This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Saratov, Russia.
Born in Saratov
19th century
1801–1850
Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864), conservative Russian literary historian and poet
Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880), German painter
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic and socialist Alexander Pypin (1833–1904), Russian literary historian, ethnographer, journalist and editor Firs Zhuravlev (1836–1901), Russian genre painter
1851–1900
Nikolai Grandkovsky (1864–1907), Russian Realist painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes Bina Abramowitz (1865 - 1953), Yiddish-language actress Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870–1905), Russian painter Pavel Kuznetsov (1878–1968), Russian painter and graphic artist Alexander Matveyev (1878–1960), Russian sculptor Alexei Rykov (1881–1938), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician; Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union Alexander Savinov (1881–1942), Russian and Soviet painter and art educator Anna Andreevna Kalmanovich (fl. 1893–1917), Russian feminist and activist Georgy Fedotov (1886–1951), Russian religious philosopher, historian, essayist, author of many books on Orthodox culture, regarded by some as a founder of Russian "theological culturology" Georgy Oppokov (1888–1938), Russian Bolshevik Rachel Bluwstein (1890–1931), Hebrew-language poet Isaak Zelensky (1890–1938), Russian politician; Secretary General of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), Russian novelist and literary functionary Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986), Russian Soviet physicist and chemist; awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation Stepan Kayukov (1898–1960), Soviet actor Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970), Soviet engineer, team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), Russian writer and educator
20th century
1901–1930
Alexander Bek (1903–1972), Soviet novelist and writer
Jerzy Pichelski (1903–1963), Polish film and theatre actor
Boris Babochkin (1904–1975), Soviet film and theatre actor and director
Viktor Wagner (1908–1981), Russian mathematician
Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911–1978), Soviet and Russian painter
Sweeney Schriner (1911–1990), Russian-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward Sergey Filippov (1912–1990), Soviet film and theatre actor Nikolai Minkh (1912–1982), Soviet composer, conductor and pianist Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), Soviet actor Michel Garder (1916–1993), French author and military man Alexander Obukhov (1918–1989), Russian physicist and applied mathematician Raisa Aronova (1920–1982), Russian Po-2 pilot in World War II Vladimir Vengerov (1920–1997), Soviet film director Jan Białostocki (1921–1988), Polish art historian Boris Balashov (1927–1974), Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR") Nikolai Krogius (born 1930), Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter, psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator and author
1931–1950
Joseph G. Hakobyan (born 1931), Russian scientist
Mikhail Shakhov (born 1931), Soviet wrestler
Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist
Oleg Tabakov (1935–2018), Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre Irma Raush (born 1938), Russian actress Yury Sharov (born 1939), Soviet fencer Yuri Simonov (born 1941), Russian conductor Boris Gromov (born 1943), prominent Russian military and political figure; Governor of Moscow Oblast from 2000 to 2012 Evgeny Rukhin (1943–1976), Russian Non-Conformist painter Lydia Mordkovitch (1944–2014), Russian violinist Vladimir Lantsberg (1948–2005), Russian poet, songwriter, bard and teacher Alexander Zemlianichenko (born 1950), Russian photojournalist