# List of people from Penza

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Penza, Russia.

## Born in Penza
### 19th century
#### 1801–1900

* Aleksey Khovansky (1814–1899), publisher of the first Russian scientific linguistic journal Filologicheskie Zapiski
* Nikolay Ilminsky (1822–1891), Russian turkologist
* Pavel Maksutov (1825–1882), Imperial Russian Navy rear-admiral, prince, hero of Crimean War
* Ilya Salov (1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator
* Peter Hermann Stillmark, scientist, founder of lectinology
* Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940), Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer
* Nikolai Avksentiev (1878–1943), leading member of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party
* Peter Arshinov (1886–1939), acclaimed Russian Anarcho-Communist
* Ivan Mosjoukine (1889–1963), Russian silent film actor
* Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893–1953), Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
* Aleksandr Medvedkin (1900–1989), Soviet Russian film director
* Vladimir Stavsky (1900–1943), Soviet Russian writer, editor and literary administrator

### 20th century
#### 1901–1950

* Konstantin Badygin (1910–1984), Soviet naval officer, explorer, author and scientist
* Anna Andreyeva (1915–1997), Soviet track and field athlete
* Pyotr Dolgov (1920–1962), colonel in the Soviet Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union
* Victor Karpov (1928–1997), Russian diplomat
* Vladimir Grebennikov (1932–1992), Soviet ice hockey player
* Yuri Moiseev (1940–2005), Soviet ice hockey player
* Tatiana Dorofeeva (1948–2012), Russian linguist, orientalist and translator

#### 1951–1970

* Aleksandr Golikov (born 1952), Russian former ice hockey player
* Boris Sokolovsky (born 1953), Russian basketball coach and former player
* Vladimir Golikov (born 1954), Soviet ice hockey player
* Alexander Melentyev (1954–2015), Soviet competitive sport shooter who won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics
* Vasili Pervukhin (born 1956), Russian ice hockey player
* Alexander Kozhevnikov (born 1958), Soviet ice hockey player
* Aleksandr Geramisov (born 1959), Soviet ice hockey player
* Irina Kalinina (born 1959), Soviet diver and olympic champion
* Marat Kulakhmetov (born 1959), Major General of the Russian Army
* Sergei Svetlov (born 1961), Soviet ice hockey player
* Sergei Yashin (born 1962), Soviet ice hockey player
* Aleksey Vdovin (born 1963), Russian water polo player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
* Aleksandr Samokutyayev (born 1970), Russian cosmonaut

#### 1971–1980

* Yan Kaminsky (born 1971), Soviet ice hockey player
* Vladislav Bulin (born 1972), Russian ice hockey defenceman
* Yuliya Pakhalina (born 1977), Russian diver; won the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Yuri Babenko (born 1978), Russian professional ice hockey player
* Vitaly Atyushov (born 1979), Russian ice hockey defenceman
* Yuri Dobryshkin (born 1979), Russian ice hockey player
* Alexei Kosourov (born 1979), Russian professional ice hockey player
* Igor Lukashin (born 1979), Russian diver; won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Timur Rodriguez (born 1979), Russian showman, singer, TV and radio personality
* Pavel Volya (born 1979), Russian TV host, actor and singer
* Dimitri Altaryov (born 1980), Russian professional ice hockey winger
* Yevgeniya Bochkaryova (born 1980), Russian gymnast
* Natalya Sutyagina (born 1980), Russian butterfly swimmer

#### 1981–1990

* Andrei Kuzmin (born 1981), Russian ice hockey player
* Sergei Kuchmasov (born 1981), Belarusian springboard diver
* Viktor Burayev (born 1982), Russian race walker
* Dmitry Kokarev (born 1982), Russian chess player
* Alexei Medvedev (born 1982), Russian professional ice hockey forward
* Stanislav Zhmakin (born 1982), Russian ice hockey winger
* Yelena Dembo (born 1983), Greek chess player
* Sergei Ageyev (born 1984), Russian ice hockey goaltender
* Natalia Lavrova (1984–2010), Russian dual Olympic gold medalist
* Yevgeni Popov (born 1984), Russian cyclist
* Nadezhda Bazhina (born 1987), Russian diver
* Vladimir Galchenko (born 1987), Russian juggler
* Yekaterina Lisina (born 1987), Russian basketball player
* Oleg Vikulov (born 1987), Russian platform diver
* Roman Lyuduchin (born 1988), Russian professional ice hockey forward
* Sergei Andronov (born 1989), Russian professional ice hockey player
* Pavel Medvedev (born 1989), Russian professional ice hockey player
* Olga Galchenko (born 1990), Russian juggler

#### 1991–2000

* Denis Ablyazin (born 1992), Russian artistic gymnast
* Egor Kreed (born 1994), Russian rapper and singer-songwriter
* Anton Slepyshev (born 1994), Russian professional ice hockey player
* Aleksandr Kalyashin (born 1995), Russian football defender
* Ziyat Paigin (born 1995), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
* Maria Astashkina (born 1999), Russian swimmer
* Klim Kostin (born 1999), ice hockey player

## Lived in Penza

* Alexandr Aksakov (1832–1903), Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor, state official and psychic researcher
* Nikolai Ishutin (1840–1879), Russian utopian socialist; was raised in Penza
* Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943), Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation; studied art in the Penza art school
* Alexandr and Mariya Dmitriev, the couple who owns a pet cougar named Messi