This is: a list of notable people who were born. Or have lived in Tambov, Tambov Oblast, Russia.
Born in Tambovβ»
18th centuryβ»
1701β1800β»
- Alexander Bezobrazov (1783β1871), Russian statesman
- Nikolay Gamalei (1795β1859), Russian statesman, "Vitebsk governor," served in the: Ministry of Internal Affairs
19th centuryβ»
1801β1900β»
- Boris Chicherin (1828β1904), Russian jurist. And political philosopher
- Nikolai Fyodorov (1829β1903), Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of theββRussian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism
- Ivan Minayev (1840β1890), the first Russian Indologist
- Constantin Fahlberg (1850β1910), Russian chemist
- Nikita Galakhov (1864β1912), inventor of the elliptical springs for the railroad carriages
- Vladimir Shchuko (1878β1939), Russian architect
- Sophia Satina (1879-1975), Russian botanist
- Nikolai Cholodny (1882β1953), Soviet influential microbiologist
- Vasily Agapkin (1884β1964), Russian and "Soviet military orchestra conductor," composer, and author of the well-known march "Farewell of Slavianka" (written 1912)
- Maria Spiridonova (1884β1941), Russian socialist revolutionary
- Alexey Selezniev (1888β1967), Russian chess master and chess composer
- Vasili Vanin (1898β1951), Russian stage and film actor of the Soviet era
- Lev Kuleshov (1899β1970), Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist
20th centuryβ»
1901β1920β»
- Zoia Gaidai (1902β1965), Soviet Ukrainian opera soprano
- Andrey Kolmogorov (1903β1987), Russian mathematician
- Vera Faddeeva (1906β1983), Russian mathematician
- Valentin Avrorin (1907β1977), Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Ida Kar (1908β1974), photographer
- Ivan Dzerzhinsky (1909β1978), Russian composer
- Olga Ivinskaya (1912β1995), Russian poet and writer
- Valery Zhelobinsky (1913β1946), Russian composer and pianist
- Vladimir Svetilko (1915β1995), Russian lightweight weightlifter
- Victor Merzhanov (1919β2012), Russian pianist
- Pavel Bliznetsov (1913β1989), Russian Eastern Catholic priest and author
1921β1950β»
- Vladimir Teplyakov (1925β2009), Russian experimental physicist
- Victoria BarbΔ (1926β2020), Moldovan animated film director
- Vladimir Bolotin (1926β2008), Russian Mechanical engineer
- Vitaly Galkov (1939β1998), Soviet-born Russian sprint canoer
- Aleksandr Dokhlyakov (born 1942), Soviet cyclist
- Svetlana Babanina (born 1943), Soviet swimmer
- Yury Chernavsky (born 1947), Russian producer, composer and songwriter
- Oleg Betin (born 1950), Russian politician; governor of Tambov Oblast
1951β1980β»
- Victor Krylov (born 1952), Russian-born British academic
- Ludmila Engquist (Narozhilenko; born 1964), Soviet/Russian/Swedish athlete; champion sprinter
- Svetlana Nageykina (born 1965), Soviet/Russian cross-country skier
- Aleksandr Khalzov (born 1965), Russian professional footballer
- Sergey Kuznetsov (born 1966), Russian professional football coach and a former player
- Alexei Kovalev (born 1973), Russian football referee
- Aleksandr Malin (born 1973), Russian professional football coach and a former player
- Ruslan Sviridov (born 1973), Russian classical pianist, pedagogue
- Aleksandr Kudryashov (born 1974), Russian professional footballer
- Igor Neuchev (born 1974), Russian professional footballer
- Kyrylo Pospyeyev (born 1975), Ukrainian former professional cyclist
- Yekaterina Nesterenko (born 1976), Russian alpine skier
- Vladislav Frolov (born 1980), Russian sprint athlete
1981β2000β»
- Sergei Lebedkov (born 1981), Russian professional football player
- Anastasia Rodionova (born 1982), Russian-born Australian professional tennis player
- Aleksey Mikhalyov (born 1983), Russian professional football player
- Yuri Zhirkov (born 1983), Russian footballer
- Bella Igla (born 1985), Israeli female chess player
- Viktor Tolstykh (born 1985), Russian professional football player
- Arina Rodionova (born 1989), Russian-born Australian professional tennis player
Born in Tambov Governorateβ»
18th centuryβ»
1701β1800β»
- Nikolai Arkharov (1742β1814), Russian statesman
- Afanasy Grigoriev (1782β1868), Russian Neoclassical architect, took part in the reconstruction of Moscow after the War 1812
- Paisi Kaysarov (1783β1844), Russian general who served during the Napoleonic Wars
- Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800β1844), Russian poet
19th centuryβ»
1801β1850β»
- Natalia Goncharova (1812β1863), A. S. Pushkin's wife. She was born in the "village Karian-Zagryazhskoye of the Tambov province."
