- Valdez, Jeff
- Valery, Paul – French critic & poet
- Valois, Marguerite de
- Van Buren, Abigail – American advice columnist
- Van Buren, Martin – 8th President of US
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Vance, Louis Joseph
- Vanderbilt, Amy – American authority on etiquette
- Vaneigem, Raoul
- Varese, Edgard – American (French-born) composer
- Varro, Marcus Terentius – Roman scholar
- Vaughan, Bill
- Vaughan, Harry
- Vauvenargues, Marquis de
- Veblen, Thorstein – American economist & social philosopher
- Veen, Jeffrey
- Veninga, Robert
- Venturi, Ken
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- Verne, Jules
- Vichy-Chaconne, Marie De
- Vidal, Gore – American author & dramatist
- Villa, Pancho – Mexican bandit & revolutionary
- Villon, Francois – French poet
- Vinge, Joan D.
- Virgil – Roman epic poet
- Viscott, David
- Vizinczey, Stephen
- Vlaming, Jeffrey
- Vogel, W. J.
- Volk, Craig
- Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet – French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist
- von Neumann, Johann – American (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician
- Vonnegut, Kurt – American novelist
- vos Savant, Marilyn
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