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• V · Singer-songwriter
• V. P. Kalairajan · politician
• V. S. Babu · Notable Person
• V. S. Naipaul · YouTube personality
• Václav Chalupa · athlete
• Václav Čtvrtek · Czech poet and writer (1911–1976)
• Václav Havel · YouTube personality
• Václav Hlavatý · Czech politician and mathematician (*1894 – †1969)
• Václav Klaus · politician
• Vadim Glowna · German actor (1941-2012)
• Vadim Zakharov · Russian artist
• Vagit Alekperov · entrepreneur
• Vaibhav Suryavanshi · Sports
• Väinö Tanner · Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)
• Vajiravudh · King of Siam from 1910 to 1925
• Valaida Snow · American musician (1904-1956)
• Valdemar Langlet · Swedish Righteous Among the Nations, publisher and Esperantist (1872-1960)
• Valdir Benedito · Brazilian association football player
• Valdis Dombrovskis · 11th Prime Minister of Latvia
• Valea Katharina Scalabrino · German actress
• Valentin Erben · Austrian cellist
• Valentin Hristov · Azerbaijani weightlifter
• Valentin Lustig · Swiss artist
• Valentin Schweiger · German actor
• Valentin Verga · Dutch field hockey player
• Valentina Vargas · French actress
• Valentinas Mikelėnas · Lithuanian lawyer
• Valentino · Italian fashion designer (1932–2026)
• Valeri Brainin · writer
• Valeria Peter Predescu · Romanian singer (1947-2009)
• Valeria Risi · German actor, television presenter and journalist
• Valeriane Gaprindashvili · athlete
• Valerie Adams · New Zealand shot putter (1984-)
• Valerie Aurora · American computer scientist and activist
• Valerie Haller · German television presenter and journalist
• Valerie Mahaffey · Actor
• Valerie Niehaus · actor
• Valerie Solanas · writer
• Valerie von Martens · actor
• Valerij Szizov · basketball player (1965-)
• Valerio Fiori · Italian footballer
• Valerio Zurlini · Italian film director and screenwriter (1926–1982)
• Valeriu Lazarov · director and producer of television of Romanian and Spanish origin (1935-2009)
• Valery Larbaud · French writer and poet (1881-1957)
• Valery Leontiev · actor
• Valery Zinovyev · Soviet folklorist (1942-1983)
• Valery Zorkin · scientist
• Valgeir Sigurðsson · rapper
• Vaĺmien Aladaŭ · Belarusian architect
• Valy Arnheim · German actor (1883–1950)
• Vandana Shiva · Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)
• Vanessa Amorosi · Australian singer-songwriter
• Vanessa Bell · artist
• Vanessa Bell Calloway · Actor
• Vanessa Ferlito · Actor
• Vanessa Hudgens · Actor
• Vanessa Jung · German actress
• Vanessa Morgan · Canadian actress, singer and model
• Vanessa Paradis · actor
• Vanessa Petruo · German pop singer
• Vanessa Ray · Actor
• Vanessa Trump · Socialite
• Vangelis · Greek composer (1943–2022)
• Vania King · American female tennis player
• Vanilla Ice · Actor
• Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly · Indian Catholic priest (1876-1929)
• Varsha Bhosle · Journalist
• Varun Saranga · Actor
• Varvara Lepchenko · Ukrainian-American tennis player
• Varvara Myasnikova · actor
• Vasant Narhar Phene · writer
• Vasco Rossi · singer
• Vasif Talibov · Azerbaijani politician
• Vasili Eroshenko · writer
• Vasilis N. Triantafillidis · Greek actor (1940-2018)
• Vasily Alekseyev · Soviet weightlifter (1942-2011)
• Vasily Belov · writer (1932-2012)
• Vasily Illarionov · Russian scientist
• Vasily Smyslov · Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
• Vaslav Nijinsky · Ballet dancer
• Vast Aire · American rapper
• Vato Gonzalez · Dutch producer and DJ
• Vedang Raina · Actor
• Vedika Pinto · Actor
• Vedran Vukušić · Croatian basketball player
• Vegar Eggen Hedenstad · Norwegian association football player
• Vegard Heggem · Norwegian association football player
