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Victor Kiriakis
Victor Kiriakis, the Kiriakis patriarch on Days of Our Lives, a Greek-American former drug lord played by John Aniston from July 1985 to December 2022; father of Bo, husband of Maggie, died onscreen in a 2023 plane crash.
Víctor Manuel (musician)
Víctor Manuel, born Víctor Manuel San José, is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Asturias whose career spans the 1960s to 2025, known for recordings with Ana Belén.
Víctor Manuel Rendón
Víctor Manuel Rendón (1859–1940) was an Ecuadorian doctor, diplomat, and writer known for the French-language novel Lorenzo Cilda; he was nominated for the 1935 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Víctor Manuelle
Víctor Manuelle, born Víctor Manuel Ruiz, is a Puerto Rican salsa singer known as El Sonero de la Juventud, a leading salsa romántica voice since 1993.
Victor Mature
Victor Mature (1913–1999), American film actor and 1940s–50s leading man, star of Samson and Delilah, The Robe, My Darling Clementine, and Kiss of Death; retired at 44 on real estate earnings.
Victor McGuire
Victor McGuire (born 1964, Liverpool) is an English actor known as Jack Boswell in Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in Goodnight Sweetheart, Gary in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and roles in The Phantom of the Opera and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Victor McLaglen
Victor McLaglen (Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen, 1886–1959), British-born boxer and WWI veteran turned Hollywood actor; won the 1935 Best Actor Oscar for The Informer and starred in 12 John Ford films.
Victor Meldrew
Victor Meldrew, fictional grumpy pensioner in BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000), played by Richard Wilson, written by David Renwick; catchphrase "I don't believe it!"; killed off in 2000 hit-and-run finale.
Victor Meutelet
Victor Meutelet (born 1998, Mainvilliers, France) is a French actor known for Clem, Le Bazar de la charité, Grand Hôtel, Emily in Paris, Les Rascals, and Monsieur Aznavour, where he played Johnny Hallyday.
Victor Newman
Victor Newman is a fictional Genoa City tycoon on CBS's The Young and the Restless, played by Eric Braeden since 1980; born Christian Miller, a short-term villain turned lead, famous for the Jack Abbott feud, Nikki supercouple romance, and Newman Enterprises.
Victor Rasuk
Victor Rasuk (born 1984, New York City) is an American actor of Dominican descent, star of Raising Victor Vargas, Tony Alva in Lords of Dogtown, Cam in HBO's How to Make It in America, and José in the Fifty Shades trilogy.
Victor Salva
Victor Salva (born 1958) is an American horror director and screenwriter of Clownhouse, Powder, and the Jeepers Creepers films, convicted in 1988 of child sexual abuse involving a 12-year-old actor.
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung (揚森), born Victor Cheung Young (1915-1980), American character actor who played Jimmy/Tommy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing the cook on Bonanza; also a Cantonese chef and author of The Great Wok Cookbook.
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), born Vásárhelyi Győző, was a Hungarian-French painter and a founder of Op art, known for geometric paintings producing optical illusions of movement.
Victor Webster
Victor Webster (Victor Howard Webster, born 1973) is a Canadian actor, 6'5", known as Brennan Mulwray in Mutant X, Detective Carlos Fonnegra in Continuum, and Hallmark movie leads.
Victor Willis
Victor Willis (1951-2026), founding lead singer of Village People and co-writer of Y.M.C.A., Macho Man, In the Navy, and Go West; won 50% copyright of 13 songs in 2015, regained the band name in 2017.
Victor Wong (actor, born 1927)
Victor Wong (黃自強, 1927–2001) was a Chinese American character actor, journalist, and artist; a KQED reporter and Beat-scene figure who began film acting at 57, best known as Egg Shen in Big Trouble in Little China.
Victor Wooten
Victor Lemonte Wooten (born 1964), American bass guitarist, five-time Grammy winner, founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, known for double-thumb slap technique, A Show of Hands, and The Music Lesson.
Victor Zsasz
Victor Zsasz, also Mister Zsasz, is a DC Comics Batman villain and knife-wielding Gotham serial killer created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, debuting in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (1992), who carves a tally mark into his skin for every victim.
Victor/Victoria
Victor/Victoria (1982) is Blake Edwards's musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as a woman posing as a male female impersonator in 1930s Paris, remade from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, Oscar-winning for Mancini's score.
Victoria (2015 film)
Victoria (2015 film), German crime thriller by Sebastian Schipper, shot in one continuous take across 22 Berlin locations; stars Laia Costa and Frederick Lau; Silver Bear and six German Film Awards.
Victoria (British TV series)
Victoria (2016) is a British ITV historical drama created by Daisy Goodwin, produced by Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. Three seasons (8, 9, 8 episodes), 2016-2019, cancelled after season 3.
Victoria & Abdul
Victoria & Abdul is a 2017 Stephen Frears biographical drama starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim, based on Shrabani Basu's book about their 14-year friendship, released by Focus Features.
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham (born 1974, Harlow, England), aka Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, is an English designer; her eponymous 2008 fashion label and 2019 beauty line reached a first £7.3m operating profit in 2025 on £129.8m revenue.
Victoria Benedictsson
Victoria Benedictsson, born Victoria Maria Bruzelius and writing under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren, was a Swedish author of the 1880s realist movement known for Pengar and Fru Marianne.
Victoria Bonya (Виктория Анатольевна Боня)
Victoria Bonya (Виктория Боня), Russian TV presenter and Monaco-based influencer famous from Dom-2; her April 2026 Instagram appeal to Putin about Russia's problems drew 30 million views and a Kremlin response.
Victoria Canal
Victoria Canal (Victoria Canal Tinius, born 1998, Munich) is a Spanish-American singer-songwriter; EPs Into the Pull, Victoria, Elegy, WELL WELL; Ivor Novello Rising Star 2023; debut album Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone, January 17, 2025).
Victoria Cartagena
Victoria Cartagena (Victoria Luz Cartagena) is an American actress from Philadelphia known for playing Detective Renee Montoya on Gotham (2014) and Batwoman season 3 (2021), with credits including Still Alice, 21 Bridges, You, Manifest, and FBI.
Victoria Chaplin
Victoria Chaplin (Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, born 1951, Santa Monica) is a British circus performer and director, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, co-founder of Le Cirque Bonjour, Le Cirque Imaginaire, and Le Cirque Invisible with Jean-Baptiste Thierrée.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell, born 1972 in Hammersmith, London, is an English writer, presenter and former professional poker player: host of BBC's Only Connect since 2008 and the first person to win the European Poker Tour twice (2006, 2014).