| Juan Valera (1824–1905), Spanish novelist |
| Valerian (Third Century), Roman Emperor |
| Publius Valerius Poplicola (d. 503 B.C.), colleague of Brutus |
| Gaius Valerius Flaccus (fl. First Century A.D.), Roman poet |
| Valerius Maximus (First Century A.D.), Latin writer |
| Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457), Italian humanist |
| Clement Laird Vallandigham (1820–1871), American politician |
| Jules Vallès (1832–1885), French journalist and author |
| Counts and Dukes of Valois |
| Henri de Valois (1603–1676), French scholar |
| Richard Valpy (1754–1836), English schoolmaster |
| Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913), Hungarian orientalist and traveller |
| Jan van Beers (1821–1888), Belgian poet |
| Irene (1872–1949) and Violet (1867–1942) Vanbrugh, English actresses |
| Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), British dramatist and architect |
| Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), eighth President of the United States |
| Zebulon Baird Vance (1830–1894), American political leader |
| George Vancouver (1757–1798), English navigator |
| Dominique Vandamme (1770–1830), French soldier |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), American capitalist |
| Frank Arthur Vanderlip (1864–1937), American banker |
| John Vanderlyn (1775–1852), American artist |
| Jacob van Deventer (1874–1922), South African general |
| Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), American soldier |
| Prudens van Duyse (1804–1859), Belgian poet |
| Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Flemish painter |
| Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck (1818–1895), American missionary |
| Henry van Dyke (1852–1933), American writer |
| Sir Henry Vane (1589–1655), English secretary of state |
| Sir Henry Vane (1613–1662), English statesman and author |
| Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843–1915), Canadian financier |
| Lucilio Vanini (1585–1619), Italian free-thinker |
| Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Dutch microscopist |
| Charles-André Vanloo (1705–1765), subject painter |
| Jean-Baptiste Vanloo (1684–1745), French subject and portrait painter |
| Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764–1839), American political leader and soldier, “last of the patroons” |
| George Van Santvoord (1819–1863), American lawyer and author |
| Henry Vansittart (1732–1770), Anglo-Indian governor |
| Nicholas Vansittart (1766–1851), English politician |
| Gustave Vapereau (1819–1906), French man of letters and lexicographer |
| Benedetto Varchi (1503–1565), Florentine historian |
| Vardanes, name of two Parthian kings |
| Bernhardus Varenius (1622–1650), German geographer |
| Varinus Camers (c. 1450–1537), Italian lexicographer and scholar |
| Cornelius Varley (1781–1873), English water-colour painter |
| John Varley (1778–1842), English water-colour painter |
| Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858), German biographer |
| Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.), Roman polymath and man of letters |
| Publius Terentius Varro (82–c. 35 B.C.), Latin poet |
| Lodovico de Varthema (fl. Fifteenth Century), Italian traveller and writer |
| Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), Italian painter and architect |
| Joaquim de Vasconcellos (1849–1936), Portuguese scholar and author |
| Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón (c. 1475–1526), Spanish adventurer and colonizer in America |
| Matthew Vassar (1792–1868), American brewer, and the founder of Vassar College |
| Wilhelm Vatke (1806–1882), German Protestant theologian |
| Emer de Vattel (1714–1767), Swiss jurist |
| Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707), Marshal of France, the most celebrated of military engineers |
| Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1595–1650), French grammarian and man of letters |
| Charles John Vaughan (1816–1897), English scholar and divine |
| Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), called the “Silurist,” English poet and mystic |
| Thomas Vaughan (1621–1666), English alchemist and mystic |
| William Vaughan (1577–1641), English author and colonial pioneer |
| Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), French chemist |
| Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye (1536?–1607?), French poet |
| Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747), French moralist and miscellaneous writer |
| Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), American architecture and landscape gardener |
