List of people from Saratov
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This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Saratov, Russia.
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(1828–1889)
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(1833–1904)
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(1864–1907)
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(1881–1938)
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(1904–1975)
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(1935–2018)
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(born 1943)
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(born 1966)
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(born 1966)
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(born 1973)
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(born 1978)
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(born 1986)
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(born 1990)
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(born 1994)
Born in Saratov
19th century
1801–1850
- Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864), conservative Russian literary historian and poet
- Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880), German painter
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic and socialist
- Alexander Pypin (1833–1904), Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor
- Firs Zhuravlev (1836–1901), Russian genre painter
1851–1900
- Nikolai Grandkovsky (1864–1907), Russian Realist painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes
- Bina Abramowitz (1865 - 1953), Yiddish-language actress
- Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870–1905), Russian painter
- Pavel Kuznetsov (1878–1968), Russian painter and graphic artist
- Alexander Matveyev (1878–1960), Russian sculptor
- Alexei Rykov (1881–1938), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician; Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Alexander Savinov (1881–1942), Russian and Soviet painter and art educator
- Anna Andreevna Kalmanovich (fl. 1893–1917), Russian feminist and activist
- Georgy Fedotov (1886–1951), Russian religious philosopher, historian, essayist, author of many books on Orthodox culture, regarded by some as a founder of Russian "theological culturology"
- Georgy Oppokov (1888–1938), Russian Bolshevik
- Rachel Bluwstein (1890–1931), Hebrew-language poet
- Isaak Zelensky (1890–1938), Russian politician; Secretary General of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
- Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), Russian novelist and literary functionary
- Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986), Russian Soviet physicist and chemist; awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation
- Stepan Kayukov (1898–1960), Soviet actor
- Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970), Soviet engineer, team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft
- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), Russian writer and educator
20th century
1901–1930
- Alexander Bek (1903–1972), Soviet novelist and writer
- Jerzy Pichelski (1903–1963), Polish film and theatre actor
- Boris Babochkin (1904–1975), Soviet film and theatre actor and director
- Viktor Wagner (1908–1981), Russian mathematician
- Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911–1978), Soviet and Russian painter
- Sweeney Schriner (1911–1990), Russian-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward
- Sergey Filippov (1912–1990), Soviet film and theatre actor
- Nikolai Minkh (1912–1982), Soviet composer, conductor and pianist
- Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), Soviet actor
- Michel Garder (1916–1993), French author and military man
- Alexander Obukhov (1918–1989), Russian physicist and applied mathematician
- Raisa Aronova (1920–1982), Russian Po-2 pilot in World War II
- Vladimir Vengerov (1920–1997), Soviet film director
- Jan Białostocki (1921–1988), Polish art historian
- Boris Balashov (1927–1974), Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR")
- Nikolai Krogius (born 1930), Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter, psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator and author
1931–1950
- Joseph G. Hakobyan (born 1931), Russian scientist
- Mikhail Shakhov (born 1931), Soviet wrestler
- Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist
- Oleg Tabakov (1935–2018), Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre
- Irma Raush (born 1938), Russian actress
- Yury Sharov (born 1939), Soviet fencer
- Yuri Simonov (born 1941), Russian conductor
- Boris Gromov (born 1943), prominent Russian military and political figure; Governor of Moscow Oblast from 2000 to 2012
- Evgeny Rukhin (1943–1976), Russian Non-Conformist painter
- Lydia Mordkovitch (1944–2014), Russian violinist
- Vladimir Lantsberg (1948–2005), Russian poet, songwriter, bard and teacher
- Alexander Zemlianichenko (born 1950), Russian photojournalist
1951–1970
- Vladimir Konkin (born 1951), Soviet and Russian cinema and theatre actor
- Sergei Shuvalov (1951–2021), Soviet and Russian politician
- Alexander Koreshkov (born 1952), Russian professional football coach and player
- Alexander Sukhanov (born 1952), Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician
- Lyubov Sliska (born 1953), Russian politician
- Marina Shimanskaya (born 1955), Russian actress
