47.2332° N, 39.7191° E
ROSTOV-NA-DONU
Most Famous People Born in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia
- Notable people
- 319
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1963
- Most distinctive
- Chess 17.0×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Rostov-na-Donu during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Rostov-na-Donu Is Known For
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Football is Rostov-na-Donu's biggest profession — 24% of all notables (76).
Rostov-na-Donu over-indexes on chess — 17.0× the global rate.
Rostov-na-Donu under-produces actor — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Rostov-na-Donu's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Music
- Science
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Film & TV
- Other
Sabina Spielrein
1885 - 1942
Yuri Bashmet
Born 1953
Martiros Saryan
1880 - 1972
Kirill Serebrennikov
Born 1969
Savielly Tartakower
1887 - 1956
Alexander Kaidanovsky
1946 - 1995
Efrem Zimbalist
1889 - 1985
Vera Panova
1905 - 1973
Victor Glushkov
1923 - 1982
Alexei Eremenko
Born 1983
Konstantin Lavronenko
Born 1961
Eva Rivas
Born 1987
Tatiana Kotova
Born 1985
Georgy Flyorov
1913 - 1990
Yuri Oganessian
Born 1933
Mikhail Gnessin
1883 - 1957
Irina Allegrova
Born 1952
Mikael Nalbandian
1829 - 1866
Rostislav Plyatt
1908 - 1989
Olga Spessivtseva
1895 - 1991
Leonid I. Sedov
1907 - 1999
Yakov Frenkel
1894 - 1952
Oksana Pochepa
Born 1984
Antonina Krivoshapka
Born 1987
Zinaida Reich
1894 - 1939
Gevork Vartanian
1924 - 2012
Vera Weizmann
1881 - 1966
Alexander Miasnikian
1886 - 1925
Vladimir Petlyakov
1891 - 1942
Natalia Shaposhnikova
Born 1961
Viktor Ponedelnik
1937 - 2020
Leonid Shamkovich
1923 - 2005
Igor Bondarevsky
1913 - 1979
Nikita Nagornyy
Born 1997
Nikolai Timkov
1912 - 1993
Gregorio Sciltian
1900 - 1985
Basta (rapper)
Born 1980
Yevgeniya Glushenko
Born 1952
Yevgeny Brusilovsky
1905 - 1981
Raïssa Maritain
1883 - 1960
Yelena Produnova
Born 1980
Varteres Samurgashev
Born 1979
Maxim Staviski
Born 1977
Marion Gering
1901 - 1977
David Lichine
1910 - 1972
Raphael Patkanian
1830 - 1892
Elena Gnesina
1874 - 1967
Jerzy Żurawlew
1886 - 1980
Ivan Bukavshin
1995 - 2016
Viktor Zubkov (basketball)
1937 - 2016
Mikhail Samarsky
Born 1996
Svetlana Boiko
Born 1972
Daniil Khrabrovitsky
1923 - 1980
Sergey Zhigunov
Born 1963
Andrey Moiseyev
Born 1979
Hélène Gordon-Lazareff
1909 - 1988
Andrei Fedkov
Born 1971
Victor Keyru
Born 1984
Alexander Schapiro
1883 - 1946
Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1986)
Born 1986
Isabella Bashmakova
1921 - 2005
Vladimir Nevsky
1876 - 1937
Izabella Yurieva
1899 - 2000
Mikhail Simonov
1929 - 2011
Ghazaros Saryan
1920 - 1998
Svetlana Goncharenko
Born 1971
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov
1910 - 1972
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Born 1974
George VI of Armenia
1868 - 1954
Victoria Lopyreva
Born 1983
Gabriel Arout
1909 - 1982
Miron Merzhanov
1895 - 1975
Emmanuil Evzerikhin
1911 - 1984
Aleksandr Galkin (chess player)
Born 1979
Angelina Nikonova
Born 1976
John Travlos
1908 - 1985
Svetlana Grozdova
Born 1959
Vitali Gubarev
1912 - 1981
Lev Anninsky
1934 - 2019
Gennadiy Prigoda
Born 1965
Kerovbe Patkanian
