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John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice (born 1967, Gainesville, Florida) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter, ex-MK Ultra member, solo album artist, and founder of the all-analog Tiny Telephone recording studio in the San Francisco Bay Area.
John Varvatos
John Varvatos, American menswear designer (born 1954/1955, Detroit), ex-Calvin Klein and Polo Ralph Lauren, founder of the rock-inspired John Varvatos label, three-time CFDA winner, Under Armour design chief 2023-2025.
John Vechey
John Vechey is an American games entrepreneur who co-founded PopCap Games in Seattle in 2000, sold to Electronic Arts in 2011 for up to $1.3 billion.
John Velis
John Velis is an American Democratic politician and Army veteran who served as a state representative from 2014 to 2020 and joined the Massachusetts Senate in 2020.
John Venn
John Venn (1834–1923), English logician and mathematician of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, inventor of Venn diagrams, author of The Logic of Chance and Symbolic Logic, and compiler of Alumni Cantabrigienses.
John Ventimiglia
John Ventimiglia (born 1963) is an American actor, best known as Artie Bucco on The Sopranos and Dino Arbogast on Blue Bloods; unrelated to Milo Ventimiglia, born in Ridgewood, Queens.
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946), British field marshal nicknamed Tiger, Victoria Cross winner at Canal du Nord, commanded the BEF in 1939-1940 and ordered the Dunkirk withdrawal, later Governor of Gibraltar and Malta.
John Verhoogen
John Verhoogen (1912–1993) was a Belgian-born American geophysicist at UC Berkeley whose 1961 heat balance of the Earth's core identified inner-core solidification as a possible energy source for the geodynamo.
John Vernon
John Vernon (Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, 1932–2005) was a Canadian character actor, RADA-trained, known for Dean Wormer in Animal House, the mayor in Dirty Harry, and CBC's Wojeck; distinct from Baron Vernon and the novelist.
John Vernou Bouvier III
John Vernou Bouvier III, known on Wall Street as Black Jack, was an American stockbroker and socialite, father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and his daughter Lee.
John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke is a Canadian cognitive scientist and University of Toronto professor known for his 50-episode lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and his theory of relevance realization.
John VI (Patriarch of Constantinople)
John VI was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 712 to 714 or 715, installed by Emperor Philippikos after expelling Kyros and briefly supporting the Monothelite revival.
John VI (Pope)
John VI was the 85th pope, a Greek by birth who reigned from 701 to 705, pacifying Roman militias and ransoming captives from a Lombard invasion.
John VI Kantakouzenos
John VI Kantakouzenos (Ἰωάννης ΣΤ΄ Καντακουζηνός) was Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354, gaining the throne through civil war, and after abdicating became a monk and historian of his own age.
John VI of Portugal
John VI (João VI, 1767/1769–1826), King of Portugal 1816–1826 and Prince Regent from 1792, ruled from Rio de Janeiro after the 1807 court transfer, returned in 1821, and recognized Brazilian independence by the 1825 treaty.
John Vianney
John Vianney, also known as Jean-Marie Vianney, was a French Catholic priest, the Curé of Ars, whose forty-one years of confessional ministry drew pilgrims from across France.
John Vidale
John Vidale is an American seismologist, the Dean's Professor of Earth Sciences at USC and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
John VII
John VII was the 86th pope, reigning from 705 to 707; a Greek-Roman son of the imperial official Plato, he is remembered chiefly for his art patronage and cautious handling of Justinian II's Quinisext canons.
John VII Grammatikos
John VII Grammatikos, Greek Ἰωάννης Ζ΄ Γραμματικός, was the last iconoclast Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, elected in 837 and deposed in 843 after Empress Theodora restored icon veneration.
John VIII
John VIII was the 107th pope, reigning from 872 until his death in 882, known for defending Rome against Saracens, founding a papal navy, and permitting the Slavonic liturgy.
John VIII Xifilinos
John VIII Xifilinos (Ἰωάννης Ξιφιλῖνος), born at Trebizond around 1010, was a Byzantine jurist and monk who served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 until his death in 1075.
John Vincent (South Carolina politician)
John Vincent is an American politician and retired U.S. Navy command master chief, the 2026 Democratic nominee for South Carolina's 7th District, facing Republican incumbent Russell Fry.
John Vincent Lawless Hogan
John Vincent Lawless Hogan (1890–1960) was an American radio engineer who helped found the Institute of Radio Engineers and founded the station that became WQXR.
John Vinson
John Vinson (born 1851) was an American Protestant minister who founded the Church of the Living God in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1894 with his mother, Mary Jane Vinson.
John Virgo
John Virgo (1946-2026), English snooker player and BBC commentator; won the 1979 UK Championship, co-hosted Big Break with Jim Davidson, and was known for the catchphrase "Where's the cue ball going?".
John Vissing
John Vissing is a Danish neurologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who directs the Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at Rigshospitalet and studies hereditary muscle disease.
John Volanthen
John Volanthen (Jonathan Volanthen) is a British cave diver from Bristol who, with Rick Stanton, first located the 12 boys trapped in Thailand's Tham Luang cave in 2018, holds the world record for the longest cave dive (over 10 km at Pozo Azul), and received the George Medal.
John von Neumann
John von Neumann, born János Neumann (1903–1957), was a Hungarian-born American mathematician at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study who founded game theory and the stored-program computer.
John Vrionis
John Vrionis is a venture capitalist and co-founder of Unusual Ventures, founded in 2018, best known for an early investment in AppDynamics, which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion in 2017.
John W. Adamson
John W. Adamson is an American hematologist and UC San Diego professor whose research on erythropoietin led to the first FDA-approved treatment for kidney-disease anemia in 1989.