# Famous Alumni

**Source**: https://english.spbu.ru/about/university-persons/famous-alumni
**Parent**: https://english.spbu.ru/about/university-persons

Throughout the rich history of the University, graduates have become the Nobel Prize laureates; ruled the country; headed ministries and departments; have become Olympic champions, poets, and discoverers.

## Among them are

### 9 Nobel Prize winners

#### Ivan Pavlov

Physiology and Medicine, 1904

#### Nikolay Semenov

Chemistry, 1956 (with Sir Cyril Hinshelwood)

#### Lev Landau

Physics, 1962

#### Alexander Prokhorov

Physics, 1964 (with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov)

#### Wassily Leontief

Economics, 1973

#### Leonid Kantorovich

Economics, 1975 (with Tjalling Charles Koopmans)

#### Ilya Mechnikov

Physiology and Medicine, 1908

#### Joseph Brodsky

Literature, 1987

#### Alexey Ekimov

Chemistry, 2023 (with Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus)

### World-renowned researchers

#### Mikhail Lomonosov

#### Dmitri Mendeleev

#### Andrey Beketov

#### Vasily Dokuchaev

#### Alexander Popov

#### Kliment Timiryazev

#### Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky

#### Vladimir Fock

#### Vasily Struve

#### Sergei Zhebelev

#### Nikolai Marr

#### Boris Piotrovsky

#### Mikhail Piotrovsky

#### Viktor Ambartsumian

#### Lyudmila Verbitskaya

#### Mikhail Kovalchuk

#### Vladimir Komarov

#### Nikolai Nikandrov

#### Grigori Perelman

#### Stanislav Smirnov

#### Dmitry Likhachev

#### Vladimir Vernadsky

### Figures in arts

#### Sergei Diaghilev

#### Igor Stravinsky

#### Boris Strugatsky

#### Alexandre Benois

#### Alexander Blok

#### Olga Bergholz

#### Nicholas Roerich

#### Diana Arbenina

#### Boris Grebenshchikov

#### Mikhail Vrubel

#### Vasily Polenov

#### Ivan Bilibin

#### Igor Grabar

#### Ivan Turgenev

#### Dmitry Merezhkovsky

#### Fyodor Abramov

#### Ayn Rand

### Athletes and Olympic champions

#### Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin

#### Tatiana Kazankina

#### Yuko Kavaguti

#### Anatoly Karpov

#### Boris Spassky

#### Gennadiy Shatkov

#### Natalia Kuchinskaya

#### Elvīra Ozoliņa

#### Andrey Krylov

#### Irina Levitina

#### Jüri Tarmak

### Figures in sports

#### Vyacheslav Sreznevsky

#### Georges Duperron

#### Ivan Lebedev

### Heads of the country

#### Vladimir Putin

[#### Dmitry Medvedev](https://t.me/medvedev_telegramE)

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#### Vladimir Lenin

#### Alexander Kerensky

#### Pyotr Stolypin

#### Boris Shturmer

#### Alexander Krivoshein

### Entrepreneurs and public figures

#### Igor Sechin

#### Konstantin Ernst

#### Boris Kovalchuk

#### Pavel Durov

#### Andrey Murov

#### Aleksei Feliksov

#### Dmitry Baikov

### Political figures

#### Alexander Bastrykin

#### Igor Artemyev

#### Andrei Fursenko

#### Anatoly Sobchak

#### Aleksandr Konovalov

#### Antanas Smetona

#### Viktor Evtukhov

#### Mikhail Amosov

#### Jean-Claude Gacosso

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