Nadezhda (given name)
Nadezhda or Nadežda is a Slavic female given name popular in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and other Slavic countries, as well as other former Soviet states such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan etc. It means "hope". A Russian-language diminutive form of this name is Nadia. The Belarusian version is Nadzeya, the Ukrainian version is Nadiya, the Serbo-Croatian version is Nada, and the Czech version is Naděžda.- Nadezhda Neynsky,, MEP since 2009, Bulgarian foreign minister 1997–2001, also leader of the Union of Democratic Forces from 2002 to 2005
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian Marxist revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin
- Nadezhda Joffe, Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of Soviet leader Adolph Joffe
- Nadezhda Sigida, Russian revolutionary and central figure of the Kara katorga tragedy
- Nadezhda Bondarenko, Transnistrian politician and presidential candidate in the 2006 election
- Nadezhda Vasilyeva, one of several women claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- Nadezhda Tylik, a Kursk sailor's mother who was forcibly sedated on an internationally distributed news clip
- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, political activist and artist, nicknamed Nadya Tolokno ; member of the feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot
- Nadezhda Chaikova, Russian correspondent known for exposés of Russian military atrocities and close contacts with the Chechen rebels
Sports
- Nadezhda Chizhova, Olympic gold, silver and bronze medal-winning Soviet shot putter
- Nadezhda Belonenko, Soviet-Russian tennis player
- Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet sprinter
- Nadezhda Frolenkova, Ukrainian ice dancer
- Nadezhda Gumerova, Kazakhstani long-distance runner
- Nadezhda Ilyina, Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet sprinter
- Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet track and field athlete
- Nadezhda Kosintseva, Russian chess player
- Nadezhda Konyayeva, Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet javelin thrower
- Nadezhda Mushta, Olympic gold and bronze medal-winning Soviet middle distance runner
- Nadezhda Ralldugina, Soviet middle distance runner
- Nadezhda Stepanova, Russian long-distance runner
- Nadezhda Torlopova, Olympic silver medal-winning Russian boxer
- Nadezhda Vinogradova, Soviet heptathlete
- Nadezhda Wijenberg, Russian-born long-distance runner who represented the Netherlands at the Sydney Olympics in 2000
- Nadezhda Yakubovich, Soviet javelin thrower
- Nadezhda Yevstyukhina, Russian weightlifter
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer and wife of poet Osip Mandelstam
- Nadezhda von Meck, Russian widow best known for her relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Nadezhda Misyakova, Belarusian singer
- Nadezhda Udaltsova, Russian avant-garde artist
- Nadezhda Teffi, Russian humorist writer
- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, Russian soprano
- Nadezhda Repina, Russian actress and soprano
- Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Soviet and Russian actress
- Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Russian singer
- Nadežda Petrović, Serbian painter
- Nadezhda Obukhova, Russian mezzo-soprano
- Nadezhda Durova, woman who became a decorated soldier during the Napoleonic wars
- Nadezhda Popova, one of the first military female pilots in the Soviet Union
Fictional characters
- Nadezhda, original Russian name of Elizabeth Jennings on the TV series The Americans
- Nadezhda, on the TV series Dexter, who goes by the diminutive Nadia
