List of Famous people with last name Zhukovsky

Vasily Zhukovsky

First Name Vasily
Died on April 24, 1852

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Nikolay Zhukovsky

Николай Егорович Жуковский
First Name Nikolay
Born on January 5, 1847
Died on March 17, 1921 (aged 74)

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow. He is often called the Father of Russian Aviation.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.043745994567871s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.036383152008057s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.036314010620117s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.015151977539062s
t_/blocks/person-card: 2x 0.012960910797119s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.010500907897949s
router_page: 1x 0.0064370632171631s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.005497932434082s
headline: 2x 0.0032558441162109s
qids: 2x 0.0017380714416504s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00051593780517578s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00044107437133789s
head-facts: 1x 0.00040698051452637s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 3.2186508178711E-5s
related: 1x 5.9604644775391E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2025-07-23 23:11:07)  -----