Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.
Sam Dingle is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale, played by James Hooton. He made his first appearance in the episode broadcast on 14 February 1995.
Olena Liashenko is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. She is a three-time European medalist and won nine medals on the Grand Prix series, including three golds. She competed at four Olympics.
Alexander Areshchenko is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2002. He has competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2021.
Harriet Vaughan Hunt is an English chess player and five-time British Women's Chess Champion. Having trained as a plant scientist at Cambridge University, she is currently a researcher working at Kew Gardens.
Olena Kalytiak Davis is a Ukrainian-American poet. Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being Late Summer Ode. Her collection The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems was a 2014 Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize. Her second book, the cult classic shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities, was republished by Copper Canyon Press in 2014.
Ju Wenjun is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the current Women's World Champion. In March 2017, she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600. She is a four-time Women's World Chess Champion, having won the title first in May 2018. She then defended her title in November 2018, 2020, and 2023.
Betül Cemre Yıldız Kadıoğlu is a top female chess player from Turkey. She is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and won the Turkish women's championship eleven times in total. She became in 2004 Woman International Master (WIM), and was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster in 2012, becoming the first ever Turkish WGM. Yıldız won the bronze medal at the World Under-18 Girls Championship of 2007 and at the World Junior Girls Championship of 2009.
Valeriy Aveskulov is a chess Grandmaster (2006) and Ukrainian Champion in 2007.
Olena Bilosiuk (Ukrainian: Олена Білосюк, romanized: Olena Bilosiuk, née Olena Pidhrushna is a Ukrainian biathlete. She is Olympic and World champion and multiple medalist in different high-level competitions. Pidhrushna is considered one of Ukraine's most successful winter sports athletes. She lives in Ternopil.
Olena Kuchma Pinchuk is the daughter of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma. Together with her husband Viktor Pinchuk, she owns Ukraine's biggest media group, StarLightMedia and EastOne Group.
Olena Serhiivna Kryvytska is a Ukrainian fencer.
Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship, the Australian Open Chess Championship, and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist.
Qiyu Zhou, also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Chinese-born Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM), and is a live streamer on Twitch. She has been an under-14 girls' World Youth Champion, a Canadian women's national champion, and a Finnish women's national champion. Zhou has a peak FIDE rating of 2367 and a career-best ranking of No. 100 in the world among women. She is the first Canadian woman to earn the Woman Grandmaster or FIDE Master titles, and has represented Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014.
Zhu Jiner is a Chinese chess player and Grandmaster (2023).
Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska is a Ukrainian screenwriter who is the current First Lady of Ukraine as the wife of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenska was named by Time as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2023.
Olena Mykolajiwna Tokar is a Ukrainian operatic lyric soprano. She has been a member of the Oper Leipzig since 2010, and has appeared in Europe including at the Verbier Festival as Puccini's Mimì, at the Vilnius Opera as Gounod's Marguerite, as Verdi's La traviata at the Trondheim Opera, and as Gounod's Juliette at the Grange Park Opera. She recorded a collection of art songs by women composers including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová, with pianist Igor Gryshyn.
Olena Derevianko is a Ukrainian academic, Professor of Social Communications in the National University of Kharkiv and National University of Food Technologies, publicist and journalist. She is a co-founder of Ukrainian agency PR-service.
Olena Martynkova is a Ukrainian and Lithuanian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She is two-times winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship. She is twice bronze medalist of Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship.
Olena Volodymyrivna Moshenets is a Ukrainian journalist, public and political figure, editor-in-chief of "TOP-100. Ratings of the largest" magazine. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IX convocation.
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