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Vaaler, Johan - (1866-??) inventor of the paperclip
Vadim, Roger - (1928-2000), journalist, actor, screenwriter, director
Vadiz, Yolanda - (1959-1986), gospel music singer, soprano
Vai, Steve - (born 1960), musician
Vair, Guillaume du - (born 1556), French statesman, philosopher
Vaisala, Yrjo - (1891 - 1971), Finnish astronomer and physicist
Valadon, Suzanne - (1865-1938), French painter
Valance, Holly - (b. 1983), Australian singer
Valdemar I of Denmark - (1131 - 1182)
Valderrama, Carlos - (born 1961), Colombian footballer
Valdez, Ramon - (1923-1988), Mexican actor
Valdez, Rodrigo - (born 1946), world champion boxer
Valdivia, Pedro de - (1500-1553), Conquistador of Chile
Valens - (A.D. 328 - 378), Roman Emperor
Valens, Ritchie - (1941-1959), US pop singer
Valentinian I - (?? - 375), Roman Emperor
Valentinian II - (?? - 392), Roman Emperor
Valentinian III - (419-455), Roman Emperor
Valentino, Rudolph - (1895-1926), Italian-born actor
Valentinus, Pope - (died 827)
Valenzuela, Fernando - baseball player
Valera, Eamon de - (1882-1975), Irish independence leader, president
Valeria - Supermodel
Valerian I - Roman Emperor
Valery, Paul - (1871-1945), French author, poet
Vallee, Rudy - (1901-1986), US singer, actor
Vallejo, Cesar - (1892-1938), Peruvian poet
Vallejos, Fabiana - (born 1985), Argentine women's soccer player
Valli, Frankie - (born 1937), singer
Vallieres, Pierre - author, political activist
Valo, Ville - (b. 1976), Finnish musician
Valvasor, Janez Vajkard - (1641-1693), Slovene polymath
Van Allen, James - (born 1914), US astronomer
van Basten, Marco - (b.1964 ), Dutch footballer
Van Buren, Hannah - (born 1783), First Lady of the United States
Van Buren, Martin - (1782-1862), US President
van Cleef, Lee - (1925-1989), actor
Van Damme, Ivo - athlete
Van Damme, Jean Claude - (born 1960), Belgian-boirn action movie actor
Van de Graaff, Robert - (born 1901), physicist, inventor
Van de Velde, Henry - (1863-1957), architect
van den Berg, Lodewijk - astronaut
van den Eeckhout, Gerbrand - Dutch painter
van den Hoogenband, Pieter - (born 1978), swimmer
van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies - (1886-1969), architect
van der Waals, Johannes - physicist
van der Weyden, Rogier - (1399-1464), Flemish painter
van Dongen, Kees - (1877-1968), Dutch Fauves painter
Van Duyn, Mona - poet
van Dyck, Anthony - (1599-1641), painter
Van Dyke, Dick - (born 1925), US actor, comedian
van Eyck, Jan - (c. 1390-1441), Belgian painter
Van Halen, Eddie - (b. 1955 ), US musician
Van Herk, Aritha - Canadian writer
van het Reve, Gerard - novelist
van Hoften, James - astronaut
Van Peebles, Melvin - (born 1932), actor, screenwriter
Van Sant, Gus - (b. 1952 ), Hollywood film director
Van Steenbergen, Rik - (1924 - May 15, 2003), Belgian cyclist
van Vogt, A. E. - (1912-2000), science fiction writer
van Zandt, Townes - (died 1997), musician
van Zeeland, Paul - (1893 - 1973)
Vanbrugh, John - (1664-1726), architect
Vance, Cyrus - (1917-2002), US Secretary of State
Vance, John Holbrook - (born 1916), author
Vance, Vivian - (1909-1979), actress
Vancouver, George - (born 1757)
Vanderbilt, Amy - (born 1908), author on etiquette
Vanderbilt, Cornelius - (1794-1877), entrepreneur
Vanderbilt, Gloria - (born 1924), jeans designer and entrepreneur
Vandross, Luther - (born 1951), singer
Vanessa Mae - (born 1978), musician
Vanhanen, Matti - (born 1955), Finnish prime minister
vant Hoff, Jacobus Henricus - (1852-1911) Dutch Nobel Prize in Chemistry scientist
Vardalos, Nia - (born 1962), actress, writer, comedienne
Varela, Francisco - (1946-2001), biologist
Varese, Edgar - (1883 - 1965), composer
Vargas Llosa, Mario - (born 1936), Peruvian novelist and essayist
Vargas, Fernando - (born 1977), world champion boxer
Vargas, Martin - (born 1953), Chilean boxer
Vargas, Wilfrido - Merengue singer, Sergio's brother
Varley, John - US science fiction author
Vartan, Michael - (born 1968), actor
Varus, Publius Quinctilius - (d. 9 AD), Roman general
Vasarely, Victor - (1908 - 1997), painter
Vasari, Giorgio - (1511 - 1571), Italian architect
Vasili III - patriarch of Constantinople
Vasili III of Russia - (died 1533)
Vassilieff, Marie - (1884 - 1957), painter
Vatanen, Ari - Finnish rally driver
Vaughan Williams, Ralph - (1872 - 1958), composer
Vaughan, Henry - (1621 - 1695), poet
Vaughan, Sarah - (1924 - 1990), musician
Vaughan, Stevie Ray - (1954 - 1990), musician
Vaughan, Thomas - (~ 1410 - 1483), philosopher
Vaughn, Robert - (born 1932), actor
Vaughn, Sarah - (died 1990), singer
Vaughn, Vince - (born 1970), actor
Vazquez, Wilfredo - (born 1960), world champion boxer
von Kaulbach, Wilhelm - (1805-1874), German painter
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