46.4775° N, 30.7326° E
ODESSA
Most Famous People Born in Odessa, Ukraine
- Notable people
- 883
- Peak decade
- 1900s
- Median birth year
- 1919
- Most distinctive
- Violin 24.0×
Catherine the Great's Black Sea port was the most literary and musical city of the late Russian Empire, and the panel still shows it cold. A Violin bench running twenty-four times the global baseline is basically the Stolyarsky school that produced half the twentieth-century Soviet string section, with Pianist, Conductor and Mathematician lines stacking underneath and a Chess cluster at better than twelve times the norm — Isaac Babel's Moldavanka made legible as data, right up until the pogroms and the Civil War scattered it across three continents.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Odessa during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1900s with 98 notable births.
What Odessa Is Known For
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Football is Odessa's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (114).
Odessa over-indexes on violin — 24.0× the global rate.
Odessa under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Odessa's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Other
- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
Vladimir de Pachmann
1848 - 1933
Charles Ephrussi
1849 - 1905
Wilhelm Withöft
1847 - 1904
Mark Warshawsky
1848 - 1907
Maurice Ephrussi
1849 - 1916
Johann Kremenezky
1848 - 1934
Elena Raffalovich
1842 - 1918
Jakow Grigorjewitsch Gurewitsch
1843 - 1906
Ernestina Paper
1846 - 1926
Michel Ephrussi
1844 - 1914
Wilhelm Fränkel (Bauingenieur)
1841 - 1895
Carl Woldemar Becker
1841 - 1901
Jules Ephrussi
1846 - 1915