List of Famous people born in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nikolai Alekseevich Pilyugin was Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems.

Georg Otto Hermann Struve was a German astronomer from the Struve family and the son of Hermann Struve.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Levichev is a Russian politician. Since February 24, 2016, he has been a member of Central Election Commission of Russia.

Sergei Nikolaevich Vernov was a Russian-Soviet physicist who pioneered the study of primary cosmic rays. He examined cosmic rays initially with high altitude balloons, then with ground observatories and then in space and found patterns in the distribution of ions in latitudinal belts and radiation belts at varying altitudes. Although he was the first to identify these radiation belts, they are better known in the Anglophone scientific world through the work of James van Allen and termed as Van Allen Radiation Belts.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters was a German astronomer. His key work was on studies of chronometers and the effect of temperature and humidity on their accuracy.

Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko was a Russian orientalist poet (acmeist) and translator. Shileyko family had roots in the Lithuanian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician. He was the chairman of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.