List of people from Saint Petersburg

This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1914–1924: Petrograd, 1924–1991: Leningrad).

Born in Saint Petersburg

1701–1800

Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal
Dmitri Gallitzin (1728–1803), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist
Johann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician
Ivan VI of Russia (1740–1764), Emperor of Russia (1740–1741)
Ivan Lepyokhin (1740–1802), naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer
Mikhail Kutuzov (1745–1813), Field Marshal of the Russian Empire
Mikhail Miloradovich (1771–1825), Russian general of Serbian origin
Catharina of Württemberg (1783–1835), second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Queen consort of Westphalia (1807–1813)
Joseph Bové (1784–1834), Russian neoclassical architect with Italian roots
Pavel Kridener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States, under John Quincy Adams
Michael Lunin (1787–1845), political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist and a participant of the Franco-Russian Patriotic War of 1812
Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788–1819), the fourth daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, Queen consort of Württemberg (1816–1819)
Sylvester Shchedrin (1791–1830), landscape painter
Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792–1795), Grand Duchess of Russia as the second youngest daughter and seventh child of Emperor Paul I of Russia
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794–1866), Imperial Russian military officer and General of the Russian Army
Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol (1796–1826), Russian Imperial Lieutenant Colonel and one of the organizers of the Decembrist revolt
Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), Emperor of Russia (1825–1855)
Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), Romantic poet and Decembrist
Fyodor Litke (1797–1882), navigator, geographer and Arctic explorer
Karl Bryullov (1799–1852), painter
Countess of Ségur (1799–1874), French writer of Russian birth

1801–1830

Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwright
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1805–1851), French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France
Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858), painter, born and died in St. Petersburg
George Busk (1807–1886), British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist
Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868), Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809–1881), statesman and diplomat
Alexandre Remi (1809–1871), mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in Saint Petersburg
Ivan Panaev (1812–1862), publisher of the popular magazine Sovremennik
Anatoly Demidov (1813–1870), industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of the Demidov family
Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activist
Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882), writer
Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), philanthropist and financier
Eugene Balabin (1815–1895), Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus
Otto von Böhtlingk (1815–1904), German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
Count Nikolay Adlerberg (1819–1892), Councilor of State, Chamberlain, governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and Finland
Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holder
Alexander Serov (1820–1871), composer and music critic
Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821–1866), thinker and public figure
Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884), writer, essayist, journalist and literary critic
Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime, born and died in Saint Petersburg
Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), archaeologist
Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), Baltic German architect
Pyotr Shuvalov (1827–1889), influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Emperor Alexander II, born and died in Saint Petersburg
Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830–1895), British artist

1831–1850

Nikolay Ignatyev (1832–1908), statesman and diplomat
Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), realistic painter, born and died in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), composer and chemist
Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873), architect and painter
Nikolai Pomyalovsky (1835–1863), writer
Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904), Imperial Russian music publisher, philanthropist
Anna Filosofova (1837–1912), feminist
Franz Overbeck (1837–1905), German Protestant theologian
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), chemist
Dmitry Chernov (1839–1921), metallurgist
Alexander W. von Götte (1840–1922), German zoologist
Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), internist and neurologist
Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), daughter of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Nikolai Menshutkin (1842–1907), chemist
Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt (1842–1920), architect, born in Saint Petersburg, left it as a child about 1848
Mikhail Skobelev (1843–1882), general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Alexander III of Russia (1845–1894), Emperor of Russia (1881–1894)
Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician
Bogomir Korsov (1845–1920), baritone opera singer
Vladimir Lamsdorf (1845–1907), statesman, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire (1900–1906)
Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), pianist and composer
Alexandr von Bilderling (1846–1912), general in the Imperial Russian Army
Anna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), jeweller
Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
Rafail Levitsky (1847–1940), photographer, artist, professor
Jean Béraud (1849–1935), French painter

1851–1880

Walter W. Winans (1852–1920), American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter
Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), Egyptologist
Leopold Engel (1858–1931), writer and occultist
Princess Maria Tenisheva (1858–1928), Princess, a public person, artist, educator, philanthropist and collector
Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiral
Victor Ewald (1860–1935), composer
Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911), poet
Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927), poet and writer
Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), one of the founders of geochemistry
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent
Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), Emperor of Russia (1894-1917)
Vasily Bartold (1869–1930), historian
Nikolay Pushnitsky (1870–1921), sailor
Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), one of the founding leaders of Menshevism
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), revolutionary, writer and diplomat
Mathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971), Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin
George Washington Lambert (1873–1930), Australian artist
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), scientist, weapons designer, professor, lieutenant general of a corps of military engineers
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter and writer
Noë Bloch (1875–1937), film producer
Carl Enckell (1876–1959), Finnish politician, officer and diplomat
Herman Gummerus (1877–1948), Finnish classical scholar and diplomat
Lev Urusov (1877–1933), Russian diplomat, member of International Olympic Committee
Alexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poet
Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg and worked there

