59.9500° N, 30.3167° E
SAINT PETERSBURG
Most Famous People Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Notable people
- 3,997
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1915
- Most distinctive
- Ballet 25.5×
The imperial capital that became a cultural one. Saint Petersburg's notables tilt heavily toward the arts the Romanovs paid for — ballet, composition, chess, painting, choreography — and the city is the dataset's single densest source of figure skaters and ballet dancers. Founded in 1703, it has no medieval tail at all; almost everything here happens between Pushkin and Putin.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Saint Petersburg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Saint Petersburg Is Known For
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Football is Saint Petersburg's biggest profession — 8% of all notables (326).
Saint Petersburg over-indexes on ballet — 25.5× the global rate.
Saint Petersburg under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Saint Petersburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Peter II of Russia
1715 - 1730
Xenia of Saint Petersburg
1719 - 1803
Aleksey Antropov
1716 - 1795
Alexander Cozens
1717 - 1786
Christoph Hermann von Manstein
1711 - 1757
Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1714–1728)
1714 - 1728
Michail Iwanowitsch Machajew
1718 - 1770
Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna of Russia (1718–1725)
1718 - 1725
Maria Menshikova
1711 - 1729
Ekaterina Chernysheva
1715 - 1779
Pedro Petrovich da Rússia
1715 - 1719
Johann Caspar Taubert
1717 - 1771
Ivan Ivanovich Belsky
1719 - 1799
Natalia María Románova
1713 - 1715