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Vaca de Castro, Cristóbal (Spanish-Peruvian statesman/stateswoman)
Vaida-Voevod, Alexander (Romanian-Hungarian statesman/stateswoman)
Vaihinger, Hans (German philosopher)
Vaillant, George Clapp (American archaeologist)
Vajezatha (in the Old Testament)
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari (Indian politician)
Vakhtangov, Yevgeni (Russian actor & dramatist)
Valadon, Suzanne (French painter)
Valdés Leal, Juan de (Spanish painter & artist)
Valdés, Juan de (Spanish theologian)
Valdivia, Pedro de (Spanish-Chilean conquistador)
Valencia, Guillermo (Colombian poet)
Valens (Ancient Roman emperor)
Valentine, Saint (Saint / Holiday Figure)
Valentinian I (Ancient Roman emperor)
Valentinian II (Ancient Roman emperor)
Valentinian III (Ancient Roman emperor)
Valentino, Rudolph (American-Italian filmmaker & actor)
Valentinus (Egyptian-Ancient Roman theologian)
Valera y Alcalá Galiano, Juan (Spanish writer & statesman/stateswoman)
Valera, Diego de (Spanish writer & traveler)
Valerian (Roman emperor)
Valerius Maximus (Ancient Roman writer)
Valéry, Paul (French-Literary critic poet)
Valla, Lorenzo (Italian scholar)
Vallandigham, Clement Laird (American politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Valle Inclán, Ramón del (Spanish writer)
Valle, Pietro della (Italian-Asian traveler)
Vallejo, César (Peruvian poet)
Vallotton, Félix (Swiss artist & painter)
Valois, Dame Ninette de (English ballet dancer)
Vambery, Arminius (Hungarian linguist & traveler)
Van Allen, James Alfred (American physicist & astronaut)
van Basten, Marco (Dutch soccer player)
Van Buren, Martin (8th President of the United States)
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus (American businessman/businesswoman)
Van Cortlandt, Stephen (American businessman/businesswoman & politician)
Van Curler, Arent (Dutch-American statesman/stateswoman)
Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison (American physicist)
van der Meer, Simon (Dutch engineer)
Van Der Zee, James (American photographer)
Van Devanter, Willis (American jurist & statesman)
Van Doren, Carl (Clinton) (American editor & writer)
Van Doren, Mark (American poet & critic)
Van Druten, John William (English dramatist)
Van Dyck, Cornelius Van Alen (Syrian Protestant missionary)
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony (Flemish painter & artist)
van Dyke, Henry (American theologian, educator & writer)