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• Name: VAIDI, Javad,
  
• Title: Supreme National Security Council member Iran and head of UN Iranian delegation

• Name: VAIL, Patricia,
  
• Title: accused of assisting boyfriend Joseph Yacteen when he allegdly shot Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn in the head during an attempted carjacking

• Name: VAJPAYEE, Atl, Bihari
  
• Title: Prime Minister

• Name: VAL, Philippe,
  
• Title: editor French satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo”; printed cartoon of Prophet Mohammad on cover then reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which have caused rioting in Muslim countries; first published in Danish paper Jyllands-Posten inside with editorial; VAL said: "When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle - either by blackmail or terror - democracies do not have long left" wrote

• Name: VALE, Michael,
  
• Title: American actor known role as sleepy-eyed Fred the Baker in Dunkin* Donuts commercials

• Name: VALENTE, James,
  
• Title: Vice-president Balco California drug laboratory; guilty of giving designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) to professional athletes; Victor CONTE founder of Balco

• Name: VALENTINE, Brian,
  
• Title: Senior Vice President; Windows Core Operating System Division

• Name: VALENZUELA, Johnathan,
  
• Title: British Columbia man charged in Washington state with conspiracy to import and distribute marijuana through tunnel crossing under the USA-Canada border

• Name: VALL, Ely, Ould Mohamed
  
• Title: president Military Council for Justice and Democracy Mauritania; leader of military coup deposing President Maaouiya Ould TAYA

• Name: VALLELY, Paul,
  
• Title: retired Maj. Gen.; revealed that Ambassador Joseph C. WILSON repeatedly outed wife Valerie PLAME*S CIA identity in casual conversation to him a year before she allegedly was "outed" by Vice President Dick CHENEY*S chief of staff - I. Lewis "Scooter" LIBBY

• Name: VALLI, Frankie,
  
• Title: singer "The Four Seasons" "Sherry" "Can*t Take My Eyes Off You" "My Eyes Adored You" "Grease" (aka:Francis Castelluccio)

• Name: VALUEV, Nikolay,
  
• Title: Russia boxer; WBA world heavyweight champion tallest and heaviest (323 pounds) champion of all-time; defeated John Ruiz 6-foot 2-inch 238 lbs; bout held in Berlin-Germany

• Name: VAN ALLEN, James, Alfred
  
• Title: physicist discovered radiation belts around the earth called the "Van Allen Belts"

• Name: VAN ARK, Joan,
  
• Title: actress “Knots Landing” “Dallas” “Glitter”

• Name: VAN BUREN, Abigail,
  
• Title: advice columnist (aka:Pauline Ester Friedman Phillips)

• Name: VAN BUREN, Martin,
  
• Title: USA President 1837-41 (8th); Secretary of State JACKSON Admin.; VP second term JACKSON Admin.

• Name: VAN CLEEF, Lee,
  
• Title: actor "High Noon" "For a Few Dollars More" "Escape From New York"

• Name: VAN CROMVOIRT, Geoffrey,
  
• Title: Dutch teenager 19-yoa arrested by Aruban authorities in Alabama honors student Natalee HOLLOWAY disappearance; also questioned in case Dutch national Joran VAN DER SLOOT; Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish KALPOE; Paulus VAN DER SLOOT (Joran*s father) and former island justice official

• Name: VAN DEN ENDE, Joop,
  
• Title: Billionaire, Netherland, television

• Name: VAN DER SLOOT, Joran, Andreas Petrus
  
• Title: arrested/held/released in the disappearence of Natalee Holloway on Island of Aruba; remains suspect

• Name: VAN DER SLOOT, Paul,
  
• Title: father of Joran VAN DER SLOOT a Dutch teen who was arrested then released in disapperance of the 18-year-old Natalee Holloway missing in Aruba; arrested for questioning

• Name: VAN DER VEER, Jeroen,
  
• Title: CEO Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

• Name: VAN DIEN, Casper,
  
• Title: American actor “Starship Troopers” “Danger Beneath the Sea” “Dracula 3000"

• Name: VAN DOREN, Mamie,
  
• Title: actress "Running Wild" "High School Confidential" (aka:Joan Lucille Olander)

• Name: VAN DYKE, Dick,
  
• Title: actor "The Dick Van Dyke Show" "Mary Poppins" "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" "Diagnosis Murder"

• Name: VAN DYKE, Jerry,
  
• Title: actor "Coach"

• Name: VAN GOGH, Theo,
  
• Title: Film Producer, murdered by Muslim for film about Islamic Culture

• Name: VAN HALEN, Alex,
  
• Title: Netherlands drummer/founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen; other members Michael ANTHONY and David Lee ROTH; album “Van Halen” rock legend

