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 1880s Clear ×
Anna Akhmatova
1889 - 1966
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880 - 1940
Andrey Vyshinsky
1883 - 1954
Lev Mekhlis
1889 - 1953
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
1880 - 1968
Jakow Trachtenberg
1888 - 1953
Sasha Chorny
1880 - 1932
Benedikt Livshits
1886 - 1938
Paul Kochanski
1887 - 1934
Grigorii Fichtenholz
1888 - 1959
L. Wolfe Gilbert
1886 - 1970
Adolphe Féder
1886 - 1943
Rachel Cohen-Kagan
1888 - 1982
Leonid Grossman
1888 - 1965
Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova
1880 - 1966
George Yuri Rainich
1886 - 1968
Nicolas De Corsi
1882 - 1956
Kazimierz Fabrycy
1888 - 1958
Sergei Rubinstein
1889 - 1960
Zygmunt Klukowski
1885 - 1959
Alexandre Altmann
1885 - 1934
Maurice Abrahams
1883 - 1931
Semyon Tchernetsky
1881 - 1950
Mikhail Lashevich
1884 - 1928
Eugénie Goldstern
1884 - 1942
Alexandre Kamenka
1888 - 1969
Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski
1887 - 1972
Serge Fotinsky
1887 - 1971
Vladimir Dyck
1882 - 1943
Alexander Mogilevsky
1885 - 1953
Tadeusz Tołwiński
1887 - 1951
Boris Stomonyakov
1882 - 1940
Siegfried Askinasy
1880 - 1939
Alexander Trachtenberg
1885 - 1966
Paul List
1887 - 1954
Herman P. Kopplemann
1880 - 1957
Michael Vavitch
1881 - 1930
Wjatscheslaw Kasimirowitsch Wiskowski
1881 - 1933
Mikhail Kobetsky
1881 - 1937
Shimon Shteynberg
1887 - 1955
Pjotr Leontjewitsch Pasternak
1885 - 1963
Nikolaï Alexandrovitch Sakellari
1880 - 1936
Aleksandr Evlakhov
1880 - 1966
Rosa Katz
1885 - 1976
Anna El-Tour
1886 - 1954
Saul Bron
1887 - 1938
Ilia Ionov
1887 - 1942
Louis Sarecky
1886 - 1946
Catherine Chamié
1888 - 1950
Mishka Ziganoff
1889 - 1967
Nadia Payot
1887 - 1966
Jean Wintsch
1880 - 1943
Miriam Shomer Zunser
1882 - 1951
Konstantin Feldman
1881 - 1967
Aleksandr Shteingart
1887 - 1934
Yuri Petrovich Figatner
1889 - 1937
Jacob Schapiro
1885 - 1942
Boris Jewsejewitsch Skwirski
1887 - 1941
Lea Luboshutz
1885 - 1965
Vsevolod Lebedintsev
1881 - 1908
Tina Lerner
Born 1889
Maria Lemmé
1880 - 1943
Josef von Fielitz
1885 - 1952
Anna Saulowna Ljuboschiz
1887 - 1975
Margarita Zatzkin
1884 - 1927
Dorothea Charol
1889 - 1963
Morris Henry Sugarman
1889 - 1946
Wera Tubandt
1881 - 1944
Vera Meurman-Lustikh
1889 - 1947
Michael Hirschberg
1889 - 1937
Simon Rubinstein (pimp)
1880 - 1965