• Vadim Berezinskii1935Physicist
• Vadim Gluzman1973Classical violinist
• Vadim Knizhnik1962Physicist
• Valentin Fabrikant1907Physicist
• Valentine Bargmann1908Mathematical physicist
• Valentine Davies1947Writer of Miracle on 34th Street (Academy Award 1947)
• Valentine Telegdi1922Physicist
• Valérie Bénaïm2012French journalist and TV columnist (Touche pas à mon poste!)
• Valery Pokrovsky1931Physicist
• Vanessa Carlton2002Singer-songwriter
• Varvara Alexandrovna Brilliant-Lerman1888Varvara Brilliant-Lerman was a well-known plant physiologist in Russia, whose main works…
• Vasily AksyonovAuthor
• Vasily Grossman1905Russian novelist ('Life and Fate')
• Vele Rabinowitz ZabludowskyVele Rabinowitz Zabludovsky was a transnational Yiddish and Hebrew teacher who dedicated…
• Veniamin KaverinAuthor
• Veniamin Levich1917Physical chemist known for physicochemical hydrodynamics and electrochemistry
• Vera Caspary1899Vera Caspary was a prolific novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, best-known for her…
• Vera Dean1903While her book, Builders of Emerging Nations (1961) discusses the important qualities…
• Vera Fonaroff1883Vera Fonaroff was an extraordinary violinist and member of the all-female Olive Mead…
• Vera Frances Salomons1888An elusive figure, Vera Salomon, who belonged to the interconnected network of…
• Vera Gordon1886Although she started acting in Russia at a young age, Vera Gordon initially struggled to…
• Vera Neumann1946Textile and scarf designer, founder of the 'Vera' brand of signed scarves
• Vera Paktor1949In her too-short life, Vera Paktor reached unprecedented heights for a woman in maritime…
• Vera Rubin1928Astronomer
• Vera Weizmann1881A Zionist and a physician, Vera Weizmann was a founding member of the WIZO.
• Vered BlonsteinIsraeli actress known for her role in The Good Doctor.
• Vered NissimMulti-disciplinary artist, curator, and art consultant Vered Nissim was born in Israel to…
• Verna Bloom1938Actress remembered for National Lampoon's Animal House.
• Vernon Ingram1924Biochemist regarded as the father of molecular medicine for identifying the molecular…
• Vicki BaumAuthor
• Vicki ShiranVicki Shiran was an Egyptian-born Israeli social activist dedicated to feminism…
• Vicky Safra1953Matriarch of the Safra banking family (Banco Safra, J. Safra Sarasin)
• Victor Babin1908Pianist and composer
• Victor BerdichevskyContinuum mechanics
• Victor Borge1909Pianist and comedian
• Victor Brauner1930Romanian Surrealist painter and sculptor
• Victor Conrad1876Seismologist and climatologist who discovered the Conrad discontinuity within the…
• Victor de Sabata1892Conductor and composer
• Victor FuchsEconomist
• Victor Garber1949Canadian actor acclaimed for 'Titanic', 'Alias', and his real-life role portrayal in…
• Victor Goldschmidt1888Founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry
• Victor Gruen1956Modern Enclosed Shopping Mall
• Victor Kac1943Kac-Moody algebras in representation theory
• Victor S. Miller1947Co-invented elliptic-curve cryptography.
• Victor Smorgon1945Built Smorgon Consolidated Industries from a kosher butcher shop into steel, glass…
• Victor Vasarely1906Hungarian-French artist, a leading figure of the Op Art movement
• Victor Weisskopf1908Physicist
• Victor Young1899Film composer and songwriter
• Victor Young Perez1931Tunisian-French boxer
• Victoria Fromkin1923Linguist renowned for research on speech errors and phonetics.
• Victoria Kaspi2016Astrophysicist
• Victoria Marks1956Victoria Marks (b. 1956) is an American dancer, choreographer, professor, and activist.
