List of sons and daughters of the city of Rostov-on-Don

This is a list of famous people who were born in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don .

Sinaida Empire
(1894–1939)

Eva Rivas
(* 1987)

19th century

Jewgenija Gnessina (1871–1940), pianist, university teacher; Sister of Mikhail Gnessin
Jelena Gnessina (1874–1967), composer; Sister of Mikhail Gnessin
Marija Gnessina (1876–1918), pianist, university teacher; Sister of Mikhail Gnessin
Vladimir Newski (1876–1937), revolutionary, politician and historian
Jelisaweta Gnessina (1879–1953), violinist, university teacher; Sister of Mikhail Gnessin
Martiros Sarjan (1880–1972), Russian-Armenian painter
Olga Gnessina (1881–1963), pianist, university teacher; Sister of Mikhail Gnessin
Michail Gnessin (1883–1957), composer
Alexander Schapiro (1883-1946), anarcho-syndicalist
Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), psychoanalyst
Andrei Pashchenko (1885–1972), composer
Jan Spielrein (1887–1938), mathematician and university professor
Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish-French chess player
Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985), American composer, music teacher and conductor of Russian origin
Nina Niss-Goldman (1892–1990), sculptor
Jakow Frenkel (1894–1952), physicist
Sinaida Reich (1894–1939), actress
Alexander Minz (1895–1974), physicist and radio technician
Iwan Luppol (1896–1943), literary critic, philosopher and university professor
Wladimir Ryndsjun (1897–1953), writer in exile and film producer
Isabella Jurjewa (1899–2000), folk music singer
Alexander Herbstman (1900–1982), chess composer

Marion Gering (1901–1977), American film director, screenwriter and film producer of Russian descent
Boris Menschagin (1902–1984), lawyer and officer
Boris Schpitalny (1902–1972), weapons designer
Michail Tschailachjan (1902–1991), botanist
Georgi Petrussow (1903–1971), photographer
Yevgeny Brussilovsky (1905–1981), composer
Vera Panowa (1905–1973), writer and screenwriter
Alexander Schitomirski (1907–1993), graphic artist
Leonid Sedow (1907–1999), mathematician
Jelena Schirmann (1908–1942), poet
Ioannis Travlos (1908–1985), Greek architect and building researcher
Alexander Laktionow (1910–1972), painter
Emmanuil Yevserikhin (1911–1984), photojournalist
Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993), painter
Georgi Fljorow (1913–1990), nuclear physicist
Jewgeni Umnow (1913–1989), chess composer
Maria Sazarina (1914–1959), dancer and actress
Yevgeny Timakin (1916–2004), pianist and piano teacher
Gajane Chebotaryan (1918–1998), Armenian-Soviet composer, musicologist and teacher
Jewgeni Rosenblum (1919–2000), architect, designer and university professor
Ghasaros Sarjan (1920–1998), Armenian-Soviet composer

Isabella Baschmakowa (1921–2005), mathematician
Mark Stolberg (1922–1942), chess player
Daniil Chrabrowizki (1923–1980), screenwriter and film director
Wiktor Gluschkow (1923–1982), computer scientist
Leonid Schamkowitsch (1923–2005), chess player
Geworg Vardanyan (1924–2012), secret agent
Leonid Brumberg (1925-2010), pianist
Ewald Spielrain (1926–2009), physicist and university professor
Yuri Tretyakov (1931–2012), chemist and university professor
Juri Oganessian (* 1933), nuclear physicist
Wladislaw Terechow (* 1933), diplomat and from 1990 to 1997 ambassador of the USSR and Russia to Germany
Wladimir Minkin (* 1935), chemist
Isabella Arasowa (* 1936), composer
Wiktor Kogan (1936–2014), chemist
Wiktor Ponedelnik (* 1937), football player
Valentin Tschistjakow (* 1939), hurdler
Nikolai Jakovenko (1941-2006), wrestler
Viktor Kravchenko (* 1941), three jumper
Alexander Kaidanowski (1946–1995), actor
Lyudmila Karachkina (* 1948), astronomer

Irina Allegrowa (* 1952), pop singer
Nikolai Sorokin (1952–2013), actor, director, politician
Juri Baschmet (* 1953), violist and conductor
Konstantin Lawronenko (born 1961), actor
Natalja Shaposhnikova (* 1961), artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic champion in 1980
Yuri Koschelenko (* 1963), extreme mountaineer
Kirill Serebrennikow (* 1969), theater, opera and film director
Svetlana Goncharenko (* 1971), sprinter
Swetlana Boiko (* 1972), foil fencer, Olympic champion
Natalja Karimowa (* 1974), track cyclist
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (* 1974), chess player
Nikolai Spinjow (* 1974), rower
Igor Martschenko (* 1975), swimmer
Oxana Romenskaja (* 1976), handball player
Maxim Stawiski (* 1977), Bulgarian figure skater
Sergei Kudenzow (* 1978), racing cyclist
Sergei Davydov (* 1979), figure skater
Alexander Galkin (* 1979), grandmaster in chess
Andrei Moissejew (* 1979), modern pentathlete
Warteres Samurgaschew (* 1979), wrestler, Olympic champion ( 2000 ) and world champion ( 2002 )
Basta (* 1980), singer and rapper
Sergei Fedorovzew (* 1980), rower

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