1881–1900

Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina, born in Saint Petersburg, lived and performed in Russia
Mikhail Avilov (1882–1954), painter and art educator
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer, pianist and conductor, born in a suburb of Saint Petersburg
Viktor Bulla (1883–1938), photographer and cinema pioneer
Leopold van der Pals (1884–1966), composer
Stella Arbenina (1885–1976), Russian-born English actress
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter
Naum Idelson (1885–1951), Soviet theoretical astronomer and expert in history of physics and mathematics
Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), poet
Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropist
Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicist
Serge Elisséeff (1889–1975), Russian-French scholar and professor
Joseph Ruttenberg (1889–1983), Russian-American photojournalist and cinematographer
Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), opera singer and director, born in St. Petersburg, emigrated to England in 1913
Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, born in Saint Petersburg
Aleksei Uversky (1891–1942), football player
Erté (1892–1990), designer and illustrator (born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov)
Fyodor Raskolnikov (1892–1939), Bolshevik and Soviet diplomat
Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist
Vladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholar
Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satirist
Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicist
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writer, born in Saint Petersburg
Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), writer, born in Saint Petersburg
Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899-1954), astronomer, born in Saint Petersburg
Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
Léon Motchane (1900–1990), French industrialist and mathematician

1901–1920

Andrews Engelmann (1901–1992), Russian-born German actor
Waldemar Gurian (1902–1954), Russian-born German-American political scientist, author, and professor at the University of Notre Dame
Véra Nabokov (1902–1991), wife, editor and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov
Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), conductor
George Balanchine (1904–1983), one of the 20th century's most prolific choreographers
Colonel-General Nikolai Berzarin (1904–1945), appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945; the Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour
Tom Conway (1904–1967), British film, television and radio actor
Alexey Eisner (1905–1984), poet, translator and writer
Oleg Kerensky (1905–1984), civil engineer
Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), writer and poet
Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-American novelist, born in Saint Petersburg
Andria Balanchivadze (1906–1992), Georgian composer
Dmitry Likhachov (1906–1999), philologist
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer and pianist, born in Saint Petersburg and spent most of his life there
Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter and graphic artist
Vera Broido (1907–2004), writer
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979), composer, born and died in Saint Petersburg
Ilya Frank (1908–1990), physicist
Rostislaw Kaischew (1908–2002), Bulgarian physicochemist
Alexandre Mnouchkine (1908–1993), French film producer
Sergey Urusevsky (1908–1974), cinematographer and film director
Nina Anisimova (1909–1979), dancer and choreographer
Anatole de Grunwald (1910–1967), Russian British film producer and screenwriter
Barys Kit (born 1910), rocket scientist
Galina Ulanova (1910–1998), ballet dancer
Yrjö von Grönhagen (1911–2003), Finnish nobleman and anthropologist
Nikolay Novotelnov (1911–2006), chess International Master and author
Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator
Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), economist
Assia Noris (1912–1998), Russian-Italian film actress
Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991), Soviet scholar of Roman history, recipient of the State Prize of the USSR
Dmitry Maevsky (1917–1992), Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
Anna Marly (1917–2006), singer-songwriter
Efim Etkind (1918–1999), philologist and translation theorist
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), composer of classical music

1921–1950

Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978), Greek novelist, poet and translator
Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), literary scholar, semiotician and cultural historian
Boris Ugarov (1922–1991), Russian Soviet realist painter and art educator
Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (born 1925), hero of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Kondrashin (1929–1999), basketball coach
Yuli Vorontsov (1929–2007), Russian and Soviet diplomat
Georgy Grechko (born 1931), cosmonaut
Viktor Korchnoi (born 1931), chess player
Yevgeny Ukhnalyov (born 1931), artist
Mark Ermler (1932–2002), conductor
Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012), science fiction author
Ilya Averbakh (1934–1986), film director
Ludvig Faddeev (born 1934), mathematician
Oleg Golovanov (born 1934), rower
Boris Spassky (born 1937), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)
Vitaly Efimov (born 1938), theoretical physicist
Alexander Ney (born 1939), artist, born in Leningrad
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian and American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)
Leon Petrosjan (born 1940), mathematician
Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematician
Andrej Hoteev (born 1946), pianist
Aleksandr Sokolov (born 1949), politician
Boris Palatnik (born 1950), professional sculptor