• Victoria Pedretti2018American actress
• Vidal Sassoon1963Hairstylist who revolutionized modern haircutting (the geometric bob) and built a global…
• Viktor Frankl1905Psychiatrist who founded logotherapy and wrote Man's Search for Meaning
• Viktor Hamburger1900Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
• Viktor Korchnoi1978Chess grandmaster, twice World Championship challenger (1978, 1981)
• Viktor Meyer1848Organic chemist who discovered thiophene and vapor-density methods
• Viktor ShklovskyLiterary & drama critic
• Viktor Tausk1879Early psychoanalyst known for work on psychosis
• Viktor Ullmann1898Classical composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
• Viktor Vekselberg1990Founder of Renova Group
• Viktor Zhirmunski1891Russian linguist and literary scholar known for dialectology and historical poetics.
• Vincent Elbaz1971French actor of Moroccan Sephardic Jewish descent, star of film and television
• Vincent Lindon1959Cesar and Cannes-winning French actor with a paternal Jewish family (Lindon/Lindenbaum)
• Vinton Cerf1943Co-designed the TCP/IP protocols underpinning the Internet.
• Viola Brothers Shore1890Viola Brothers Shore was an accomplished writer, poet, and screenwriter during the 1920s…
• Viola Harris1920Veteran character actress of stage and screen.
• Virginia Morris Pollak1898During World War II, sculptor Virginia Morris Pollak used her deep understanding of clay…
• Virginia Snitow1911Virginia Levitt Snitow was a multifaceted woman who was a teacher, political activist…
• Vitali Milman1939Asymptotic geometric analysis
• Vitaly Ginzburg1916Physicist
• Vitaly Goldansky1923Physicist and chemist
• Vitka Kempner1942-1944Vilna partisan who carried out the FPO's first sabotage operation and commanded…
• Vitka Kempner-Kovner1920Vita Kempner-Kovner was a heroic fighter on the front lines of the underground resistance…
• Vito Volterra1860Mathematician who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations describing predator-prey…
• Vivian Gornick1935Feminist writer and critic whose Village Voice essays and books ('The Romance of American…
• Vivienne Segal1897A talented singer/actor and superb comedian, Vivienne Segal enjoyed a lengthy career.
• Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin1919Topology and ergodic theory
• Vladimir Arnold1937Dynamical systems
• Vladimir Ashkenazy1937Pianist and conductor acclaimed for his recordings of the Romantic repertoire
• Vladimir Berestetsky1913Theoretical physicist
• Vladimir Boltyanskii1925Combinatorial geometry and optimal control theory
• Vladimir Drinfeld1954Introduced quantum groups
• Vladimir Feltsman1952Classical pianist
• Vladimir Golschmann1893Orchestra conductor
• Vladimir Gribov1930Physicist
• Vladimir Gusinsky1952Media magnate (NTV)
• Vladimir Herzog1937Brazilian journalist whose death became a symbol of resistance to dictatorship.
• Vladimir Horowitz1903Russian-American virtuoso pianist widely considered among the greatest of all time, famed…
• Vladimir Jankélévitch1903French philosopher of morals and of music
• Vladimir Jochelson1855Russian ethnographer known for studies of Siberian peoples
• Vladimir Jurowski1972Orchestra conductor
• Vladimir Keilis-Borok1921Geophysicist noted for work in seismology and earthquake prediction
• Vladimir Krainev1944Classical pianist
• Vladimir Levenshtein1935Devised the Levenshtein edit-distance metric.
• Vladimir Maz'ya1937Partial differential equations and Sobolev spaces
• Vladimir Mitz1943Authored the seminal description of the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS)…
• Vladimir Perel1928Physicist
• Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.1952Numerical analysis
• Vladimir Spivakov1944Violinist and conductor
• Vladimir Vapnik1936Co-invented support vector machines and statistical learning theory.
• Vladimir Veksler1907Physicist
• Vladimir Voinovich1932Russian writer and satirist known for his dissident novels.
• Vladislav Illich-Svitych1934Russian linguist and founder of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
• Vladislav KhodasevichPoet / lyricist
• Vladka Meed1921Vladka Meed was an underground courier who smuggled weapons to the Jewish Fighting…
• Vsevolod GantmakherPhysicist (condensed matter physics)

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