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Abraham Viktor Rydberg, född 18 december 1828 i Jönköping, död 21 september 1895 i Djursholm, var en svensk författare, skald, journalist, språkvårdare, religionsfilosof, översättare, kulturhistoriker och tecknare.

Vilhelm Andreas Wexels Krag oli norjalainen kirjailija, runoilija ja teatterinjohtaja. Kirjallisen tuotantonsa ohella hänet tunnetaan muun muassa Sørlandet-käsitteen alkuunpanijana ja puolestapuhujana.

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Viljo Johannes Kojo, salanimi Juho Poutanen oli suomalainen kirjailija, sanomalehtitoimittaja ja kuvataiteilija.

Vincas Kudirka – litewski lekarz, dziennikarz, poeta, muzyk i kompozytor tworzący w XIX wieku pod zaborem rosyjskim. Skomponował muzykę i napisał tekst do litewskiego hymnu narodowego Tautiška giesmė. Założyciel litewskojęzycznej gazety „Varpas”.

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Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential architectural teacher ever." His lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations. He was also the distinguished visiting professor in architecture at the University of Miami.

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He sold only one painting during his lifetime and became famous after his suicide, aged 37, which followed years of poverty and mental illness.

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Vingie E. Lawton Roe was an American novelist and screenwriter.

Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author and literary hostess. She wrote feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and participated in the founding of International PEN.

Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".