1951–1980

Alexander Belov (1951–1978), Soviet basketball player
Vladimir Kishkun (born 1951), athlete
Ilya Klebanov (born 1951), politician
Alexei Uchitel (born 1951), film director
Vitali Baganov (born 1952), actor of film and television
Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia, born in Leningrad
Evgenij Kozlov (born 1955), artist
Alexander Radvilovich (born 1955), composer, pianist and teacher
Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut
Valeri Broshin (1962–2009), professional football player and manager
Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990), musician
Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965), tenth Prime Minister of Russia and third President of Russia (2008–2012)
Alexander Khalifman (born 1966), chessmaster (FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999)
Grigori Perelman (born 1966), mathematician
Vitaly Pushnitsky (born 1967), artist
Victoria Haralabidou (born 1971), Greek-Russian actress
Konstantin Khabensky (born 1972), actor, born and raised in Saint Petersburg
Vladimir Volodenkov (born 1972), Olympic rower
Alexei Urmanov (born 1973), figure skater
Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), professional boxer
Vitaly Milonov (born 1974), Russian politician
Kseniya Rappoport (born 1974), Russian actress
Konstantin Sakaev (born 1974), chess player
Andrejs Mamikins (born 1976), Latvian politician and journalist and a Member of the European Parliament
Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), conductor
Diana Vishneva (born 1976), principal ballerina with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet
Yevgeniya Isakova (born 1978), hurdler
Marina Kislova (born 1978), sprinter
Ivan Urgant (born 1978), television personality, showman, actor and musician
Vyacheslav Malafeev (born 1979), footballer
Svetlana Abrosimova (born 1980), European champion basketball player
Elena Elbe (born 1980), French artist
Vladimir Karpets (born 1980), road bicycle racer
Ilona Korstin (born 1980), basketball forward
Margarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-American actress
Alexei Manziola (born 1980), swimmer
Yevgeny Sudbin (born 1980), concert pianist
Alexei Yagudin (born 1980), figure skater, born in Saint Petersburg, lived in US from 1998 but moved back to Saint Petersburg in 2006

1981–2000

Andrey Arshavin (born 1981), Russian footballer, Arsenal FC
Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), professional footballer
Mikhail Elgin (born 1981), professional tennis player
Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), member of political opposition
Sergei Slavnov (born 1982), pair skater
Konstantin Menshov (born 1983), figure skater
Julia Novikova (born 1983), coloratura soprano opera singer
Svetlana Bolshakova (born 1984), triple jumper
Igor Denisov (born 1984), association footballer
Daniil Konstantinov (born 1984), opposition politician, lawyer, human rights activist
Evgenia Obraztsova (born 1984), ballerina
Mikhail Ignatiev (born 1985), professional track and road bicycle racer
Aleksandra Kiryashova (born 1985), pole vaulter
Svetlana Kuznetsova (born 1985), tennis player
Maria Mukhortova (born 1985), pair skater
Nadezhda Skardino (born 1985), Belarusian biathlete
Ekaterina Yurlova (born 1985), biathlete
Vadim Bogdanov (born 1986), handball player
Timofey Mozgov (born 1986), professional basketball player
Anna Nazarova (born 1986), track and field athlete
Oksana Akinshina (born 1987), actress
Vladimir Garin (1987–2003), actor, born in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Enbert (born 1989), pair skater
Sergey Fesikov (born 1989), swimmer
Katarina Gerboldt (born 1989), figure skater
Anya Rozova (born 1989), America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 runner-up
Andriy Yarmolenko (born 1989), Ukrainian football winger
Anton Yelchin (born 1989), American-raised actor, born in Saint Petersburg, who left with his parents at the age of six months; best known for his role in Star Trek as Pavel Chekov, a character who is often implied to be from the city
Alena Leonova (born 1990), figure skater
Julia Vlassov (born 1990), Russian American figure skater
Alexander Majorov (born 1991), figure skater
Maxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmaster
Ksenia Makarova (born 1992), figure skater
Viktor Manakov (born 1992), professional racing cyclist
Alexey Romashov (born 1992), ski jumper
Ksenia Stolbova (born 1992), pair skater
Sergey Karasev (born 1993), professional basketball player
Anish Giri (born 1994), Russian-born Dutch chess prodigy and Grandmaster
Tatiana Nabieva (born 1994), gymnast, born in Saint Petersburg
Alexandra Stepanova (born 1995), ice dancer
Aleksei Gasilin (born 1996), professional football player

Date of birth unknown

Alice Edun, Gospel and Dance music singer; born in Saint Petersburg before moving to Nigeria at age five (Her mother is Russian, father is Nigerian)

