List of people from Saint Petersburg

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This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Saint Petersburg, if known.

• John Quincy Adams, first U.S. ambassador in Saint Petersburg
• Ella Adaïewsky, pianist and composer
• Anna Akhmatova, spent most of her life and died in Leningrad in 1966
• Nicholas Aladov, composer
• Anton Arensky
• Ernst Moritz Arndt in his function as the secretary of Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein
• Yuri Arnold, composer
• Boris Assavyev, composer
• Mily Balakirev, composer
• George Balanchine, born in Saint Petersburg in 1904
• Mikhail Baryshnikov, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Alexander Beliaev, writer, 1928-1942
• Vissarion Belinsky, literary critic, 1839-1848
• Nikolai Berdyaev, philosopher, 1908-1922
• Colonel-General Nicholas Berzarin appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945. The Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour.
• Elsa Brändström, born in Saint Petersburg in 1888
• Andrey Bely, wrote the novel Petersburg
• Ludwig Berger (composer)
• Alexander Berkman
• Daniel Bernoulli, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Blok, born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and died there in 1921
• Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist.
• Isaak Brodsky, painter
• Joseph Brodsky, born in Leningrad in 1940
• Georg Cantor
• Domenico Cimarosa, wrote two operas in Saint Petersburg
• Marc Chagall, studied in Saint Petersburg
• Pafnuty Chebyshev, math
• Karl Ernst Claus
• Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, lived in Saint Petersburg for 22 years
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, biologist, 1924-1927
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, lived in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1881
• 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)
• Brian Eno lived briefly in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s
• Leonhard Euler, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there
• Erté, designer and illustrator
• Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweller
• Ludvig Faddeev, mathematician
• Alexander Friedmann, mathematician and physicist
• Vladimir Fock, physicist
• Michel Fokine, born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and worked there
• Ilya Frank, physicist
• Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
• George Gamow, physicist, studied at University of Leningrad in 1923–1929
• Vladimir Garin, actor, born in Saint Petersburg in 1987
• Valery Gergiev, conductor
• Alexander Glazunov, composer
• Mikhail Glinka, composer
• Nikolai Gogol, created the memorable image of Saint Petersburg in his fiction
• Emma Goldman, anarchist
• Ivan Goncharov, writer, died in St.Petersburg
• Maud Gonne, made her debut in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Grechaninov
• Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
• Alexander Grin
• Sacha Guitry, born in Saint Petersburg in 1885.
• Lev Gumilev, historian
• Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
• Nicolai Hartmann
• Alexander Herzen
• Alexandra von Hessen-Darmstadt
• Mikhail Kalinin mayor after the revolution
• Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich economist
• Nikolay Karamzin , writer and historian, died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Kerensky
• Konstantin Khabensky, actor, born and raised in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Khalifman, chessmaster
• Daniil Kharms, writer and poet
• Andrei Kirilenko, NBA player, grew up in Saint Petersburg
• Yuri Knorozov linguist who made pivotal breakthrough in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics
• Alexandra Kollontai revolutionary, writer, and diplomat
• Viktor Korchnoi, chess player
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko, was imprisoned in Saint Petersburg
• August von Kotzebue from 1780-1783
• Sergei Krikalyov, cosmonaut
• Peter Kropotkin
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern
• Mathilde Kschessinska
• Boris Kustodiev, painter
• Svetlana Kuznetsova
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
• Vladimir Lenin
• Mikhail Lermontov, writer and poet
• Nikolai Leskov, writer
• Dmitry Likhachev, philologist
• Yuri Lisyanski, explorer
• Mikhail Lomonosov, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1765
• Yuri Lotman 1922-1993
• Joseph de Maistre, lived in Saint Petersburg for 14 years
• Kazimir Malevich, died in Leningrad in 1935
• Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, studied in Saint Petersburg
• Alexei Manziola, born in St. Petersberg in 1980
• Andrey Markov, mathematician
• Anna Marly, born in St. Petersberg in 1917
