List of people from Saratov

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



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

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