Kaliningrad

: For other uses, see Kaliningrad (disambiguation) and Königsberg (disambiguation).

Famous people from Königsberg/Kaliningrad

• Christian Goldbach (1690-1764), mathematician
• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), philosopher
• Fanny Lewald (1811-1889), feminist and author
• Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822), author
• Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797-1884), physicist
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887), physicist
• Karl Rudolf König (1832-1901), physicist
• Otto Wallach (1847-1931), chemist
• David Hilbert (1862-1943, Wehlau), mathematician
• Erich von Drygalski (1865-1949), explorer
• Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951), physicist
• Agnes Miegel (1879-1964), author
• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political theorist
• Lea Rabin (1928-2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin
• Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
• An unusually large number of cosmonauts lived in Kaliningrad
• Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut (born 1934), first person to walk in space
• Viktor Patsayev (1933-1971), cosmonaut
• Yuri Romanenko (born 1971)
• Alexander Viktorenko (born 1947)
• Oleg Gazmanov, a popular Russian singer
• Lyudmila Putina (First Lady of Russia since December 31, 1999) was brought up in Kaliningrad
• Sergey Snegov, a science fiction writer