List of people from Moscow

This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Moscow, Russia (or Soviet Union 1922–1991).

Born in Moscow 13th–17th century 1201–1700 Ivan I of Moscow (1288–1341), Prince of Moscow from 1325; and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1328 Vasily I of Moscow (1371–1425), Grand Prince of Moscow (1389–1425) Vasily II of Moscow (1415–1462), Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign (1425–1462) was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Russia (1462–1505). Basil Fool for Christ (1468–1552), Russian Orthodox saint Helena of Moscow (1476–1513), daughter of Ivan III the Great, Grand Prince of Moscow, and an uncrowned Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland as she would not convert from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism Vasili III of Russia (1479–1533), Grand Prince of Moscow (1505–1533) Vasili IV of Russia (ca.1552–1612), tsar of Russia, 1606 and 1610 Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553–1633), boyar and patriarch of Moscow Feodor I of Russia (1557–1598), last Rurikid tsar of Russia (1584–1598) Feodor II of Russia (1589–1605), tsar of Russia (1605) Alexis of Russia (1629–1676), tsar of Russia (1645–1676) Boris Sheremetev (1652–1719), diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657–1704), regent of Russia (1682–1689) Feodor III of Russia (1661–1682), tsar of all Russia (1676–1682) Ivan V of Russia (1666–1696), tsar of all Russia (1682–1696) Eudoxia Lopukhina (1669–1731), first wife of Peter I of Russia Peter the Great (1672–1725), tsar of All Russia (1682–1725), emperor of All Russia (1721–1725) Mikhail Golitsyn (1675–1730), field marshal Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691–1733), Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Tsar Ivan V, eldest sister of Empress Anna of Russia Laurentius Blumentrost (1692–1755), personal physician to the tsar, founder and first president of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693–1766), diplomat and chancellor Anna of Russia (1693–1740), Empress of Russia (1730–1740)

18th century 1701–1800 Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708–1728), Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp Elizabeth of Russia (1709–1762), Empress of Russia (1741–1762) Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777), poet and playwright Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), Count of Rymnik, Prince of Italy, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, national hero of Russia, generalissimo of the Russian Empire Denis Fonvizin (1745–1792), playwright of the Russian Enlightenment Alexander Kurakin (1752–1818), statesman and diplomat Grigory Ugryumov (1764–1823), portrait and history painter in the Classical style Andrey Melensky (1766–1833), Neoclassical architect Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838), botanist Alexey Venetsianov (1780–1847), painter Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857), mystic (with a salon in Paris) Sergey Uvarov (1786–1855), classical scholar, an influential imperial statesman under Nicholas I of Russia Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829), diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer Anton Delvig (1798–1831), poet and journalist Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), poet and the founder of modern Russian literature

19th century 1801–1850 Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860), theologian, philosopher and poet Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827), Romantic poet Alexandre Dubuque (1812–1898), pianist, composer and teacher Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), writer and thinker Evdokiya Rostopchina (1812–1858), one of the early Russian women poets Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), literary critic and memoirist Ivan Gagarin (1814–1882), Jesuit Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Romantic writer, poet and painter Mikhail Katkov (1818–1887), influential and conservative journalist La Païva (1819–1884), French courtesan Mikhail Dostoevsky (1820–1864), short-story writer, publisher, literary critic and the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher Arthur von Mohrenheim (1824–1906), diplomat Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827–1907), jurist, statesman, and adviser to three tsars Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), landscape painter Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), businessman, patron of art, collector, and philanthropist Andrei Famintsyn (1835–1918), botanist, public figure, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences Vasili Zinger (1836–1907), mathematician, botanist and philosopher Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915), painter Wilhelm Junker (1840–1892), explorer of Africa Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), geographer, non-fiction writer, revolutionary and philosopher Alexander Urusov (1843–1900), lawyer, literary critic, translator and philanthropist Mikhail Skobelev (1843–1882), heroic Russian general, conquered Central Asia Olga Fedchenko (1845–1921), botanist Vladimir Makovsky (1846–1920), painter, art collector and teacher Vsevolod Miller (1848–1913), philologist, folklorist, linguist, anthropologist and archaeologist Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), mathematician

