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Victor Anomah Ngu
Victor Anomah Ngu (1926–2011) was a Cameroonian professor of surgery, vice-chancellor of the University of Yaoundé, and minister of public health who founded the West African College of Surgeons.
Victor Argo
Victor Argo, born Victor Jiménez (1934–2004), American character actor of Puerto Rican descent in Scorsese, Ferrara, and Jarmusch films; Broadway's Anna in the Tropics; distinct from actor Viktor Argo.
Victor Arias
Victor Arias is an American politician and attorney, the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 19th congressional district, and managing attorney at Arias Law Firm.
Victor Augustin Isidore Dechamps
Victor Augustin Isidore Dechamps (1810–1883) was a Belgian Redemptorist priest, apologist, and cardinal who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1867 and, with Henry Edward Manning, led the pro-infallibility bishops at the First Vatican Council.
Victor Avendano
Víctor Avendaño (1907–1984), Argentine light-heavyweight boxer nicknamed El Maestro; won gold at Amsterdam 1928, first Argentine individual Olympic champion, later a referee in over 2,500 fights.
Victor Aznar
Victor Wehbi Aznar Ussen (Víctor Aznar), Brazilian goalkeeper born 2002 in São Paulo; Cádiz CF reserve and first-team keeper, 62 appearances, 34 starts with 9 clean sheets in 2025/26 LaLiga2, then sold to Lion City Sailors in August 2026.
Victor Babeș
Victor Babeș (1854–1926) was a Romanian physician and bacteriologist who founded Romania's first research institute and gave his name to the blood parasite genus Babesia.
Victor Banerjee
Victor Banerjee (Partho Sarathi Banerjee, born 1946) is an Indian actor in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Assamese films, known for Dr. Aziz in A Passage to India, three National Awards, and the 2022 Padma Bhushan.
Victor Basch
Victor Basch, born Guillaume Basch, was a Hungarian-born French philosopher and Sorbonne professor of aesthetics who led the Ligue des droits de l'homme until his 1944 murder.
Victor Belmondo
Victor Belmondo (born 1993) is a French actor, grandson of Jean-Paul Belmondo and son of Paul Belmondo. Known for Bardot (as Roger Vadim), Vivre, mourir, renaître, Bastion 36, Masterplan, and Le Rouge et le Noir.
Victor Boniface
Victor Okoh Boniface, Nigerian striker born 2000; Bayer Leverkusen forward, 2024 Bundesliga and DFB Cup double winner and Rookie of the Season; on loan at Werder Bremen since September 2025.
Victor Borge
Victor Borge (Børge Rosenbaum, 1909–2000), Danish-born pianist and comedian who fled the 1940 Nazi occupation to the US, starred on Bing Crosby's radio show, and set the Broadway one-man-show record with Comedy in Music, 849 sold-out performances.
Victor Brandt (musician)
Victor Brandt (Victor Carl Johannes Brandt), Swedish extreme metal bassist and guitarist born 1983 in Gnarp; bassist of Dimmu Borgir since 2018, ex-Entombed A.D. and Satyricon, Firespawn guitarist, Cemetery Skyline bassist.
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (1903–1966) was a Romanian-born painter who joined André Breton's Surrealist group in Paris, best known for dream imagery and his premonitory 1931 Self-Portrait with Enucleated Eye.
Victor Brumberg (Виктор А. Брумберг)
Victor Alexandrovich Brumberg (Виктор А. Брумберг; born 1933 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical astronomer whose relativistic reference-frame formalism underlies the International Astronomical Union's 2000 resolutions.
Victor Buono
Victor Charles Buono (1938–1982), American character actor and comic; played Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Oscar and Golden Globe nominee) and King Tut on Batman; Old Globe Theatre alumnus.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin, born 1941 in Sheffield, is a British artist and writer known as an originator of Conceptual art and for his writings on the image.
Victor C. Twitty
Victor C. Twitty (1901–1967) was an American experimental embryologist and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for work on salamander and newt embryos.
Victor Canning
Victor Canning (born Victor Cannings, 1911–1986), British novelist of 61 books: Mr Finchley comedies, Rex Carver thrillers, the Birdcage books, The Rainbird Pattern (CWA Silver Dagger, filmed as Hitchcock's Family Plot), and the Crimson Chalice Arthurian trilogy.
Victor Chaim Lavy
Victor Chaim Lavy is an Israeli economist working in labor and education economics, holding chairs at the University of Warwick and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Victor Chang
Victor Chang (Chang Yam Him, 1936–1991), Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon who founded Australia's National Heart Transplant Program at St Vincent's Hospital, performed Fiona Coote's 1984 transplant, designed the low-cost St Vincent's Heart Valve, and was murdered in Sydney in 1991.
Victor Chernozhukov
Victor Chernozhukov is an economist and statistician who is Ford International Professor at MIT and developed double/debiased machine learning, making causal estimates valid when machine learning estimates nuisance functions.
Victor Clarence Vaughan
Victor Clarence Vaughan (1851–1929) was an American physician and bacteriologist, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School from 1891 to 1921 and president of the American Medical Association.
Victor Crowley (film)
Victor Crowley (2017), also known as Hatchet IV, is an American slasher film written and directed by Adam Green, secretly produced, in which Kane Hodder's swamp killer is resurrected ten years after the Honey Island Swamp massacre.
Victor D. Treviño
Victor D. Treviño is an American physician and politician serving as Mayor of Laredo, Texas, first elected in 2022 after nearly four decades practicing medicine in the city.
Victor D. Vacquier
Victor D. Vacquier is an emeritus professor of marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for isolating bindin, the sea urchin sperm protein that attaches sperm to eggs.
Victor Davis
Victor Davis was a Canadian breaststroke swimmer from Guelph, Ontario, who won 200-meter breaststroke gold in world record time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) is an American classicist and military historian, Hoover Institution senior fellow, and former CSU Fresno professor known for the Western Way of War thesis and conservative commentary.
Victor De Knibber
Victor Edmond De Knibber (born 23 January 1875, Sint-Joost-ten-Node) was a Belgian archer who won two golds and one silver in men's team target archery at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; formerly misnamed Edmond De Knibber.
Victor Dodig
Victor Dodig is a Canadian executive who served as President and CEO of CIBC from 2014 to 2025, leading the bank's US expansion, including the $4.9-billion PrivateBancorp acquisition, before becoming TELUS's CEO in 2026.