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Vincent Piazza

Vincent Piazza (born 1976, Queens, New York) is an American actor known as Lucky Luciano on HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010-14), Tommy DeVito in Eastwood's Jersey Boys, Earl Hefner in Rocket Science, and Vince Antonacci in Tulsa King.

Vincent Price

Vincent Price (1911-1993), American stage and film actor known as a horror icon through House of Wax, the Corman Poe cycle, and Edward Scissorhands; also a major art collector, Sears fine-art partner, and gourmet cookbook author.

Vincent Regan

Vincent Regan (born 1965, Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh actor known for Eudorus in Troy, the Captain in 300, King Simon in The Royals, Ned Despard in Poldark, Garp in One Piece, and Ser Rickard Thorne in House of the Dragon.

Vincent Schiavelli

Vincent Schiavelli (1948-2005), American character actor of Brooklyn-born Sicilian descent, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Ghost, Batman Returns, and Miloš Forman films; also a James Beard-winning Sicilian cookbook author who died in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily.

Vincent Spano

Vincent Spano (Vincent M. Spano), American actor born 1962 in Brooklyn, known for Baby It's You, Rumble Fish, City of Hope, and Alive; also directed Tales from the Crypt's In The Groove.

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter; nearly 900 paintings in a ten-year career, Arles ear incident 1888, death at Auvers 1890, fame via Johanna van Gogh-Bonger.

Vincent Van Patten

Vincent (Vince) Van Patten, born 1957 in Bellerose, New York, is an American actor, former top-25 ATP tennis pro, and the World Poker Tour's commentator since 2003, known for Rock 'n' Roll High School and 7 Days to Vegas.

Vincent Ward (director)

Vincent Ward (born 1956, Greytown, New Zealand) is a New Zealand film director and visual artist, not the American actor Vincent M. Ward. Directed Vigil (first NZ film in Cannes competition), The Navigator, Map of the Human Heart, and Oscar-winning What Dreams May Come; executive producer of The Last Samurai.

Vincent Zhao (赵文卓)

Vincent Zhao (赵文卓), born 1972 in Harbin, Chinese actor and wushu champion; discovered by Corey Yuen for Fong Sai-yuk (1993); known for Wong Fei-hung, Huo Yuanjia, Green Snake's Fahai; Golden Rooster nominee; Call Me By Fire 2021.

Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli, 1903–1986), American MGM director of musicals and melodramas; directed Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, and Oscar-winning Gigi; Judy Garland's husband, Liza Minnelli's father.

Vincenzo (빈센조) (TV series)

Vincenzo (빈센조) is a 2021 tvN dark-comedy crime drama, 20 episodes, starring Song Joong-ki as a Korean-Italian Mafia consigliere fighting a corrupt conglomerate; streamed on Netflix, a top-ten Korean cable ratings hit.

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), Sicilian-born Italian opera composer of the bel canto school and Rossini's successor; wrote about ten operas, including Norma, La sonnambula, Il pirata, and I puritani, famed for long lyrical melodies; died in Puteaux, Paris, aged 33.

Vincenzo Galilei

Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520–1591), Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, father of Galileo; theorist of the Florentine Camerata, author of the Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna (1581), and pioneer of musical experimentation against Zarlino.

Vincenzo Latronico

Vincenzo Latronico (born 1984, Rome) is an Italian novelist and translator, author of Le perfezioni (2022), published in English as Perfection, a rewriting of Perec's Things shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

Vincenzo Monti

Vincenzo Monti (1754–1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, and translator, regarded as the leading figure of Italian Neoclassicism, best remembered for his celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad and the antirevolutionary poem Bassvilliana.

Vincenzo Natali

Vincenzo Natali (born 1969), Canadian director and writer of Cube, Cypher, Nothing, and Splice; Detroit-born, Toronto-based; later directed Hannibal, Westworld, Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Peripheral.