• Armand Marseille, born 1856 in Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Mayakovsky lived there from 1915-1918
• Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, died in Saint Petersburg in 1907
• Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist
• Auguste de Montferrand, architect
• Modest Mussorgsky, died in Saint Petersburg in 1881 and is buried there
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
• Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
• Vladimir Nabokov, writer, born in Saint Petersburg in 1899
• Nikolay Nekrasov, poet
• Alexander Ney, artist, born in Leningrad in 1939
• Vaslav Nijinsky, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolai of Japan
• Rudolf Nureyev, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Alfred Bernhard Nobel, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
• Rolandas Paksas
• Ivan Pavlov, died in Leningrad in 1936
• Anna Pavlova, born in Saint Petersburg in 1881, lived and performed in Russia
• Ekaterina Pawlowna queen of Württemberg
• Grigori Perelman, mathematician
• Marius Petipa, worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
• Aleksey Plescheev, poet
• Aleksandr Popov, died in Saint Petersburg in 1906
• Aleksandr Pushkin, died following a duel in Saint Petersburg in 1837
• Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad in 1952
• Imam Shamil
• Sergei Prokofiev studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
• Giacomo Quarenghi, architect
• Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer
• Alexander Radishchev, poet and writer
• Ayn Rand, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905
• Grigory Rasputin, was murdered in Saint Petersburg in 1916
• Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect
• Alexandre Remi, mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in St.Petersburg in 1807
• Aleksey Remizov, writer
• Ilya Repin, painter
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, worked primarily in Saint Petersburg
• Alexandr Rodchenko, born in Saint Petersburg 1891
• Pierre Rode, violinist, was working there from 1804 until 1809
• Nicholas Roerich, painter and writer
• Carlo Rossi (architect)
• Konstantin Sakaev, chess player
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, writer, satirist
• Heinrich Schliemann, was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
• Taras Shevchenko, died in Saint Petersburg in 1861
• Dmitry Shostakovich, born in Saint Petersburg in 1905 and spent most of his life there
• Carl von Siemens had lived there in 1853-1867
• Igor Sikorsky, pioneer of aviation, 1903-1906, 1907-1909, 1912-1919
• Alexander Sizonenko, Russia's largest man, standing 7 feet 10 inches tall.
• Anna Shabanova, (1848 -1932) One of the first women doctors in Russia and a women's rights activist. She worked all her career at Ol'denburg Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg.
• Opanas Slastion studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg for several years before returning to Ukraine at the end of XIX century
• Fyodor Sologub, poet and writer
• Vladimir Sollogub, writer
• Boris Spassky, born in Leningrad in 1937
• Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, lover of Catherine the Great, after the third Polish division became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
• Vasily Stasov, architect
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein exile during Napoleon's reign
• Igor Stravinsky, born in a suburb of Saint Petersburg in 1882
• Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Yevgeny Sudbin
• Alexander Suvorov, died in Saint Petersburg in 1800
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, died in Saint Petersburg in 1893 and is buried there
• Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
• Domenico Trezzini, architect
• Fyodor Tyutchev, poet
• Nikolai Vavilov, biologist
• Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, one of the founders of geochemistry
• Julia Vlassov, figure skater
• Ilya Volodarsky, founder of American help group Information Technology Club
• Andrey Voronikhin, architect and painter
• James McNeill Whistler, went to school in Saint Petersburg
• Alexei Yagudin, figure skater, born in Saint Petersburg, lived in US from 1998 but moved back to Saint Petersburg in 2006
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, writer
• Mikhail Zoshchenko, writer, satirist
• Vasily Zhukovsky, poet
• Vladimir Zworykin, studied in Saint Petersburg

[edit] Russian Czars

main article: List of Russian Czars

• Victoria Haralabidou (1972) Greek-Russian actress

[edit] See also

• Saint Petersburg
• List of Russians
• List of Russian language poets
• List of famous Russians
• Ves Petersburg (a series of directories of residents and streets in Saint Petersburg)