Nina Svetlanova
 Nina Svetlanova (born in Kiev January 23 1932) is a Russian-American concert pianist and educator. She became a naturalized US citizen in 1983. She has been a professor of piano at New York's Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music since the late 1970s and is a highly sought-after pedagogue and many of her students are well-known pianists and international competition winners.