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
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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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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Leonid Pasternak
1862 - 1945
Waldemar Haffkine
1860 - 1930
Pyotr Schmidt
1867 - 1906
Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
1861 - 1924
Gavriil Baranovsky
1860 - 1920
David Ossipovitch Widhopff
1867 - 1933
Alexander Cartellieri
1867 - 1955
Wassily Sapellnikoff
1867 - 1941
Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo
1860 - 1928
Alexander Manuilov
1861 - 1929
Fenia Chertkoff
1869 - 1927
Semyon Yushkevich
1868 - 1927
Alexander Filippowitsch Samoilow
1867 - 1930
Vladimir Matveevich Gessen
1868 - 1920
Josif Hessen
1865 - 1943
Gregor Belkovsky
1865 - 1948
Joakim Wiktorowitsch Tartakow
1860 - 1923
Samuel Jankélévitch
1869 - 1951
Michel Weinberg
1868 - 1940
Georgi Georgijewitsch de Metz
1861 - 1947
Mykhaylo Berkos
1861 - 1919
Vsevolod Stratonov
1869 - 1938
Boris Edwards
1860 - 1924
Emil-Benediktoff Hirschfeld
1867 - 1922
Boris Aleksandrovich Pelikan
1861 - 1931
Semion Kougoulski
1862 - 1954
Sergei Yuferov
Born 1865
Viktor von Ephrussi
1860 - 1945
Vittorio de Barbieri
1860 - 1943
Iwan Jurjewitsch Timoschenko
1863 - 1939