| This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "V". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-V, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list. |
Names like "van Doren" with a lower case v are alphabetized under the second element of the name.
- Vagnorius, Gediminas (1957 — )
- Vahl, Martin (1749 – 1804)
- Vail, Edwin Arnold (1817 – 1885)
- Vaillancourt, Cyrille (1892 – 1969)
- Vaillant, Sébastien (1669 – 1722)
- Vaizey, John Savill (1829 – 1916)
- Vajpayee, Atal Bihari (b. 1924)
- Valcourt, Bernard (1952 - )
- de Valdez, Franciso (1511–1580)
- Valentine, Pope (? – 827)
- Valentini, Philipp J. J. (1828-1899)
- Valignano, Alessandro (1539 – 1606)
- Valkeapää, Nils-Aslak (1943 – 2001)
- Vallery-Radot, René (1853 – 1933)
- Vallès, Jules (1832 – 1885)
- Valois, Joseph Marie Noel (1865 – 1915)
- Valuyev, Pyotr (1815–1890)
- Valéry, Paul (1871 – 1945)
- Van Buren, Martin (1782 – 1862)
- Van den Bergh, Simon (1882 – unknown)
- Van Der Weyde, Peter Henri (1813 – 1895)
- Van Doren, Carl Clinton (1885 – 1950)
- Van Doren, Mark Albert (1894 – 1972)
- Van Dyke, John Charles (1856 – 1932)
- Van Gogh, Vincent (1853 – 1890)
- Van Hise, Charles R. (1857 – 1918)
- Van Ingen, Gilbert (1869 – 1925)
- Van Laer, Arnold Johan Ferdinand (1869–1955)
- Van Rhyn, Gustav Adolph Fidelie (d. 1881)
- Van Tyne, Claude Halstead (1869 – 1930)
- Vanbrugh, John (1664 – 1726)
- Vancouver, George (1757 – 1798)
- Vanderlip, Frank (1864 – 1937)
- Vanzler, Joseph (1902 – 1956)
- Vargas, Getúlio (1882 – 1954)
- Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood (1828 – 1883)
- Varley, John (1778 – 1842)
- Varnhagen, Rahel (1771 – 1833)
- Varro, Marcus Terrentius, (116 BCE – 27 BCE)
- Varthema, Ludovico di (1470 – 1517)
- Vatsyayana ( – )
- Vaughan, Charles Edwyn (1854 – 1922)
- Vaughan, Daniel (1818 – 1879)
- Vaughan, Henry (1622 – 1695)
- Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp (1870 – 1948)
- Vautour, Angela (1960 - )
- Vaux, Calvert (1824 – 1895)
- Vaux, George jr. (1863–1927)
- Vaux, William Sandys Wright (1818 – 1885)
- Vazirov, Abdurrahman (1930 - )
- Veblen, Thorstein (1857 – 1929)
- Vedder, Henry Clay (1853 – 1935)
- Veitch, John (1829 – 1894)
- Velimirović, Nikolaj (1881 – 1956)
- Venables, Edmund (1819 – 1895)
- Veniot, Clarence Joseph (1886 – 1977)
- Veniot, Peter (1863 – 1936)
- Venn, John Archibald (1834 – 1923)
- Venne, Pierrette (1945 — )
- Ventenat, Étienne Pierre (1757 – 1808)
- Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604)
- Vere, Aubrey Thomas de (1814 – 1902)
- Verlaine, Paul (1844 – 1896)
- Verne, Jules (1828 – 1905)
- Verner, Josée (1959 – )
- Vernéde, Robert Ernest (1875 – 1917)
- Verney, Margaret Maria (1844 – 1930)
- Vernon-Harcourt, Leveson Francis (1839 – 1907)
- Vernon-Harcourt, Leveson William (1871 – 1909)
- Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811 – 1877)
- Verworn, Max (1863 – 1921)
- Very, Jones (1813 – 1880)
- Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1841 – 1916)
- Vlamingh, Willem de (1640 – 1698)
- Vian, Alsager Richard (1863 – 1924)
- Viard, Jules (1862 - 1940)
- Viardot, Louis (1800 – 1883)
- Vibart, Henry Meredith (1839 – 1917)
- Vickridge, Alberta (1890 – 1963)
- Victor I, Pope (? – 199)
- Victor II, Pope (1018 – 1057)
- Victor III, Pope (1026 – 1087)
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819 – 1901)
- Vidal, Alexander (1819 – 1906)
- Vien, Thomas (1881 – 1972)
- Viereck, George Sylvester (1884 – 1962)
- Villari, Luigi (1876 – 1959)
- Villari, Pasquale (1827 - 1917)
- Villepin, Dominique de (b. 1953)
- Vincent, Louis-Hugues (1872 – 1960)
- Vincent, Robert (1956 — )
- Vinci, Leonardo da (1452 – 1519)
- Vines, Sydney Howard (1849 – 1934)
- Vinogradoff, Paul (1854-1925)
- Vinson, Frederick Moore (1890 – 1953)
- Vinson, Julien (1843 – 1926)
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène (1814 – 1879)
- Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC)
- Visclosky, Peter John (1949 - )
- de Vismes Kane, William Francis (1840 – 1918)
- Višnjić, Filip (1767 – 1834)
- Vitalian, Pope (? – 672)
- Vitalis, Orderic (1075 – 1142)
- Vitoria, Francisco de (1480? - 1546)
- Vitruvius (c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC)
- Vitter, David (1961 - )
- Vivekananda, Swami (1863 – 1902)
- Vivian, Sylvanus Percival (1880 - 1958)
- Viviani, René (1863 – 1925)
- Vizetelly, Frank Horace (1864 – 1938)
- Vodnik, Valentin (1758 – 1819)
- Vodrey, Rosemary (? - )
- Voelcker, John Augustus (1822 - 1884)
- Vogel, August (1817 – 1889)
- Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm (1834 – 1898)
- Vogel, Martin
- Vogt, Carl Christoph (1817 – 1895)
- von Voit, Carl (1831 – 1908)
- Voigt, Woldemar (1850 – 1919)
- Voinovich, George (1936 — )
- Voith, Michael (1961 - )
- Voldemaras, Augustinas (1883 – 1942)
- Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe (1745 – 1827)
- Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
- Vonnegut, Kurt (1922 – 2007)
- Vonwiller, Oscar Ulrich (1882–1972)
