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Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Chamorro (1929–2025) was a Nicaraguan publisher and politician who served as president from 1990 to 1997, defeating Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ending the country's civil war.
Violett Beane
Violett Beane (born 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American actress who played Jesse Quick on The Flash, starred as Cara Bloom in God Friended Me, led Death and Other Details, and appeared in Tower and Drop.
Violetta (TV series)
Violetta: Argentine Disney Channel musical teen telenovela (2012–2015, 3 seasons, 240 episodes) starring Martina Stoessel (Tini), produced by Pol-ka; a talented singer returns to Buenos Aires, attends Studio 21, and becomes a Latin American and European phenomenon.
Violette (2026 film)
Violette (original French title Changer l'eau des fleurs) is a 2026 French-Italian drama directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, adapted from Valérie Perrin's novel Fresh Water for Flowers.
Violette Morris
Violette Gouraud-Morris (1893–1944) was a French multi-sport champion who held world records in the shot put and discus and won the 1927 Bol d'Or automobile race.
Violette Szabo
Violette Szabó (1921–1945) was an Anglo-French SOE agent parachuted twice into occupied France in 1944, captured at Salon-la-Tour, executed at Ravensbrück, and posthumously awarded the George Cross.
Violin
The Violin is a bowed string instrument that emerged in northern Italy in the early sixteenth century. Andrea Amati of Cremona was one of the first prominent makers.
Violin Concerto (Beethoven)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (Violinkonzert D-Dur), Beethoven's only violin concerto, written November 1806 for Franz Clement, premiered 23 December 1806 at the Theater an der Wien, revised 1807, revived by 12-year-old Joachim under Mendelssohn in London in 1844.
Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (MWV O 14), written for Ferdinand David, begun 1838, completed 1844, premiered March 13, 1845 in Leipzig, with immediate solo entry and written-out mid-movement cadenza.
Violin family
Violin family: bowed string instruments of one design family, violin, viola, cello, and hybrid double bass, standardized in Cremona and Brescia around 1550 by Amati and successors.
Viomak
Viomak, pseudonym of a Zimbabwean protest singer (from Violah plus her surname), records anti-ZANU-PF protest music abroad, releases an album each 21 February on Mugabe's birthday, runs VOTO radio, and donates proceeds to charity.
Viome
Viome is a preventive-health and diagnostics startup founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Naveen Jain and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, selling at-home microbiome and RNA tests with AI nutrition recommendations and developing cancer-detection tests.
Viome Life Sciences
Viome Life Sciences, incorporated as Bluespin, Inc. and based in Bellevue, Washington, is a biotechnology company selling at-home gut and oral microbiome tests with personalized food and supplement recommendations.
Viomi Technology
Viomi Technology is a Chinese company headquartered in Guangzhou that makes smart water purifiers and filters, founded in 2014 and listed on Nasdaq since 2018.
VionX Energy
VionX Energy Corp was a Woburn, Massachusetts company making grid-scale vanadium redox flow batteries, continuing Premium Power's storage business until Largo Clean Energy bought its assets in 2020.
Viorel Talapan
Viorel Talapan, born 1972, is a Romanian rower who won gold in the coxed four and silver in the men's eight at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Viorica Ioja
Viorica Ioja (Viorica Ioja-Vereș, also Ibolya Jozsa-Veres), Romanian rowing coxswain born 1962 in Uivar. Won 1984 Olympic gold in coxed four and silver in eight; world champion 1986.
Viorica Susanu
Viorica Susanu, Romanian rower born 1975 in Galați, four-time Olympic champion (eight 2000, 2004; coxless pair 2004, 2008 with Georgeta Andrunache) plus one bronze, five world titles, World Best Time 6:53.80 in the 2002 pair.
Viorica Viscopoleanu
Viorica Viscopoleanu (Belmega), born 8 August 1939, Romanian long jumper; 1968 Mexico City Olympic champion with a first-jump world record of 6.82 m; 1970 European indoor champion; later coach at Steaua București.
Vip hall
Vip hall (Kurdish: هۆڵی ئاهەنگ) is a casino in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, at 36.21428°N 44.01186°E; the term also names casino VIP rooms, the junket-run high-roller salons that once drove over 70% of Macau gaming revenue.
VIP Records
VIP Records is a UK-based independent Bhangra and British Asian record label founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005 by DJ Vipen Kumar, known as DJ VIPs.
Vip V S C Sp
VIP V S.C.Sp., paired with feeder vehicle VIP V Feeder S.C.Sp., is a Luxembourg special limited partnership private equity fund vehicle that filed an SEC exempt offering notice in 2022.
VIPAC fuel
VIPAC fuel, also called vibrocompacted or Vibropack fuel, is nuclear reactor fuel in which irregular ceramic particles are vibration-packed into cladding, developed most extensively in Russia.
Vipanatide? (维派那肽)
Vipanatide (维派那肽), officially Visepegenatide (维培那肽), code PB-119, trade name Paidakang, is PegBio's once-weekly PEGylated exenatide GLP-1 receptor agonist approved in China on November 14, 2025 for type 2 diabetes.
Viper
Viper (family Viperidae): venomous snakes with long, hinged, hollow front fangs (solenoglyphous). Subfamilies Viperinae, Crotalinae, Causinae, Azemiopinae; hemotoxic venom; worldwide except Australia and Madagascar.
Viper (Madame Hydra)
Viper, also known as Madame Hydra, is the Marvel Comics terrorist Ophelia Sarkissian, created by Jim Steranko in Captain America #110 (1969); a poisoner immune to toxins who led HYDRA, the Serpent Society, and married Wolverine.
Viper (rapper)
Viper (rapper), stage name of Lee Carter (born 1971), is a Houston, Texas underground rapper from El Dorado, Arkansas, known for the viral album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack, thousands of self-released songs, and RhymeTyme Records.
Viper Energy
Viper Energy is a Diamondback Energy subsidiary, formed in 2014, that owns mineral and royalty interests in Permian Basin oil and gas properties and grows without capital spending.
Viper engine
The Viper engine is a 90-degree overhead-valve V10 developed by Chrysler for the Dodge Viper, produced from 1992 to 2017 in displacements of 8.0 to 8.4 liters.
Vipera
Vipera (true vipers, adders) is a genus of venomous Eurasian Viperinae snakes erected by Laurenti in 1768, holding about two dozen species including V. berus, V. aspis, and V. ammodytes, distinct from the split-off genera Daboia, Macrovipera, and Montivipera.