List of people from Tambov

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

1701–1800

 * Alexander Bezobrazov (1783–1871), Russian statesman
 * Nikolay Gamalei (1795–1859), Russian statesman, Vitebsk governor, served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs

1801–1900

 * Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian jurist and political philosopher
 * Nikolai Fyodorov (1829–1903), Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism
 * Ivan Minayev (1840–1890), the first Russian Indologist
 * Constantin Fahlberg (1850–1910), Russian chemist
 * Nikita Galakhov (1864–1912), inventor of the elliptical springs for the railroad carriages
 * Vladimir Shchuko (1878–1939), Russian architect
 * Sophia Satina (1879-1975), Russian botanist
 * Nikolai Cholodny (1882–1953), Soviet influential microbiologist
 * Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964), Russian and Soviet military orchestra conductor, composer, and author of the well-known march "Farewell of Slavianka" (written 1912)
 * Maria Spiridonova (1884–1941), Russian socialist revolutionary
 * Alexey Selezniev (1888–1967), Russian chess master and chess composer
 * Vasili Vanin (1898–1951), Russian stage and film actor of the Soviet era
 * Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist

1901–1920

 * Zoia Gaidai (1902–1965), Soviet Ukrainian opera soprano
 * Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), Russian mathematician
 * Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian mathematician
 * Valentin Avrorin (1907–1977), Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
 * Ida Kar (1908–1974), photographer
 * Ivan Dzerzhinsky (1909–1978), Russian composer
 * Olga Ivinskaya (1912–1995), Russian poet and writer
 * Valery Zhelobinsky (1913–1946), Russian composer and pianist
 * Vladimir Svetilko (1915–1995), Russian lightweight weightlifter
 * Victor Merzhanov (1919–2012), Russian pianist
 * Pavel Bliznetsov (1913–1989), Russian Eastern Catholic priest and author

1921–1950

 * Vladimir Teplyakov (1925–2009), Russian experimental physicist
 * Victoria Barbă (1926–2020), Moldovan animated film director
 * Vladimir Bolotin (1926–2008), Russian Mechanical engineer
 * Vitaly Galkov (1939–1998), Soviet-born Russian sprint canoer
 * Aleksandr Dokhlyakov (born 1942), Soviet cyclist
 * Svetlana Babanina (born 1943), Soviet swimmer
 * Yury Chernavsky (born 1947), Russian producer, composer and songwriter
 * Oleg Betin (born 1950), Russian politician; governor of Tambov Oblast

1951–1980

 * Victor Krylov (born 1952), Russian-born British academic
 * Ludmila Engquist (Narozhilenko; born 1964), Soviet/Russian/Swedish athlete; champion sprinter
 * Svetlana Nageykina (born 1965), Soviet/Russian cross-country skier
 * Aleksandr Khalzov (born 1965), Russian professional footballer
 * Sergey Kuznetsov (born 1966), Russian professional football coach and a former player
 * Alexei Kovalev (born 1973), Russian football referee
 * Aleksandr Malin (born 1973), Russian professional football coach and a former player
 * Ruslan Sviridov (born 1973), Russian classical pianist, pedagogue
 * Aleksandr Kudryashov (born 1974), Russian professional footballer
 * Igor Neuchev (born 1974), Russian professional footballer
 * Kyrylo Pospyeyev (born 1975), Ukrainian former professional cyclist
 * Yekaterina Nesterenko (born 1976), Russian alpine skier
 * Vladislav Frolov (born 1980), Russian sprint athlete

1981–2000

 * Sergei Lebedkov (born 1981), Russian professional football player
 * Anastasia Rodionova (born 1982), Russian-born Australian professional tennis player
 * Aleksey Mikhalyov (born 1983), Russian professional football player
 * Yuri Zhirkov (born 1983), Russian footballer
 * Bella Igla (born 1985), Israeli female chess player
 * Viktor Tolstykh (born 1985), Russian professional football player
 * Arina Rodionova (born 1989), Russian-born Australian professional tennis player

1701–1800

 * Nikolai Arkharov (1742–1814), Russian statesman
 * Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868), Russian Neoclassical architect, took part in the reconstruction of Moscow after the War 1812
 * Paisi Kaysarov (1783–1844), Russian general who served during the Napoleonic Wars
 * Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844), Russian poet

1801–1850

 * Natalia Goncharova (1812–1863), A. S. Pushkin's wife. She was born in the village Karian-Zagryazhskoye of the Tambov province.
 * Andrei Karelin (1837–1906), Russian artist, photographer of the Academy of Arts
 * Alexander Lodygin (1847–1923), one of the founders of the electrothermy, author of almost 400 inventions including a tungsten filament lamp. He was born in the village of Stenshino of the Tambov province.
 * Flavian Flavitsky (1848–1917), Russian chemist
 * Yevgeny Lanceray (1848–1886), well-known Russian sculptor

1851–1900

 * Maksim Dmitriyev (1858–1948), Russian photographer
 * Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924), Russian botanist
 * Konstantin Igumnov (1873–1948), Russian pianist-virtuoso, professor of Moscow Conservatory
 * Anastasius (Gribanovsky) (1873–1965), hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and the second First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
 * Benjamin (Fedchenkov) (1880–1961), Bishop of the Russian Church, Orthodox missionary and writer
 * Lev Ilyin (1880–1942), Russian architect, in 1925–1938 the main architect of Leningrad
 * Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881–1963), Soviet painter
 * Nikolay Annenkov (Kokin) (1899–1999), patriarch of the Moscow Maly Theatre

1901–1937

 * Yevgeny Krinov (1906–1984), Soviet Russian astronomer and geologist
 * Igor Levkoev (1909–1978), Russian chemist-photographer
 * Alexei T. Sergeev (1919–1998), bass singer; one of the Alexandrov Ensemble soloists, People's Artist of the USSR
 * Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Soviet physicist and educator
 * Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979), Soviet Russian athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey
 * Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Sergei Filatov (1926–1997), Olympic equestrian champion
 * Ivan Kalita (1927–1996), Soviet equestrian and Olympic champion

1938–2000

 * Igor Uporov (born 1965), Russian advocate
 * Alexandr Potapov (born 1985), most popular designer and producer

Lived in Tambov

 * Matvei Bashkin (16th century), Russian boyar's son, the first martyr of the Russian Molokan faith
 * Roman Boborykin (17th century), Russian statesman
 * Feofil (Rayev) (1738–1811), Bishop of Tambov
 * Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), Russian poet
 * Michael Lunin (1787–1845), Russian political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist
 * Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), well-known Russian poet
 * Theophan the Recluse (Georgy Govorov; 1815–1894), Bishop of Tambov; saint in the Russian Orthodox Church
 * Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908), Russian poet, dramatist, essayist and literary critic
 * Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855–1935), plant breeder
 * Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov) (1868–1936), Russian and Soviet writer and public figure, a founder of socialist realism literature
 * Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky) (1877–1961), Doctor of Medicine and surgeon
 * David Burliuk (1882–1967), Russian poet and painter
 * Alexander Antonov (1888–1922), leader of the Tambov peasant revolt (1920–1921)
 * Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), Russian writer
 * Leonid Dyomin (1897–1973), Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor
 * Alexander Levshin (1899–1982), producer
 * Fiodor Dubovitsky (1907–1999), Doctor of Chemical Sciences, professor
 * Lev Dyomin (1926–1998), Russian cosmonaut
 * Yury Artyukhin (1930–1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer
 * Nikolay Bochkov (1931–2011), Russian scientist