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Vidyasagar (composer)
Vidyasagar (வித்யாசாகர்), the "Melody King", born 1963 in Vizianagaram, is an Indian film composer for Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi cinema; debut 1989 (Poomanam), over 225 films, National Film Award for Swarabhishekam and five Filmfare Awards.
Vidyasundar
Vidyasundar (Bengali: বিদ্যাসুন্দর), also written Bidyasundar, is a Bengali romantic poem about the secret love of princess Vidya and prince Sundar, composed in 1752 by Bharatchandra Ray as the second part of his Annadamangal.
Vidyavathi (actress)
Vidyavathi (வித்யாவதி), born Ambujam, Tamil film actress of the 1950s; sister of Sandhya, aunt of J. Jayalalithaa; villainess in Alibabhavum Narpathu Thirudargalum (1956) and En Veedu (1953).
Vidyullekha Raman
Vidyullekha Raman (Vidyu Raman), born 1991 in Chennai, is an Indian actress and theatre performer, daughter of Mohan Raman, who debuted in Gautham Menon's 2012 Neethaane En Ponvasantham and works in Tamil and Telugu comedy.
Vidyut Jammwal
Vidyut Jammwal, Indian actor and Kalaripayattu martial artist born 1980 in Jammu, known for the Commando films (2013-2019) and his 2026 Hollywood debut as Dhalsim in Street Fighter.
Vie (album)
Vie is Doja Cat's fifth studio album, released September 26, 2025 on Kemosabe/RCA. The title means "life" in French and plays on the Roman numeral V; it is an '80s synth-pop-styled record executive produced by Jack Antonoff, with SZA featured on "Take Me Dancing."
Viejones de Linares
Los Viejones de Linares is a Mexican norteño group founded in 2011 in Linares, Nuevo León, built around veterans of Los Cadetes de Linares and known for old-school corridos, cumbias, and huapangos.
Vienna (Billy Joel song)
Vienna is a 1977 Billy Joel piano ballad from The Stranger, written after he visited his father Howard Joel in Vienna, Austria; its chorus "Vienna waits for you" urges slowing down, and it later became one of his most streamed songs.
Vienna Art Orchestra
Vienna Art Orchestra (VAO), Austrian jazz orchestra founded 19 May 1977 in Vienna by Mathias Rüegg, originally Premier Orchestre d'Art de Vienne; postmodern big band, 900+ concerts in 55 countries, 40+ albums, dissolved July 2010 after funding loss.
Vienna Blood (TV series)
Vienna Blood is a British-Austrian period crime drama (2019–2024) adapted by Steve Thompson from Frank Tallis's Liebermann novels, starring Matthew Beard and Juergen Maurer as a Freud-trained doctor and Vienna detective in four seasons on BBC Two, ORF 2, ZDF, and PBS.
Vienna Boys' Choir
Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben), Austrian boys' choir founded by decree of Maximilian I in 1498; about 100 choristers aged 10-14 in four touring choirs, UNESCO-listed since 2017, with the Vienna Girls' Choir as 2004 counterpart.
Vienna Dioscurides
The Vienna Dioscurides is a Byzantine manuscript produced in Constantinople around 512 for Princess Anicia Juliana, containing nearly 400 plant illustrations accompanying Dioscurides' medical treatise.
Vienna Group
The Vienna Group (Wiener Gruppe) was a circle of experimental Austrian writers active in Vienna from the early 1950s until 1964, known for concrete and visual poetry.
Vienna Modernism
Vienna Modernism, also called Vienna around 1900, is a cultural era in Vienna from about 1890 to 1910, defined by the Vienna Secession and figures like Gustav Klimt.
Vienna New Year's Concert
The Vienna New Year's Concert (Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker): annual Strauss-family concert by the Vienna Philharmonic, 1 January 11:15, Musikverein Golden Hall; founded 31 December 1939 under Clemens Krauss in the Nazi era, televised since 1959, 50 million viewers in 150+ countries, conductor rotates yearly since 1987.
Vienna sausage
Vienna sausage (Wiener Würstel): thin parboiled pork-and-beef sausage created in Vienna in 1805 by Frankfurt-trained butcher Johann Georg Lahner; also the American canned cocktail sausage sold since Libby's 1903.
Vienna Secession
Vienna Secession (Wiener Secession): artists' association founded 3 April 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Moser, Hoffmann, and Olbrich after leaving the Künstlerhaus; built Olbrich's gilded-dome exhibition hall in 1898; Klimt Group departed in 1905; still artist-run today.
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is Austria's national opera house on Vienna's Ringstrasse, opened in 1869, bombed in 1945, and reopened in 1955; it stages around 350 performances a season.
Viennetta
Viennetta is a layered ice cream dessert created by Wall's (Kevin Hillman, 1981-1982) in Gloucester, with rippled ice cream and crisp chocolate layers formed on a variable-speed conveyor belt; sold internationally under Unilever Heartbrands, absent from the US lineup.
Viernes
Viernes, a Venezuelan literary group formed in Caracas around 1936 after the death of dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, introduced surrealist and modernist currents into Venezuelan poetry.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Việt, born 1971) is a Vietnamese American novelist and USC professor whose debut novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he later wrote The Committed, The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, and the memoir A Man of Two Faces.
Vietnam Idol
Vietnam Idol is a Vietnamese reality singing competition adapted from the British show Pop Idol, first aired in 2007 and revived in 2023 with Hà An Huy as its eighth champion.
Vietnam War literature
Vietnam War literature is the fiction, memoir, poetry, and reportage about the Vietnam War, from Graham Greene's The Quiet American to Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer.
Vietnam Writers' Association
The Vietnam Writers' Association (Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam) is the national professional organization of writers of Vietnam, founded at a congress in Hanoi in April 1957 as the first of its kind.
Vietnamese cuisine
Vietnamese cuisine (ẩm thực Việt Nam) is the rice- and herb-based cooking tradition of Vietnam, defined by fish sauce (nước mắm), five-taste balance, and three regional styles: northern, spicy central, and sweeter southern.
Vietnamese iced coffee
Vietnamese iced coffee, cà phê sữa đá, is dark-roast robusta dripped through a metal phin at about 1:5 onto sweetened condensed milk and served over ice; distinct from Thai iced coffee, which is cloth-steeped from a grain-blend powder and topped with evaporated milk.
Vietnamese lacquer painting
Vietnamese lacquer painting, or tranh sơn mài, is a Vietnamese art form that builds images from layers of natural lacquer, emerging as a fine art in the 1930s.
Vieux Farka Touré
Vieux Farka Touré is a Malian singer and guitarist born in 1981 in Niafunke, Mali, son of desert blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré and nicknamed "the Hendrix of the Sahara".
View Askew Productions
View Askew Productions is the independent film company Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier founded in 1994 in Red Bank, New Jersey, producing Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and the shared View Askewniverse films under a Miramax first-look deal.
View Askewniverse
The View Askewniverse, also known as the Askewniverse, is the shared fictional universe of most films written and directed by Kevin Smith, beginning with Clerks in 1994.