| Vacarescu, Alecu (Walachian poet; son of Ienachita) |
1765-1799 |
| Vacarescu, Iancu (Walachian poet, translator; son of Alecu) |
1792-1863 |
| Vacarescu, Ienachita (Walachian scholar, poet) |
1740-1799 |
| Vacarescu, Nicolae (Walachian poet; son of Ienachita) |
1784-1825 |
| Vacarius (Italian legal scholar) |
c.1115/20-1198? |
| Vachell, Horace Annesley (English writer) |
1861-1955 |
| Vacherot, Etienne (French philosopher) |
1809-1897 |
| Vade, Jean-Joseph (French poet, dramatist) |
1719-1757 |
| Vadim, Roger (born V.D. Plemmianikow; French film dir., writer) |
1928-2000 |
| Vaganova, Agrippina Yakovlevna (Russian dancer, teacher) |
1879-1951 |
| Vaida-Voevod, Alexandru (Romanian politician) |
1872-1950 |
| Vaihinger, Hans (German philosopher) |
1852-1933 |
| Vail, Alfred Lewis (American pioneer in telegraphy) |
1807-1859 |
| Vail, Theodore Newton (Am. telephone & telegraph executive) |
1845-1920 |
| Vailland, Roger Francois (French writer, essayist, dramatist) |
1907-1965 |
| Vaillant, Edouard-Marie (French politician) |
1840-1915 |
| Vair, Guillaume du (French writer, orator) |
1556-1621 |
| Vaisala, Yrjo (Finnish astronomer, physicist; asteroid) |
1891-1971 |
| Vakhtangov, Yevgeny (Russian theatrical director) |
1883-1922 |
| Vakhtin, Boris Borisovich (Russian writer, rights activist) |
1930-1981 |
| Valancius, Motiejus (Lithuanian prelate, writer) |
1801-1875 |
| Valaoritis, Aristotelis (Greek poet, politician) |
1824-1879 |
| Val-de-Grace, Jean-Baptiste du (French revolutionist) |
1755-1794 |
| Valdemar I (Valdemar the Great; King of Denmark 1157-1182) |
1131-1182 |
| Valdemar II (King of Denmark 1202-1241; son of Valdemar I) |
1170-1241 |
| Valdes, Alfonso de (Spanish Humanist) |
1490?-1532 |
| Valdes, Juan de (Spanish Humanist; twin brother of Alfonso) |
1490?-1541 |
| Valdes, Gabriel de la Concepcion (pseud. Placido; Cuban poet) |
1809-1844 |
| Valdes Leal, Juan de (Spanish painter, engraver) |
1622-1690 |
| Valdivia, Pedro de (Spanish conquistador) |
c.1498-1553 |
| Vale, Michael (American actor; Fred the Baker) |
1922-2005 |
| Valencia, Guillermo (Colombian poet, politician) |
1873-1943 |
| Valenciennes, Achille (French zoologist) |
1794-1865 |
| Valens (Roman emperor of the East 364-378) |
328?-378 |
| Valente, Jose Angel (Spanish poet, translator, critic) |
b.1929 |
| Valenti, Jack Joseph (American lobbyist, administrator: MPAA) |
1921-2007 |
| Valentine, Saint (Roman priest, physician, Christian martyr) |
3rd cent. |
| Valentine, Saint (Roman bishop, Christian martyr) |
3rd cent. |
| Valentini, Giovanni (Italian composer, poet, musician) |
c.1582-1649 |
| Valentini, Giuseppe (It. violinist, painter, poet, composer) |
1681-1753 |
| Valentini, Stefano (It. amateur astronomer, computer prog.) |
b.1955 |
| Valentinian I (aka Valentinianus I; Roman emperor 364-375) |
321-375 |
| Valentinian II (aka Valentinianus II; Roman emperor 375-392) |
371-392 |
| Valentinian III (aka Valentinianus III; Roman emperor 425-455) |
419-455 |
| Valentino, Rudolph (Italian-born American actor) |
1895-1926 |
| Valentinus (Egyptian-born Gnostic philosopher, teacher) |
2md cent. |
| Valenzuela, Luisa (Argentinean writer, journalist) |
b.1938 |
| Valera y Alcala Galiano, Juan (Spanish writer, diplomat) |
1824-1905 |
| Valerian (Publius Licinius Valerianus; Roman emperor 253-260) |
d.260 |
| Valerius Flaccus, Gaius (Roman poet) |
1st cent. |
| Valerius Maximus (Latin writer) |
fl. c.20 AD |
| Valero, Roberto (Cuban poet) |
b.1955 |
| Valery, Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules (French man of letters) |
1871-1945 |
| Valignano, Alessandro (Italian missionary) |
1539-1606 |
| Valkeapaa, Nils-Aslak (Saami poet, musician, composer,essayist) |
b.1943 |
| Valla, Lorenzo (aka Laurentius Vallensis; Italian Humanist) |
1407-1457 |
| Vallabha (aka Vallabhacarya; Indian philos., religious leader) |
1479-1531 |
| Vallandigham, Clement Laird (American politician) |
1820-1871 |
| Valle, Pietro della (Italian traveler) |
1586-1652 |
| Valle-Inclan, Ramon Maria del (Spanish writer, dramatist, poet) |
1866-1936 |
| Vallee-Poussin, Charles De la (Belgian mathematician) |
1866-1962 |
| Vallejo, Cesar (Peruvian poet, writer) |
1892-1938 |
| Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe (American soldier, politician) |
1808-1890 |
| Valles, Jules (French Socialist, journalist) |
1832-1885 |
| Valsalva, Anton Maria (Italian anatomist) |
1666-1723 |
