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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Lou Andreas-Salomé
1861 - 1937
Daniil Kharms
1905 - 1942
Countess of Ségur
1799 - 1874
Viktor Shklovsky
1893 - 1984
Mikhail Zoshchenko
1894 - 1958
Tatyana Tolstaya
Born 1951
Fyodor Sologub
1863 - 1927
Nina Berberova
1901 - 1993
Vitaly Bianki
1894 - 1959
Gaito Gazdanov
1903 - 1971
Lydia Chukovskaya
1907 - 1996
Vladimir Stasov
1824 - 1906
Helena Roerich
1879 - 1955
Nikolai Tikhonov (writer)
1896 - 1979
Gary Shteyngart
Born 1972
Andrei Bitov
1937 - 2018
Valentin Pikul
1928 - 1990
Viktoriya Tokareva
Born 1937
Vladimir Chertkov
1854 - 1936
Józef Mackiewicz
1902 - 1985
Nick Perumov
Born 1963
Arvid Järnefelt
1861 - 1932
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
1900 - 1951
Nikolai Pomyalovsky
1835 - 1863
Zoé Oldenbourg
1916 - 2002
Maria Semyonova
Born 1958
Alexander Druzhinin
1824 - 1864
Marusya Klimova
Born 1961
Aris Alexandrou
1922 - 1978
Ivan Panaev
1812 - 1862
Paullina Simons
Born 1963
Natalya Baranskaya
1908 - 2004
Boris Tomashevsky
1890 - 1957
Tito Colliander
1904 - 1989
Pyotr Pavlenko
1899 - 1951
Dorothea de Ficquelmont
1804 - 1863
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg
1915 - 2006
Vladimir Meshchersky
1839 - 1914
Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin
1738 - 1803
Tatiana Belinky
1919 - 2013
Dmitry Orlov (writer)
Born 1962
William Gerhardie
1895 - 1977
Vladimir Vertlib
Born 1966
Boris Strugatsky
1933 - 2012
Leopold Engel
1858 - 1931
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
1852 - 1906
Gleb Struve
1898 - 1985
Nikolai Leykin
1841 - 1906
Jurij A. Treguboff
1913 - 2000
Vladimir Kunin
1927 - 2011
Elena Tchijova
Born 1957
Lidia Charskaya
1875 - 1937
Boris Khazanov
Born 1928
Vera Broido
1907 - 2004
Leonid Pantelejew
1908 - 1987
Andrei Dmitriev (writer)
Born 1956
Mikhail Slonimsky
1897 - 1972
Zinaida Lindén
Born 1963
Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky
1874 - 1943
Eugene Yelchin
Born 1956
Maria Shkapskaya
1891 - 1952
Nikolai Engelhardt
1867 - 1942
Theodor Kröger
1891 - 1958
Grigoriy Demidovtsev
Born 1960
Maria de Naglowska
1883 - 1936
Marina Palei
Born 1955
Vladimir Piast
1886 - 1940
Nikolaï Nikitine
1895 - 1963
Wilhelm Litten
1880 - 1932
Antonina Żabińska
1908 - 1971
Boleslav Markevich
1822 - 1884
Aleksandra Gennadievna Petrova
Born 1964
Pyotr Polevoy
1839 - 1902
Margarita Meklina
Born 1972
Sergey Smirnov (writer)
1915 - 1976
Mark Lasarewitsch Gallai
1914 - 1998
E. M. Almedingen
1898 - 1971
Rid Grachev
1935 - 2004
Yevdokiya Nagrodskaya
1866 - 1930
Mikhail Albov
1851 - 1911
Mikhail German
1933 - 2018
Leonid Saweljewitsch Lipawski
1904 - 1941
Andrei Astvatsatourov
Born 1969
Anni Polva
1915 - 2003
Mykola Sumtsov
1854 - 1922
Issaï Kouznetsov
1916 - 2010
Aleksandr Zheleznyakov
Born 1957
Alexander Sheller
1838 - 1900
Pyotr Gnedich
1855 - 1925
Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko
1832 - 1870
Vadim Levental
Born 1981
Arthur Schütz
1880 - 1960
Wanda Dynowska
1888 - 1971
Iouri Dimitrine
1934 - 2020
Friedrich Fiedler (Übersetzer)
1859 - 1917
Yana Peel
Born 1974
Wassili Iwanowitsch Rakow
1909 - 1996
Tatyana Moskvina
Born 1958
Sergej Georgievič Stratanovskij
Born 1944
Kazimir Barantsevich
1851 - 1927
Vasily Vodovozov
1825 - 1886
Boris de Zirkoff
1902 - 1981
Michail Nikolaevič Kuraev
Born 1939
Pável Krusánov
Born 1961
Georgy Demidov
1908 - 1987
Platon Krasnov
1866 - 1924
Valmar Adams
1899 - 1993
Wsewolod Nikolajewitsch Petrow
1912 - 1978
Alex Epstein (Israeli writer)
Born 1971
Anna Lidia Vega Serova
Born 1968
Marie Linder
1840 - 1870
Eugene Ostashevsky
Born 1968
Sofja Sacharowna Fedortschenko
1888 - 1959
Boris Glinsky
1860 - 1917
N. P. Osipov
1751 - 1799
Viktor Bilibin
1859 - 1908
Aleksander Tyszyński
1811 - 1880
Jelizaveta Bagrejeva-Speranskaja
1799 - 1859
Alexander Izmaylov (critic)
1873 - 1921
Anatoly Gunitsky
Born 1953
Wilhelm von Freygang
1783 - 1849
Kat Kaufmann
Born 1981
Viktor Kokosov
Born 1963
Aleksandr Gdalin
1933 - 2017
Ania Monahof
Born 1929
Fred Whishaw
1854 - 1934
Olga Grigoreva
Born 1966
Pavel Shumil
Born 1957
Valentin Tublin
Born 1934
Samuel Keller
1856 - 1924
Aleksandr Chrapovitskij
1749 - 1802
Ivan Shcheglov
1856 - 1911
Vasili Popugaev
1778 - 1816
Elisabeth Dauthendey
1854 - 1943
Xenia Dyakonova
Born 1985
Burkhard Nadolny
1905 - 1968
Nina Langlet
1896 - 1988
Édouard Siebecker
1829 - 1901
Leopold Weber (Schriftsteller)
1866 - 1944
Paul Chavchavadze
1899 - 1971
Nikolai Khmelnitsky
1789 - 1845
Nikolaj Achsjarumov
1820 - 1893
Alexandra Petrowna Chwostowa
1768 - 1853
Andrei Gennadjewitsch Djakow
Born 1978
Alexander Fidlin
Born 1965
Heinz Fenner
1885 - 1935
Victor Lapitski
Born 1951
Alexander Borisovich Mindlin
1929 - 2019
Wilhelm Schultz (Uhrmacher)
1854 - 1921
Boris Kornev
Born 1950
Carl Friedrich von der Borg
1794 - 1848
Wilhelm Gentsch
1865 - 1932
Danny Danko
Born 1972
Zarina Zabrisky
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Elena Melik
1919 - 2009
Arthur Böhtlingk
1849 - 1929
Oleg Bakhtiyarov
Born 1948
Andreï Dyakov
Born 1978
Marianna Yablonskaya
1938 - 1980
Praskovia Arian
1864 - 1949