List of personalities of the city of Odessa

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Coat of arms of the city of Odessa

The following list contains personalities who were born in Odessa as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Born in Odessa

Sergei Bernstein
Efim Geller
Maryna Sanewska
Sergei Utochkin
Isaac Babylon
Wera Inber
Leonid Ulyosov
Peter Weibel
Leonard Blavatnik
Mikhail Minkus

Until 1880

1881 to 1900

1901 to 1920

1921 to 1950

1951 to 1980

1981 to 2000

Year of birth not known

People with a relationship to the city

Alexander II
Alexander Brückner
Dmitri Mendeleev
Ilya Mechnikov
  • Alexander II (1818–1881), Tsar of Russia, visited Odessa in November 1855.
  • Osias Abrass , Chasan , cantor and composer , was from 1858 to 1884 chief cantor of the Israelite religious community at the Or Sameach synagogue in Odessa.
  • Alexander Brückner (1834–1896), Baltic German historian, taught from 1867 to 1872 in Odessa.
  • Ivan Boldin (1892-1965), Soviet general, was from 1939 to 1941 commander of the Odessa military district.
  • Oskar Becker (1839–1868), assassin on King Wilhelm of Prussia
  • Carl Woldemar Becker (1841–1901), father of Paula Modersohn-Becker , railway engineer and brother of Oskar Becker
  • Theodor Beutling (1898–1942), German politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag
  • Rimma Bondar (1937–2011), Soviet-Ukrainian ancient historian and university professor
  • Georgi Dobrowolski (1928–1971), Soviet cosmonaut
  • Georgi Florowski (1893–1979), Orthodox theologian of the 20th century
  • Wilhelm Flicke , specialist in cryptography in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht , writer
  • Franz Josef Grenzebach , trading entrepreneur and secret diplomat of the Russian tsar in the 19th century. Of German descent, born in Simferopol, mother came from the Russian aristocratic Romanow family . In Odessa center of life and seat of trading companies.
  • Nikolai Gikalo (1897–1938), Soviet revolutionary and politician
  • Waldemar Haffkine (1860–1930), bacteriologist, studied medicine in Odessa.
  • Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784–1863), German agronomist and Kamchatka researcher, died in Odessa.
  • Dmitri Klimow (1850–1917), Russian pianist and music teacher, teacher at the conservatory
  • Kyriak Kostandi (1852–1921), painter
  • Johann Kremenezky (1848–1934), industrialist and Zionist
  • Sara Lewina (1906–1976), Russian composer, studied piano in Odessa.
  • Rodion Malinowski (1898–1967), Soviet Defense Minister and Marshal of the Soviet Union
  • Alexander Marinesko (1913–1963), Soviet submarine commander of the S-13 in World War II
  • Pierre Mavrogordato (1870–1948), Greek archaeologist and collector of antiquities
  • Lew Mechlis (1889–1953), Soviet politician
  • Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, taught around 1855 at a grammar school in Odessa.
  • Ilya Metschnikow (1845–1916), Russian zoologist, anatomist, bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner, founded Russia's first bacteriological center in Odessa in 1886.
  • Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1766-1822), French statesman, was governor of Odessa from 1803 to 1814.
  • Leo Pinsker (1821–1891), pioneer of Zionism, died in Odessa.
  • Nikolai Pirogow (1810–1881), Russian surgeon and university professor
  • Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian writer, lived briefly in Odessa before 1824.
  • Svyatoslaw Richter (1915–1997), Russian pianist, lived in Odessa between 1916 and 1937 and worked there as a répétiteur at the opera.
  • Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), Russian general, founded Odessa.
  • Georgi Zhukov (1896–1974), Soviet general, was commander of the Odessa military district from 1946 to 1948.
  • Jacob Schapiro (1885–1942), stock market speculator and car dealer in Berlin in the 1920s
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim (1836–1917), Yiddish writer, died in Odessa.
  • Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), revolutionary, graduated from the German-Lutheran school in Odessa. In 1898 he was temporarily imprisoned here.
  • Andrei Wyschinski (1883–1954), Attorney General and Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
  • Mikhail Voronzow (1782-1856), Russian officer and politician, made a significant contribution to the development of Odessa, founded, among other things, a theater and library.
  • Sergei Witte (1849–1915), German-Baltic entrepreneur and Russian statesman, studied in Odessa and reformed the Russian railway system.
  • Wilhelm Withöft (1847–1904), Russian admiral
  • Mark Zak (* 1959), actor and author living in Germany, lived in Odessa until the mid-1970s

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography Pawlo Wirskyj on the website of the Baikowe Cemetery; accessed on December 22, 2016 (Russian)