| Van Allen, James Alfred (American astrophysicist) |
1914-2006 |
| Van Andel, Jay (American businessman; co-founded Amway Corp.) |
1924-2004 |
| Vanbrugh, Sir John (English dramatist, architect) |
1664-1726 |
| Van Buren, Martin (8th U.S. president, 1837-1841) |
1782-1862 |
| Vance, John Holbrook "Jack" (American writer) |
1916-2013 |
| Vance, Louis Joseph (American writer) |
1879-1933 |
| Van Cortlandt, Oloff Stevenszen (Dutch businessman) |
1600-1684 |
| Van Cortlandt, Stephanus (New Amsterdam-born politician) |
1643-1700 |
| Vancouver, Geroge (English navigator, explorer) |
1757-1798 |
| Vancura, Vladislav (Czech physician, writer, playwright) |
1891-1942 |
| Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison (American physicist) |
1901-1967 |
| Vandegrift, Alexander Archer (American marine corps officer) |
1887-1973 |
| Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick (American journalist, politician) |
1884-1951 |
| Van Depoele, Charles Joseph (Belgian-born American inventor) |
1846-1892 |
| Vanderbeek, Stan (American filmmaker, teacher) |
1927-1984 |
| Vanderbilt, Cornelius (American industrialist, financier) |
1794-1877 |
| Vanderbilt, William Henry (Am. industrialist; son of Cornelius) |
1821-1885 |
| van der Kuijp, Leonard (Dutch-born Canadian philologist) |
b.1952 |
| Vanderlyn, John (American painter) |
1775-1852 |
| Vandermark, Ken (American musician) |
b.1964 |
| van der Meer, Simon (Dutch physicist) |
1925-2011 |
| Van der Post, Laurens Jan (South African writer, educator) |
1906-1996 |
| Van Devanter, Willis (American Supreme Court justice 1911-1937) |
1859-1941 |
| van de Wetering, Janwillem (Dutch writer) |
b.1931 |
| Van Doesburg, Theo (Dutch painter, writer, poet, architect) |
1883-1931 |
| Van Doren, Carl Clinton (American writer, editor, critic) |
1885-1950 |
| Van Doren, Mark (American editor, poet; brother of Carl) |
1894-1972 |
| Van Druten, John William (English playwright, writer) |
1901-1957 |
| Van Duyn, Mona Jane (American poet; Am. poet laureate) |
b.1921 |
| Van Dyke (aka Vandyke), Sir Anthony (Flemish painter) |
1599-1641 |
| Van Dyke, Henry (American clergyman, poet, writer) |
1852-1933 |
| Vane, Sir Henry "the Elder" (English politician) |
1589-1655 |
| Vane, Sir Henry "the Younger" (English Puritan statesman) |
1613-1662 |
| Vane, John Robert (British pharmacologist, academic) |
1927-2004 |
| Vane, Sutton (born Vane Sutton-Vane; English playwright) |
1888-1963 |
| Vaneigem, Raoul (Belgian Situationist philosopher) |
b.1934 |
| van Eyck, Aldo (Dutch architect, educator, editor) |
1918-1999 |
| Van Gennep, Arnold (French ethnographer, folklorist) |
1873-1957 |
| Vanhal, Johann Baptist (Czech composer, organist) |
1739-1813 |
| Van Hise, Charles Richard (American geologist) |
1857-1918 |
| Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius (Am.-born Can. railroad exec.) |
1843-1915 |
| van Hove, Fred (Belgian musician, composer) |
b.1937 |
| Vanier, Georges-Phileas (Canadian polit.; gov.-general 1959-67) |
1888-1967 |
| Vanini, Lucilio (pseud. Giulio Cesare Vanini; It. philosopher) |
1584-1619 |
| Van Lem, Nguyen "Bay Lop" (Vietnamese soldier) |
1933-1968 |
| Van Loo (or Vanloo), Abraham Louis (Fr. painter; son of Jakob) |
c.1656-1712 |
| Van Loo (or Vanloo), Charles-Andre (Fr. painter; son of A.L.) |
1705-1765 |
| Van Loo (or Vanloo), Jakob (or Jacques; French painter) |
c.1614-1670 |
| Van Loo (or Vanloo), Jean-Baptiste (Fr. painter; son of A.L.) |
1684-1745 |
| Van Loon, Hendrik Willem (Dutch-born Am. historian, writer) |
1882-1944 |
| van Maldere, Pieter (Belgian violinist, composer) |
1729-1768 |
| Van Nostrand, David (American publisher) |
1811-1886 |
| Vannucci, Pietro di Cristoforo "Perugino" (Italian painter) |
c.1450-1523 |
| Van Rensselaer, Mariana Alley née Griswold (Am. art critic) |
1851-1934 |
| Van Rensselaer, Martha (American home economist) |
1864-1932 |
| Van Rensselaer, Stephen (American army officer, politician) |
1764-1839 |
| Van Sant, Gus Green Jr. (Am. film director, photographer) |
b.1952 |
| Vansittart, Sir Robert Gilbert (British diplomat) |
1881-1957 |
| Van Stockum, Hilda Gerarda (Dutch writer) |
1908-2006 |
| Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton (American railroad executive) |
1879-1936 |
| Van Sweringen, Mantis James (American railroad executive) |
1881-1935 |
| van't Hoff, Jacobus Hendricus (Dutch physical chemist) |
1852-1911 |
| Van Vechten, Carl (American writer, music and drama critic) |
