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).
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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
- Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754–1826), Russia's Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor
- 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
- Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), Swedish-German composer
- 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
1851–1860
- Walter W. Winans (1852–1920), American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter
- Nikolai Reitsenstein (1854–1916), career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy
- 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
- Emanuel Nobel (1859–1932), Swedish-Russian oil baron
- Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiral
- Victor Ewald (1860–1935), composer
- Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859-1938), actress
1861–1870
- Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and author
- Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932), Finnish judge and writer
- Feodor Levinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologist
- 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
- Vera Karelina (1870–1931), labour activist and revolutionary
1871–1880
- 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
- Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), Russian chemist
- Alexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poet
- Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg and worked there
1881–1890
- 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
- Ivan Abramovich Zalkind (1885–1928), Soviet diplomat
- 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
1891–1900
- Boris Morros (1891–1963), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films as well as supervising their music department
- 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
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976), prince regent of Yugoslavia
- Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist
- Vladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholar
- Sasha Stone (1895–1940), Russian born artist, photographer
- 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
- Eugène Vinaver (1899–1979), literary scholar
- Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, writer, historian, ethnographer
- Léon Motchane (1900–1990), French industrialist and mathematician
1901–1910
- 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
- Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
- Tamara Talbot Rice (1904–1993), Russian then English art historian
- Mischa Auer (1905-1967), actor
- Alexey Eisner (1905–1984), poet, translator and writer
- Natalia Gippius (1905–1994), artist
- 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
- Sofka Skipwith (1907–1994), Russian émigrée to England who became a well-known Communist after working for Laurence Olivier and being interned by the Nazis in France in World War II
- 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
- Boris Vildé (1908–1942), linguist and ethnographer
- Nina Anisimova (1909–1979), dancer and choreographer
- Anatole de Grunwald (1910–1967), Russian British film producer and screenwriter
- Barys Kit (1910–2018), rocket scientist
- Galina Ulanova (1910–1998), ballet dancer
1911–1920
- Yrjö von Grönhagen (1911–2003), Finnish nobleman and anthropologist
- Nikolay Novotelnov (1911–2006), chess International Master and author
- David Shoenberg (1911–2004), British physicist
- Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator
- Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), economist
- Valentina Khetagurova (1914–1992), founder of the Khetagourova movement
- Assia Noris (1912–1998), Russian-Italian film actress
- Adrian von Fölkersam (1914–1945), German Waffen-SS officer in World War II
- 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
- Galina Vishnevskaya (1926-2012), opera singer soprano
- Vladimir Kondrashin (1929–1999), basketball coach
- Yuli Vorontsov (1929–2007), Russian and Soviet diplomat
- Boris Parygin (1930-2012), russian philosopher, sociologist and social psychology
- 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
- Georgy Kovenchuk (1933-2015), artist and writer
- Ilya Averbakh (1934–1986), film director
- Ludvig Faddeev (1934-2017), mathematician
- Oleg Golovanov (born 1934), rower
- Tatiana Samoylova (1934–2014), actress
- Yuri Schmidt (1937–2013), human rights lawyer
- Boris Spassky (born 1937), chess grandmaster, the tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972)
- Vitaly Efimov (born 1938), theoretical physicist
- Boris Melnikov (born 1938), Soviet fencer, won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- 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
- Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010), Olympic and world champion fencer
- Yakov Eliashberg (born 1946), mathematician
- Andrej Hoteev (born 1946), pianist
- Aleksandr Sokolov (born 1949), politician
- Viktor Novozhilov (1950–1991), wrestler
1951–1960
- Alexander Belov (1951–1978), Soviet basketball player
- Vladimir Kishkun (born 1951), athlete
- Ilya Klebanov (born 1951), politician
- Dmitry Stukalov (born 1951), hurdler
- Alexei Uchitel (born 1951), film director
- Vitali Baganov (born 1952), actor of film and television
- Vladimir Putin (born 1952), a Russian politician serving as the current President of the Russian Federation since 7 May 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008
- Evgenij Kozlov (born 1955), artist
- Alexander Radvilovich (born 1955), composer, pianist and teacher