1851–1900 Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata (1851–1923), ophthalmologist: Austria's first female doctor Lev Lopatin (1855–1920), philosopher Caran d'Ache (1858–1909), French satirist and political cartoonist Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), painter, architect and stage designer Aleksandr Golovin (1863–1930), artist and stage designer Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), poet, philosopher, translator, and literary critic Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter and art theorist Nikolai Kischner (1867–1935), chemist Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), German composer and self-described anti-modernist Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), composer and virtuoso pianist Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich (1870–1956), Imperial Russian and Soviet military commander, lieutenant general Catherine Bartho (1873–?), ballerina Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), politician, historian, writer and Old Bolshevik Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950), writer Semyon Frank (1877–1950), philosopher Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957), composer and pianist P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947), mathematician and esotericist Sofia Fedorova (1879–1963), ballerina Aleksei Goncharov (1879–1913), chess master Andrei Bely (1880–1934), novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), Israeli physicist and inventor Anna Abrikosova (1882–1936), prominent figure in the Russian Catholic Church Pavel Filonov (1883–1941), avant-garde painter, art theorist and poet Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary; prominent Soviet politician Yosef Sprinzak (1885–1959), Israeli politician, Zionist and the first Speaker of the Knesset Robert Falk (1886–1958), painter Vladimir Favorsky (1886–1964), graphic artist, woodcut illustrator, painter, muralist and teacher Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), botanist and geneticist Sonja Schlesin (1888–1956), Gandhi's secretary in South Africa Joseph N. Ermolieff (1889–1962), film producer Alexis Granowsky (1890–1937), theatre director Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), poet, novelist, and literary translator (laureate, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958) Robert Spiess (1891–1982), German tennis player Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), physicist Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), poet Konstantin Zel'in (1892–1983), historian Sergei Efron (1893–1941), poet, officer of the White Army; husband of poet Marina Tsvetaeva Vladimir Engelgardt (1894–1984), biochemist Arcady Boytler (1895–1965), producer, screenwriter and director Nikolai Grigoriev (1895–1938), chess player; composer of endgame studies Léonide Massine (1896–1979), choreographer and ballet dancer George Sachs (1896–1960), Russian-born German and American metallurgist Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993), monk, theologian and writer Viktor Lazarev (1897–1976), art critic and historian Lazar Berenzon (1898–1956), military commander M. Ageyev (1898–1973), novelist Leonid Leonov (1899–1994), novelist and playwright Georg Witt (1899–1973), Russian-born German film producer Mikhail Zharov (1899–1981), actor Nikolai Nekrasov (1900–1938), Esperanto writer, translator and critic

20th century 1901–1910 Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901–1957), constructivist poet Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), puppeteer Vladimir Fogel (1902–1929), silent-film actor Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), educator, memoirist, imprisoned dissident Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British-Russian chess player; the first Women's World Chess Championship Olga Menchik (1907–1944), Czech-British chess master Lev Oborin (1907–1974), pianist Alexander Golitzen (1908–2005), production designer Boris Leven (1908–1986), Russian-born Academy Award–winning art director and production designer Georgy Gause (1910–1986), biologist Evgeny Golubev (1910–1988), composer Vladimir Shcherbakov (1909–1985), Soviet scientist and politician

1911–1920 Gavriil Kachalin (1911–1995), football player and coach Alexey Lyapunov (1911–1973), mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science George Costakis (1913–1990), collector of Russian art Boris Carmi (1914–2002), Russian-born Israeli photographer Aleksander Gieysztor (1916–1999), Polish medievalist historian Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009), theoretical physicist, astrophysicist; Nobel laureate in physics Jørgen Hviid (1916–2001), Danish and Latvian sportsman and naval officer Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917–2005), Russian-born American developmental psychologist Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Polish-American economist and mathematician Tatiana Riabouchinska (1917–2000), Russian-American prima ballerina and teacher George Zoritch (1917–2009), dancer

1921–1930 Spartak Belyaev (1923–2017), theoretical physicist Aryeh Eliav (1921–2010), Israeli politician Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human-rights activist Kim Yaroshevskaya (1923–2025), Russian-born Canadian film, stage, and television actress Lidiya Alekseyeva (1924–2014), basketball coach Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress Yevgeny Lyadin (1926–2011), football manager and player Boris Uspensky (1927–2005), poster and graphics painter Gurgen Askaryan (1928–1997), Armenian physicist Vladimir Sokolov (1928–1998), zoologist, ecologist Sergei K. Godunov (1929–2023), mathematician Lev Gor'kov (1929–2016), Russian-American research physicist Nikolai Karpov (1929–2013), ice-hockey player Lyudmila Zykina (1929–2009), national folk singer of Russia Lev Yashin (1929–1990), football goalkeeper Viktor Frayonov (1930–2002), music theorist and teacher Lev Kuznetsov (1930–2015), fencer Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist

1931–1940 Lev Durov (1931–2015), theatre and film actor; a People's Artist of the USSR Nikolay Kamenskiy (1931–2017), Soviet ski jumper Alfred Kuchevsky (1931–2000), professional ice-hockey player Mark Midler (1931–2012), Olympic champion foil fencer Viktor Tsaryov (1931–2017), footballer Alla Gerber (born 1932), politician, journalist and film critic Yuri Izyumov (1932–2021), journalist and politician Yevgeni Urbansky (1932–1965), actor Yuri Druzhnikov (1933–2008), actor, photographer, editor, journalist and travel correspondent Nikolai Fadeyechev (1933–2020), dancer, People's Artist of the USSR Yelena Gorchakova (1933–2002), javelin thrower Stanislav Lyubshin (born 1933), actor and film director Boris Batanov (1934–2004), football player Georgy Garanian (1934–2010), jazz saxophone player, bandleader and composer Yuri Korolev (born 1934), ice-hockey administrator, coach and civil servant Yuri Ovchinnikov (1934–1988), bioorganic chemist Victor Brailovsky (born 1935), computer scientist, aliyah activist, former Israeli politician Anatoliy Sass (1935–2023), rower