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
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 358 notable births.
What Saint Petersburg Is Known For
Click any row to filter the list of people below.
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.
- Sports
- Science
- Writing
- Music
- Art & Design
- Film & TV
- Other
- Field: Physicist Clear ×
Ilya Frank
1908 - 1990
Vladimir Fock
1898 - 1974
Yulii Khariton
1904 - 1996
Boris Rauschenbach
1915 - 2001
Boris Borisovich Golitsyn
1862 - 1916
Orest Khvolson
1852 - 1934
Nicholas Kemmer
1911 - 1998
Lew Kowarski
1907 - 1979
Dmitri Skobeltsyn
1892 - 1990
Lev Shubnikov
1901 - 1937
Eugene Rabinowitch
1901 - 1973
Mikhail Leontovich
1903 - 1981
David Shoenberg
1911 - 2004
Viktor Kirpichov
1845 - 1913
Lev Lipatov
1940 - 2017
Elephter Andronikashvili
1910 - 1989
Sergey Khristianovich
1908 - 2000
Vladimir Gribov
1930 - 1997
Grigory Gamburtsev
1903 - 1955
Mikhail Volkenshtein
1912 - 1992
Alexander F. Andreev
Born 1939
Yevgeny Avrorin
1932 - 2018
Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft
1743 - 1814
Ivan Borgman
1849 - 1914
Walter Masing
1915 - 2004
Tatiana Birshtein
Born 1928
Andrey Gagarin
1934 - 2011
Alexei L. Efros
Born 1938
Robert Rompe
1905 - 1993
Mikhail Sadovsky
1904 - 1994
Samson Kutateladze
1914 - 1986
Eugene Alexandrov
Born 1936
Viktor Sobolev
1915 - 1999
Dmitri Sergejewitsch Roschdestwenski
1876 - 1940
Victor Robertovich Bursian
1886 - 1945
Nikolai Borisovich Delone
1926 - 2008
Valery Troitskaya
1917 - 2010
Vladimir Hütt
1936 - 1997
Vladimir Lobashev
1934 - 2011
Boris Konstantinov
1910 - 1969
Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Wolkow
1925 - 1996
Andrius Baltuška
Born 1971
Alexander Alexandrowitsch Eichenwald
1863 - 1944
Jakow Petrowitsch Terlezki
1912 - 1993
Mikhail Kovalchuk
Born 1946
Juri Alexandrowitsch Krutkow
1890 - 1952
Dmitri Igorewitsch Djakonow
1949 - 2012
Wiktor-Andrei Stanislawowitsch Borowik-Romanow –
1920 - 1997
Alexey Andreevich Anselm
1934 - 1998
Dmitri Alexandrowitsch Warschalowitsch
1934 - 2020
Anton Karlowitsch Walter
1905 - 1965
Vitaly Efimov
Born 1938
Daniel I. Khomskii
Born 1938
Alexander Iossifowitsch Schalnikow
1905 - 1986
Sergei Eduardowitsch Frisch
1899 - 1977
Eugene Chudnovsky
Born 1948
Igor Jurjewitsch Kobsarew
1932 - 1991
Andrei Wladimirowitsch Lebedinski
1902 - 1965
Alexey Kavokin
Born 1970
Oleg Firsov
1915 - 1998
Iwan Romanowitsch Hecker
1927 - 1989
Vladimir Kopylov
1947 - 2006
Andrey Aleksandrovich Gershun
1903 - 1952
Sergey Mayzel
1882 - 1955
Lev Vaidman
Born 1955
Yuri Yappa
1927 - 1998
Egor Babaev
Born 1973
Michail Silytsch Kosodajew
1909 - 1986
Arkady Aronov
1939 - 1994
Nikolai Grigorjewitsch Jegorow
1849 - 1919
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Rusinov
1909 - 2004
Boris Zubarev
1875 - 1952
Mark Veyngerov
1903 - 1977
Anatoly Kondratenko
Born 1935
Boris Shraiman
-
Georgy Mihailovich Kondratiev
1887 - 1958
Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sacharjewski
1894 - 1965
Ljubov Rebane
1929 - 1991
Sergei Kolesnikov (whistleblower)
Born 1948
Alexey A. Petrov
-
Pjotr Jefimowitsch Spiwak
1911 - 1992
Vladimir Anisimoff
Born 1950