• Veit Harlan · German film director (1899-1964)
• Veli Paloheimo · Finnish tennis player
• Velimir Khlebnikov · Russian writer (1885–1922)
• Vella Lovell · Actor
• Vencelas Dabaya · French weightlifter
• Vendula Frintová · athlete
• Venky Atluri · Screenwriter
• Venus Williams · entrepreneur
• Věra Bílá · Czech Roma singer (1954-2019)
• Věra Čáslavská · athlete
• Vera Chejkovska · writer
• Vera Farmiga · Actor
• Vera Grabocka · actor
• Vera Int-Veen · German journalist and TV presenter
• Vera Neszmélyi · athlete
• Vera Rubin · American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
• Věra Suková · athlete
• Vera Teltz · German actress and voice actress
• Vera Wang · Fashion Designer
• Verena Rehm · rapper
• Verena Sailer · German sprinter
• Verena von Strenge · German singer
• Verna Lee Booker Hightower · African American rodeo competitor and civil rights activist (1930-1970)
• Verne Troyer · Actor
• Vernon (Chwe Hansol) · K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN)
• Vernon Andrade · American jazz band leader (1902-1966)
• Vernon Wells · American baseball player
• Verona Pooth · German television personality
• Veronica Carstens · German First Lady (1923-2012)
• Veronica Cartwright · Actor
• Veronica Maggio · Swedish singer and songwriter
• Veronika Neugebauer · actor
• Veronika Trisko · musician
• Veruschka von Lehndorff · German model, actress and performance artist
• Vesa Hakala · Finnish ski jumper
• Vesna Pusić · philosopher
• Vesselin Stoykov · musician
• Vic Seixas · American tennis player (1923–2024)
• Vicente Fernández · Mexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021)
• Vicente López · Nicaraguan baseball player (1945-2010)
• Vicente Zarazúa · Mexican tennis player (1944-2025)
• Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha · businessperson
• Vicki Baum · musician
• Vicki Cheung · Actor
• Vicky Krieps · Stage actor
• Vicky Leandros · Greek singer
• Vicky McClure · Actor
• Vico Torriani · Swiss actor and singer (1920-1998)
• Victor Aronstein · German-Jewish doctor (1896-1945)
• Víctor Cruz · Dominican Republic baseball player (1957–2004)
• Víctor Díaz · film director
• Víctor Escorial · basketball player
• Victor Garber · Actor
• Victor Gruen · Austrian architect (1903-1980)
• Victor Hermans · Dutch association football player
• Victor Horta · Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)
• Victor J. Glover · Astronaut
• Víctor Jara · singer-songwriter
• Victor Klemperer · politician
• Víctor Marté · film director
• Víctor Martínez · athlete
• Víctor Mata · film director
• Victor Mayer · entrepreneur
• Victor McLaglen · Oscar Winners
• Victor Mees · football player
• Victor Osimhen · association football player
• Victor Papanek · American designer and educator (1923–1998)
• Víctor Pérez Alonso · football player
• Victor Ponta · 63rd Prime Minister of Romania (2012-2015)
• Victor Sadler · British-born Dutch Esperantist
• Victor Schiff · German journalist (1895-1953)
• Victor Sjöström · Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor (1879-1960)
• Víctor Valdés · Spanish association football player
• Victor Wembanyama · Basketball player
• Victor Westerholm · Finnish landscape painter (1860–1919)
• Victor Willis · Singer
• Victoria Abril · Television actor
• Victoria Azarenka · Belarusian tennis player
• Victoria Beckham · singer
• Victoria Duval · American tennis player
• Victoria Jackson · singer
• Victoria Justice · Actor
• Victoria Loke · Actor
• Victoria Maurette · singer
• Victoria of Baden · Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)
• Victoria Petryk · singer
• Victoria Silvstedt · Swedish model, actress, singer, and television personality
