List of Saint Petersburg State University people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

Fields medal

• Grigori Perelman
• Stanislav Smirnov

Academia

Government and politics

Literature and the arts

• Johann Admoni - composer, pianist, teacher, and public person
• Alexander Blok - poet
• Joseph Brodsky - Russian and American poet and essayist; Nobel Prize winner
• Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian writer, politician and public benefactor
• Igor Chubais - philosopher, sociologist, and author
• Solomon Dodashvili - Georgian philosopher, grammarian, belletrist
• Ayn Rand - Russian-born American novelist and philosopher
• Boris Grebenshchikov - founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium
• Yehuda L. Katzenelson - writer and doctor
• Alexander Kugel - theatre critic and editor
• Julian Henry Lowenfeld - American-Russian poet, playwright, trial lawyer, composer, and translator
• Salomon Mandelkern - poet and author
• Olga Ozarovskaya - folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, and an archivist of fairy tales
• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian historian
• Nicholas Roerich - artist
• Lyubov Speranskaya - theater artist
• Maximilian Steinberg - composer of classical music
• Igor Stravinsky - composer
• Ivan Turgenev - writer

Science and mathematics

Other

• Alexander Alekhine - Russian-French fourth World Chess Champion
• Viktor Korchnoi - Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and chess writer
• Grigory Levenfish - chess player; 2x Soviet champion
• Vladas Petronaitis - Lithuanian patriot, soldier and martyr
• Józef Pluskowski - Polish poet and member of the Polish Resistance
• Yakov Rekhter - co-founder of BGP and MPLS networking protocols
• Gennadiy Shatkov - Olympic champion in boxing
• Eduard Vinokurov (1942–2010) - Kazakh-born Soviet Olympic and world champion fencer
• Mahinda Balasuriya - 32nd Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police (IGP) (2009–2011).

Faculty only

• Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician and physicist
• Nikolai Gogol - Russian literature writer of Ukrainian origin; historian
• Rada Granovskaya - psychologist
• Ivan Sechenov - physiologist
• Zare Yusupova - philologist, Kurdish linguist
• Rahul Sankrityayan - Indian independence activist, writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi.

References

• Alumni list of Saint-Petersburg University