1833 - 1889
Vladimir Pyshnenko
Born 1970
Daniel Guilet
1899 - 1990
Ivan Popov (chess player)
Born 1990
Sergei Davydov (figure skater)
Born 1979
Nina Kaptsova
Born 1978
Sergey Fedorovtsev
Born 1980
Ervand Kogbetliantz
1888 - 1974
Mikhail Chailakhyan
1902 - 1991
Valentina Tsybulskaya
Born 1968
Nikita Balieff
1876 - 1936
Dmitry Chaplin
Born 1982
Constantin Alajalov
1900 - 1987
Maria Kharenkova
Born 1998
Zinaida Sharko
1929 - 2016
Igor Danilevsky
Born 1953
Dmitri Veber
Born 1999
Vladimir Khozin
Born 1989
Nikolay Spinyov
Born 1974
Natalya Morskova
Born 1966
Vlada Chigireva
Born 1994
Gennadi Matveyev
1937 - 2014
Mikhail Semyonov
1933 - 2006
Artem Lukyanenko
Born 1990
Caesar Lvovich Kunikov
1909 - 1943
Oleh Matveyev
Born 1970
Alexandre Herbstman
1900 - 1982
Artyom Kulishev
Born 1993
Boris Shpitalniy
1902 - 1972
Jan Nikolaevich Spielrein
1887 - 1938
Valery Likhodey
Born 1986
Maria Kryuchkova
1988 - 2015
Ivan Luppol
1896 - 1943
Vladimir Shumeyko
Born 1945
Paul Armont
1874 - 1943
Aleksandr Maksimenko (footballer, born 1998)
Born 1998
Oksana Romenskaya
Born 1976
Georgy Petrusov
1903 - 1971
Aleksandr Kostoglod
Born 1974
Boris Georgijewitsch Menschagin
1902 - 1984
Eduard Gritsun
Born 1976
Sophie Liebknecht
1884 - 1964
Nikolai Korolkov
Born 1946
Lyudmila Karachkina
Born 1948
Mark Stolberg
1922 - 1942
Wladimir Iljitsch Ryndsjun
1897 - 1953
Yulia Belokobylskaya
Born 1995
Aleksandr Vorobyov
Born 1962
Vladislav Ryazantsev
Born 1986
Stepan Kechekjan
1890 - 1967
Jewgeni Iwanowitsch Umnow
1913 - 1989
Miroslav Nemirov
1961 - 2016
Stanislav Chekan
1922 - 1994
Vladimir Minkin
Born 1935
Viktor Kravchenko (athlete)
Born 1941
Igor Vishnevetsky
Born 1964
Lidia Zamkow
1918 - 1982
Pyotr Gitselov
Born 1983
Sergei Tumasyan
Born 1990
Artyom Dervoed
Born 1981
Jakow Segel
1923 - 1995
Igor Leontyev
Born 1994
Alisa Fedichkina
Born 2002
Leonid Brumberg
1925 - 2010
Georgy Georgievich Khazagerov
Born 1949
Sargis Lukashin
1883 - 1937
Georgi Makhatadze
Born 1998
Andrei Lyakh
Born 1990
Hanna Burmystrova
Born 1977
Iouri Malikov
Born 1943
Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky
Born 1950
Gayane Chebotaryan
1918 - 1998
Natalya Karimova
Born 1974
Aleksandr Chekhirkin
Born 1986
Igor Marchenko (swimmer)
Born 1975
Viktor Asmaev
1947 - 2002
Boris Lavrenko
1920 - 2001
Larisa Kiselyova
Born 1970
Roman Chatov
1900 - 1987
Michail Jefimowitsch Litwak
1938 - 2020
Natalya Artyomova
Born 1963
Konstantin Tolokonnikov
Born 1996
Aleksandr Gitselov
Born 1963
Juri Dmitrijewitsch Tretjakow
1931 - 2012
Mikhail Bernshtein
1875 - 1960
Ilia Kroupnik
Born 1925
Evgeni Barbakov
Born 1954
Leff Schultz
1897 - 1970
Igor Bensen
1917 - 2000
Nikita Kovalyov
Born 1996
Viktor Kogan
1936 - 2014
Pavel Sviridenko
Born 1985
Sergei Vronsky
1923 - 2003
Yekaterina Galitskaya
Born 1987
Yuriy Shurkalov
Born 1949
Wladislaw Petrowitsch Terechow
Born 1933
Vitaly Fokeev
Born 1974
Inessa Merkulova
Born 1964
Georgi Baevski
1921 - 2005
Viktor Kupovets
Born 1963
Viktor Kolyadko
Born 1957
Zhosselina Maiga
Born 1996
Igor Simonenko
1935 - 2008
Mijaíl Beloúsov
1904 - 1946
Avet Ter-Gabrielyan
1899 - 1983
Katerina Keyru
Born 1988
Anton Rogochiy
Born 1982
Nina Niss-Goldman
1892 - 1990
Yekaterina Yusheva
Born 1973
Andrei Timoshenko
1969 - 2010
Rafael Samurgashev
