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

alphabetical list

• John Quincy Adams, first U.S. ambassador in St. 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
• George Balanchine, born in St. Petersburg in 1904
• Mikhail Baryshnikov, graduated from the Vaganova ballet school and worked in the Kirov Ballet
• Colonel-General Nicholas Bersarin appointed Soviet military commandant of Berlin in 1945. The Bersarinplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain was named in his honour.
• Elsa Brändström, born in St. Petersburg in 1888
• Andrey Bely, wrote the novel Petersburg
• Ludwig Berger (composer)
• Alexander Berkman
• Daniel Bernoulli, lived and worked in St. Petersburg
• Alexander Blok, born in St. Petersburg in 1880 and died there in 1921
• Joseph Brodsky, born in Leningrad in 1940
• Georg Cantor
• Domenico Cimarosa, wrote two operas in St. Petersburg
• Marc Chagall, studied in St. Petersburg
• Daniil Kharms
• Karl Ernst Claus
• Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, lived in St. Petersburg for 22 years
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, lived in St. Petersburg and died there in 1881
• Brian Eno lived briefly in St. Petersburg during the 1990s
• Leonhard Euler, worked in St. Petersburg and died there
• Erté, designer and illustrator
• Alexander Friedmann, mathematician and physicist
• Michel Fokine, born in St. Petersburg in 1880 and worked there
• Ilya Frank, physicist
• Alexander Glasunov , composer
• Gogol, created the memorable image of St. Petersburg in his fiction
• Maud Gonne, made her debut in St. Petersburg
• Sacha Guitry, born in St. Petersburg in 1885.
• Alexander Grechaninov
• Nicolai Hartmann
• Alexander Herzen
• Alexandra von Hessen-Darmstadt
• Mikhail Kalinin mayor after the revolution
• Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich economist
• Alexander Khalifman, chessmaster
• Alexander Kerensky
• Andrei Kirilenko, NBA player, grew up in St. Petersburg
• Alexandra Kollontai revolutionary, writer, and diplomat
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg
• August von Kotzebue from 1780-1783
• Peter Kropotkin
• Svetlana Kuznetsova
• Vladimir Lenin
• Yuri Lisyanski , explorer
• Mikhail Lomonosov, worked in St. Petersburg and died there in 1765
• Yuri Michailovich Lotman 1922-1993
• Joseph de Maistre, lived in St. Petersburg for 14 years
• Kazimir Malevich, died in Leningrad in 1935
• Armand Marseille , born 1856 in St. Petersburg
• Vladimir Mayakovsky lived there from 1915-1918
• Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, died in St. Petersburg in 1907
• Nicolai Miklouho-Maclay
• Modest Mussorgsky, died in St. Petersburg in 1881 and is buried there
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
• Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
• Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg in 1899
• Vaslav Nijinsky, lived and worked in St. 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 St. Petersburg
• Rolandas Paksas
• Ivan Pavlov, died in Leningrad in 1936
• Anna Pavlova, born in St. Petersburg in 1881
• Ekaterina Pawlowna queen of Württemberg
• Marius Petipa, worked for nearly 60 years in the Mariinsky Theatre
• Aleksandr Popov, died in St. Petersburg in 1906
• Aleksandr Pushkin, died following a duel in St. Petersburg in 1837
• Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad in 1952
• Imam Shamil
• Sergei Prokofiev studied since 1904 at the Petersburg Conservatorium
• Ayn Rand, born in St. Petersburg in 1905
• Grigory Rasputin, was murdered in St. Petersburg in 1916
• Ilya Repin
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, worked primarily in St. Petersburg
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern
• Alexandr Rodchenko, born in St. Petersburg 1891
• Pierre Rode, violinist, was working there from 1804 until 1809
• Nicholas Roerich painter and writer
• Heinrich Schliemann, was working as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg
• Taras Shevchenko, died in St. Petersburg in 1861
• Dmitry Shostakovich, born in St. Petersburg in 1905 and spent most of his life there
• Carl von Siemens had lived there from 1853-1867
• Vladimir Sollogub
• Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, lover of Catherine the Great, after the third polish devision became prisoner of her successor Paul I.
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein exile during Napoleon's reign
• Igor Stravinsky, born in a suburb of St Petersburg in 1882
• Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Alexander Suvorov, died in St. Petersburg in 1800
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, died in St. Petersburg in 1893 and is buried there
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, one of the founders of geochemistry
• Arcady Volodos pianist
• James McNeill Whistler, went to school in St. Petersburg
• Vladimir Zworykin, studied in St. Petersburg

Russian Czars

main article: List of Russian Czars

• Peter I (Peter the Great) (1721-1725)
• Catherine I (1725-1727)
• Peter II (1727-1730)
• Anne (1730-1740)
• Ivan VI (1740-1741)
• Elizabeth (1741-1762)
• Peter III (1762)
• Catherine II (Catherine the Great) (1762-1796)
• Paul (1796-1801)
• Alexander I (1801-1825)
• Nicholas I (1825-1855)
• Alexander II (1855-1881)
• Alexander III (1881-1894)
• Nicholas II (1894-1917)
• Grand Duke Michael (1917), refused to become emperor, see Tsar article

related articles

• St. Petersburg
• List of Russians
• List of Russian language poets
• List of famous Russians