1880-1964 |
| Vanvitelli, Luigi (Italian architect) |
1700-1773 |
| Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck (American physicist, art collector) |
1899-1980 |
| van Vogt, Alfred Elton "A.E." (Canadian-born American writer) |
1912-2000 |
| van Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm (Dutch diplomat, composer) |
1692-1766 |
| Vanzetti, Bartolomeo (Italian-born American political radical) |
1888-1927 |
| Varahamihira (Indian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician) |
505-587 |
| Varchi, Benedetto (Italian scholar) |
1503-1565 |
| Varda, Agnes (Belgian-born French film director) |
b.1928 |
| Vardhamana (aka Mahavira; Indian religious leader) |
c.599-527 BC |
| Vare, Daniele (Italian diplomat, writer) |
1880-1956 |
| Varen, Bernhard (aka Bernhardus Varenius; German geographer) |
1622-1650/1 |
| Varese, Edgard Victor Achille Charles (Fr.-born Am. composer) |
1883-1965 |
| Vargas, Getulio Dornelles (Brazilian politician) |
1883-1954 |
| Vargas, Luis de (Spanish painter) |
c.1505-1567/8 |
| Vargas Llosa, Jorge Mario Pedro (Peruvian writer, essayist) |
b.1936 |
| Varian, Russell Harrison (American physicist, inventor) |
1898-1959 |
| Varian, Sigurd (American physicist, inventor) |
1901-1961 |
| Varignon, Pierre (French mathematician) |
1654-1722 |
| Varius Rufus, Lucius (Roman poet) |
1st cent. BC |
| Varley, John (English painter, teacher) |
1778-1842 |
| Varmus, Harold Elliot (American microbiologist, administrator) |
b.1939 |
| Varnay, Ibolyka Astrid Maria (Sweden-born Hungarian singer) |
1918-2006 |
| Varnedoe, John Kirk Train (Am. art historian, writer, curator) |
1946-2003 |
| Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August (German diplomat, writer) |
1785-1858 |
| Varnhagen von Ense, Rahel née Levin (German literary hostess) |
1771-1833 |
| Varnum, James Mitchell (American lawyer, Revolutionary officer) |
1748-1789 |
| Varo, Remedios (Spanish-born Mexican? painter) |
1908-1963 |
| Varolio, Costanzo (Italian surgeon, anatomist) |
1543-1575 |
| Varotari, Alessandro "il Padovanino" (Italian painter) |
1588-1648 |
| Varro, Marcus Terentius (Roman scholar, satirist) |
116-27 BC |
| Varro, Publius Terentius (surnamed Atacinus; Roman poet) |
1st cent. BC |
| Varshavsky, Alexander Jacob (Russian-born American biochemist) |
b.1946 |
| Varthema (or Barthema), Lodovico de (Italian traveler, writer) |
c.1470-1510? |
| Vasari, Giorgio (Italian painter, architect, art historian) |
1511-1574 |
| Vasconcelos, Jose (Mexican politician, philosopher, writer) |
1882-1959 |
| Vasconcellos, John B. (American politician, lawyer) |
b.1932 |
| Vasek, Vladimir (pseudonym Petr Bezruc; Czech poet) |
1867-1958 |
| Vasilyev, Sergey Dmitriyevich (Russian filmmaker) |
1900-1959 |
| Vasks, Peteris (Latvian composer) |
b.1946 |
| Vassar, Matthew (English-born American brewer, merchant) |
1792-1868 |
| Vassilokos, Vassilis (Greek writer, poet, essayist, translator) |
b.1933 |
| Vasubandhu (Indian philosopher) |
4th cent. |
| Vatutin, Nikolay Fyodorovich (Russian army officer) |
1900-1944 |
| Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre de (French military engineer) |
1633-1707 |
| Vaucanson, Jacques de (French inventor) |
1709-1782 |
| Vaucher, Jean Pierre Etienne (Swiss botanist) |
1763-1841 |
| Vaugelas, Claude Favre, sieur de (French grammarian) |
1585-1650 |
| Vaughan, Norman Dane (American adventurer, Antarctic explorer) |
1905-2005 |
| Vaughan, Henry "The Silurist" (Welsh-born British mystic poet) |
1622-1695 |
| Vaughan, Sarah Lois (American singer) |
1924-1990 |
| Vaughan, William Edward "Bill" (American editor, writer) |
1915-1977 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (Eng. composer, folk music collector) |
1872-1958 |
| Vauquelin, Louis-Nicolas (French chemist) |
1763-1829 |
| Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Jean (French magistrate, poet) |
1536-1606/8 |
| Vautier, Ben (Italian-born French artist, rights activist) |
b.1935 |
| Vautier, Benjamin (Swiss painter, illustrator) |
1829-1898 |
| Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de (French soldier, moralist) |
1715-1747 |
| Vaux, Calvert (English-born American landscape architect) |
1824-1895 |
| Vaux, Thomas (2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden; English poet) |
1510-1556 |
| Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich (Russian geneticist) |
1887-1943 |
| Vazov, Ivan Minchov (Bulgarian poet, writer, playwright) |