Vinda Karandikar

Vinda Karandikar (विंदा करंदीकर), born Govind Vinayak Karandikar (1918–2010), was a leading Marathi poet, essayist, and translator who received the Jnanpith Award in 2003 for Ashtadarshane.

Vindaloo

Vindaloo, also spelled vindalho, is a spicy Indian curry from Goa, adapted from the Portuguese dish carne de vinha d'alhos and traditionally made with pork.

Vindicate

Vindicate is the seventh studio album by American rock band Black Veil Brides, released May 8, 2026 on Spinefarm Records. 14 tracks, self-produced by Andy Biersack and Jake Pitts, themes of revenge and resilience, guests Robb Flynn and Lilith Czar.

Vindicta (film)

Vindicta (2023 film), also called VINDICTA, is an American horror thriller directed by Sean McNamara starring Elena Kampouris, Jeremy Piven, and Sean Astin; a masked killer leaves Latin phrases in blood, released October 2023, distinct from the 1923 Feuillade silent and Sedlar's 2025 WWII film.

Vindu Dara Singh (दारा सिंह)

Vindu Dara Singh (विंदू दारा सिंह), born Virender Singh Randhawa in 1964, is an Indian film and TV actor, son of wrestler-actor Dara Singh, winner of Bigg Boss 3 (2009), and a recurring portrayer of Hanuman on television.

Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) was a Standing Rock Lakota scholar, theologian, and historian, best known for his 1969 bestseller Custer Died for Your Sins and his critique of anthropology.

Vineet Kumar (विनीत कुमार)

Vineet Kumar (विनीत कुमार) names several Indian actors: chiefly Vineet Kumar Singh (b. Varanasi, MD in Ayurveda, Mukkabaaz co-writer-lead, Chhaava's Kavi Kalash) and a veteran NSD-trained character actor (b. 1957, Patna, Drohkaal, Masaan).

Vineeth

Vineeth, also known as Vineeth Radhakrishnan, is an Indian actor and Bharatanatyam dancer in Malayalam cinema, born in 1969 in Kannur, Kerala; he is a nephew of the Travancore sisters.

Vineeth Sreenivasan (വിനീത് ശ്രീനിവാസൻ)

Vineeth Sreenivasan (വിനീത് ശ്രീനിവാസൻ), born 1985 in Kuthuparamba, Kerala, is a Malayalam playback singer, actor, director, writer and producer, son of Sreenivasan; known for directing Malarvaadi Arts Club, Hridayam and Varshangalkku Shesham.

Vineeth Sreenivasan filmography

Vineeth Sreenivasan filmography: the Malayalam singer-actor-director's career from Kilichundan Mampazham (2003) and Cycle (2008) through Malarvadi Arts Club, Thattathin Marayathu, Thira, Hridayam, Varshangalkku Shesham, and Karam (2025).

Vineeth Thattil David

Vineeth Thattil David (വിനീത് തട്ടിൽ ഡേവിഡ്), real name Vineeth Thattil, is a Malayalam film actor from Thrissur, Kerala, first noted in Angamaly Diaries (2017) and now a prolific character performer, with a lead role in Abrid Shine's Spa (2026).

Vineland

Vineland is Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, his fourth and first after Gravity's Rainbow, set in 1984 northern California among aging Sixties radicals, Zoyd Wheeler, Frenesi Gates, and Brock Vond; initially received as accessible "Pynchon Lite," later reappraised and loosely adapted in One Battle After Another (2025).

Vinesauce

Vinesauce, also Vinesauce Vinny, is a gaming streaming brand and former streamer collective founded in 2010 by Vinny Franzetti, known for game corruptions, Tomodachi Life streams, and the annual Vinesauce is HOPE charity event for PCRF.

Vinessa Shaw

Vinessa Shaw (born 1976, Los Angeles) is an American film actress and model; breakout as Allison in Hocus Pocus (1993), later Domino in Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Ray Donovan's Kate, and recent roles in Yellowstone and Cruel Intentions.