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Verona Arena
Verona Arena (Arena di Verona): 1st-century Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra, Verona, with 30,000-seat elliptical cavea; since 1913 home of the summer Arena Opera Festival founded with Aida by Giovanni Zenatello.
Verona Pharma plc
Verona Pharma plc was a UK biopharmaceutical company that developed the COPD drug Ohtuvayre and was acquired by Merck for about $10 billion in 2025.
Verona Rupes
Verona Rupes is a giant fault scarp on Miranda, the innermost major moon of Uranus, frequently described as the tallest known cliff in the Solar System.
Verona van de Leur
Verona van de Leur (born 1985) is a retired Dutch artistic gymnast, 2002 Dutch Sportswoman of the Year, who won five medals at the 2002 European Championships and world floor silver, then became an adult-content creator.
Verongimorpha
Verongimorpha is a subclass of demosponges established in 2012, combining the verongid, chondrosid, and halisarcid sponges as the sister clade to Keratosa, the horn sponges.
Veronica
Veronica (speedwell) is a genus of about 450 species of herbs and shrubs in Plantaginaceae, order Lamiales, cosmopolitan mainly in temperate Northern Hemisphere regions, with four-lobed corollas, two stamens, and iridoid glucoside chemistry.
Verónica (2017 Spanish film)
Verónica (2017) is a Spanish supernatural horror film by Paco Plaza, starring Sandra Escacena, about a teen's Ouija séance during the 1991 Madrid solar eclipse; inspired by the expediente Vallecas, it won the Goya for Best Sound. Not the Mexican film of the same name.
Veronica Augustyn
Veronica Augustyn is a materials scientist who works on electrochemical energy storage, known for intercalation pseudocapacitance research; she is the Hooks Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan (Veronica Mary Duncan, 1937-2017), known as Lady Lucan, wife of the missing 7th Earl of Lucan; only witness of the 1974 Sandra Rivett murder, survived the attack, insisted her husband was dead, died by suicide in 2017.
Veronica Campbell Brown
Veronica Campbell Brown, Jamaican sprinter (born 1982, Clarks Town), eight-time Olympic medalist with back-to-back 200m golds in 2004 and 2008; retired 2021 after medals at five straight Olympics.
Veronica Cartwright
Veronica Cartwright, born 1949 in Bristol, England, is a British-born American character actress of The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Alien, where she played Joan Lambert after reading for Ripley, with an Emmy win and a Saturn Award.
Verónica Castro
Verónica Castro (born 1952, Mexico City) is a Mexican actress, singer, and television host, star of Los ricos también lloran and Rosa Salvaje, UNAM international-relations graduate, mother of Cristian Castro.
Veronica Cogeanu Cochela
Veronica Cogeanu Cochela (Cochelea), Romanian rower born 1965 in Voinești, Iași; six Olympic medals 1988–2000 including eights golds at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, five medals with Elisabeta Lipă.
Veronica Cooper
Veronica Cooper (Veronica Balfe, screen name Sandra Shaw, later Veronica Cooper Converse, 1913–2000), American actress of 1933 shorts and wife of Gary Cooper from December 15, 1933 until his 1961 death; later married Dr. John Converse.
Veronica De Laurentiis
Veronica De Laurentiis, born 1950 in Rome, is an Italian actress, author, and anti-violence advocate, eldest daughter of Dino De Laurentiis and Silvana Mangano, debut in Waterloo (1970), author of Rivoglio la mia vita (2006), mother of Giada De Laurentiis.
Veronica Electronica
Veronica Electronica is Madonna's remix album companion to Ray of Light (1998), also considered as an album title at the time. Conceived 1998, shelved, released July 25, 2025 on Warner Records with remixes by Sasha, BT, Orbit, Rauhofer, Calderone and the demo Gone, Gone, Gone.
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar is an American Democratic politician who has represented Texas's 16th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, the first woman elected to represent El Paso in Congress.
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546-1591), Venetian cortigiana onesta and poet, author of Terze rime (1575) and Lettere familiari a diversi (1580), member of Domenico Venier's circle, tried by the Inquisition in 1580, later a proto-feminist icon.
Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin (1958–1996) was an Irish Sunday Independent crime reporter, formerly of the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune, murdered by a motorcycle gunman in June 1996; her death created Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.
Veronica Hamel
Veronica Hamel (born 1943) is an American actress and former Eileen Ford model, best known as public defender Joyce Davenport on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), earning five Emmy nominations, and for the last US cigarette TV ad.
Veronica Hart
Veronica Hart, stage name of Jane Esther Hamilton (born 1956, Las Vegas), American adult film actress of the late 1970s and 1980s, AFAA Best Actress winner, later director and producer, judge in Boogie Nights.
Veronica I of Matamba
Veronica I of Matamba (Verónica Guterres Kandala) was queen of Matamba, in present-day Angola, succeeding her brother in 1681 and signing a peace treaty with Portugal in 1683.
Veronica Ivy
Veronica Ivy, formerly Rachel McKinnon, is a Canadian philosopher and transgender athlete who won UCI Masters track cycling world sprint titles in 2018 and 2019, the first trans woman to win a cycling world title, and now competes in Canadian amateur golf.
Veronica Klinefelt
Veronica Klinefelt is an American Democratic politician serving her first term in the Michigan Senate from the 11th district, after 24 years in Eastpointe and Macomb County local government.
Veronica Kristiansen
Veronica Egebakken Kristiansen (born 1990), Norwegian handball left back for Győri ETO KC and Norway; Olympic champion 2024, world champion 2015, 2021, 2025, European champion 2014, 2016, 2020.
Veronica Lake
Veronica Lake, born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman and earlier billed as Constance Keane, was an American actress whose hair-over-one-eye look defined 1940s Hollywood and drew a wartime government safety request.
Veronica Lodge
Veronica Lodge (Ronnie), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #26 (April 1942), created by Bob Montana; wealthy daughter of Hiram and Hermione Lodge, Betty Cooper's rival for Archie Andrews, later played by Camila Mendes in Riverdale.
Veronica M. Bierbaum
Veronica M. Bierbaum is an American mass spectrometrist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for flowing afterglow studies of gas-phase ion–molecule chemistry.
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars (no native title) is an American teen noir TV series created by Rob Thomas, starring Kristen Bell as a teenage private investigator in Neptune, California; three seasons 2004-2007, a 2014 Kickstarter-funded film, and a 2019 Hulu revival.
Veronica Mars (film)
Veronica Mars is a 2014 American mystery comedy-drama film continuing the television series, written and directed by Rob Thomas and starring Kristen Bell as the private-investigator heroine.