1850-1921 |
| Vazquez Montalban, Manuel (Spanish writer, poet, journalist) |
b.1939 |
| Veblen, Oswald (American mathematician; nephew of Thorstein) |
1880-1960 |
| Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (American economist, social theorist) |
1857-1929 |
| Vecchi, Orazio Tiberio (Italian composer) |
1550-1605 |
| Vecelli (or Vecellio), Tiziano "Titian" (Italian painter) |
1488/90-1576 |
| Vedantadesika (aka Venkatanatha; Indian theologian) |
1268-1370 |
| Vedder, Elihu (American painter, illustrator) |
1836-1923 |
| Vedel, Anders Sorensen (Danish historian, ballad collector) |
1542-1616 |
| Veen, Otto van (Octavius Vaenius or Venius; Dutch painter) |
1556-1629 |
| Vega, Ana Lydia (Puerto Rican writer) |
b.1946 |
| Vega, Janine Pommy (American poet, writer, educator) |
b.1942 |
| Vega, Lope de (Lope Felix de Vega Carpio; Sp. dramatic poet) |
1562-1635 |
| Vega Carpio, Lope Felix de (Spanish dramatist, poet) |
1562-1635 |
| Vegetius (aka Flavius Vegetius Renatus; Roman writer) |
fl.c.375 |
| Vegio, Maffeo (Mapheus Vegius; Italian Humanist) |
1407-1458 |
| Veit, Philipp (German painter) |
1793-1877 |
| Vejvanovsky, Pavel Josef (Czech composer, musician) |
c.1633/30-1693 |
| Vela, Vincenzo (Italian sculptor) |
1820-1891 |
| Velarde, Pablita (aka Tse Tsan; American painter, doll maker) |
1918-2006 |
| Velasquez, Baldemar (American farm labor leader) |
b.1947 |
| Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva (Spanish painter) |
1599-1660 |
| Velde, Adriaen van de (Dutch painter; son of Willem) |
1636-1672 |
| Velde, Esaias van de (Dutch painter; brother of Willem) |
1591-1630 |
| Velde, Harold Himmel (American congressman) |
1910-1985 |
| Velde, Henry Clemens van de (Belgian architect, craftsman) |
1863-1957 |
| Velde, Jan van de (Dutch painter; cousin of Esaias & Willem) |
1593-1641 |
| Velde, Willem van de (Dutch painter; brother of Esaias) |
1611-1693 |
| Velde, Willem van de (Dutch painter; son of Willem) |
1633-1707 |
| Velez de Guevara, Luis (Spanish poet, playwright, writer) |
1579-1644 |
| Velluti, Giovanni Battista "Giambattista" (Italian castrato) |
1780-1861 |
| Veloso, Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles (Braz. poet, composer) |
b.1942 |
| Veltman, Martinus Justinus Godefriedus (Dutch physicist) |
b.1931 |
| Vendome, Duc de (Louis-Joseph de Bourbon; French soldier) |
1654-1712 |
| Vening Meinesz, Felix Andries (Dutch geophysicist) |
1887-1966 |
| Venizelos, Eleutherios (Greek politician) |
1864-1936 |
| Venn, John (English logician, man of letters) |
1834-1923 |
| Vennberg, Karl Gunnar (Swedish poet, teacher, essayist) |
1910-1995 |
| Ventris, Michael George Francis (Eng. architect, cryptographer) |
1922-1956 |
| Venturi, Adolfo (Italian art historian) |
1856-1941 |
| Venturi, Giovanni Battista (Italian physicist) |
1746-1822 |
| Veracini, Antonio (Italian composer, violinist) |
1659-1745 |
| Veracini, Francesco Maria (Italian violinist, composer) |
1690-1768 |
| Verbiest, Ferdinand (Flemish missionary in China, astronomer) |
1623-1688 |
| Vercel, Roger (French writer) |
1894-1957 |
| Vercors (pseudonym of Jean Marcel Bruller; French writer) |
1902-1991 |
| Verdaguer, Mossen Jacint (Catalan poet) |
1845-1902 |
| Verde, Jose Joaquim Cesario (Portuguese poet) |
1855-1886 |
| Verdet, Emile (French physicist) |
1824-1866 |
| Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (Italian composer) |
1813-1901 |
| Vereker, John Standish Surtees Prendergast (British soldier) |
1886-1946 |
| Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian painter) |
1842-1904 |
| Verga, Giovanni (Italian writer, leader of naturalistic school) |
1840-1922 |
| Vergara, Camilo Jose (Chilean-born Am.? writer, photographer) |
b.1944 |
| Vergennes, Charles Gravier de (French statesman) |
1719-1787 |
| Vergilio, Polidoro (Italian ecclesiastic, Humanist) |
c.1470-1555 |
| Verhaeren, Emile (Belgian poet) |
1855-1916 |
| Ver Huell, Alexander (Dutch illustrator) |
1822-1897 |
| Verissimo, Erico Lopes (Brazilian writer, literary historian) |
1905-1975 |
| Verlaine, Paul Marie (French poet) |
1844-1896 |
| Vermeer, Jan (aka Jan van der Meer; van Delft; Dutch painter) |
1632-1675 |
| Vermeylen, Auguste (Flemish essayist, critic) |
1872-1945 |
| Vermigli, Pietro Martire (Peter Martyr; Florentine religious) |
1500-1562 |
| Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius (Dutch-born British engineer) |
1595-1683? |
| Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich (Rus. geochemist, mineralogist) |
1863-1945 |
| Verne, Jules Gabriel (French writer) |
1828-1905 |
| Verner, Karl Adolph (Danish philologist) |
1846-1896 |
| Vernet, Antoine-Charles-Horace (French painter; son of C.-J.) |
1758-1835 |
| Vernet, Claude-Joseph (French painter) |
1714-1789 |
| Vernet, Emile-Jean-Horace (French painter; son of A.-C.-H.) |
1789-1863 |
| Vernier, Pierre (French mathematician, instrument inventor) |
c.1580-1637 |
| Vernon, Edward "Old Grog" (English admiral; source of "grog") |
1684-1757 |
| Vernon, Jules (born Walter Knyvette; English ventriloquist) |
1867-1937 |
| Veronese, Paolo (born Paolo Caliari; Italian painter) |
1528-1588 |
| Verow, Todd (American film director, cinematographer) |
b.1966 |
| Verrazano, Giovanni da (Florentine navigator, explorer) |
1485?-1528? |
| Verri, Pietro (Italian economist, journalist, writer) |
1728-1797 |
| Verrill, Addison Emery (American zoologist) |
1839-1926 |
| Verrio, Antonio (Italian painter) |
1639?-1707 |
| Verrius Flaccus, Marcus (Roman freedman, scholar, grammarian) |
1st cent. BC |
| Verrocchio, Andrea del (Florentine sculptor, painter) |
1435-1488 |
| Verschaffelt, Peter Anton von (Flemish sculptor) |
1710-1793 |
| Vertue, George (English engraver, antiquary) |
1684-1756 |
| Verus, Lucius Aurelius (Roman emperor 161-169) |
130-169 |
| Verwey, Albert (Dutch poet, scholar, literary historian) |
1865-1937 |
| Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch (South African prime min. 1958-1966) |
1901-1966 |
| Very, Jones (American Transcendentalist poet, Christian mystic) |
1813-1880 |
| Vesaas, Tarjei (Norwegian writer, poet, playwright) |
1897-1970 |
| Vesalius, Andreas (Belgian anatomist) |
1514-1564 |
| Vesey, Denmark (American slave insurrectionist) |
c.1767-1822 |
| Vespasian (Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus; Roman emperor) |
9-79 AD |
| Vespucci, Amerigo (Americus Vespucius; Italian navigator) |
1454-1512 |
| Vesque von Puttlingen, Johann (pseud. J. Hoven; Austrian comp.) |
1803-1883 |
| Vestdijk, Simon (Dutch poet, writer, critic) |
1898-1971 |
| Vestine, Ernest Harry (American geophysicist) |
1906-1968 |
| Vestris, Gaetano Appolino Baldassare (French dancer) |
1729-1808 |
| Vestris, Marie-Jean-Augustin (French dancer; son of Gaetano) |
1760-1842 |
| Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth née Bartolozzi (Brit. actor, singer) |
1797-1856 |
| Vetrinha, Jose G. "Jose Craveirinha" (Mozambican poet, writer) |
1922-2003 |
| Veuillot, Louis-Francois (French journalist) |
1813-1883 |
| Viadana, Lodovico (born Lodovico Grossi; Italian composer) |
c.1560-1627 |
| Vian, Boris (French writer, dramatist, poet) |
1920-1959 |
| Viau, Theophile de (aka Theophile; French poet, dramatist) |
1590-1626 |
| Viaud, Louis-Marie-Julien (Pierre Loti; Fr. nav.officer,writer) |
1850-1923 |
| Vicente, Gil (Portuguese writer, dramatist) |
c.1465-c.1536 |
| Vicentino, Nicola (Italian composer, theorist) |
1511-c.1576 |
| Vichard, Cesar (Abbe de Saint-Real; French historian) |
1639-1692 |
| Vicious, Sid (John Simon Ritchie; English musician) |
1957-1979 |
| Vick, James (English-born American horticulturist, publisher) |
1818-1882 |
| Vickers, Edward (English steel manufacturer) |
1804-1897 |
| Vickrey, William Spencer (Canadian economist) |
1914-1996 |
| Vico, Giambattista (Italian philosopher, jurist, historian) |
1668-1744 |
| Victor, Orville James (Am. publisher; orig. dime novel 1860) |
1827-1910 |
| Victor Emmanuel I (King of Sardinia 1802-1821) |
1759-1824 |
| Victor Emmanuel II (King of S.-Piedmont 1849-61, Italy 1861-78) |
1820-1878 |
| Victor Emmanuel III (King of Italy 1900-1946) |
1869-1947 |
| Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; British queen 1837-1901) |
1819-1901 |
| Victoria, Tomas Luis de (Spanish composer) |
c.1548-1611 |
| Victorinus (aka Victorius of Aquitania; Gallic? astronomer) |
5th cent. |
| Victorinus of Pettau (Christian prelate, theologian) |
d.c.303 |
| Victorinus, Gaius Marius (African-born Latin writer) |
4th cent. |
| Vida, Marco Girolamo (Italian poet) |
c.1490-1566 |
| Vidal de la Blanche, Paul (French geographer) |
1845-1918 |
| Vidal, Gore (born Eugene Luther Vidal; Am. writer, dramatist) |
1925-2012 |
| Vidali, Jon Thorkelsson (Icelandic prelate, writer) |
1666-1720 |
| Vide, Jacobus (Franco-Flemish composer; Burgundian School) |
fl.1405-1433 |
| Vidocq, Francois-Eugene (French police officer, adventurer) |