| Thomas, Lord Vaux (1509–1556), English poet |
| Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet and writer |
| Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), American artist |
| Garcilaso de la Vega (1503–1536), Spanish soldier and poet |
| Lope de Vega (1562–1635), Spanish dramatist and poet |
| Vegetius, celebrated military writer |
| Philipp Veit (1793–1877), German painter |
| John Veitch (1829–1894), Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian of the Scottish border |
| Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), head of the Spanish school of painting and one of the greatest painters the world has known |
| Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), Dutch animal and landscape painter |
| Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), Dutch painter |
| Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579–1644), Spanish dramatist and novelist |
| Velius Longus (Second Century), Latin grammarian |
| Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 B.C.–c. 30 A.D.), Roman historian |
| Louis Joseph, Duc de Vendôme (1654–1712), Marshal of France |
| Eleutherios Venizelos (1864–1936), Greek statesman |
| Henry Venn (1725–1797), English evangelical divine |
| Augusto Vera (1813–1885), Italian philosopher |
| Duke of Veragua (1837–1910), Marquis of Jamaica, and Admiral and Andelantado Mayor of the Indies |
| Verax (1823–1896), English journalist |
| Guido Fridolin Verbeck (1830–1898), Dutch-American missionary and official under the Japanese government |
| Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (1798–1881), Belgian painter |
| Susanna Verbruggen (c. 1667–1703), English actress |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italian composer |
| Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1832–1910), German general and military writer |
| Vere, English noble family |
| Sir Francis Vere (1560–1609), English soldier |
| Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian artist and traveller |
| Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), Italian novelist |
| Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes (1719–1787), French statesman |
| Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), English historian |
| Lucius Verginius Rufus (14–97 A.D.), Roman patriot and soldier |
| Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud (1753–1793), French orator and revolutionist |
| Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916), Belgian poet |
| Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French lyric poet |
| Charles Verlat (1824–1890), Belgian painter |
| Vermandois, French countship |
| Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Dutch painter |
| Pietro Martire Vermigli (1500–1562), generally known as Peter Martyr, Protestant theologian |
| Auguste Vermorel (1841–1871), French journalist |
| Jules Verne (1828–1905), French author |
| Vernet, name of three eminent French painters |
| Édouard de Verneuil (1805–1873), French palæontologist |
| Verney, name of an English family |
| Pierre Vernier (c. 1580–1637), inventor of the instrument which bears his name |
| Edward Vernon (1684–1757), English admiral |
| George John Warren, Lord Vernon (1803–1866), English scholar and philanthropist |
| Robert Vernon (1774–1849), English patron of art |
| Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907), English engineer |
| Louis Désiré Véron (1798–1867), French publicist |
| Pierre Véron (1831–1900), French publicist |
| Paul Veronese (1528–1588), latest of the great cycle of painters of the Venetian school |
| Saint Veronica (First Century), early Christian |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786–1870), American littérateur |
| Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1851–1912), English classical scholar |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485–1528), Italian navigator and explorer |
| Gaius Verres (c. 120–43 B.C.), Roman magistrate |
| Marcus Verrius Flaccus (First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), Roman grammarian and teacher |
| Andrea del Verrocchio (1435?–1488), Italian goldsmith, sculptor and painter |
| George Vertue (1684–1756), English engraver and antiquary |
| Jones Very (1813–1880), American poet and critic |
| Vespasian (9–79 A.D.), Roman Emperor |
| Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), merchant and adventurer |
| Gaetano Vestris (1729–1808), French ballet dancer |
| Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797–1856), English actress |
