Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (Russian: Мариэтта Омаровна Чудакова; 2 January 1937 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian literary critic, historian, doctor of philological sciences, writer, and memoirist.

Her father was Omar Kurbanovich Khan-Magomedov, an engineer and a native of Dagestan.

In 1964, after completing graduate school, she defended her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Philology.

In October 1993, in connection with the dispersal of the Supreme Council, Chudakova signed the Letter of Forty-Two.

[4][5] In 2007, she was included in the first three candidates of the party Union of Right Forces in the elections to the State Duma.