1775-1857 |
| Vidor, King Wallis (American film director) |
1894-1982 |
| Vidyasagar, Isvar Chandra (Bengali writer, reformer) |
1820-1891 |
| Viebig, Clara (German writer) |
1860-1952 |
| Vieira, Antonio (Portuguese-born Brazilian missionary, writer) |
1608-1697 |
| Vieira, Jose Luandino (Jose Vieira Mateus da Graca; Port. wtr.) |
b.1935 |
| Vieira da Cruz, Tomaz (Portuguese poet, musician, journalist) |
1900-1960 |
| Viele-Griffin, Francis (Egbert L. Viele; Am.-born French poet) |
1864-1937 |
| Vielle, Paul-Marie-Eugene (French engineer) |
1854-1934 |
| Viereck, George Sylvester (German-born American writer) |
1884-1962 |
| Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin (American poet, historical scholar) |
1916-2006 |
| Vierkandt, Alfred Ferdinand (German sociologist) |
1867-1953 |
| Viete, Francois (aka Franciscus Vieta; French mathematician) |
1540-1603 |
| Vigano, Salvatore (Italian dancer, choreographer) |
1769-1821 |
| Vigee-Lebrun, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth née Vigee (French painter) |
1755-1842 |
| Vigeland, Adolf Gustav (Norwegian sculptor) |
1869-1943 |
| Vigfusson, Gudbrandur (Icelandic philologist) |
1827-1889 |
| Vignola, Giacomo da (born Giacomo Barozzi; Italian architect) |
1507-1573 |
| Vigny, Alfred-Victor de (French poet, dramatist, writer) |
1797-1863 |
| Vigo, Jean (aka Jean Sales; French film director) |
1905-1934 |
| Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet (Zulu poet, writer, educator) |
1906-1947 |
| Vilar, Jean (French actor, director) |
1912-1971 |
| Vile, William (English cabinetmaker) |
c.1700-1767 |
| Villa, Francisco "Pancho" (Mex. bandit, revolutionary leader) |
1878-1923 |
| Villa-Lobos, Heitor (Brazilian composer, musician) |
1887-1959 |
| Villanueva, Juan de (Spanish architect) |
1739-1811 |
| Villard, Helen Frances née Garrison (American social reformer) |
1844-1928 |
| Villard, Henry (German-born Am. railroad executive, financier) |
1835-1900 |
| Villard, Oswald Garrison (American journalist; son of Henry) |
1872-1949 |
| Villard, Paul (French physicist; discovered gamma rays) |
1860-1934 |
| Villard de Honnecourt (French architect) |
c.1225-c.1250 |
| Villari, Pascuale (Italian historian) |
1827-1917 |
| Villars, Claude-Louis-Hector de (French marshal of France) |
1653-1734 |
| Villaurrutia, Xavier (Mexican poet, playwright, critic) |
1903-1950 |
| Villegas, Esteban Manuel de (Spanish poet) |
1589-1669 |
| Villehardouin, Geoggror de (French court advisor, historian) |
c.1150-c.1213 |
| Villemessant, Jean-Hippolyte-Auguste Cartier de (Fr. journal.) |
1812-1879 |
| Villena, Enrique de (Enrique de Aragon; Span. writer, scholar) |
c.1384-1434 |
| Villeneuve, Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de (Fr.adm.) |
1763-1806 |
| Villepreux-Power,Jeanne (French-born Sicilian marine biologist) |
1794-1871 |
| Villiers, Charles Pelham (English politician, reformer) |
1802-1898 |
| Villiers, George (1st Duke of Buckingham; English courtier) |
1592-1628 |
| Villiers, George (2nd Duke of Buckingham; Eng. courtier,dram.) |
1628-1687 |
| Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste de (Fr. poet, dram., writer) |
1838-1889 |
| Villon, Francois (born Francois de Montcorbier; French poet) |
1431-1463? |
| Vincent of Beauvais (Vincentius Bellovacensis; French scholar) |
c.1190-1264 |
| Vincent of Lerins, Saint (Vincentius Lerinensis; Fr. religious) |
d.c.450 |
| Vincent, John Heyl (Am. clergyman; orig. Chautauqua movement) |
1832-1920 |
| Vincent, Stenio Joseph (Haitian politician; president 1930-41) |
1874-1959 |
| Vincent de Paul, Saint (French clergyman) |
1581-1660 |
| Vincentello d'Istria (Istrian adventurer) |
1380-1434 |
| Vincent Ferrer, Saint (San Vicente Ferrer; Spanish religious) |
c.1350-1419 |
| Vinci, Leonardo (Italian composer) |
c.1690-1730 |
| Vinet, Alexandre-Rodolphe (Swiss theologian) |
1797-1847 |
| Vinje, Aasmund Olafsson (Norwegian poet, journalist, reformer) |
1818-1870 |
| Vinogradoff, Sir Paul Gavrilovitch (Russian-born Brit. jurist) |
1854-1925 |
| Vinogradov, Ivan Matveyevich (Russian mathematician) |
1891-1983 |
| Vinokurov, Yevgeny Mikhailovich (Soviet poet) |
b.1925 |
| Vinson, Frederick Moore (Am. Supreme Ct. chief justice 1946-53) |
1890-1953 |
| Vinton, Will (American animated film director, producer) |
b.1948 |
| Vio, Tommaso de (born Jacopo de; Italian prelate) |
1469-1534 |
| Viola, Bill (American video artist) |
