List of Famous people named Svetlana

Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina is a mathematician and human rights activist in Russia who was reported to have been a serious contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Metkina is a Russian actress from Moscow. She is known outside Russia for playing the Czechoslovak reporter Lenka Janáček in the 2006 film Bobby. She is known in Hollywood under the name Lana Litvak.

Svetlana Igorevna Kuritsyna, also known as Sveta from Ivanovo, is a Russian journalist and activist of pro-Putin youth movement "Nashi".

Svetlana Davidovna Kasyan is a Russian operatic soprano.

Svetlana Vasiliyevna Mironyuk is a Russian media executive, a graduate of Moscow State University. She was head and editor-in-chief of the RIA Novosti news agency, having been appointed chair of the board in 2003 and director general in 2004. She has overseen the organization's modernization. Before that, she was employed with the Media-Most holding owned by Vladimir Gusinsky.

Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko is a Soviet and Tajikistani astronomer of Ukrainian origin and discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Svetlana Sheveleva is a left-handed Russian fencer. She won the Russian women's sabre championship final in 2018.

Svetlana Petrovna Bakhmina was a middle-ranking legal executive for Yukos, the Russian oil company who was arrested and tried on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. On April 21, 2009 she was released from jail.

Svetlana Leontief Alpers is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing. She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among others.