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Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937–2026) was a Lebanese-born French-language poet and novelist who settled in Paris in 1972 and won the Prix Apollinaire and the Prix Goncourt de la poésie.
Venus Music
Venus Music, known in the trade as Venus Records & Tapes, is an Indian music label founded in Mumbai by the Jain brothers, holding rights to over 700 films.
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Venus of Berekhat Ram, also called the Berekhat Ram figurine, a 3.5 cm grooved scoria pebble found 1981 in the Golan Heights, dated roughly 230,000-700,000 BP, a disputed Acheulian candidate for the oldest figurative art.
Venus of Urbino
Venus of Urbino (Venere di Urbino), Titian's 1538 oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm, in the Uffizi: a reclining nude based on Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, bought by Guidobaldo II della Rovere as "la donna nuda," read as a marriage painting, and later reworked by Manet's Olympia.
Venus Xtravaganza
Venus Xtravaganza, born Thomas Pellagatti (1965–1988), was a transgender ballroom performer of the House of Xtravaganza, featured in Paris Is Burning; strangled in Manhattan in December 1988, her murder remains unsolved.
Veppam Kulir Mazhai (வெப்பம் குளிர் மழை)
Veppam Kulir Mazhai (வெப்பம் குளிர் மழை) is a 2024 Tamil rural drama, Pascal Vedamuthu's directorial debut, starring Dhirav, Ismath Banu, and MS Bhaskar as a childless couple facing social pressure; released 29 March 2024, streamed on Aha Tamil.
Vér és arany
Vér és arany (Blood and Gold) is a 1907 book of poems by the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, his third collection and a landmark of Hungarian literary modernity.
Vera (TV series)
Vera (ITV1, 2011–2025) is a British crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope, adapted from Ann Cleeves' novels and set in Northumberland and Newcastle; it ran 14 series and ended January 2025.
Vera Blue
Vera Blue is the stage name of Celia Pavey, an Australian singer-songwriter from Forbes who blends folk-trained vocals with electronic production, known for "Papercuts" and "Rushing Back".
Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain (1893–1970), English feminist, pacifist, and author of the First World War memoir Testament of Youth (1933); Somerville College VAD nurse who lost her fiancé, brother, and two friends, and joined the Peace Pledge Union in 1937.
Vera Bulder
Vera Bulder (born 1995, Amsterdam) is a Dutch-born, New York-based actress, producer, and writer; co-author and producer of Bleeding Love (2023) and co-founder of Deux Dames Entertainment with Clara McGregor.
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz (1954) is a Robert Aldrich Western starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster as mercenaries escorting a countess and hidden gold across 1866 Mexico; the first SuperScope film and a spaghetti-western influence.
Vera Drake
Vera Drake is Mike Leigh's 2004 drama starring Imelda Staunton as a 1950 London charwoman secretly performing illegal abortions; it won the Venice Golden Lion, six British Independent Film Awards, and three Oscar nominations.
Vera Duarte
Vera Duarte is a Cape Verdean poet, judge, and human rights activist born in Mindelo in 1952, and the first woman to win the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize.
Vera Farmiga
Vera Ann Farmiga (born 1973, Clifton, New Jersey), Ukrainian-American actress and director: Oscar-nominated for Up in the Air, Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring films, Norma Bates in Bates Motel, director of Higher Ground.
Vera Inber
Vera Inber (Вера Инбер), born Vera Shpentser, was a Russian and Soviet poet whose diary Pochti tri goda recorded the nearly three years she spent in blockaded Leningrad.
Vera Lynn
Dame Vera Lynn (Vera Margaret Welch, 1917-2020), the English singer known as the Forces' Sweetheart, whose wartime songs We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover and BBC show Sincerely Yours made her a British morale icon.
Vera Maari Office
Vera Maari Office (வேற மாறி Office) is a Tamil comedy-drama aha web series about The Great Indian Company's Chennai branch, created by Shivakanth, 2 seasons, 105 episodes, 2023–2024, with a Telugu remake Vere Level Office.
Vera Miles
Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston, 1929 or 1930, Boise City, Oklahoma) is an American retired actress known for The Searchers, Psycho's Lila Crane, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Psycho II, retired 1995.
Vera Mukhina
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Вера Игнатьевна Мухина), 1889 to 1953, was a Russian and Soviet sculptor, best known for the monumental stainless-steel Worker and Kolkhoz Woman.
Vera Sola
Vera Sola, real name Danielle Aykroyd (born 1989), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, daughter of Dan Aykroyd; known for gothic folk albums Shades (2018) and Peacemaker (2024).
Vera Wang
Vera Wang (王薇薇, Vera Ellen Wang), American fashion designer born 1949 in New York, ex-Vogue editor and Ralph Lauren design director who founded her bridal brand in 1990 at the Carlyle Hotel, won the CFDA award and National Medal of Arts, and sold the brand to WHP Global in 2024.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, also known as Vera Wong #1, is Jesse Q. Sutanto's 2023 Berkley cozy mystery in which a 60-year-old widow finds a dead man in her San Francisco Chinatown teahouse and investigates; 2024 Edgar Award winner with a 2025 sequel.
Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen (Vera Ellen Rohe, 1921 or 1926–1981), American dancer-actress of 14 musicals 1945–1957; partner of Kelly, Astaire, Kaye, O'Connor; Judy Haynes in White Christmas; died of cancer at 60.
Veracruz ballgame sculpture
Veracruz ballgame sculpture is a Gulf Coast Mexican tradition of carved stone yokes, hachas, and palmas representing Mesoamerican ballgame gear, flourishing about 300 to 900 CE.
Verdades Secretas
Verdades Secretas (Hidden Truths) is a 2015 TV Globo telenovela by Walcyr Carrasco, set in São Paulo's fashion world, starring Camila Queiroz, Rodrigo Lombardi, and Drica Moraes; it won the 2016 International Emmy for Best Telenovela and gained a 2021 Globoplay sequel.
Verdammt, ich lieb dich
"Verdammt, ich lieb dich" ("Damn, I love you") is Matthias Reim's 1990 debut single, which spent a record 16 weeks at number 1 on the German chart.
Verdine White
Verdine White (Verdine Adams White, born Verdine Adams Jr., 1951) is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer of Earth, Wind & Fire, joined June 6, 1970; brother of founder Maurice White; 6 Grammy wins, Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame.
Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira, born Vergílio António Ferreira, was a Portuguese novelist, essayist, and diarist, a leading existentialist writer of the 20th century who won the 1992 Camões Prize.
Verismo
Verismo is the Italian literary and artistic movement of the late 19th century, led by Giovanni Verga, which portrayed rural and lower-class life with strict fidelity to reality.