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Vanishing Point (1971 film)
Vanishing Point is a 1971 American-British road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman as a driver racing a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco.
Vanishing Point (消失的人) (2026 film)
Vanishing Point (消失的人) is a 2026 Chinese crime thriller written and directed by Cheng Wei-hao, adapted from Beikebang's novel Hai Kui. Three crimes in one Chongqing apartment building converge; it topped China's 2026 May Day box office with about $75 million worldwide.
Vanisri
Vanisri (వాణిశ్రీ), born Ratna Kumari in 1948, is a Telugu cinema golden-era actress named by S.V. Ranga Rao; heroine of Marapurani Katha, Ganga Manga, and Prem Nagar, Filmfare South winner, later character roles.
Vanita Kharat
Vanita Kharat (वनिता खरात), born 1992 in Mumbai, is a Marathi film, television, and theatre actress famous for Maharashtrachi Hasya Jatra and roles in Kabir Singh, Thappad, and Gulkand, known for body-positivity advocacy.
Vanitas
Vanitas is a still-life genre, chiefly Dutch and Flemish 17th-century painting, using skulls, hourglasses, snuffed candles, books, and jewels to symbolize life's transience and the emptiness of worldly goods.
Vanitha Vijayakumar
Vanitha Vijayakumar (வனிதா விஜயகுமார்), Tamil actress, producer, and screenwriter born 1980 in Chennai, daughter of actors Vijayakumar and Manjula; debuted in Chandralekha (1995) opposite Vijay and competed in Bigg Boss Tamil 3.
Vanity (singer)
Vanity, stage name of Denise Katrina Matthews (1959-2016), Canadian singer and actress who fronted Prince's trio Vanity 6, scored with "Nasty Girl," recorded two Motown solo albums, and later became an evangelist.
Vanity 6
Vanity 6, also known as the Hookers project, was a Prince-assembled Minneapolis female trio (Vanity, Brenda Bennett, Susan Moonsie) whose 1982 Warner Bros. album and single "Nasty Girl" hit No. 1 on the Billboard dance chart before becoming Apollonia 6.
Vanity Fair (2004 film)
Vanity Fair (2004 film), Mira Nair's adaptation of Thackeray's 1848 novel, stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp; released September 1, 2004 by Focus Features, it grossed $19.5 million on a $23 million budget and scored 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)
Vanity Fair (2018 TV series): seven-part ITV/Amazon Mammoth Screen miniseries adapting Thackeray's 1848 novel; written by Gwyneth Hughes, starring Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp; premiered ITV 2 September 2018, drew 2.9m viewers against Bodyguard.
Vanity Fair (novel)
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is Thackeray's satirical novel, serialized in Punch 1847–1848, following Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley through Napoleonic-era English society under an intrusive puppet-show narrator.
Vanka
Vanka (Ванька) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, published in 1886, about a nine-year-old orphan apprentice who writes his grandfather begging to leave the city.
Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke, born in Jamaica in 1951, is a British Jamaican photographer often called the godfather of Black British photography for his five decades documenting Black life in Birmingham.
Vanmam (வன்மம்)
Vanmam (வன்மம்), also spelled Vanmham, is a 2014 Tamil revenge drama directed by debutant Jai Krishna, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Kreshna, and Sunaina, released 21 November 2014, 156 minutes, music by S. Thaman, set in Kanyakumari district.
Vann Nath
Vann Nath (1946–2011) was a Cambodian painter who survived the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 and painted scenes of its torture for the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
Vanna
Vanna is the stage name of Ivana Ranilović, a Croatian pop singer born in 1970 who represented Croatia at Eurovision 2001 and later won multiple Porin awards.
Vanna Bardot
Vanna Bardot, American adult film performer and model, debuted in 2018 and won XBIZ Female Performer of the Year 2023 and 2024 plus AVN and XRCO Female Performer of the Year 2024, starring in the VMG showcase Influence: Vanna Bardot.
Vanna White
Vanna White, American TV personality and co-host of Wheel of Fortune since 1982, letter-turner on over 7,000 episodes; Hollywood Walk of Fame 2006, NAB Hall of Fame 2018, Vanna's Choice charity yarn line.
Vannadasan
Vannadasan (வண்ணதாசன்), pen name of S. Kalyanasundaram, is a Tamil short story writer and poet, born in 1946 in Tirunelveli, who won the 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award for Oru Siru Isai.
Vannappu
Vannappu (வண்ணப்பா) is a genre of Tamil love poetry composed to a fixed rhythmic pattern, the sandha kuzhippu, rather than ordinary Tamil meters, and considered difficult to compose.
Vanness Wu (吴建豪)
Vanness Wu (吳建豪, Wu Chien-hao), born 1978 in Santa Monica, is a Taiwanese-American singer-actor, F4 member from Meteor Garden, solo artist (Take a Ride), Kangta & Vanness duo member, and 2026 F Forever reunion tour participant.
VanossGaming
VanossGaming is the YouTube gaming comedy channel of Canadian creator Evan Fong (born 1992), launched September 2011; known for no-facecam funny-moments montages with the Vanoss Crew, 26M subscribers, music as Rynx, and 3Blackdot/Avant Garden ventures.
Vans
Vans (Van Doren Rubber Company, founded 1966 in Anaheim) is an American skate footwear brand owned by VF Corporation, known for vulcanized waffle soles, the Old Skool Sidestripe, checkerboard slip-ons, and the 'Off the Wall' identity.
Vantage Point (film)
Vantage Point is a 2008 American political thriller directed by Pete Travis. It stars Dennis Quaid and depicts an assassination attempt in Spain from multiple eyewitness perspectives.
Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven
Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven (வந்தா ராஜாவாதான் வருவேன்), also written Vandha Rajavaathaan Varuven, is a 2019 Tamil action comedy remake of Attarintiki Daredi, directed by Sundar C., starring Silambarasan, Megha Akash, and Catherine Tresa; it flopped at the box office.
Vanuatu sand drawing
Vanuatu sand drawing, known in Bislama as sandroing, is a Vanuatu tradition of tracing one continuous line in sand to make figures carrying stories and knowledge.
Vanvaas (वनवास)
Vanvaas (वनवास) is a 2024 Hindi family drama by Anil Sharma starring Nana Patekar as Deepak Tyagi, a dementia-stricken father abandoned by his sons in Varanasi; released 20 December 2024, it flopped at the box office and streamed on ZEE5 from 14 March 2025.
Vanya Dmitrienko
Vanya Dmitrienko (Ваня Дмитриенко), born 2005 in Krasnoyarsk, is a Russian pop singer whose 2020 hit «Венера-Юпитер» topped the charts and whose 2025 rock-influenced singles made him Russia's main pop artist.
Vapheio cups
The Vapheio cups are a pair of gold drinking cups with repoussé relief scenes of capturing wild bulls, found in 1888 near Sparta and kept in Athens.
VAPLITE
VAPLITE (Ukrainian: ВАПЛІТЕ, Free Academy of Proletarian Literature) was a Ukrainian writers' organization in Kharkiv, founded by Mykola Khvylovy around 1925 and forced to dissolve in 1928.