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Vunzige Deuntjes
Vunzige Deuntjes is an Amsterdam-based Dutch event promoter of hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, and afro events since 2011, best known for its festival in the Amsterdamse Bos drawing 20,000 visitors annually.
Vuta N'kuvute
Vuta N'kuvute, translated as A Tug of War, is an award-winning Swahili-language novel by Zanzibar-born writer Shafi Adam Shafi, first published in 1999 and set in colonial Zanzibar.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов)
Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов, 1928–2009), Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR. Played Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace and Stierlitz in Seventeen Moments of Spring; distinct from other actors named Tikhonov.
Vyakti Ani Valli
Vyakti Ani Valli (व्यक्ती आणि वल्ली) is a 1962 collection of humorous Marathi character sketches by P. L. Deshpande that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.
Vyangya
Vyangya (व्यंग्य) is the Hindi literary genre of satire, a socially oriented form exposing hypocrisy, hollow conventions, and corruption, with roots traced to the 15th-century poet Kabir.
Vyanjana
Vyanjana (व्यञ्जना, vyañjanā) is the third power of a word in Sanskrit poetics, conveying a suggested meaning beyond the literal and figurative; its theory, dhvani, holds suggestion is the soul of poetry.
Vyankatesh Madgulkar
Vyankatesh Madgulkar (व्यंकटेश माडगूळकर; 1927–2001) was a Marathi writer and screenwriter from Maharashtra, known for rural fiction, the novel Bangarwadi, and the 1983 Sahitya Akademi award for Sattantar.
Vyas Samman
Vyas Samman (व्यास सम्मान) is an annual literary award, first given in 1991 by the K.K. Birla Foundation for an outstanding Hindi work by an Indian citizen.
Vyasanasametham Bandhumithradhikal
Vyasanasametham Bandhumithradhikal (വ്യസനസമേതം ബന്ധുമിത്രാദികൾ) is a 2025 Malayalam funeral comedy-drama, S Vipin's debut, produced by Vipin Das and Sahu Garapati, starring Anaswara Rajan; released June 13, 2025, streaming on Manorama Max from August 14, 2025.
Vybe
Vybe (Angus Roberts, born 1991) is an Australian drag performer and Sydney scene staple, runner-up on Drag Race Down Under season 4 behind Lazy Susan and fourth placer on Drag Race Down Under vs the World.
Vybz Kartel
Vybz Kartel (Adidja Azim Palmer, also Worl' Boss), Jamaican dancehall artist from Portmore; 2003 breakthrough Up 2 Di Time, "Fever" RIAA gold, 1.58 billion U.S. streams; 2014 murder conviction quashed by the Privy Council in 2024, released 31 July 2024.
Vyftigers
Vyftigers is a decade label used for the Afrikaans writers of the 1950s, with Peter Blum central, and for the Dutch Vijftigers, experimental poets of 1949 to 1954.
Vyjayanthi Movies
Vyjayanthi Movies (వైజయంతీ మూవీస్), Telugu production house founded by C. Ashwini Dutt in 1974, named by NTR; now led by Swapna and Priyanka Dutt; known for JVAS, Indra, Mahanati, Sita Ramam, and Kalki 2898 AD.
Vyjayanthimala (வைஜெயந்திமாலா)
Vyjayanthimala (வைஜெயந்திமாலா), born 13 August 1933, is an Indian actress, Bharatanatyam dancer, and former MP; Hindi cinema's first female superstar, three-time Filmfare Best Actress (Sadhna, Gunga Jumna, Sangam), who refused the Devdas supporting-actress award, and received the Padma Vibhushan in 2024.
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (വൈലോപ്പിള്ളി ശ്രീധരമേനോൻ; 1911–1985) was an Indian Malayalam poet whose works, including Kudiyozhikkal and Mambazham, moved Malayalam poetry toward a modern, socially alert voice.
Vyooham (2023 TV series)
Vyooham (వ్యూహం) is a 2023 Telugu-language crime thriller web series on Prime Video, directed by Sashikanth Srivaishnav Peesapati, produced by Annapurna Studios' Supriya Yarlagadda, starring Sai Sushanth Reddy and Chaitanya Krishna in an eight-episode hit-and-run investigation set in Hyderabad. Distinct from RGV's 2024 film of the same name.
Vysakh
Vysakh (വൈശാഖ്), birth name Ebey Abraham, is a Malayalam film director born 1978 in Kanhangad, Kerala. Debuted with Pokkiri Raja (2010); directed Pulimurugan (2016), the first Malayalam film to gross Rs 100 crore, plus Madhura Raja, Turbo, and Khalifa.
Vyshyvanka
Vyshyvanka (вишиванка) is the traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt or blouse, also worn in Belarus, made of linen, cotton, or hemp with regional motifs; a marker of Ukrainian identity, revived after 2014 and central to World Vyshyvanka Day on the third Thursday of May.
Vytautas Bubnys
Vytautas Bubnys (1932–2021) was a Lithuanian prose writer, dramatist, and essayist, one of the most widely printed Soviet-era Lithuanian authors, later a Seimas member from 1992 to 1996.
Vytautas Mačernis
Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian poet, regarded as one of the youngest classics of Lithuanian literature, known for philosophical lyric poetry shaped by existentialism and his native Samogitia.
Vyuham (2024 film)
Vyuham (వ్యూహం, also Vyooham), 2024 Telugu political drama by Ram Gopal Varma starring Ajmal Ameer, on YSR's death and Jagan Mohan Reddy's rise; censor-cleared after Telangana HC litigation, released March 2024.
Vyvyan Holland
Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde, 1886-1967), second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd; name changed to Holland in 1895; writer, translator, author of Son of Oscar Wilde (1954).
W (더블유) (TV series)
W (더블유, W – Two Worlds Apart) is a 2016 MBC Korean drama, 16 episodes, starring Lee Jong-suk and Han Hyo-joo, written by Song Jae-jung, about a surgeon pulled into a webtoon world; it peaked at 12.9% ratings and won seven 2016 MBC Drama Awards.
w-inds.
w-inds. (ウィンズ) is a Japanese dance-vocal boy group formed in 2000 that debuted in 2001 and became a duo of Ryohei Chiba and Keita Tachibana in 2020.
W. (film)
W., originally titled Bush, is a 2008 biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone. It portrays the life and presidency of the 43rd U.S. President, George W. Bush.
W. A. Silva
W. A. Silva, full name Wellawattearachchige Abraham Silva (1890–1957), was a Sinhala novelist and journalist from Colombo whose romances and historical novels made him a first best-selling popularizer of the Sinhala novel.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats, 1865–1939), Irish poet, dramatist, Abbey Theatre co-founder, Free State senator, and 1923 Nobel laureate; occult system behind A Vision, poems from The Wanderings of Oisin to The Tower and The Second Coming.
W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield, 1880), American juggler, Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway comedian, and Hollywood sound-era film star of The Dentist, It's a Gift, and The Bank Dick.
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy (William Christopher Handy, 1873-1958), the "Father of the Blues," was an American composer, bandleader, and publisher who popularized blues through "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues" and founded Handy Brothers Music Co.
W. Earl Brown
W. Earl Brown (William Earl Brown, born 1963) is an American character actor known as Dan Dority on Deadwood, Warren in There's Something About Mary, the voice of Bill in The Last of Us, and Wes Fox on Sheriff Country.