- Sergei Krikalev (born 1958), cosmonaut
1961–1970
- Igor Butman (born 1961), jazz saxophonist
- Valeri Broshin (1962–2009), professional football player and manager
- Peter Chernobrivets (born 1965), composer, musicologist
- Oleg Makarov (born 1962), pair skater
- 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
1971–1980
- 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 Pospelova (born 1979), European Indoor 400m champion
- 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
- Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (born 1980), Olympic gymnast
- Margarita Levieva (born 1980), Russian-American actress
- Alexei Manziola (born 1980), swimmer
- Elena Mirolioubova (born 1980), artist
- 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
1981–1990
- Natalya Antyukh (born 1981), Russian athlete
- Andrey Arshavin (born 1981), Russian footballer, Arsenal FC
- Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian professional footballer
- Olga Dmitrieva (born 1981), Russian professional triathlete
- Mikhail Elgin (born 1981), professional tennis player
- Andrei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey winger
- Kirill Safronov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), member of political opposition
- Sergei Slavnov (born 1982), pair skater
- Anastasia Fomina (born 1983), Russian basketball point guard
- 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
- Miron Fyodorov aka Oxxxymiron (born 1985), rapper
- 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
- Natalia Ziganshina (born 1985), former gymnast
- Evgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian professional basketball player
- 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
- Natalia Shliakhtenko (born 1987), professional triathlete
- Alexander Enbert (born 1989), pair skater
- Sergey Fesikov (born 1989), swimmer
- Katarina Gerboldt (born 1989), figure skater
- Nadezhda Grishaeva (born 1989), Russian professional basketball player
- Tatyana McFadden (born 1989), Russian-born United States Paralympian athlete
- Anya Rozova (born 1989), America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 runner-up
- Andriy Yarmolenko (born 1989), Ukrainian football winger
- Anton Yelchin (1989–2016), 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
- Ksenia Polikarpova (born 1990), Russian female badminton player
- Julia Vlassov (born 1990), Russian American figure skater
1991–2000
- Alexander Majorov (born 1991), figure skater
- Maxim Matlakov (born 1991), chess grandmaster
- Ilya Zakharov (born 1991), diver, Olympics gold medalist (2012)
- 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
- Ramil Sheydayev (born 1996), Russian-Azerbaijani professional footballer
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), Last elected King of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, lover of Catherine the Great, after the Third and final Partition of Poland became prisoner in St Petersburg (1795-98) of her son and 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
- Agustín de Betancourt (1754-1824), Spanish engineer urban planner of St. Petersburg
- Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), exile during Napoleon's reign
- Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814), architect and painter
- James Walker (c.1760-c.1823), mezzotint engraver invited to St. Petersburg by Catherine the Great and appointed as "Engraver to Her Imperial Majesty" for a duration of 20 years
- 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 Jerzy Czartoryski (1770-1861), Polish statesman, friend of tsars and Tsar Alexander's foreign minister and key in forming the Third Coalition against France
- Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), admiral and explorer, led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
- Yuri Lisyansky (1773–1837), explorer
- Joseph Saunders (1773-1845), noted English engraver who was for a time "Historical engraver to the Hermitage" under Paul I
- Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist, worked there from 1804 until 1809
- Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian architect
- Wladyslaw Grzegorz Branicki (1783-1843), Polish nobleman, landowner, Russian senator and army general
- 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), Marseille-born Ballet master who 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), writer lived in Saint Petersburg and died there
- Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), poet
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), archaeologist worked 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
- Feliks Sobański (1833-1913), Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist, held in Peter and Paul Fortress on sedition charges
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist and inventor, died in Saint Petersburg
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American painter, 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), Irish actress 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), Svengali of the last Tsarina murdered in Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), anarchist
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist took over the capital in 1917
- 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), painter who 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), Ballerino 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), Ballerino 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
- Nu-Nation nu-metal musical group
See also
- 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)
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