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- Valerii ZaluzhnyiUkrainian general and diplomat (born 1973)
- Valery ChkalovSoviet test pilot (1904–1938)
- Valery GerasimovRussian general (born 1955)
- Vanessa NakateUgandan climate activist (born 1996)
- Vasily ArkhipovSoviet Navy vice admiral who prevented nuclear war (1926–1998)
- Vasily BlyukherMarshal of the Soviet Union (1889–1938)
- Vasily ChuikovSoviet military commander (1900–1982)
- Vasily MargelovSoviet general (1908–1990)
- Vazgen SargsyanArmenian military commander, politician (1959–1999)
- Velupillai PrabhakaranEelam Tamil nationalist and military leader (1954–2009)
- VenganoorVenganoor is an area within the Trivandrum City of Kerala, India, which is situated 13 km
- VentersdorpVentersdorp is a town of about 4,200 people in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, No
- Vicente GuerreroPresident of Mexico in 1829
- Victoria WoodhullAmerican women's suffrage activist (1838–1927)
- Vida GoldsteinAustralian suffragist and social reformer (1869–1949)
- Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust StudiesThe Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated
- Villas-Bôas brothersBrazilian activists
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarIndian politician and ideologue (1883–1966)
- Vincent LingiariAboriginal Australian rights activist (born 1908)
- Viso del MarquésViso del Marqués is a municipality located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Manc
- VouziersVouziers (French pronunciation: ) is a commune of the Ardennes department, northern France