Nadezhda Teffi 
Origin/Culture/Country: RussianNadezhda Teffi: was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is the pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya. Her birthday in various sources varies in the range 1871-1876. The most recent findings say that she was born in May 1872.
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Origin/Culture/Country: GermanNadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva: was the second wife of Joseph Stalin.Nadezhda was the daughter of revolutionary Sergei Alliluyev and his wife Olga, of German and Georgian ancestry. She first met Stalin as a child when her father, Sergei Alliluyev, sheltered him after one of his escapes from Siberian exile in 1911. After the revolution, Nadezhda worked as a confidential code clerk in Lenin's office. She eschewed fancy dress, make-up and other trappings that she felt un-befitting of a proper Bolshevik. The couple married in 1919, when Stalin was already a 41 year old widower and father of one son born to his first wife, who died of typhus years earlier. Nadezhda and Josef had two children together: Vasily, born in 1921, became a figher pilot (C.O. of 32 GIAP) at Stalingrad and Svetlana, their daughter, was born in 1926. According to her close friend, Polina Molotov, the marriage was strained, and the two constantly fought.
Nadezhda Tkachenko Origin/Culture/Country: SovietNadezhda Tkachenko: is a former pentathlete. She won an Olympic gold medal for the USSR in 1980. Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast.
Nadezhda Ilyina Origin/Culture/Country: SovietNadezhda Ilyina: is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.Ilyina trained at Dynamo in Moscow. She competed for Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Inta Klimovica, Lyudmila Aksenova and Natalya Sokolova.
