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Vladimir Putin
2nd and 4th President of Russia (2000-2008 | 2012-present) | 7th and 11th Prime Minister of Russia (1999-2000 | 2008-2012) | Director of the Federal Security Service (1998-1999) and Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1994-1996)
Top 500 #217
Initials VP #1#6

Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist | lepidopterist | professor (1899–1977)
Initials VN #2
Lolita#9

Vladimir Tenev
Bulgarian-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Robinhood | a US-based financial services company
Initials VT #10#15
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet | playwright | artist and stage and film actor
Initials VM #48#50
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Ukrainian | Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist | one of the founders of geochemistry | biogeochemistry | and of radiogeology
Initials VV #130#53
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals | labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Initials VB #107#61

Vladimír Mečiar
Czechoslovak Minister of the Interior of Slovakia | member of Slovak National Council | member of Czechoslovak parliament | prime minister of Slovakia | politician | lawyer and Slovak politician
Initials VM #145#79
Vladimir Arutyunian
Attempted to assassinate George W. Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili
Initials VA #95