1926 - 2011
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева, née Stalina, Сталина; სვეტლანა იოსების ასული ალილუევა; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she caused an international furore when she defected to, and in 1978 became a naturalized citizen of, the United States. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship returned. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetlana Alliluyeva has received more than 3,012,824 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Svetlana Alliluyeva is the 400th most popular writer (down from 342nd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 118th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Writer.
Svetlana Alliluyeva is most famous for being the daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. She defected to the United States in 1967 and wrote a memoir, "Twenty Letters to a Friend."
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Among writers, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 400 out of 5,794. Before her are Qu Yuan, Gertrude Stein, Propertius, Livius Andronicus, Edward Said, and Ludovico Ariosto. After her are Cornelius Nepos, Françoise Sagan, Karl Barth, Friedrich Schlegel, Nelly Sachs, and Sándor Márai.
343 BC - 278 BC
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 394
1874 - 1946
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 395
50 BC - 14 BC
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 396
280 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 397
1935 - 2003
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 398
1474 - 1533
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 399
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 400
100 BC - 25 BC
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 401
1935 - 2004
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 402
1886 - 1968
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 403
1772 - 1829
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 404
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 405
1900 - 1989
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 406
Among people born in 1926, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 20. Before her are René Goscinny, Klaus Kinski, Hugh Hefner, Andrzej Wajda, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Jerry Lewis. After her are Paul Bocuse, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, John Coltrane, Allen Ginsberg, Ivan Illich, and Harper Lee. Among people deceased in 2011, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 14. Before her are Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Sathya Sai Baba, Wangari Maathai, Joe Frazier, and Sócrates. After her are Ramiz Alia, Dennis Ritchie, Simon van der Meer, Ágota Kristóf, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Gary Moore.
1926 - 1977
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 14
1926 - 1991
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 15
1926 - 2017
HPI: 76.94
Rank: 16
1926 - 2016
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 17
1926 - 2004
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 18
1926 - 2017
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 19
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 20
1926 - 2018
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 21
1926 - 2002
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 22
1926 - 1967
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 23
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 24
1926 - 2002
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 25
1926 - 2016
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 26
1912 - 2011
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 8
1941 - 2011
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 9
1926 - 2011
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 10
1940 - 2011
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 11
1944 - 2011
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 12
1954 - 2011
HPI: 75.58
Rank: 13
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 14
1924 - 2011
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 15
1941 - 2011
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 16
1925 - 2011
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 17
1935 - 2011
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1940 - 2011
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 19
1952 - 2011
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 20
Among people born in Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 132 out of 2,688. Before her are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Tokhtamysh (1342), Otto Wallach (1847), False Dmitry I (1581), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938). After her are Ilya Prigogine (1917), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Ivan Krylov (1769), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903).
1897 - 1918
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 126
1342 - 1406
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 127
1847 - 1931
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 128
1581 - 1606
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 129
1937 - Present
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 130
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 131
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 132
1917 - 2003
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 133
1885 - 1953
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 134
1769 - 1844
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 135
1965 - Present
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 136
1856 - 1918
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 137
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 138
Among writers born in Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 17. Before her are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Boris Pasternak (1890), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938). After her are Ivan Krylov (1769), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845).
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 11
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 12
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 13
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 14
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 15
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 16
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 17
1769 - 1844
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 18
1812 - 1891
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 19
1895 - 1925
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 20
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 21
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 22
1845 - 1904
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 23