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Svetlana Boyko
Svetlana Boyko (Светлана Анатольевна Бойко), Russian foil fencer born 1972 in Rostov-on-Don; four-time Olympian, 2008 Beijing team foil gold medalist, three-time world champion, later director of Rostov's Southern Regional Fencing Center. Not the powerlifter Svetlana Bochko.
Svetlana Chimrova
Svetlana Chimrova (Светлана Михайловна Чимрова), born 1996 in Moscow, Russian butterfly swimmer; two Olympics (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), European record 4x100 m medley relay 3:53.38, world and European championship medals.
Svetlana Dasic Kitic
Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (Светлана Дашић-Китић), known as Ceca, Bosnian handball center back born 1960 in Tuzla; Olympic gold 1984 and silver 1980 with Yugoslavia; IHF World Player of the Year 1988 and 2010 IHF vote winner as best female player ever.
Svetlana Efremova (Светлана Ефремова)
Svetlana Efremova (Светлана Ефремова, born 1970, Novosibirsk) is a Russian-born American actress and acting teacher. A LGITMiK and Yale School of Drama graduate, she played Rena Grushenka in White Oleander, Erica in Phone Booth, Zinaida Preobrazhenskaya in The Americans, and Irina Morozova in For All Mankind, and teaches the Meisner technique at California State University, Fullerton and HSE University.
Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Feofanova (Светлана Евгеньевна Феофанова, born 1980), Russian pole vaulter; two-time world champion, 2004 Olympic silver and 2008 bronze; set 4.85 m world indoor record in 2004, personal best 4.88 m.
Svetlana Grozdova
Svetlana Grozdova (Светлана Христофоровна Гроздова), Soviet gymnast born 1959 in Rostov-on-Don; 1976 Montreal Olympic team gold medalist, 1976 USSR all-around champion, later mixed pairs sports acrobatics world champion.
Svetlana Ishmuratova
Svetlana Ishmuratova (Светлана Ирековна Ишмуратова), born 1972 in Zlatoust, is a retired Russian biathlete, two-time 2006 Olympic champion (15 km individual, relay) and 2002 relay bronze medalist.
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, born 1966 in Kharkov, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian-born American mathematician who developed the first nonperturbative methods for small-denominator problems and solved the Aubry–André conjecture.
Svetlana Khodchenkova
Svetlana Khodchenkova (Светлана Ходченкова), Russian actress born 1983 in Moscow; debut in Bless the Woman (2003), Hollywood roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Wolverine, Golden Eagle for Dovlatov.
Svetlana Khorkina (Светлана Васильевна Хоркина)
Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina is a retired Russian artistic gymnast, born in 1979, who won seven Olympic and twenty World Championship medals and was twice Olympic champion on the uneven bars.
Svetlana Kolesnichenko
Svetlana Kolesnichenko (Светлана Колесниченко), born 1993 in Gatchina, Russian artistic swimmer; three Olympic golds (2016 team, 2020 duet and team), 16 world and 11 European titles; retired November 2025.
Svetlana Korytova
Svetlana Korytova (Светлана Вадимовна Корытова), born 1968, Russian volleyball player with Uralochka Yekaterinburg; Olympic gold 1988 with the Soviet Union, silver 1992 with the Unified Team, world champion 1990.
Svetlana Krivelyova
Svetlana Krivelyova (Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва), Russian shot putter born 1969 in Bryansk; 1992 Olympic champion for the Unified Team with a 21.06 m personal best and 2003 world champion, later disqualified from the 2004 Olympics for doping.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Светлана Александровна Кузнецова)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Светлана Александровна Кузнецова), Russian tennis player born 1985 in St. Petersburg; two-time Grand Slam champion (2004 US Open, 2009 Roland Garros), career-high No. 2, 18 singles titles.
Svetlana Masterkova
Svetlana Masterkova (Светлана Мастеркова), Russian middle-distance runner born 1968 in Achinsk; 1996 Olympic 800m and 1500m champion, 1999 world 1500m champion, and still holder of the 1000m world record 2:28.98.
Svetlana Medvedeva (Светлана Владимировна Медведева)
Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva (Светлана Владимировна Медведева, née Linnik), Russian public figure, wife of Dmitry Medvedev, First Lady 2008–2012, president of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives, sanctioned since 2023 by the US, Canada, EU, UK, and others.
Svetlana Mintova
Svetlana Mintova is a Bulgarian-born French chemist at CNRS in Caen who studies nanosized zeolites, won the Donald W. Breck Award in 2016, and led the International Zeolite Association from 2022 to 2025.
Svetlana Mojsov
Svetlana Mojsov, born 1947 in Skopje, is a Macedonian-born biochemist at Rockefeller University who identified GLP-1 as the incretin hormone stimulating insulin release, the basis of Ozempic and Wegovy.
Svetlana Mugoša-Antić
Svetlana Mugoša-Antić (Светлана Мугоша-Антић), born 1964 in Podgorica, Montenegrin handball pivot; Olympic gold 1984 and fourth 1988 with Yugoslavia, fifth 2000 with Austria; 153 plus 45 caps; World silver 1990 and bronze 1999.
Svetlana Nikishina
Svetlana Nikishina (Светлана Дмитриевна Никишина, married Kunysheva), born 1958, Soviet volleyball setter; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist with USSR and Uralochka Yekaterinburg.
Svetlana Podobedova
Svetlana Podobedova (Светлана Николаевна Подобедова), Kazakh weightlifter born 1986 in Russia, 75 kg class; 2012 Olympic champion (291 kg) later disqualified for stanozolol, two-time world champion and former world record holder.
Svetlana Savitskaya (Светлана Евгеньевна Савицкая)
Svetlana Savitskaya (Светлана Евгеньевна Савицкая), born 1948 in Moscow, is a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who was the second woman in space and first woman to perform a spacewalk.
Svetlana Styrkina
Svetlana Styrkina, born Svetlana Moszczenok in 1949, is a Soviet and Russian middle-distance runner who finished fifth in the 800 meters at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Svetlana Tsarukayeva
Svetlana Tsarukayeva (Светлана Касполатовна Царукаева), Russian weightlifter born 1987 in Vladikavkaz, 63 kg class; 2011 world champion and 117 kg snatch world record holder; 2012 Olympic silver stripped for turinabol.
Svetlana Tsirkova
Svetlana Tsirkova, born 1945, is an Estonian foil fencer who won women's team foil gold for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics.
Svetlana Ulmasova
Svetlana Ulmasova (Светлана Ульмасова, 1953–2009), Soviet Uzbek long-distance runner; 3000m world record holder 8:26.78 (1982), twice European 3000m champion (1978, 1982), 1979 World Cup winner.
Svetlana Varganova
Svetlana Anatolyevna Varganova (Светлана Анатольевна Варганова), Soviet breaststroke swimmer born 1964 in Leningrad: 1980 Olympic silver in the 200 m breaststroke, 1982 world champion, former 200 m breaststroke world record holder (2:31.09, 1979), later arrested in India in 2023.
Svetlana Zhurova
Svetlana Zhurova (Светлана Сергеевна Журова), born 1972, Russian speed skater; 2006 Olympic 500 m gold in Turin, 1996 world 500 m champion, 2006 world sprint champion; later United Russia State Duma deputy.
Svetozar Boroević
Svetozar Boroević, also Svetozar Borojević (1856–1920), was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal from Croatia who held the Isonzo front against Italian offensives from 1915 to 1917.
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský, born Svetozár Miloslav Hurban (1847–1916), was a Slovak writer, poet, critic, and politician, the leading figure of Slovak public life at the turn of the 20th century.