| J. J. Von Littrow | Moscow State University | ???? |
| Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman | Moscow State University | 1834 |
| Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev | University of St. Petersburg | 1849 |
| Andrei Andreevich Markov | University of St. Petersburg | 1884 |
| Jacob D. Tamarkin | University of St. Petersburg | 1917 |
| Nelson Dunford | Brown University | 1936 |
| Jacob T. Schwartz | Yale University | 1952 |
| Kurt Maly | New York University | 1973 |
| Michael L. Nelson | Old Dominion University | 2000 |
adapted from Dan Klain's page (formerly at: http://www.math.gatech.edu/~klain/lineage.html)