Putin Lyudmila Rudenko (1904–1986), Soviet chess player and second women's world chess champion Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player Ludmila da Silva, Brazilian footballer Ludmila Semenyaka, Russian ballerina Lyudmila Shevtsova, Russian athlete Lyudmila Stanukinas (1930–2020), Soviet documentary filmmaker Ludmilla Tchérina (1924–2004), French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and novelist Ludmilla Tourischeva (born 1952), Russian Olympic and world champion gymnast Ludmila Vachtová (1933–2020), Czech art historian and critic Lyudmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019), Russian linguist and teacher; president of Saint Petersburg State University Lyudmila Veselkova, Soviet middle distance runner Lyudmila Zhivkova, Bulgarian politician Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer Fictional characters Ludmilla, the main antagonist of Bartok the Magnificent Ludmilla Vipiteno, the "Other Reader" in the novel If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino See also or Ljudmilla Czech feminine given names Slovak feminine given names Slovene feminine given names Polish feminine given names Russian feminine given names Serbian feminine given names Croatian feminine given names Ukrainian feminine given names