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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Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
1827 - 1892
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
1822 - 1892
Vladimir Stasov
1824 - 1906
Alexander Serov
1820 - 1871
Mikhail Petrashevsky
1821 - 1866
Alexander Druzhinin
1824 - 1864
Nikolay Beketov
1827 - 1911
Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov
1827 - 1889
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia
1827 - 1894
Avdotya Panaeva
1820 - 1893
Aleksey Uvarov
1825 - 1884
Alexandre Dondoukov-Korsakov
1820 - 1893
Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
1828 - 1906
Nikolai Shelgunov
1824 - 1891
Ludwig Bohnstedt
1822 - 1885
David Grimm (architect)
1823 - 1898
Alexandre Vassilievitch Golovnine
1821 - 1886
Pavel Sokolov (painter)
1826 - 1905
Adolf Charlemagne
1826 - 1901
Otto Pius Hippius
1826 - 1883
Andrei Alexandrovich Popov
1821 - 1898
Mikhail Stasyulevich
1826 - 1911
Boleslav Markevich
1822 - 1884
Pyotr Sokolov (painter)
1821 - 1899
Nicholas Chevalier
1828 - 1902
Leopold Koenig
1821 - 1903
Felix Sumarokov-Elston
1820 - 1877
Filipp Ovsyannikov
1827 - 1906
Joseph-Maria Charlemagne-Baudet
1824 - 1870
Alexandre Bobrinski
1823 - 1903
Nikolai von Dellingshausen
1827 - 1896
Vasily Vodovozov
1825 - 1886
Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Stassow
1828 - 1918
Adolf Berge
1828 - 1886
Pyotr Petrov
1827 - 1891
Nikolaj Jusupov
1827 - 1891
Alexander Apukthin
1822 - 1903
Juri Nikolajewitsch Golizyn
1823 - 1872
Dmitry Ivanovich Sviatopolk-Mirsky
1825 - 1899
Vladimir Zotov
1821 - 1896
Alexander Sokolov (painter)
1829 - 1913
Grigorij Sergeevič Stroganov
1829 - 1910
Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford
1826 - 1869
Grigori Alexandrovitch Stroganov (1824-1878)
1824 - 1878
Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lieberich
1828 - 1883
Sergueï Viktorovitch Kotchoubeï
1820 - 1880
Mikhail Rosenheim
1820 - 1887
Wladimir Georgijewitsch Kastrioto-Skanderbek – W
1820 - 1879
Pavel Stepanovich Usov
1828 - 1888
Alexandra Orr
1828 - 1903
Vladimir Kurochkin
1829 - 1885
Johann Heinrich Fixsen
1825 - 1899
Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet
1823 - 1888
Édouard Siebecker
1829 - 1901
Alexander Rudolf Karl von Uexküll
1829 - 1891
Nikolaj Achsjarumov
1820 - 1893
Konstantin Pavlovitch Pilkine
1824 - 1913
Yulia Linskaya
1820 - 1871
Aleksandr Ivanovič Musin-Puškin
1827 - 1903
Ferdinand Morawitz
1827 - 1896
Robert Gödicke
1829 - 1910
Ferdinand Mazzoli
1821 - 1893
Oskar von Löwis of Menar
1829 - 1885
Georg Asher
1827 - 1905
Carl Arnold (1824–1867)
1824 - 1867
Rudolf von Gasser
1829 - 1904
Pavel Pleshanov
1829 - 1882
Ippolit Vogak
1829 - 1889
Pyotr Zubrov
1822 - 1873
Simon Bensow
1828 - 1918
Magnus Alexander Goldschmidt
1824 - 1889
Friedrich Wilhelm von Grote
1823 - 1895
Wilhelm von Herder
1824 - 1907
Marie Roubaud de Cournand
1822 - 1917
Martin Iwanowitsch Eppinger
1822 - 1873