| Louis Veuillot (1813–1883), French journalist and man of letters |
| Hermann Vezin (1829–1910), American actor |
| Pauline Viardot-García (1821–1910), French actress and singer |
| Théophile de Viau (1590–1626), French poet |
| Gabriel Vicaire (1848–1900), French poet |
| Gil Vicente (c. 1470–c. 1536), father of the Portuguese drama |
| Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), Italian jurist and philosopher |
| Victor, name taken by three popes and two antipopes |
| Gaius Julius Victor (Fourth Century), Roman writer on rhetoric |
| Sextus Aurelius Victor (Fourth Century), Prefect of Pannonia |
| Victor Amadeus II. (1666–1732), Duke of Savoy and first King of Sardinia |
| Victor Emmanuel II. (1820–1878), King of Sardinia and first King of Italy |
| Victor Emmanuel III. (1869–1947), King of Italy |
| Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India |
| Guadalupe Victoria (1780–1843), Mexican patriot |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548–1611), Spanish musical composer |
| Gaius Marius Victorinus (Fourth Century), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neo-Platonic philosopher |
| Marco Girolamo Vida (c. 1485–1566), Italian scholar and Latin poet |
| Peire Vidal (fl. 1200), Provençal troubadour |
| Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845–1918), French geographer |
| François Eugène Vidocq (1775–1857), French detective |
| Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), writer and social reformer of Bengal |
| António Vieira (1608–1697), Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the “prince of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time” |
| Francis Viélé-Griffin (1864–1937), French poet |
| Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), French painter |
| Daniel Vierge (1851–1904), Spanish painter and draughtsmen |
| François Viète (1540–1603), French mathematician |
| Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881), Belgian violinist and composer |
| Marie-Anne Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), French painter |
| Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1827–1889), foremost Scandinavian scholar of the 19th century |
| Vigilantius (fl. 394–406), the presbyter, celebrated as the author of a work against superstitious practices |
| Vigilius (d. 555), Pope |
| Viglius (1507–1577), Dutch statesman and jurist |
| Henry Vignaud (1830–1922), American diplomat and author |
| Paul de Vigne (1843–1901), Belgian sculptor |
| Vignola (1507–1573), Italian architect |
| Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet |
| Vikramaditya, legendary Hindu King of Uzjain |
| William Freeman Vilas (1840–1908), American political leader and lawyer |
| Francisco Villa (1878–1923), Mexican bandit and revolutionary |
| Juan de Tarsis, Count de Villamediana (1580–1622), Spanish poet |
| Giovanni Villani (c. 1275–1348), Italian chronicler |
| Henry Villard (1835–1900), American journalist and financier |
| Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (1747?–1812), French admiral |
| Pasquale Villari (1827–1917), Italian historian and statesman |
| Claude Louis Hector, duc de Villars (1653–1734), Prince de Martignes, Marquis and duc de Villars and Vicomte de Melun, marshal of France, one of the greatest generals of French history |
| Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1589–1669), Spanish poet |
| Geoffroi de Villehardouin (d. c. 1212), first vernacular historian of France |
| Joseph de Villèle (1773–1854), French statesman |
| Abel François Villemain (1790–1870), French politician and man of letters |
| Enrique de Villena (1384–1434), Spanish author |
| Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre de Villeneuve (1763–1806), French admiral |
| François de Neufville, Duc de Villeroi (1644–1730), French soldier |
| Charles, Marquis de Villette (1736–1793), French writer and politician |
| Charles Pelham Villiers (1802–1898), English statesman |
| Frederic Villiers (1851–1922), war correspondent and artist |
| Auguste comte de Villiers de L’Isle Adam (1838–1889), French poet |
| Jean Baptiste Gaspard d’Ansse de Villoison (1750–1805), French classical scholar |
| François Villon (1431–1463?), French poet |
| Saint Vincent, Deacon and martyr |
| Vincent of Beauvais (d. 1264), Encyclopædist of the middle ages |
| Charles Edward Howard Vincent (1849–1908), English statesman |
| George Vincent (1796–1831?), English landscape and marine painter |
| John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920), American clergyman |