b.1951 |
| Violle, Jules-Louis-Gabriel (French physicist) |
1841-1923 |
| Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel (French architect) |
1814-1879 |
| Viotti, Giovanni Battista (Italian violinist) |
1755-1824 |
| Virchow, Rudolph (German pathologist, political leader) |
1821-1902 |
| Viret, Pierre (Swiss theologian) |
1511-1571 |
| Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; Roman poet) |
70-19 BC |
| Viriathus (or Viriatus; Lusitanian rebel) |
d.c.139 BC |
| Vir Singh, Bhai (Indian writer, theologian) |
1872-1957 |
| Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari (Finnish biochemist) |
1895-1973 |
| Virues, Cristobal de (Spanish poet) |
1550-1609 |
| Vischer, Friedrich Theodor von (Ger. poet, critic,aesthetician) |
1807-1887 |
| Vischer, Hans (German sculptor; son of Peter the Elder) |
1489?-1550 |
| Vischer, Hermann the Elder (German sculptor, brass founder) |
d.1488 |
| Vischer, Hermann the Younger (German sculptor; son of Peter) |
1486?-1517 |
| Vischer, Paulus (German sculptor; son of Peter the Elder) |
d.1531 |
| Vischer, Peter the Elder (German sculptor; son of Hermann) |
1460?-1529 |
| Vischer, Peter the Younger (German sculptor; son of Peter) |
1487-1528 |
| Visconti di Modrone, Luchino (Italian theater & film director) |
1906-1976 |
| Visscher, Ann Roemersdochter (Dutch poet; daughter of Roemer) |
1583-1651 |
| Visscher, Roemer (Dutch poet, moralist) |
1547-1620 |
| Vital, Hayyim ben Joseph (Palestinian Kabbalist) |
1542/3-1620 |
| Vitali, Giovanni Battista (Italian composer) |
1632-1692 |
| Vitali, Tomaso Antonio (Italian composer; son of Giovanni) |
1663-1745 |
| Vitello, Fausto (Argentine skateboard entrepreneur, publisher) |
1946-2006 |
| Vitet, Louis "Ludovic" (French writer, politician) |
1802-1873 |
| Vitier, Cintio (Cuban poet, writer, literary critic) |
b.1921 |
| Vitoria, Francisco de (Spanish theologian) |
1486?-1546 |
| Vitrac, Roger (French playwright, poet) |
1899-1952 |
| Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; Roman architect, engineer) |
c.70-c.25 BC |
| Vittone, Bernardo Antonio (Italian architect) |
c.1705-1770 |
| Vittorini, Elio (Italian writer, critic, translator) |
1908-1966 |
| Vittorino Ramboldini (aka Vittorino da Feltre; It. educator) |
1378-1446 |
| Vivaldi, Antonio Lucio (Italian priest, composer, violinist) |
1678-1741 |
| Vivaldi, Ugolino (Genoese merchant; brother of Vadino) |
13th cent. |
| Vivaldi, Vadino (Genoese merchant; brother of Ugolino) |
13th cent. |
| Vivarini, Antonio (orig. surname da Murano; Venetian painter) |
1415?-1476/84 |
| Vivarini, Bartolomeo da Murano "Vivarini" (Venetian painter) |
c.1432-c.1499 |
| Vivekenanda (born Narendranath Datta; Indian religious leader) |
1863-1902 |
| Vives, Amadeo (Spanish composer) |
1871-1932 |
| Vives, Juan Luis (Spanish Humanist) |
1492-1540 |
| Viviani, Vincenzo (Italian mathematician) |
1622-1703 |
| Vivien de Saint-Martin, Louis (French geographer) |
1802-1897 |
| Vizcaino, Sebastian (Spanish explorer) |
1550?-1616 |
| Vizetelly, Edward Henry (English journalist; son of Henry) |
1847-1903 |
| Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred (English journalist; son of Henry) |
1853-1922 |
| Vizetelly, Francis Horace (Eng.-born Am. editor; son of Henry) |
1864-1938 |
| Vizetelly, Henry Richard (English publisher) |
1820-1894 |
| Vizinczey, Stephen (Hungarian writer, critic) |
b.1933 |
| Vizyenos, Georgios (Greek writer) |
1849-1896 |
| Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina (Italian singer, organist, composer) |
1590-1662 |
| Vlacic, Matija (surnamed Ilir; Istrian theologian, historian) |
1520-1575 |
| Vlacq (or Vlack), Adriaan (Dutch mathematician) |
1600-1666/7 |
| Vladimir I, Saint (Russian Grand prince of Kiev 980-1015) |
c.956-1015 |
| Vladimir II (Russian Grand prince of Kiev 1113-1125) |
1053-1125 |
| Vladimov (Georgy Nikolayevich Volosevich; Russian writer) |
b.1931 |
| Vlaminck, Maurice de (French painter) |
1876-1958 |
| Vlastos, Gregory (Constantinople-born classicist, philosopher) |
1907-1991 |
| Vliet, Don Van (Captain Beefheart; American musician, painter) |
1941-2010 |
| Vlissides, John Matthew (Am. computer scientist; Gang of Four) |
1961-2005 |
| Voet, Gijsbet (aka Gisbertus Voetius; Dutch theologian) |
1589-1676 |
| Voevodsky, Vladimir (Russian mathematician, educator) |
b.1966 |
| Vogau, Boris Andreyevich (pseud. Boris Pilnyak; Russian writer) |
1894-1937 |