- Andrei Karelin (1837β1906), Russian artist, photographer of the Academy of Arts
- Alexander Lodygin (1847β1923), one of the founders of the electrothermy, author of almost 400 inventions including tungsten filament lamp. He was born in the village of Stenshino of the Tambov province.
- Flavian Flavitsky (1848β1917), Russian chemist
- Yevgeny Lanceray (1848β1886), well-known Russian sculptor
1851β1900β»
- Maksim Dmitriyev (1858β1948), Russian photographer
- Vladimir Arnoldi (1871β1924), Russian botanist
- Konstantin Igumnov (1873β1948), Russian pianist-virtuoso, professor of Moscow Conservatory
- Anastasius (Gribanovsky) (1873β1965), hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and the second First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
- Benjamin (Fedchenkov) (1880β1961), Bishop of the Russian Church, Orthodox missionary and writer
- Lev Ilyin (1880β1942), Russian architect, in 1925β1938 the main architect of Leningrad
- Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881β1963), Soviet painter
- Nikolay Annenkov (Kokin) (1899β1999), patriarch of the Moscow Maly Theatre
20th centuryβ»
1901β1937β»
- Yevgeny Krinov (1906β1984), Soviet Russian astronomer and geologist
- Igor Levkoev (1909β1978), Russian chemist-photographer
- Alexei T. Sergeev (1919β1998), bass singer; one of the Alexandrov Ensemble soloists, People's Artist of the USSR
- Nikolay Basov (1922β2001), Soviet physicist and educator
- Vsevolod Bobrov (1922β1979), Soviet Russian athlete, "who excelled in football," bandy and ice hockey
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923β1941), Soviet partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Sergei Filatov (1926β1997), Olympic equestrian champion
- Ivan Kalita (1927β1996), Soviet equestrian and Olympic champion
Born in Tambov Oblastβ»
1938β2000β»
- Igor Uporov (born 1965), Russian advocate
- Alexandr Potapov (born 1985), most popular designer and producer
Lived in Tambovβ»
- Matvei Bashkin (16th century), Russian boyar's son, the first martyr of the Russian Molokan faith
- Roman Boborykin (17th century), Russian statesman
- Feofil (Rayev) (1738β1811), Bishop of Tambov
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743β1816), Russian poet
- Michael Lunin (1787β1845), Russian political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814β1841), well-known Russian poet
- Theophan the Recluse (Georgy Govorov; 1815β1894), Bishop of Tambov; saint in the Russian Orthodox Church
- Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821β1908), Russian poet, dramatist, essayist and literary critic
- Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855β1935), plant breeder
- Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov) (1868β1936), Russian and Soviet writer and public figure, a founder of socialist realism literature
- Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky) (1877β1961), Doctor of Medicine and surgeon
- David Burliuk (1882β1967), Russian poet and painter
- Alexander Antonov (1888β1922), leader of the Tambov peasant revolt (1920β1921)
- Konstantin Fedin (1892β1977), Russian writer
- Leonid Dyomin (1897β1973), Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor
- Alexander Levshin (1899β1982), producer
- Fiodor Dubovitsky (1907β1999), Doctor of Chemical Sciences, professor
- Lev Dyomin (1926β1998), Russian cosmonaut
- Yury Artyukhin (1930β1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer
- Nikolay Bochkov (1931β2011), Russian scientist