The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.
Alumni
Nobel laureates
Fields Medal Grigori Perelman Stanislav Smirnov
Academia
Government and politics
Literature and the arts
Johann Admoni - composer, pianist, teacher, and public person Alexander Blok - poet Joseph Brodsky - Russian and American poet and essayist; Nobel Prize winner Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian writer, politician and public benefactor Igor Chubais - philosopher, sociologist, and author Solomon Dodashvili - Georgian philosopher, grammarian, belletrist Ayn Rand - Russian-born American novelist and philosopherPage 54, Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand, Doubleday (1986), hardcover, 442 pages, Boris Grebenshchikov - founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium Yehuda L. Katzenelson - writer and doctor Alexander Kugel - theatre critic and editor Julian Henry Lowenfeld - American-Russian poet, playwright, trial lawyer, composer, and translator Salomon Mandelkern - poet and author Olga Ozarovskaya - folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, and an archivist of fairy tales Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian historian Nicholas Roerich - artist Lyubov Speranskaya - theater artist Maximilian Steinberg - composer of classical music Igor Stravinsky - composer Ivan Turgenev - writer
Science and mathematics
Other Alexander Alekhine - Russian-French fourth World Chess Champion Viktor Korchnoi - Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and chess writer Grigory Levenfish - chess player; 2x Soviet champion Vladas Petronaitis - Lithuanian patriot, soldier and martyr Józef Pluskowski - Polish poet and member of the Polish Resistance Yakov Rekhter - co-founder of BGP and MPLS networking protocols Gennadiy Shatkov - Olympic champion in boxing Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010) - Kazakh-born Soviet Olympic and world champion fencer Mahinda Balasuriya - 32nd Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police (IGP) (2009–2011).
Faculty only Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician and physicist Nikolai Gogol - Russian literature writer of Ukrainian origin; historian Rada Granovskaya - psychologist Ivan Sechenov - physiologist Zare Yusupova - philologist, Kurdish linguist Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian independence activist, writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi.
References
Alumni list of Saint-Petersburg University