This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Saratov, Russia.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Vladimir Konkin (born 1951), Soviet and Russian cinema and theatre actor
• Sergei Shuvalov (1951–2021), Soviet and Russian politician
• Alexander Koreshkov (born 1952), Russian professional football coach and player
• Alexander Sukhanov (born 1952), Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician
• Lyubov Sliska (born 1953), Russian politician
• Marina Shimanskaya (born 1955), Russian actress
• Sergei Konyagin (born 1957), Russian mathematician
• Andrei Shevtsov (born 1961), Russian professional footballer
• Yuri Klyuchnikov (born 1963), Russian professional football referee and player
• Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964), Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music
• Vladimir Lazarev (born 1964), Russian and French chess Grandmaster
• Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian businessman, investor and politician
• Anatoli Fedotov (born 1966), Russian professional ice hockey player
• Yevgeny Mironov (born 1966), Russian film and stage actor
• Dmitry Chernyshenko (born 1968), Russian businessman and the President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Filipp Yankovsky (born 1968), Russian actor and film director
• Igor Meglinski (born 1968), British scientist

• Kseniya Kachalina (born 1971), Russian actress
• Inessa Korkmaz (born 1972), Russian female volleyball player
• Sergei Nikolayev (born 1972), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Yulia Timofeeva (born 1972), Russian former track and field sprinter and bobsledder
• Alexey Ashapatov (born 1973), Russian paralympian athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events
• Yuliya Levina (born 1973), Russian rower
• Alexei Yegorov (born 1976), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Zanna Proniadu (born 1978), Greek female volleyball player
• Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), Russian playwright
• Vadim Garin (born 1979), Russian professional football player

• Aleksei Ivanov (born 1981), Russian professional football player
• Denis Platonov (born 1981), Russian professional ice hockey centre
• Maxim Velikov (born 1982), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
• Sergei Monia (born 1983), Russian professional basketball player
• Anton Grebnev (born 1984), Russian professional football player
• Maxim Krivonozhkin (born 1984), Russian professional ice hockey forward
• Nikolai Bondarenko (born 1985), Russian politician and blogger
• Andrei Murnin (born 1985), Russian professional football player
• Jurgita Dronina (born 1986), Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer
• Katia Elizarova (born 1986), Russian model and actress
• Aleksey Ostapenko (born 1986), Russian volleyball player
• Vladimir Romanenko (born 1987), Russian professional football player
• Stanislav Romanov (born 1987), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
• Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987), Russian chess Grandmaster and former World number 15
• Kombinaciya (founded 1988), Russian female pop band
• Zedd (born 1989), Russian-German Grammy Award-winning musician, music producer and DJ
• Artyom Molodtsov (born 1990), Russian professional football player
• Fyodor Smolov (born 1990), Russian professional football player

• Alexandr Loginov (born 1992), Russian biathlete
• Valeria Solovyeva (born 1992), Russian tennis player
• Elvira T (born 1994), Russian singer and songwriter
• Artyom Timofeyev (born 1994), Russian professional football player

• Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), German Expressionist artist, critic, and courageous promoter of early 20th century avant-garde art. Killed in Saratov in a Soviet camp during Stalin's "Purges."
• Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin
• Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), Russian author and social critic
• Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French engineer and mathematician (prisoner of war)
• Nikolay Zinin (1812–1880), Russian organic chemist
• Alexey Bogolyubov (1824–1896), Russian landscape painter
• Lev Igorev (1821–1893), Russian portrait painter in the Academic style
• Ilya Salov (1834–1902), Russian writer, playwright and translator
• Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter
• Fyodor Schechtel (1859–1926), Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer, the most influential and prolific master of Russian Art Nouveau and late Russian Revival
• Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), 3rd Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911
• Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Imperial Russian operatic tenor
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939), Russian and Soviet painter and writer
• Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in a Saratov jail
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), Russian writer and playwright
• Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965
• Lidia Ruslanova (1900–1973), Russian folk singer
• Lev Kassil (1905–1970), Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life and war
• Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), Soviet aircraft designer
• Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Soviet and Russian composer
• Boris M. Schein (1938–2023), Russian-American mathematician
• Eduard Limonov (born 1943), Russian writer, poet, publicist and political dissident
• Oleg Yankovsky (1944–2009), Soviet Russian actor
• Valeriya (born 1968), Russian pop singer
• Anastasia Karpova (born 1984), Russian pop singer
• Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster
• Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian pop singer
• Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), Russian junior world champion and Olympic sabre fencer living in the United States

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