| Marvin Richardson Vincent (1834–1922), American clergyman and educator |
| Mary Ann Vincent (1818–1887), American actress |
| Saint Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), French divine, founder of the “Congregation of Priests of the Mission,” usually known as Lazarites |
| Saint Vincent of Lerins (d. c. 450), ecclesiastical writer of the Western Church |
| Saint Vincent Ferrer (c. 1350–1419), Spanish Dominican preacher |
| Leonardo Vinci (1690–1730), Italian musical composer |
| Sir Robert Viner (1631–1688), Lord Mayor of London |
| Sydney Howard Vines (1849–1934), British botanist |
| Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797–1847), French critic and theologian |
| Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), Anglo-Russian jurist |
| Joseph Vinoy (1800–1880), French soldier |
| David Hammond Vinton (1803–1873), American soldier |
| Frederick Porter Vinton (1846–1911), American portrait painter |
| Paul Viollet (1840–1914), French historian |
| Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), French architect and writer on archæology |
| Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), Italian violinist and musical composer |
| Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German pathologist and politician |
| Virgil (70–19 B.C.), the great Roman poet |
| Virginia, legendary Roman woman |
| Christóbal de Virués (1550?–c. 1614), Spanish dramatist and poet |
| Vischer, name of a family of Nuremberg sculptors |
| Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807–1887), German writer on the philosophy of art |
| Visconti, name of a celebrated Italian family which long ruled Milan |
| Marquis Emilio Visconti-Venosta (1829–1914), Italian statesman and diplomat |
| Vitalian (d. 672), Bishop of Rome |
| Vitellozzo Vitelli (d. 1502), Italian condottiere |
| Aulus Vitellius (15–69 A.D.), Roman Emperor |
| Louis Vitet (1802–1873), French dramatist and politician |
| Vitruvius (First Century B.C.), Roman architect and engineer, author of a celebrated work on architecture |
| Saint Vitus, martyr |
| Ugolino and Sorleone de Vivaldo (fl. 1291–1315), Genoese explorers |
| Vivarini, surname of a family of painters of Murano (Venice) |
| Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540), Spanish scholar |
| Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (1775–1842), British cavalry leader |
| Henry Vizetelly (1820–1894), English publisher |
| Saint Vladimir (c. 956–1015), Grand-duke of Kiev and of all Russia |
| Gowrishankar Vodeyshankar (1805–1892), native minister of the state of Bhaunagar in Kathiawar, Bombay |
| Gysbertus Voetius (1589–1676), Dutch theologian |
| Eduard Vogel (1829–1856), German traveller in Central Africa |
| Sir Julius Vogel (1835–1899), British colonial statesman |
| Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814), German organist and composer |
| Karl Christoph Vogt (1817–1895), German naturalist and geologist |
| Melchior de Vogüé (1848–1910), French author |
| Claude Henri de Fusée de Voisenon (1708–1775), French dramatist and man of letters |
| Vincent Voiture (1597–1648), French poet |
| Vokes, name of a family of English actors |
| Leonard Wells Volk (1828–1895), American sculptor |
| Johannes Volkelt (1848–1930), Austrian philosopher and pedagogist |
| Georg von Vollmar (1850–1922), German Socialist |
| Constantin-François Volney (1757–1820), French savant |
| Vologaeses, name of five Parthian kings |
| Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist |
| Voltaire (1694–1778), French philosopher, historian, dramatist and man of letters |
| Florentius Volusenus (c. 1504–1546/7), Scottish humanist |
| Artemy Petrovich Volynsky (1689–1740), Russian general and statesman |
| Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch poet |
| Hermann Eduard von Holst (1841–1904), German-American historian |
| Robert William Vonnoh (1858–1933), American portrait and landscape painter |
| Vonones, name of two Parthian kings |
| Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (1827–1897), American lawyer and political leader |
| Vorontsov, name of a Russian family |
| Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), Hungarian poet |
| Vortigern (fl. 450), King of the Britons |
| Carel Vosmaer (1826–1888), Dutch poet and art critic |
| Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826), German poet and translator |
| Richard Voss (1851–1918), German dramatist and novelist |
| Gerhard Johann Vossius (1577–1649), German classical scholar and theologian |