| Vogel, Charles-Louis-Adolphe (French composer) |
1808-1892 |
| Vogel, Hermann Karl (German astronomer) |
1842-1907 |
| Vogel, Matthew J. "Matt" (American puppeteer, voice actor) |
b.1970 |
| Vogel, Robert (Volusia County Florida sheriff) |
b.1947 |
| Vogelsang, Karl von (German reformer) |
1818-1890 |
| Vogl, Johann Nepomuk (Austrian poet) |
1802-1866 |
| Vogler, Georg Joseph (German organist, composer, writer) |
1749-1814 |
| Vogt, Johan Herman Lie (Norwegian geologist) |
1858-1932 |
| Vogt, Nils Collett (Norwegian writer, poet) |
1864-1937 |
| Vogue, Eugene-Melchior de (French writer, diplomat) |
1848-1910 |
| Voigt, Woldemar (German physicist) |
1850-1919 |
| Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolaevich (Russian writer) |
b.1932 |
| Voisin, Charles (French airplane manufacturer; bro. of Gabriel) |
1882-1912 |
| Voisin, Gabriel (French airplane manufacturer; bro. of Charles) |
1880-1973 |
| Voit, Carl von (German physiologist) |
1831-1908 |
| Voiture, Vincent (French man of letters) |
1597-1648 |
| Volkelt, Johannes Immanuel (German philosopher) |
1848-1930 |
| Volkmann, Richard von (German surgeon) |
1830-1889 |
| Volkov, Fyodor Grigoriyevich (Russian actor) |
1729-1763 |
| Volkov, Vladislav Nikolayevich (Soviet astronaut) |
1935-1971 |
| Vollard, Ambroise (French art dealer, publisher) |
1865-1939 |
| Volstead, Andrew John (Am. polit.; wrote Volstead Act 1919) |
1860-1947 |
| Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (It. physicist) |
1745-1827 |
| Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet; French philosopher, writer) |
1694-1778 |
| Volterra, Vito (Italian mathematician, physicist) |
1860-1940 |
| von Ahn, Luis (Guatemalan computer scientist) |
b.1978 |
| Vonck, Jean-Francois (Belgian lawyer, political leader) |
1743-1792 |
| Vondel, Joost van den (Dutch poet, dramatist, translator) |
1587-1679 |
| von Euler, Ulf Svante (Swedish physiologist, pharmacologist) |
1905-1983 |
| von Hippel, Arthur Robert (German-born American physicist) |
1898-2004 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. (American writer, essayist, playwright) |
1922-2007 |
| von Trier, Lars (born Lars Trier; Danish film director) |
b.1956 |
| von Trotta, Margarethe (German film director, actor) |
b.1942 |
| von Weizacker, Carl Friedrich Freiherr (German physicist) |
1912-2007 |
| Voorhees, Alan Manners (American transportation engineer) |
1922-2005 |
| Vorilhon, Claude Maurice Marcel (French religious: fd. Raelism) |
b.1946 |
| Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich (Soviet soldier, politician) |
1881-1969 |
| Vorosmarty, Mihaly (Hungarian poet, dramatist) |
1800-1855 |
| Vorster, Balthazar Johannes (South African prime min. 1966-78) |
1915-1983 |
| Vos, Cornelis de (Flemish painter) |
1584-1651 |
| Vos, Gerrit Jansz (Dutch Humanist, theologian) |
1577-1649 |
| Vos, Maerten de (Flemish painter) |
1531-1603 |
| Vos, Paul (Flemish painter; brother of Cornelis) |
c.1596-1678 |
| Voss, Johann Heinrich (German poet, translator, philologist) |
1751-1826 |
| Voss, Richard (German writer) |
1851-1918 |
| Vostell, Wolf (German painter, sculptor, Happening artist) |
1932-1998 |
| Vouet, Simon (French painter) |
1590-1649 |
| Vought, Chance Milton (Am. aeronautical engineer, designer) |
1890-1930 |
| Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley (English architect, designer) |
1857-1941 |
| Voznesensky, Andrey Andreyevich (Russian poet) |
1933-2010 |
| Vranitzky, Franz (Austrian politician; Chancellor 1986-1997) |
b.1937 |
| Vraz, Stanko (born Jakob Fras; Croatian poet) |
1810-1851 |
| Vriend, Jan (Dutch composer, conductor, pianist) |
b.1938 |
| Vries, Adriaan de (Dutch sculptor) |
c.1560-1626 |
| Vries, Hugo Marie de (Dutch botanist, geneticist) |
1848-1935 |
| Vries, Matthijs de (Dutch philologist) |
1820-1892 |
| Vuillard, Jean-Edouard (French painter, printmaker, decorator) |
1868-1940 |
| Vukotic, Dusan (Montenegrin animated film director) |
1927-1998 |
| Vulpius, Christian August (German writer) |
1762-1827 |
| Vvedensky, Aleksandr Ivanovich (Russian poet, playwright) |
1904-1941 |
| Vyasa (Krsna Dvaipayana, Badarayana; Indian sage) |
5th? cent. BC |
| Vycpalek, Ladislav (Czach composer) |
1882-1969 |
| Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich (Soviet, diplomat, politician) |
1883-1954 |
| Vyssotsky, Emma T.R. née Williams (Am. astronomer; asteroid) |
1894-1975 |
| Vytautas the Great (aka Witold; Lithuanian ruler) |
1350-1430 |