56.3269° N, 44.0075° E
NIZHNIY NOVGOROD
Most Famous People Born in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
- Notable people
- 334
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1958
- Most distinctive
- Ski 22.9×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Nizhniy Novgorod during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Nizhniy Novgorod Is Known For
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Football is Nizhniy Novgorod's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (49).
Nizhniy Novgorod over-indexes on ski — 22.9× the global rate.
Nizhniy Novgorod under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Nizhniy Novgorod's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Writing
- Music
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Other
Maxim Gorky
1868 - 1936
Nikolai Bulganin
1895 - 1975
Mily Balakirev
1837 - 1910
Nikolai Lobachevsky
1792 - 1856
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Born 1937
Yakov Sverdlov
1885 - 1919
Denis Cheryshev
Born 1990
Vasili IV of Russia
1552 - 1612
Nikolay Bogolyubov
1909 - 1992
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
1836 - 1861
Natalia Vodianova
Born 1982
Sergei Novikov (mathematician)
Born 1938
Aleksandr Ulyanov
1866 - 1887
Daniil Trifonov
Born 1991
Anne Vyalitsyna
Born 1986
Anatoly Marienhof
1897 - 1962
Sergey Lebedev (scientist)
1902 - 1974
Ekaterina Vilkova
Born 1984
Mikhail Matyushin
1861 - 1934
Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)
1863 - 1926
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
1926 - 1992
Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov
1818 - 1883
Igor Levit
Born 1987
Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy
1790 - 1860
Denis Voronenkov
1971 - 2017
Dmitri Cheryshev
Born 1969
Pyotr Nesterov
1887 - 1914
Zinovy Peshkov
1884 - 1966
Pyotr Boborykin
1836 - 1921
Anna Ulyanova
1864 - 1935
Sergei Nakariakov
Born 1977
Alexei Ivanov (writer)
Born 1969
Issay Dobrowen
1891 - 1953
Zhanna Nemtsova
Born 1984
Igor Maslennikov
Born 1931
Serhii Plokhii
Born 1957
Catherine Doherty
1896 - 1985
Polina Suslova
1839 - 1918
Vasili Kuznetsov (politician)
1901 - 1990
Alexander Krein
1883 - 1951
Dimitri Konyshev
Born 1966
Ivan Kulibin
1735 - 1818
Vladimir Gusev (cyclist)
Born 1982
Tatyana Averina
1950 - 2001
Ilya Segalovich
1964 - 2013
Grigory Ginzburg
1904 - 1961
Andrei Fajt
1903 - 1976
Vasily Vasilyev
1818 - 1900
Ivan Bubnov
1872 - 1919
Natalya Sadova
Born 1972
Igor Zhukov
1936 - 2018
Alexander Baburin
Born 1967
Nikolay Kruglov Jr.
Born 1981
Boris Mokrousov
1909 - 1968
Léon Zack
1892 - 1980
Alexander Belavin
Born 1942
Alexander Samoylovich
1880 - 1938
Viktor Konovalenko
1938 - 1996
Raphael von Koeber
1848 - 1923
Natalya Voronina
Born 1994
Tatiana Mavrina
1902 - 1996
Arseniy Vorozheykin
1912 - 2001
German Lopatin
1845 - 1918
Nikolai Khokhlov
1922 - 2007
Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin
1829 - 1897
Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky
1837 - 1898
Zdzisław Lubomirski
1865 - 1943
Nikolai Martynov
1815 - 1875
Denis Kornilov
Born 1986
Aleksandr Guskov
Born 1976
Mikhail Varnakov (ice hockey, born 1985)
Born 1985
Yevgeniy Chazov
Born 1929
Ruslan Zakharov
Born 1987
Nikolay Kruglov
Born 1950
Artem Chubarov
Born 1979
Leonid Vesnin
1880 - 1933
Alexander Skvortsov (ice hockey)
1954 - 2020
Charles Roulier
1814 - 1858
Denis Kozhukhin
Born 1986
