
1794 - 1890
Joseph Pierre Lafontaine
1792 - 1858
Vladimir Moshkov
1792 - 1839
Michel Yermoloff
1794 - 1870
Ana Gruzinsky Tolstoy
1798 - 1889
Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn
1792 - 1842