# List of people from Saratov

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

## 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

* 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