Lived in Saint Petersburg

Domenico Trezzini (1670–1734), Swiss Italian architect
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), French astronomer and cartographer, lived in Saint Petersburg for 22 years
Harmen van Bol'es (1689–1764), royal master builder from 1713 to 1764. Designed the ship wind vane which is used as an emblem of Saint Petersburg.
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700–1771), architect
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian polymath, scientist and writer, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), national hero of Russia, Generalissimo of the Russian Empire, died in Saint Petersburg
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), lover of Catherine the Great, after the third Polish division became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), architect
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), Polish military leader, was imprisoned in Saint Petersburg
Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801), Italian opera composer, wrote two operas in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), poet and writer
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, freemason and diplomat, lived in Saint Petersburg for 14 years
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reign
Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painter
August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), German dramatist and writer, consul in Russia and Germany, from 1780 to 1783 in Saint Petersburg
Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826), writer and historian, died in Saint Petersburg
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), first U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg (6th President of the United States)
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German patriotic author and poet, in his function as the secretary of Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein
Vasily Stasov (1769–1848), architect
Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), admiral and explorer, led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
Yuri Lisyansky (1773–1837), explorer
Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist, worked there from 1804 until 1809
Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian architect
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), poet
Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), architect
Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Baltic German chemist and naturalist
Imam Shamil (1797–1871), Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), great Russian poet, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), poet
Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857), composer
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), created the memorable image of Saint Petersburg in his fiction
Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), literary critic, 1839–1848 in Saint Petersburg
Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), writer, died in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), writer and thinker
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), writer and poet
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), died in Saint Petersburg
Marius Petipa (1818–1910), worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
Sergey Levitsky (1819–1898), photographer, opened St. Petersburg's first photo studio, "Light Painting", on October 22, 1849
Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894), mathematician
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), lived in Saint Petersburg and died there
Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), poet
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), poet
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), writer, satirist
Carl Heinrich von Siemens (1829–1906), German entrepreneur, had lived there in 1853–1867
Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895), writer
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist and inventor, died in Saint Petersburg
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), went to school in Saint Petersburg
Nicholas of Japan (1836–1912), Russian Orthodox priest, monk, bishop, and saint
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), pianist, conductor and composer
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), composer, died in Saint Petersburg and is buried there
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, died in Saint Petersburg and is buried there
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), geographer, economist, activist, philologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, writer and prominent anarchist
Ilya Repin (1844–1930), painter
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), composer, worked primarily in Saint Petersburg
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846–1888), ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist
Anna Shabanova (1848–1932), one of the first women doctors in Russia and a women's rights activist; worked all her career at Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg
Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), physiologist, died in Leningrad
Opanas Slastion (1855–1933), studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg for several years before returning to Ukraine at the end of 19th century
Andrey Markov (1856–1922), mathematician
Alexander Makarov (1857–1919), Imperial Russian Politician, lived in Saint Petersburg 1857–1917
Alexander Popov (1859–1906), physicist, died in Saint Petersburg
Anton Arensky (1861–1906), composer
Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Romantic composer
Maud Gonne (1866–1953), made her debut in Saint Petersburg
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), Finnish military leader and statesman, 6th President of Finland, studied in Saint Petersburg
Emma Goldman (1869–1940), anarchist
Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916), was murdered in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), anarchist
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), philosopher, 1908–1922 in Saint Petersburg
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946), mayor after the revolution
Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957), writer
Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), painter
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935), painter and art theoretician, died in Leningrad
Andrei Bely (1880–1934), wrote the novel Petersburg
Alexander Grin (1880–1932), writer
Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), lawyer and major political leader before the Russian Revolutions of 1917 belonging to a moderate socialist party
Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), composer
Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), Baltic German philosopher
Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942), writer, 1928–1942 in Leningrad
Isaak Brodsky (1884–1939), painter
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), writer
Marc Chagall (1887–1985), studied in Saint Petersburg
Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), biologist
Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888–1982), Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology, studied in Saint Petersburg
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), spent most of her life and died in Leningrad
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), pioneer of aviation, 1903–1906, 1907–1909, 1912–1919
Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet, lived there from 1915 to 1918
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), biologist, 1924–1927 in Leningrad
George Gamow (1904–1968), physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics
Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), mathematician
Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), science fiction author
Eduard Khil (1934–2012), Soviet era singer, 1949–2012 in Leningrad/Saint Petersburg
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
Yuri Temirkanov (born 1938), conductor
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
Brian Eno (born 1948), lived briefly in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s
Valery Gergiev (born 1953), conductor
Rolandas Paksas (born 1956), Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004
Alexander Sizonenko (1959–2012), Russia's largest man, standing 7 feet 10 inches tall
Maxim Petrov (born 1965), doctor who killed 12 patients between 1998 and 2000
Ulyana Lopatkina (born 1973), principal ballerina with Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, resident of Saint Petersburg since 1984
Denis Ugarov (born 1975), professional football coach and a former player; made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1993 for FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), heavyweight mixed martial artist and Sambo fighter
Andrei Kirilenko (born 1981), NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg

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