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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Mikhail Kutuzov
1745 - 1813
Ivan VI of Russia
1740 - 1764
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
1743 - 1810
Ivan Starov
1745 - 1808
Ivan Lepyokhin
1740 - 1802
Ivan Khandoshkin
1747 - 1804
Alexander Vorontsov
1741 - 1805
Vasily Pashkevich
1742 - 1797
Alexeï Razoumovski
1748 - 1822
Pavel Potemkin
1743 - 1796
Semyon Shchedrin
1745 - 1804
Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft
1743 - 1814
Catherine Antonovna of Brunswick
1741 - 1807
Alexeï Vassiliev
1742 - 1807
Karl Friedrich Knappe
1745 - 1808
Aleksandr Chrapovitskij
1749 - 1802
Ekaterina Kniazhnina
1746 - 1797
Ekaterina Petrovna Trubeckaja
1744 - 1815