Valeri Zykov
Born 1944
Pyotr Bystrov
Born 1979
Vladimir Kovin
Born 1954
Valeri Popovitch
Born 1970
Pavel Karelin
1990 - 2011
Yuliya Sotnikova
Born 1970
Nikita Lyamin
Born 1985
Ilya Korotkov
Born 1983
Mikhail Pomortsev
1851 - 1916
Maya Usova
Born 1964
Pavel Lednyov
1943 - 2010
Alexander Golovanov
1904 - 1975
Viktor Pokrovsky
1889 - 1922
Constantin Kousnetzoff
1863 - 1936
Nikolai Khmelyov
1901 - 1945
Leonid Volkov
1934 - 1995
Gariy Napalkov
Born 1948
German Sveshnikov
1937 - 2003
Serafim Sudbinin
1867 - 1944
Elizaveta Zvantseva
1864 - 1921
Olga Kormukhina
Born 1960
Vladimir Varankin
1902 - 1938
Vladislav Inozemtsev
Born 1968
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin
1801 - 1826
Valery Soyfer
Born 1936
Evgeny Baburin
Born 1987
Maria Borodakova
Born 1986
Dmitri Kosmachev
Born 1985
Sergey Shiryayev
Born 1983
Valery Rozov
1964 - 2017
Mikhail Tyulyapkin
Born 1984
Mikhail Varnakov (ice hockey, born 1957)
Born 1957
Yekaterina Kondratyeva
Born 1982
Vera Ulyakina
Born 1986
Svetlana Ganina
Born 1978
Evgeny Namestnikov
Born 1971
Dmitry Mazunov
Born 1971
Ivan Blinov
1872 - 1944
Ilya Maksimov
Born 1987
Fyodor Bogorodsky
1895 - 1959
Sergej Rjabcev
1958 - 1994
Oksana Fadeyeva
Born 1975
Dmitry Aydov
Born 1982
Andrej Krementschouk
Born 1973
Polina Strepetova
1850 - 1903
Vladimir Galuzin
Born 1988
Dmitry Nikolayevich Nadyozhny
1873 - 1945
Artem Lobov
Born 1986
Eugene N. Sokolov
1920 - 2008
Lyudmila Shishova
1940 - 2003
Valeriy Pronkin
Born 1994
Mikhail Maksimochkin
Born 1993
Alexei Potapov (ice hockey)
Born 1989
Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev
1926 - 1998
Alexandre Veledinski
Born 1959
Aleksandr Formozov
1899 - 1973
Evgeniya Ivanova (Russian water polo)
Born 1987
Mikheil Gorelishvili
Born 1993
Nikolai Pavlovich Raev
1855 - 1919
Artiom Bystrov
Born 1985
Elpidifor Barsov
1836 - 1917
Arkady Chernyshev
1914 - 1992
Serguéi Gavrov
Born 1964
Vladimir Denisov (fencer)
Born 1947
Ekaterina Pushkash
Born 1992
Alexander Michailowitsch Samarin
1902 - 1970
Andrey Sigle
Born 1964
Pawel Fjodorowitsch Judin
1899 - 1968
Esther Epstein
Born 1954
Sergei Michailowitsch Kaminer
1908 - 1938
Svetlana Mironova
Born 1986
Tatyana Kuznetsova
1941 - 2018
Alexander Mayorov
Born 1957
Yelena Volkova (volleyball)
Born 1960
Boris Pozern
1882 - 1939
Natalya Bochkareva
Born 1980
Ivan Rukavishnikov
1877 - 1930
Julija Abramovna Dobrovol'skaja
1917 - 2016
Karl Lindemann (Zoologe)
1843 - 1929
Igor Wilenowitsch Eidman
Born 1968
Vasily Likhachyov
1952 - 2019
David Ashkenazi
1915 - 1997
Evgeny Aleshin
Born 1979
Irina Petrushova
Born 1965
Anna Schmidt
1851 - 1905
Albert Oskolkov
Born 1973
Leonid Ovsiannikov
1880 - 1970
Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Schelesnjakow
Born 1931
Anna Timofeeva
Born 1987
Nikolay Sedyuk
Born 1988
Damir Waissowitsch Muchetdinow
Born 1977
Vladimir Shishkin
Born 1964
Sergey Gerasimovich Mitin
Born 1951
Anatoly Moskvin
Born 1966
Nicholas Annenkov
1799 - 1865
Mikhail Rabinovich
Born 1941
Ivan Shipov
1865 - 1919
Aleksey Gornostayev
1808 - 1862
Sergei Wiktorowitsch Gaponow
Born 1937
Dmitri Karasyov
Born 1992
Sergei Kapkov
Born 1975
Natalia Pankova
Born 1965
Grigory Smirnov
Born 1997
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Semyonov
Born 1982
Dmitri Igorewitsch Klopow
Born 1989
Boris Orlov (biologist)
1935 - 2012
Alina Ustimkina
Born 2000
Andrei Mazunov
Born 1967
Ivan Usenko
Born 1983
Jan Olaf Chmielewski
1895 - 1974