| Simon Vouet (1590–1649), French painter |
| Sebastian Vrancx (1573–1647), painter of the Antwerp school |
| Juliaan (1842–1935) and Albrecht (1843–1900) de Vriendt, Belgian painters |
| Christian August Vulpius (1762–1827), German author |
| Vytautas (1350–1430), Grand-duke of Lithuania |
| Sir William Waad (1546–1623), English statesman and diplomatist |
| Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868), German art historian |
| Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900), German palæontologist |
| Wace (c. 1110–c. 1175), Anglo-Norman chronicler |
| Henry Wace (1836–1924), English divine |
| Charles Wachsmuth (1829–1896), American palæontologist |
| Luke Wadding (1588–1657), Irish Franciscan friar and historian |
| William Henry Waddington (1826–1894), French statesman |
| Benjamin Franklin Wade (1800–1878), American statesman |
| Decuis Spear Wade (1835–1905), American jurist |
| George Wade (1673–1748), British field marshal |
| Thomas Wade (1805–1875), English poet and dramatist |
| Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), British diplomatist |
| James Samuel Wadsworth (1807–1864), American general |
| Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), German economist |
| Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German dramatic composer, poet and essay-writer |
| Rudolph Wagner (1805–1864), German anatomist and physiologist |
| Noël François de Wailly (1724–1801), French grammarian and lexicographer |
| Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794–1847), English journalist and subject-painter |
| Morrison Remick Waite (1816–1888), American jurist |
| Robert Waithman (1764–1833), Lord Mayor of London |
| Georg Waitz (1813–1886), German historian |
| Theodor Waitz (1821–1864), German psychologist and anthropologist |
| Thomas Wake (1297–1349), English baron |
| William Wake (1657–1737), English Archbishop |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), British colonial statesman |
| Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), English classical scholar and politician |
| Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), English medical and social reformer |
| Walafrid Strabo (c. 808–849), German monk and theological writer |
| Johann Georg Walch (1693–1775), German theologian |
| Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American geologist |
| Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), French statesman |
| Waldegrave, name of an English family |
| Roger Walden (d. 1406), English prelate |
| Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904), Prussian general field marshal |
| Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783–1861), American artist |
| Alexandre, Comte Walewski (1810–1868), French politician and diplomatist |
| Henry Walke (1808–1896), American naval officer |
| Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897), American soldier and economist |
| Frederick Walker (1840–1875), English subject painter |
| George Walker (d. 1690), hero of the siege of Londonderry |
| Henry Oliver Walker (1843–1929), American artist |
| Horatio Walker (1858–1938), American artist |
| James Walker (1794–1874), American clergyman and educator |
| John Walker (1732–1807), English actor, philologist and lexicographer |
| Obadiah Walker (1616–1699), Master of University College, Oxford |
| Robert Walker (d. c. 1658), British painter |
| Robert John Walker (1801–1869), American political leader and economist |
| Sears Cook Walker (1805–1853), American astronomer |
| Thomas Walker (1784–1836), English police magistrate |
| William Walker (1824–1860), American adventurer |
| Ricardo Wall (1694–1777), diplomatist and minister in the Spanish service |
| Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist |
| Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841–1919), British author and journalist |
| Lewis Wallace (1827–1905), American soldier and author |
| Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), English art collector and philanthropist |
| Sir William Wallace (c. 1270–1305), popular national hero of Scotland |
| William Wallace (1768–1843), Scottish mathematician |
| William Wallace (1844–1897), Scottish philosopher |
| William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865), British composer |
| James William Wallack (c. 1791–1864), Anglo-American actor and manager |
| Knut Wallenberg (1853–1938), Swedish statesman |
| Wallenstein (1583–1634), German soldier and statesman
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