• Victoria Smurfit · Irish actress
• Vida Blue · film director
• Vidal Sassoon · British hairstylist (1928–2012)
• Vidkun Quisling · Notable Trials
• Vijay Deverakonda · Actor
• Vijay Tendulkar · Indian writer
• Vijaygupta Maurya · writer
• Vijessna Ferkic · German actress
• Vika Jigulina · Moldovan-Romanian singer, record producer and DJ
• Vikrant Massey · Actor
• Viktar Ilyin · Soviet and Belarusian scientist, rector of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (1973-2000)
• Viktor Brack · politician
• Viktor Dyk · Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931)
• Viktor Giacobbo · Swiss actor and television presenter
• Viktor Gyökeres · association football player
• Viktor Hamburger · scientist
• Viktor Hunfalvy · athlete
• Viktor Kosenko · Composer
• Viktor Lutze · SA Stabschef (1890-1943)
• Viktor Makeyev · Soviet engineer, rocket designer (1924-1985)
• Viktor Medvedchuk · politician
• Viktor Orbán · Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–present)
• Viktor Saneyev · athlete
• Viktor Sanikidze · Georgian professional basketball player (born 1986)
• Viktor Skrypnyk · Ukrainian footballer
• Viktor Tsoi · Poet
• Viktor Vekselberg · entrepreneur
• Viktor von Weizsäcker · German physiologist (1886-1957)
• Viktor Yanukovych · Notable Trials
• Viktor Zibarev · scientist
• Viktor Ziborov · Russian scientist
• Viktoria Brams · German actress
• Viktors Ščerbatihs · Latvian weightlifter
• Vilas Sarang · Indian writer
• Vilgot Sjöman · Swedish writer and film director (1924-2006)
• Ville Kantee · singer
• Ville Liukko · Finnish tennis player
• Ville Sorvali · singer
• Ville Valo · singer
• Villebald József Danczi · Hungarian benedictine monk, linguist (1910-1977)
• Vilmos Aba-Novák · Hungarian artist (1894–1941)
• Vin Diesel · film actor
• Vince Carter · American basketball player
• Vince Marcello · Actor
• Vince Offer · Actor
• Vince Spadea · American tennis player
• Vince Vaughn · American actor (born 1970)
• Vincent Clerc · French rugby union player
• Vincent D'Onofrio · Actor
• Vincent du Vigneaud · American biochemist (1901–1978)
• Vincent Kartheiser · Actor
• Vincent Klyn · Actor
• Vincent Lange · German actor, producer, sports manager, volleyball player and coach
• Vincent Masingue · basketball player
• Vincent Pastore · Actor
• Vincent Redetzki · German actor
• Vincent Regan · Actor
• Vincent van Gogh · Dutch painter (1853–1890)
• Vincente Minnelli · American stage and film director (1903-1986)
• Vincenzo Spampinato · Italian singer-songwriter
• Vinessa Shaw · Actor
• Ving Rhames · Actor
• Vinícius Júnior · association football player
• Vinnie Colaiuta · American drummer
• Vinnie Jones · Notable Trials
• Vinnie Pasquantino · Professional baseball player
• Vinny Rottino · American baseball player
• Vinoba Bhave · writer
• Vint Cerf · American computer scientist (born 1943)
• Viola Davis · Actor
• Violet McGraw · Actor
• Violetta Villas · Polish cabaret star, singer, actress, composer, songwriter (1938-2011)
• Violina Linda Pedro · athlete
• Vipin Sharma · Actor
• Virág Bárány · Actor
• Virat Kohli · Sports
• Virchand Gandhi · philosopher
• Virgil Abloh · Creative Director
• Virgil Koltai · Hungarian translator, poet, and journalist (1857–1907)
• Virgile Bramly · Actor
• Virginia Davis · American actress (1918–2009)
• Virginia Giuffre · Sex Trafficking Survivor, Advocate
• Virginia Hall · OSS Officer
• Virginia Henderson · nurse, researcher, theorist and author (1897–1996)
• Virginia Woolf · YouTube personality
• Viswanathan Anand · Indian chess grandmaster
• Vitali Kolomiytsev · football player
• Vitali Tajbert · boxer
• Vitalik Buterin · Ethereum Co-founder
• Vitaly A. Tolkachev · Belarusian scientist
