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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Paul I of Russia
1754 - 1801
Nikolay Rumyantsev
1754 - 1826
Fyodor Alekseyev
1755 - 1824
Andrey Razumovsky
1752 - 1836
Nikolai Sheremetev
1751 - 1809
Mikhail Kozlovsky
1753 - 1802
Vasily Zuyev
1754 - 1794
Ivan Akimov
1755 - 1814
Grigory Razumovsky
1759 - 1837
Pyotr Lopukhin
1753 - 1827
Alexander Michailowitsch Belosselski
1752 - 1809
Dmitry Khvostov
1757 - 1835
Nikolai Bodisko
1756 - 1815
Dmitri Gouriev
1751 - 1825
Stepan Shchukin
1754 - 1828
Iwan Prokofjewitsch Prokofjew
1758 - 1828
Feodossi Fjodorowitsch Schtschedrin
1751 - 1825
N. P. Osipov
1751 - 1799
Philip Ridder
1759 - 1838
Aleksey Melissino
1759 - 1813
Anna Christina Schröder
1755 - 1829
Pëtr Alekseevič Skokov
1758 - 1817