Born 1963
Vladimir Atoev
Born 1999
Igor Salov
Born 1983
Valentin Chistyakov
Born 1939
Yulia Mayboroda
Born 1980
Pavel Gusev (footballer, born 1953)
Born 1953
Ewald Emiljewitsch Spielrain
1926 - 2009
Yelena Rigert
Born 1983
Albert Parry (academic)
1901 - 1992
Zaven Almazyan
1950 - 1973
Aleksandr Abroskin
Born 1987
Farkhad Gystarov
Born 1994
Igor Gubanov
Born 1992
Sergey Markedonov
Born 1972
Julia Popova
Born 1988
Alexandre Chem
1898 - 1981
Aleksandr Garnovskii
1932 - 2010
Mark Grigorian
1900 - 1978
Sergey Kudentsov
Born 1978
Stanislav Rudenko
Born 1962
Jelisaweta Fabianowna Gnessina
1876 - 1953
Georgiy Efremenko
Born 1986
Katerina Gordeeva
Born 1977
Lev Sandakchiev
1937 - 2006
Emmanuel Aladjalov
1862 - 1934
Jewgeni Michailowitsch Timakin
1916 - 2004
Sergei Galadzhev
1902 - 1954
Josefa Gurfinkel
1919 - 1997
Georges Arout
1911 - 1970
Anton Lazutkin
Born 1994
Lyubov Orechova
Born 1959
Andrei Mikheyev
Born 1987
Vitali Tasenko
Born 1975
Vladimir Malakhov (cyclisme)
Born 1957
Lyubov Zakharchenko
1961 - 2008
Ashot Melkonian
1930 - 2009
Elena Shirman
1908 - 1942
Tony Vilgotsky
Born 1980
Avdey Ter-Oganyan
Born 1961
Izabella Arazova
Born 1936
Igor Eremenko
Born 1997
Stefan Grigorievich Samko
Born 1941
Serge Polyanichko
Born 1974
Anatoli Morozov
Born 1973
Anatoly Kononenko
Born 1935
Anton Astakhov
Born 1987
Sergei Shlyk
Born 1966
Nikolay Bestchetvertnoi
1895 - 1937
Sergey Samsonenko
Born 1967
Tamara Pyrkova
Born 1939
Sergey Ivanov (referee)
Born 1984
Andrei Vorobyov
Born 1982
Maria Sazarina
1914 - 1959
Enver Yulgushov
Born 1938
Marina Belikova
Born 1985
Sviatoslav Nikitenko
Born 1960
Ksenia Volkova
Born 1993
Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski
1907 - 1993
Vladislav Rudenko
Born 1996
Marija Fabianowna Gnessina
1874 - 1918
Yuri Borovskoy
Born 1971
Aleksandr Plotnikov
Born 1979
Andrei Filippowitsch Paschtschenko
1885 - 1972
Ivan Drannikov
Born 1986
Ivan Dyagolchenko
Born 1980
Aleksei Buznyakov
Born 1985
Leo Goglichidze
Born 1997
Alex Kanevsky
Born 1963
Viktor Shkurat
Born 1984
Viktor Brodyanskiy
1919 - 2009
Ivan Pogrebnyak
Born 1993
Oleg Vernigorov
Born 1972
Yelena Dudnik
Born 1978
Andrei Redkin
Born 1972
Alexey Makovetskiy
Born 1983
Ernest Sarukhanyants
Born 1971
Daria Schirman
Born 1874
Anastasia Sinitsyna
Born 1983
Valeri Alshanskiy
Born 1995
Oleg Bezuglov
Born 1984
Aleksei Lvovich Nikolayev
Born 1985
Aleksandr Gorbachyov (footballer, born 1986)
Born 1986
Andrei Sidenko
Born 1995
Polina Chan
Born 1999
Sergei Kramarenko (footballer, born 1994)
Born 1994
Olga Fabianowna Gnessina
1881 - 1963
Sergei Zabrodin
Born 1998
Filipp Kondryukov
Born 1997
Dmitry Sergeyevich Kosenko
Born 1986
Sergei Sechin
Born 1985
Hambardzum Terteryan
1884 - 1955
Konstantin Tsuranov
Born 1972
Grigory Feldman
1884 - 1958
Jewgenija Fabianowna Gnessina
1870 - 1940
Alexandr Prigoda
Born 1964
Maksim Chernokozov
Born 1985
Simon Ratnowsky
1884 - 1945
Dmitry Govorukhin
Born 1978
Yulia Zapotichnaya
Born 1989
Vladimir Kazmenko
Born 1975
Liuba Berlin
1915 - 1936
Aleksandr Gaydin
Born 1993
Ivan Donskov
Born 1997
Nizar Al-Taravna
Born 1984
Artyom Orsayev
Born 1993
Alexandr Kontarev
Born 1938
Gennady Modoy
1923 - 1994
Yevgeny Mikhaylov (athlete)
Born 1937
Anton Gourianov
Born 1979
Roman Razbeyko
Born 1973