List of Famous people born in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Vlasov is a Russian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana–Premier Tech. In October 2020, he was named in the startlists for the 2020 Giro d'Italia and the 2020 Vuelta a España.

Erik (Eero) Nikolai Järnefelt was a Finnish painter and art professor. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park. He was a medal winner at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 and 1900, and he taught art at the University of Helsinki and was chairman of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

Edvard Armas Järnefelt, was a Finnish conductor and composer, who achieved some minor success with his orchestral works Berceuse and Praeludium. He spent much of his conducting career at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Sweden.

Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work.

Count Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg I was a general in the Imperial Russian Army and a Russian government minister. The son of an oberst in the Swedish 'Svebelius' family, he took the name Adlerberg when he was ennobled in 1847.

Arvo Johannes Jantunen was a Finnish basketball player and coach who also played handball, football and pesäpallo at the national top-tier level. In basketball, Jantunen represented Tampereen Pyrintö that has retired his jersey. He also played for Finnish national team in three EuroBasket editions.

Count Frans David Alopaeus was an Imperial Russian diplomat. Born into the Finnish Alopaeus family, he followed his older brother Maximilian von Alopaeus into a diplomatic career. He was enrolled at the Military Academy in Stuttgart from 1781 to 1785. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. He was the Imperial Russian ambassador to Stockholm from 1803, and took part in the negotiations for the Peace of Fredrickshamn in 1809. He was granted a title of count along with the coat of arms in 1820 in Congress Poland for his negotiations on Congress Poland's borders with Kingdom of Prussia.

Johann IV of Osnabrück was a German nobleman and prince-bishop. From his father Johann VII's death in 1535 onwards he was known as Count (Graf) Johann VIII von Hoya zu Stolzenau. From 1553 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, then from 1566 Prince-Bishop of Münster and finally from 1568 administrator of the Bishopric of Paderborn.