Lyudmila Khityaeva
Born 1930
Alexander Sharychenkov
Born 1991
Artyom Alyayev
Born 1995
Dmitrii Kokarev
Born 1991
Anastasia Chervyakova
Born 1992
Lyubov Nikulina-Kositskaya
1827 - 1868
Oleg Mishukov
Born 1980
Roman Konkov
Born 1993
Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya
1900 - 1997
Lazare Rachline
1905 - 1968
Anatoly Avdeyev
Born 1960
Irina Kotikhina
Born 1980
Igor Egorov
Born 1968
Evgeny Menshov
1947 - 2015
Mikhail Vilkov
Born 1979
Oleg Leonidowitsch Tschernikow
1936 - 2015
Anastasia Karabelshchikova
Born 1985
Yevgeny Erastov
Born 1963
Michail Adolfowitsch Miller
1924 - 2004
Genrich Leer
1829 - 1904
Mikhail Rodionov
1907 - 1950
Grigori Abramowitsch Krein
1879 - 1955
Vladimir Kadannikov
Born 1941
Oleg Kostin
Born 1992
Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov
1891 - 1941
Palladiy (Raev)
1827 - 1898
Nadezhda Filippova
Born 1959
Andrey Ilyin
Born 1960
Valeri Zhukov
Born 1988
Valentin Morkovkin
1933 - 1999
Macarius of Unzha
1349 - 1444
Tatyana Shvyganova
Born 1960
Nikolay Kolosovsky
1891 - 1954
Ilya Petrov
Born 1995
Vasilij Baransjtjikov
1756 - 1800
Alexander Knyazev
Born 1976
Julius Price
1833 - 1893
Alekseï Silaïev
Born 1984
Mikhail Kostyukov
Born 1991
Yevgeni Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1983)
Born 1983
Aleksandr Kolpovski
1953 - 2015
Sergueï Neoustrouïev
1874 - 1928
Igor Demidov
1873 - 1946
Anatoly Vaneyev
1872 - 1899
Oleg Malov
Born 1947
Ioulia Chtchetinina
Born 1995
Konstantin Galkin
Born 1961
Vladimir Panov
Born 1975
Alyaksandr Taykow
Born 1970
Ilya V. Osipov
Born 1975
Maria Dolgikh
Born 1987
Nikolái Zelenetski
1859 - 1923
Iouda Tchernoff
1872 - 1950
Artjom Igorewitsch Malzew
Born 1993
Yuri Golov
1937 - 2014
Alimpy de Moscou
1929 - 2003
Ivan Karnilin
Born 1957
Svetlana Noskova
Born 1975
Nikolai Zhilyayev (footballer)
Born 1987
Dmitri Wjatscheslawowitsch Tschelowenko
Born 1974
Michail Komninos Afentoulief
1769 - 1855
Alexandra Jurjewna Korelowa
Born 1977
Mikhail Tetyaev
1882 - 1956
Vyacheslav Golubtsov
1894 - 1972
Aleksei Gerasimov (footballer, born 1973)
Born 1973
Vyacheslav Tsaryov
1971 - 2010
Viktor Tsyganov
1896 - 1944
Vera Lebedeva
1881 - 1968
Gennadi Maslyayev
Born 1958
Evgeny Sheyko
1962 - 2020
Mikhail Khatskilevich
1895 - 1941
Ivan Talanov
1910 - 1990
Rimma Koshelyova
Born 1936
Lev Balandin
1934 - 1980
Konstantin Zhiltsov
Born 1983
Daria Tchikrizova
Born 1990
Khioniya Talanova
1822 - 1880
Piotr Boïtsov
Born 1849
Galina Kakovkina
Born 1957
Aleksandr Yuryevich Shchukin
1969 - 2000
Andrei Iwanowitsch Selenzow
1896 - 1941
Aleksei Zerchaninov
1848 - 1933
Sergey Trofimov
Born 1995
Igor Vladimirovich Panshin
Born 1963
Nikolay Boyarintsev
Born 1988
Konstantin Kharchev
Born 1934
Vladimir Kurayev
Born 1969
Dmitri Schutschichin
Born 1980
Andrei Rumyantsev
Born 1969
Mikhail Sorochkin
Born 1992
Igor Shelushkov
Born 1946
Artyom Abramov
Born 1991
Marija Alexandrowna Sotowa (Skispringerin)
Born 1984
Igor Rudenkov
Born 1995
Valery V. Fokin
Born 1971
Genadi Man
Born 1956
Viktor Lyoskin
1953 - 2002
Barlaam of Chikoy
1774 - 1846
Arkady Kobyakov
1976 - 2015
Gregorio Maltzeff
1881 - 1953
Oleg Zhokhov
Born 1967
Dariia Sergaeva
Born 2004
Valeria Fedosova
Born 1989
Alexei Zakharov
Born 1984
Pavel Filchenkov
Born 1986
Vladimir Kireyev
Born 1972
Ilya Yamkin
Born 1994
David Davidyan
Born 1997
Igor Maslov
Born 1995
Igor Magazinnik
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Alexandre Kulibin
Born 1937