• Vitaly Daraselia · athlete
• Vitaly Ginzburg · scientist
• Vitaly Kunin · German chess player
• Vitas Gerulaitis · American tennis player (1954–1994)
• Vítězslav Lavička · athlete
• Vitinha · association football player
• Vitor Faverani · basketball player
• Vittorio De Seta · Italian cinema director and screenwriter (1923–2011)
• Vittorio De Sica · Italian film director (1901-1974)
• Vittorio Gassman · Italian actor and director (1922–2000)
• Vittorio Mezzogiorno · actor
• Vittorio Pozzo · Italian football player and manager (1886-1968)
• Vitus B. Dröscher · German television presenter, author and zoologist (1925–2010)
• Vivan Sundaram · Indian artist (1943–2023)
• Viveik Kalra · Actor
• Vivek · Indian film actor and television personality (1961-2021)
• Vivek Ramaswamy · entrepreneur
• Vivian Cheruiyot · Kenyan long-distance runner
• Vivian Hsu · Taiwanese actress and singer
• Vivian Kubrick · Actor
• Viviane Brunieri · former Brazilian model and porn star
• Vivica A. Fox · Actor
• Vivien Leigh · Film actor
• Vjekoslav Bevanda · politician
• Vlad Filat · entrepreneur
• Vlada Urošević · Macedonian translator, university teacher and writer
• Vlada Vukoičić · Serbian basketball coach
• Vladas Jakubėnas · journalist
• Vlade Divac · basketball player
• Vladimer Ugrekhelidze · athlete
• Vladimir A. Obruchev · scientist
• Vladimir Belyayev · Soviet weightlifter
• Vladimir Bogojevič · basketball player
• Vladimir Bogoraz · Russian writer and anthropologist (1865-1936)
• Vladimír Darida · Czech footballer
• Vladimir Dimitrijević · Serbian editor and writer (1934–2011)
• Vladimir Dolgov · Russian tech executive (1959-2016)
• Vladimír Franz · politician
• Vladimir Gogoladze · athlete
• Vladimir Granat · Russian association football player
• Vladimir Gutsaev · athlete
• Vladimir Ivashkin · Russian scientist
• Vladimir Ivshin · Russian scientist
• Vladimír Javorský · Actor
• Vladimír Kadlec · basketball player
• Vladimir Korotkov · Soviet tennis player
• Vladimir Kozhevnikov · football player
• Vladimir Kuts · Soviet Ukrainian athletics competitor (1927–1975)
• Vladimir Lenin · Notable Trials
• Vladimir Lisin · Russian businessman
• Vladimír Martinec · athlete
• Vladimir Mashkov · Actor
• Vladimir Mayakovsky · Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
• Vladimir Nabokov · journalist
• Vladimir Padrta · basketball player, Czechoslovakia (1952–2009)
• Vladimir Peshekhonov · scientist
• Vladimir Petković · football player and manager
• Vladimir Putin · judoka
• Vladimir Shukhov · Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
• Vladimir Smirnov · scientist
• Vladimír Suchánek · Czech artist (1933-2021)
• Vladimir Vysotsky · actor
• Vladimir Zelenin · scientist
• Vladimir Zvegintsov · Russian scientist
• Vladislav Matviyenko · Russian footballer
• Vlado Kalember · singer
• Vlasta Depetrisová · Czechoslovak table tennis player
• Vlastimil Hort · Czech-German chess player
• Vojtěch Cikrle · Czech theologist
• Volker Bouffier · German politician (CDU), Minister President of Hesse
• Volker Fried · field hockey player
• Volker Kutscher · German writer
• Volker Neumüller · rapper
• Volker Spengler · actor
• Volker Vogeler · German film director and screenwriter (1930-2005)
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Politician
• Voltairine de Cleyre · American anarchist writer and feminist
• Vom Ritchie · British musician
• Vondie Curtis-Hall · actor
• Vsevolod Konkin · football player
• Vsevolod Pudovkin · Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)
• Vugar Alakbarov · boxer
• Vukašin Brajić · Bosnian singer
• Vyacheslav Ignatyev · Russian scientist
• Vyacheslav Multino · Soviet tennis player, multiple champion of Soviet Union (1899–1978)