- Sergei Konyagin (born 1957), Russian mathematician
- Andrei Shevtsov (born 1961), Russian professional footballer
- Yuri Klyuchnikov (born 1963), Russian professional football referee and player
- Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964), Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music
- Vladimir Lazarev (born 1964), Russian and French chess Grandmaster
- Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian businessman, investor and politician
- Anatoli Fedotov (born 1966), Russian professional ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Mironov (born 1966), Russian film and stage actor
- Dmitry Chernyshenko (born 1968), Russian businessman and the President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Filipp Yankovsky (born 1968), Russian actor and film director
- Igor Meglinski (born 1968), British scientist
1971–1980
- Kseniya Kachalina (born 1971), Russian actress
- Inessa Korkmaz (born 1972), Russian female volleyball player
- Sergei Nikolayev (born 1972), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Yulia Timofeeva (born 1972), Russian former track and field sprinter and bobsledder
- Alexey Ashapatov (born 1973), Russian paralympian athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events
- Yuliya Levina (born 1973), Russian rower
- Alexei Yegorov (born 1976), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Zanna Proniadu (born 1978), Greek female volleyball player
- Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), Russian playwright
- Vadim Garin (born 1979), Russian professional football player
1981–1990
- Aleksei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional football player
- Denis Platonov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey centre
- Maxim Velikov (born 1982), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Sergei Monia (born 1983), Russian professional basketball player
- Anton Grebnev (born 1984), Russian professional football player
- Maxim Krivonozhkin (born 1984), Russian professional ice hockey forward
- Nikolai Bondarenko (born 1985), Russian politician and blogger
- Andrei Murnin (born 1985), Russian professional football player
- Jurgita Dronina (born 1986), Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer
- Katia Elizarova (born 1986), Russian model and actress
- Aleksey Ostapenko (born 1986), Russian volleyball player
- Vladimir Romanenko (born 1987), Russian professional football player
- Stanislav Romanov (born 1987), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987), Russian chess Grandmaster and former World number 15
- Kombinaciya (founded 1988), Russian female pop band
- Zedd (born 1989), Russian-German Grammy Award-winning musician, music producer and DJ
- Artyom Molodtsov (born 1990), Russian professional football player
- Fyodor Smolov (born 1990), Russian professional football player
1991–2000
- Alexandr Loginov (born 1992), Russian biathlete
- Valeria Solovyeva (born 1992), Russian tennis player
- Elvira T (born 1994), Russian singer and songwriter
- Artyom Timofeyev (born 1994), Russian professional football player
Lived in Saratov
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(born 1984)
- Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), German Expressionist artist, critic, and courageous promoter of early 20th century avant-garde art. Killed in Saratov in a Soviet camp during Stalin's "Purges."
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin
- Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), Russian author and social critic
- Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French engineer and mathematician (prisoner of war)
- Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), Russian organic chemist
- Alexey Bogolyubov (1824–1896), Russian landscape painter
- Lev Igorev (1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style
- Ilya Salov (1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator
- Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter
- Fyodor Schechtel (1859–1926), Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival
- Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), 3rd Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911
- Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Imperial Russian operatic tenor
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian and Soviet painter and writer
- Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in a Saratov jail
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright
- Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965
- Lidia Ruslanova (1900–1973), Russian folk singer
- Lev Kassil (1905–1970), Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life and war
- Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), Soviet aircraft designer
- Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Soviet and Russian composer
- Boris M. Schein (1938–2023), Russian-American mathematician
- Eduard Limonov (born 1943), Russian writer, poet, publicist and political dissident
- Oleg Yankovsky (1944–2009), Soviet Russian actor
- Valeriya (born 1968), Russian pop singer
- Anastasia Karpova (born 1984), Russian pop singer
- Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster
- Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian pop singer
- Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), Russian junior world champion and Olympic sabre fencer living in the United States
See also
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