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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Sofia Kovalevskaya
1850 - 1891
Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
1853 - 1900
Pavel Milyukov
1859 - 1943
Caran d'Ache
1858 - 1909
Alexander Izvolsky
1856 - 1919
Sergei Shchukin
1854 - 1936
Maria Yermolova
1853 - 1928
Sergey Malyutin
1859 - 1937
Nikolay Kasatkin
1859 - 1930
Alexander Kastalsky
1856 - 1926
Nikolai Golitsyn
1850 - 1925
Aristarkh Belopolsky
1854 - 1934
Roman Klein
1858 - 1924
Sergey Degayev
1857 - 1921
Ilya Ostroukhov
1858 - 1929
Anatoliy Brandukov
1859 - 1930
Vladimir Palladin
1859 - 1922
Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky
1853 - 1910
Sergei Korovin
1858 - 1908
Aleksei Evert
1857 - 1926
Alexei Petrovich Pavlov
1854 - 1929
Robert Wipper
1859 - 1954
Valentin Bianchi
1857 - 1920
Dmitry Litvinov
1854 - 1929
Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov
1853 - 1920
Olga Lyubatovich
1853 - 1917
Nikolaï Tikhomirov
1859 - 1930
Pyotr Shchukin
1853 - 1912
Nikolai Nasonov
1855 - 1939
Ekaterina Beketova
1855 - 1892
Emilio Kosterlitzky
1853 - 1928
Ivan Bogdanov
1855 - 1932
Leo Mikhailovich Lopatin
1855 - 1920
Aleksej Sobolevskij
1857 - 1929
Friedrich Hanssen
1857 - 1919
Nikolay Khomyakov
1850 - 1925
Vladimir Gringmut
1851 - 1907
Nikolay Alekseyev
1852 - 1893
Sergei Nikolajewitsch Nikitin
1851 - 1909
Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-Lazarev
1857 - 1916
Viktor Simov
1858 - 1935
Boleslav Mlodzeevskii
1858 - 1923
Emily Shanks
1857 - 1936
Fyodor Keller
1850 - 1904
Sergei Nikolajewitsch Swerbejew
1857 - 1922
Anatoly Leman
1859 - 1913
Sergei Wladimirowitsch Schachowskoi
1852 - 1894
Nikolai Michailowitsch Lissowski
1854 - 1920
Sergei Volnukhin
1859 - 1921
Peter Klimentjevich Engelmeyer
1855 - 1942
Aleksei Korotnev
1854 - 1915
Vasily Sergeyevich Smirnov (painter)
1858 - 1890
Natal'ja Aleksandrovna Armfel'dt
1850 - 1887
Sergei Vasilyevich Belyaev
Born 1856
Alexeï Morozov
1857 - 1934
Nikolaï Sergueïevitch Chtcherbatov
1853 - 1929
Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata
1851 - 1923
Nikolai Vasilievich Belyaev
1859 - 1920
Varvara Ivanovna Aleksandrova
1852 - 1924
Erast Hiatsintov
1859 - 1910
Vera Spiridonovna Ljubatovič
1855 - 1907
Sergei Wladimirowitsch Sherwood
1858 - 1899
Aleksey Semyonovich Vishnyakov
1859 - 1919
Fyodor Kumanin
1855 - 1896
Anna Grigor'evna Toporkova
1854 - 1930
Maria Samarova
1852 - 1919