- Vadim Berezinskii1935Physicist
- Vadim Gluzman1973Classical violinist
- Vadim Knizhnik1962Physicist
- Vaiben Louis Solomon1899Seul juif à avoir dirigé un gouvernement colonial ou d'État en Australie, député fédéral…
- Valentin Fabrikant1907Physicist
- Valentin Serov1887Le plus grand portraitiste russe de son temps, auteur de La Fillette aux pêches
- 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
- Vardina Cohen1988Israeli singer and actress, youngest of the Suleiman the Great family, known for…
- 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 Gollancz1936Éditeur d'Orwell, fondateur du Left Book Club, militant pour les réfugiés et contre la…
- Victor Gruen1956Modern Enclosed Shopping Mall
- Victor Kac1943Kac-Moody algebras in representation theory
- Victor Klemperer1947Philologue, auteur de LTI, la langue du IIIe Reich, et du journal le plus complet de la…
- Victor Malka2004Producteur d'Écoute Israël et de Maison d'études sur France Culture, directeur…
- Victor Noir1870Journaliste tué par le prince Pierre Bonaparte, ses funérailles rassemblèrent plus de…
- Victor S. Miller1947Co-invented elliptic-curve cryptography.
- Victor Sassoon1881Built the Cathay Hotel on the Shanghai Bund and helped European Jewish refugees survive…
- 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 Young1900Film 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 Adler1852Founder and first leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party
- 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 Klitschko2004Champion du monde des poids lourds, maire de Kiev depuis 2014
- 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…
- Vittorio Foa1944Antifascist imprisoned for eight years by Mussolini, then a leader of the Italian…
- 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 Vissotski1971Chanteur, poète et acteur, la voix la plus aimée de l'Union soviétique tardive
- 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…
- Volodymyr Groysman2016Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016-2019) and, at 38, the youngest in its history
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy2019President of Ukraine since 2019
- Vsevolod GantmakherPhysicist (condensed matter physics)