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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Joseph Brodsky
1940 - 1996
Alexander Blok
1880 - 1921
Korney Chukovsky
1882 - 1969
Edith Södergran
1892 - 1923
Viktor Tsoi
1962 - 1990
Olga Bergholz
1910 - 1975
Nikolay Ogarev
1813 - 1877
Alexander Bestuzhev
1797 - 1837
Wilhelm Küchelbecker
1797 - 1846
Igor Severyanin
1887 - 1941
Alexander Vvedensky (poet)
1904 - 1941
Vladimir Paley
1897 - 1918
Sergey Gorodetsky
1884 - 1967
Nestor Kukolnik
1809 - 1868
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
1924 - 2016
Pavel Antokolsky
1896 - 1978
Semyon Nadson
1862 - 1887
Alexander Odoevsky
1802 - 1839
Mirra Lokhvitskaya
1869 - 1905
Ivan Barkov
1732 - 1768
Alexander Chavchavadze
1786 - 1846
Elena Shvarts
1948 - 2010
Nikolai Dobronravov
Born 1928
Yevgeny Rein
Born 1935
Natalia Medvedeva (singer)
1958 - 2003
Konstantin Vaginov
1899 - 1934
Vadim Shefner
1914 - 2002
Elisabeth Kulmann
1808 - 1825
Anatoly Naiman
Born 1936
Sergey Makovsky
1877 - 1962
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
1865 - 1907
Bertel Gripenberg
1878 - 1947
Konstantin Sluchevsky
1837 - 1904
Vladimir Benediktov
1807 - 1873
Vasily Kurochkin
1831 - 1875
Raisa Blokh
1899 - 1943
Wladimir Weidlé
1895 - 1979
Konstantin Fofanov
1862 - 1911
Zygmunt Rumel
1915 - 1943
Nina Gagen-Torn
1900 - 1986
Alexander Gorodnitsky
Born 1933
Cherubina de Gabriak
1887 - 1928
Anri Volokhonsky
1936 - 2017
Leonid Kannegisser
1896 - 1918
Dmitry Khvostov
1757 - 1835
Lev Loseff
1937 - 2009
Alexander Kushner
Born 1936
Adelina Adalis
1900 - 1969
Janusz Minkiewicz
1914 - 1981
Julia Voznesenskaya
1940 - 2015
Alexander Izmaylov
1779 - 1831
Wacław Korabiewicz
1903 - 1994
Ivan Konevskoï
1877 - 1901
Mikhail Armalinsky
Born 1947
Vladimir Admoni
1909 - 1993
Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky
1940 - 2015
Alexey Eisner
1905 - 1984
Élim Mestscherski
1808 - 1844
Mikhail Gendelev
1950 - 2009
Tatjana Alexejewna Jakowlewa
1906 - 1991
Kauko Käyhkö
1916 - 1983
Vera Lourié
1901 - 1998
Tola Dorian
1839 - 1918
Alexei Purin
Born 1955
Vladimir Uflyand
1937 - 2007
Oleg Liagatchev
Born 1939
Avdotia Glinka
1795 - 1863
Vladimir Zotov
1821 - 1896
Vladimir Zlobin
1894 - 1967
Konstantin Olimpov
1889 - 1940
Graal Arelsky
1888 - 1937
Aleksandr Ginger
1897 - 1965
Alina Kirillowna Kudrjaschewa
Born 1987
Mikhail Gorlin
1909 - 1944
Vladimir Hippius
1876 - 1941
Nikolai Kurochkin
1830 - 1884
Ana Pavlovna Barykova
1839 - 1893
Nikolay Tsyganov
1797 - 1832
Alexander Navrotsky
1839 - 1914
Roald Mandelstam
1932 - 1961
Vera Bulich
1898 - 1954
Mikhail Yupp
Born 1938
Vladimir Volkenstein
1883 - 1974
Rinaldo Küfferle
1903 - 1955
Vsevolod Zelchenko
Born 1972
Mikhail Rosenheim
1820 - 1887
Ekaterina Kniazhnina
1746 - 1797
Vladimir Shchiglev
1840 - 1903
Tatyana Apraksina
Born 1963
Greta Langenskjöld
1889 - 1975
Alexey Ivanov-Classic
1841 - 1894
Elias Lieberman
1883 - 1969
Dmitri Kryuchkov
1887 - 1936