List of Famous people born in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin from April 2000 to January 2005. He worked as a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC from 2006 to 2021.

Stas Baretsky is a Russian musician. He has worked with the groups Leningrad and EU.

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was the youngest child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II.

Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.

Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov is a Russian politician. He was Chairman of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, from 2001 to 2011. He leads the faction A Just Russia in the Parliament of Russia.

Vitali Anatolievich Konyayev is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of Russia (1998).

Viktor Yakovlevich Drobysh is a Russian composer and music producer, Honored Artist of Russia (2010).

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II.

Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a Soviet and Russian professional basketball player and coach. The father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.

Pavel Albertovich Lobkov is a Russian journalist, one of the main leading and reviewers of the television channel Dozhd. Previously, he was the host of the program Progress with Pavel Lobkov on the Petersburg – Channel 5 (2007–2008), the NTV television broadcaster and the program correspondent Itogi (1993–2001).