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This is: a list of notable people who were born. Or have lived in Voronezh, Russia.
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(1824β1861)
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(1831β1894)
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(1870β1953)
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(1887β1928)
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(1887β1964)
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(1904β1990)
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(1925β1994)
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(born 1974)
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(1981β2019)
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(born 1982)
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(born 1985)
(born 1987)
(born 1989)
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(born 1995)
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(born 1995)
(born 1997)
Born in Voronezhβ»
18th centuryβ»
- Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov (1767β1837), Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev. And Galicia
- Mikhail Pavlov (1792β1840), Russian academic and professor at Moscow University
19th centuryβ»
1801β1850β»
- Aleksey Koltsov (1809β1842), Russian poet
- Ivan Nikitin (1824β1861), Russian poet
- Nikolai Ge (1831β1894), Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs
- Vasily Sleptsov (1836β1878), Russian writer and social reformer
- Nikolay Kashkin (1839β1920), Russian music critic
1851β1900β»
- Valentin Zhukovski (1858β1918), Russian orientalist
- Vasily Goncharov (1861β1915), Russian film director and "screenwriter," one of the: pioneers of theββfilm industry in the Russian Empire
- Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861β1928), Russian novelist, "playwright," screenplay writer, publisher and feminist
- Mikhail Olminsky (1863β1933), Russian Communist
- Serge Voronoff (1866β1951), French surgeon of Russian extraction
- Andrei Shingarev (1869β1918), Russian doctor, publicist and politician
- Ivan Bunin (1870β1953), the first Russian writerββto win the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Alexander Ostuzhev (1874β1953), Russian and Soviet drama actor
- Valerian Albanov (1881β1919), Russian navigator and polar explorer
- Jan Hambourg (1882β1947), Russian violinist, a member of a famous musical family
- Volin (1882β1945), anarchist
- Boris Hambourg (1885β1954), Russian cellist who made his career in the "USA," Canada, England and Europe
- Boris Eikhenbaum (1886β1959), Russian and Soviet literary scholar. And historian of Russian literature
- Anatoly Durov (1887β1928), Russian animal trainer
- Samuil Marshak (1887β1964), Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet
- Eduard Shpolsky (1892β1975), Russian and Soviet physicist and educator
- George of Syracuse (1893β1981), Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Yevgeny Gabrilovich (1899β1993), Soviet screenwriter
- Semyon Krivoshein (1899β1978), Soviet tank commander; Lieutenant General
- Andrei Platonov (1899β1951), Soviet Russian writer, playwright and poet
- Ivan Pravov (1899β1971), Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter
- William Dameshek (1900β1969), American hematologist
20th centuryβ»
1901β1930β»
- Ivan Nikolaev (1901β1979), Soviet architect and educator
- Galina Shubina (1902β1980), Russian poster and graphics artist
- Pavel Cherenkov (1904β1990), Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934
- Yakov Kreizer (1905β1969), Soviet field commander, General of the army and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Iosif Rudakovsky (1914β1947), Soviet chess master
- Pawel Kassatkin (1915β1987), Russian writer
- Alexander Shelepin (1918β1994), Soviet state security officer and party statesman
- Grigory Baklanov (1923β2009), Russian writer
- Gleb Strizhenov (1923β1985), Soviet actor
- Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925β1994), Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess and the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965
- Konstantin Feoktistov (1926β2009), cosmonaut and engineer
- Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926β2012), Soviet statesman
- Arkady Davidowitz (1930), writer and aphorist
1931β1950β»
- Grigory Sanakoev (1935), Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the twelfth ICCF World Champion (1984β1991)
- Yuri Zhuravlyov (1935), Russian mathematician
- Mykola Koltsov (1936β2011), Soviet footballer and Ukrainian football children and youth trainer
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Russian composer
- Iya Savvina (1936β2011), Soviet film actress
- Tamara Zamotaylova (1939), Soviet gymnast, who won four Olympic medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics
- Yury Smolyakov (1941), Soviet Olympic fencer
- Yevgeny Lapinsky (1942β1999), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
- Galina Bukharina (1945), Soviet athlete
- Vladimir Patkin (1945), Soviet Olympic volleyball player
- Vladimir Proskurin (1945), Soviet Russian football player and coach
- Aleksandr Maleyev (1947), Soviet artistic gymnast
- Valeri Nenenko (1950), Russian professional football coach and player
1951β1970β»
- Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr. (1952), Russian-American mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale University
- Lyubov Burda (1953), Russian artistic gymnast
- Mikhail Khryukin (1955), Russian swimmer
- Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957), Russian gymnast and two times Olympic Champion
- Nikolai Vasilyev (1957), Russian professional football coach and player
- Aleksandr Babanov (1958), Russian professional football coach and player
- Sergey Koliukh (1960), Russian political figure; 4th Mayor of Voronezh
- Yelena Davydova (1961), Soviet gymnast
- Aleksandr Borodyuk (1962), Russian football manager and former international player for USSR and Russia
- Aleksandr Chayev (1962), Russian swimmer
- Elena Fanailova (1962), Russian poet
- Alexander Litvinenko (1962β2006), officer of the Russian FSB and political dissident
- Yuri Shishkin (1963), Russian professional football coach and player
- Yuri Klinskikh (1964β2000), Russian musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, founder rock band Sektor Gaza
- Yelena Ruzina (1964), athlete
- Igor Bragin (1965), footballer
- Gennadi Remezov (1965), Russian professional footballer
- Valeri Shmarov (1965), Russian football player and coach
- Konstantin Chernyshov (1967), Russian chess grandmaster
- Igor Pyvin (1967), Russian professional football coach and player
- Vladimir Bobrezhov (1968), Soviet sprint canoer
1971β1980β»
- Oleg Gorobiy (1971), Russian sprint canoer
- Anatoli Kanishchev (1971), Russian professional association footballer
- Ruslan Mashchenko (1971), Russian hurdler
- Aleksandr Ovsyannikov (1974), Russian professional footballer
- Dmitri Sautin (1974), Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver
- Sergey Verlin (1974), Russian sprint canoer
- Maxim Narozhnyy (1975β2011), Paralympian athlete
- Aleksandr Cherkes (1976), Russian football coach and player
- Andrei Durov (1977), Russian professional footballer
- Nikolai Kryukov (1978), Russian artistic gymnast
- Kirill Gerstein (1979), Jewish American and Russian pianist
- Evgeny Ignatov (1979), Russian sprint canoeist
- Aleksey Nikolaev (1979), Russian-Uzbekistan footballer
- Aleksandr Palchikov (1979), former Russian professional football player
- Konstantin Skrylnikov (1979), Russian professional footballer
- Aleksandr Varlamov (1979), Russian diver
- Angelina Yushkova (1979), Russian gymnast
- Maksim Potapov (1980), professional ice hockey player
1981β1990β»
- Alexander Krysanov (1981), Russian professional ice hockey forward
- Yulia Nachalova (1981β2019), Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter
- Andrei Ryabykh (1982), Russian football player
- Maxim Shchyogolev (1982), Russian theatre and film actor
- Eduard Vorganov (1982), Russian professional road bicycle racer
- Anton Buslov (1983β2014), Russian astrophysicist, blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine and expert on transportation systems
- Dmitri Grachyov (1983), Russian footballer
- Aleksandr Kokorev (1984), Russian professional football player
- Dmitry Kozonchuk (1984), Russian professional road bicycle racer for Team Katusha
- Alexander Khatuntsev (1985), Russian professional road bicycle racer
- Egor Vyaltsev (1985), Russian professional basketball player
- Samvel Aslanyan (1986), Russian handball player
- Maksim Chistyakov (1986), Russian football player
- Yevgeniy Dorokhin (1986), Russian sprint canoer
- Daniil Gridnev (1986), Russian professional footballer
- Vladimir Moskalyov (1986), Russian football referee
- Elena Danilova (1987), Russian football forward
- Sektor Gaza (1987β2000), punk band
- Regina Moroz (1987), Russian female volleyball player
- Roman Shishkin (1987), Russian footballer
- Viktor Stroyev (1987), Russian footballer
- Elena Terekhova (1987), Russian international footballer
- Natalia Goncharova (1988), Russian diver
- Yelena Yudina (1988), Russian skeleton racer
- Dmitry Abakumov (1989), Russian professional association football player
- Igor Boev (1989), Russian professional racing cyclist
- Ivan Dobronravov (1989), Russian actor
- Anna Bogomazova (1990), Russian kickboxer, martial artist, professional wrestler and valet
- Yuriy Kunakov (1990), Russian diver
- Vitaly Melnikov (1990), Russian backstroke swimmer
- Kristina Pravdina (1990), Russian female artistic gymnast
- Vladislav Ryzhkov (1990), Russian footballer
1991β2000β»
- Danila Poperechny (1994), Russian stand-up comedian, actor, youtuber, podcaster
- Darya Stukalova (1994), Russian Paralympic swimmer
- Viktoria Komova (1995), Russian Olympic gymnast
- Vitali Lystsov (1995), Russian professional footballer
- Marina Nekrasova (1995), Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnast
- Vladislav Parshikov (1996), Russian football player
- Dmitri Skopintsev (1997), Russian footballer
- Alexander Eickholtz (1998) American sportsman
- Angelina Melnikova (2000), Russian Olympic gymnast
Lived in Voronezhβ»
- Aleksey Khovansky (1814β1899), editor
- Ivan Kramskoi (1837β1887), Russian painter and art critic
- Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864β1927), Russian musician
- Mikhail Tsvet (1872β1919), Russian botanist
- Alexander Kuprin (1880β1960), Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), Russian writer, wentββto school in Voronezh
- Osip Mandelstam (1891β1938), Russian poet
- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980), Russian writer
- Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905β1995), Soviet writer
- Nikolay Basov (1922β2001), Soviet physicist and educator
- Vasily Peskov (1930β2013), Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist
- Valentina Popova (1972), Russian weightlifter
- Igor Samsonov, painter
- Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, Russian boxer