Authors by V

Kurt Vonnegut 318

American writer 1922–2007

Voltaire 167

French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694–1778

Paul Valéry 89

French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871–1945

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues photo

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues 60

French writer, a moralist 1715–1747

Jules Verne 44

French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

Ville Valo 3

Finnish rock musician 1976

Francois Villon 18

Mediæval French poet 1431–1463

Jean Vanier 36

Canadian humanitarian 1928–2019

Virgil 138

Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

Gore Vidal 163

American writer 1925–2012

Pope Sixtus V	pope	1520–1590
Nina Vaca	businessperson
Andrew Vachss	American writer and lawyer	1942
Urvashi Vaid	Indian writer	1958
Alok Vaid-Menon	American performance artist, …	1991
Rachel Vail	American writer	1966
Auguste Vaillant	French anarchist	1861–1894
Vajiralongkorn	King of Thailand	1952
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	10th Prime Minister of India	1924–2018
Vald	French rapper	1992
Ramón Valdés	Mexican actor	1923–1988
Luis Valdez	American film director	1940
V. Vale	American writer	1942
Jack Valenti	President of the MPAA	1921–2007
Éamon de Valera	3rd President of Ireland	1882–1975
Stéphane Valeri	Monaco politician	1962
Paul Valéry	French poet, essayist, and ph…	1871–1945
Roosh Valizadeh	American writer and men's rig…	1979
Armando Valladares	American diplomat and former …	1937
Jose Cecilio del Valle	Honduran politician-	1777–1996
Rudy Vallée	American singer, actor, bandl…	1901–1986
César Vallejo	Peruvian writer	1892–1938
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo	Californian military commande…	1807–1890
Mike Vallely	American skateboarder and sin…	1970
Daniel Alan Vallero	American scientist	1953
Agostino Vallini	Catholic cardinal	1940
Manuel Valls	French Socialist Party (PS) p…	1962
Vālmīki	Legendary Indian poet, author…
Ville Valo	Finnish rock musician	1976
Jim Valvano	American basketball player-co…	1946–1993
Ngô Thanh Vân	Vietnamese singer and actress	1979
Sheldon Vanauken	American journalist	1914–1996
John Vanbrugh	English architect and dramati…	1664–1726
Ashlee Vance	American journalist	1977
Carole Vance	anthropologist
Courtney B. Vance	American actor	1960
Jack Vance	American mystery and speculat…	1916–2013
Paul Vance	American record producer	1929
Alexander Vandegrift	United States Marine Corps Me…	1887–1973
Cornelius Vanderbilt	American businessman, philant…	1794–1877
Gloria Vanderbilt	American businesswoman, fashi…	1924–2019
William Henry Vanderbilt	American philanthropist	1821–1885
Jeff VanderMeer	American writer	1968
Vangelis	Greek composer of electronic,…	1943
Jean Vanier	Canadian humanitarian	1928–2019
Donna VanLiere	American writer	1966
Bartolomeo Vanzetti	Italian American anarchist ex…	1888–1927
Erik Varden	Norwegian Monk and Prelate	1974
Ethlie Ann Vare	American journalist	1953
Francisco Varela	Chilean biologist	1946–2001
Migdia Chinea Varela	American actress, screenwrite…	1947
Valentin Varennikov	Soviet general and russian po…	1923–2009
Edgard Varèse	French composer	1883–1965
Eugenio Cruz Vargas	Chilean poet and painter	1923–2014
Hal Varian	American economist	1947
John Varley	American science fiction auth…	1947
Raja Ravi Varma	Indian painter	1848–1906
Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma	Maharajah of Travencore	1813–1846
Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma	Maharaja of Travancore	1922–2013
Yanis Varoufakis	Greek-Australian political ec…	1961
Marcus Terentius Varro	ancient latin scholar	-116–-27 BC
Giorgio Vasari	Italian painter, architect, w…	1511–1574
Aleksandr Vasilevsky	Soviet military commander	1895–1977
Juan Gabriel Vásquez	Colombian writer	1973
Michael Vassar	President of the Singularity …	1979
Radosveta Vassileva	legal scholar	1985
Dada Vaswani	Spiritual leader	1918–2018
Brian Vaszily		1970
Vātsyāyana	Indian logician
Emer de Vattel	jurist from the Principality …	1714–1767
Gianni Vattimo	Italian philosopher, politici…	1936–2023
Brian K. Vaughan	American screenwriter, comic …	1976
Henry Vaughan	Welsh author, physician and m…	1621–1695
Sarah Vaughan	American jazz singer	1924–1990
Stevie Ray Vaughan	American guitarist, songwrite…	1954–1990
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee	Sufi mystic	1953
Carrie Vaughn	American writer	1973
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues	French writer, a moralist	1715–1747
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux	English barrister, politician…	1778–1868
Daniel Vávra	Czech entrepreneur	1975
Paavo Väyrynen	Finnish politician	1946
Khem Veasna	Cambodian politician	1971
Oswald Veblen	American mathematician	1880–1960
Thorstein Veblen	American academic	1857–1929
Eddie Vedder	musician, songwriter, member …	1964
Lope De Vega	Spanish playwright and poet	1562–1635
Marta Moreno Vega	Author, professor, arts admin…	1942
Suzanne Vega	American singer	1959
Sándor Végh	Hungarian violinist	1912–1997
Doris Veillette	Quebec journalist	1935–2019
Walter Veith	zoologist	1949
Xavier Velasco	Mexican writer	1964
Diego Velázquez
Bram van Velde	Dutch painter	1895–1981
Vivian Vande Velde	American writer	1951
Brett Velicovich		1983
Nikolaj Velimirović	Serbian bishop and saint	1880–1956
George Vella	Maltese politician	1942
Samy Vellu	Malaysian politician	1936
Max Velmans	British psychologist	1942