A famous bearer is Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948). Alexievich is a journalist and author from Belarus who is known for her investigative works like "Voices from Chernobyl", which documented oral histories of Chernobyl survivors, and "War's Unwomanly Face", which documented the lives of Soviet women during WWII. Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015.
Svetlana Afanasyevna Svetlichnaya is a Soviet and Russian actress most famous for her role in The Diamond Arm. She was born in the city of Leninakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union on May 15, 1940 to Afanasy Mikhailovich Svetlichnyi and Maria Feodorovna Zolotarёva. During World War II the family lived in the town of Kolomak in the Kharkiv Oblast, then moved to the city Okhtyrka in the Sumy Oblast. Her father was in the military, and the family followed her father to his place of service. They lived in Ukraine and Austria, and at the age of 10 Svetlana lived on the Baltic coast, in the city of Sovetsk in the Kaliningrad Oblast. When Svetlana graduated from high school, her mother sent her to Moscow by a train. There Svetlana went to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
Svetlana Ražnatović, known by her stage name Ceca is a Serbian turbo-folk singer, and one of the most popular singers in Serbia and the Balkans. She started her career as a folk singer in 1988.
Svetlana Zakharova, born in 1979, principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova, born in 1985, Russian professional tennis player.Svetlana Boguinskaia, born in 1973, World and Olympic champion gymnast.Svetlana Khorkina, born in 1979, World and European Champion gymnast.Svetlana Stević, singer of Serbian traditional music .
Josef Stalin's youngest child and only daughter, Svetlana Stalina, who defected to the United States in 1967. She now lives in a retirement home in Minnesota. I have always thought this name was very seductive and glamorous.