• Name: VAN HOLLEN, Chris,
  
• Title: USA Congressman Maryland Democrat District 08

• Name: VAN HOUTEN, Leslie,
  
• Title: member Charles MANSON “family” cult convicted of murdering Leno LA BIANCA and wife Rosemary

• Name: VAN KIRK, Theodore “Dutch”,
  
• Title: USA Major navigator Enola Gay that dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima; first atomic bomb dropped in history of war

• Name: VAN PATTEN, Dick,
  
• Title: "Eight Is Enough" "Picnic" "The Shaggy D.A." "Soylent Green"

• Name: VAN WIJK, Leo,
  
• Title: CEO KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

• Name: VANCE, Cyrus Roberts,
  
• Title: USA Secretary of State-CARTER

• Name: VANCE, Vivian,
  
• Title: actress "I Love Lucy" "The Lucille Ball Show" "Here*s Lucy" (aka:Vivian Roberta Jones)

• Name: VANDER BLEEK, Luke,
  
• Title: owner four Chicago-IL pharmacies; objects for moral reasons to being pressured by the state to sell RU-486 which induces miscarriages

• Name: VANDER MEER, John, Samuel
  
• Title: baseball player 2-consecutive no-hitters

• Name: VANDERBILT, Gloria,
  
• Title: fashion designer

• Name: VANDROSS, Luther,
  
• Title: singer "Here and Now" "Don*t Want to Be a Fool" "Endless Love"

• Name: VANG, Chai, Soua
  
• Title: Wisconsin man found guilty of fatally shooting six deer hunters in northern Wisconsin; Attorney General Peg LAUTENSCHLAGER

• Name: VANHANEN, Matti,
  
• Title: Prime Minister, Finland

• Name: VANILLA ICE, ,
  
• Title: American rapper one of few successful white rappers “To the Extreme” (11-million copies sold) “Mind Blowin*”; duet with Naomi Campbell (born: Robert Van Winkle)

• Name: VANSTONE, Amanda,
  
• Title: Australian Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister; developing a "Shared Responsibility Agreements" for Aboriginals

• Name: VARGAS, Elizabeth,
  
• Title: TV-journalist named co-anchor of Expanded Version of ABC*s World News Tonight with Bob Woodruff; announced by News President David Westin; will become first evening newscast broadcasting nightly live version to West Coast

• Name: VARIS, Agnes,
  
• Title: president AgVar Chemicals; Democrat contributor; $1.5 million contribution to AmericaComingTogether.com

• Name: VARMUS DR., Harold,
  
• Title: director Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York; former NIH director and Nobel Prize winner

• Name: VARNEY, James,
  
• Title: actor "Earnest Goes to Camp" "The Beverly Hillbillies"

• Name: VARSAVSKY, Martin,
  
• Title: founder/CEO FON; software that allows users to share WiFi connections

• Name: VASELLA, Daniel,
  
• Title: CEO, Novartis

• Name: VAUGHAN, Stevie, Ray
  
• Title: guitarist

• Name: VAZIRI-HAMANEH, Kazem,
  
• Title: oil minister Iran

• Name: VAZQUEZ, Felix,
  
• Title: 39 yoa New York Housing Authority supervisor; caught 1-month-old son of Bronx woman who threw the baby out third story window from burning apartment; baby and mother - TRACINDA FOXE 30-yoa rescued safely; baby*s name Eric GUZMAN was uninjured; December 2005

• Name: VEERAPPAN, Koose, Muniswamy
  
• Title: India's most-wanted bandit, killed by police

• Name: VEIZER, Jan,
  
• Title: science professor University of Ottawa; claims high-energy cosmic rays from stars are hitting Earth*s atmosphere causing global warming and earth to cycle through warm and cold periods; his theory published in "Geoscience Canada"

• Name: VELAZQUEZ, Nydia, M.
  
• Title: USA Congressman, NY, D-Dist. 12

• Name: VELLINGA, Joe,
  
• Title: Deputy Recovery Operations Manager Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Stardust a seven-year project - collected particles from “Wild 2" comet and returning them to earth on Utah*s Dugway Proving Ground

• Name: VENETIAAN, Runaldo, Ronald
  
• Title: President, Suriname

• Name: VENZKE, Ben,
  
• Title: chief executive IntelCenter contractor company for U.S. intelligence community; 48-minute tape entitled "Impediments to Jihad"; recorded allegedly Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman AL-ZAWAHIRI praising Taliban leader Mullah OMAR for winning back control of large regions of Afghanistan

• Name: VERBRUGGEN, Hein,
  
• Title: president UCI cycling governing body; has received no evidence of doping by Lance ARMSTRONG in Tour de France

• Name: VERDONK, Rita,
  
• Title: Immigration Minister, Netherlands

• Name: VEREEN, Ben,
  
• Title: American actor Broadway theatre/TV/film; threatre “Jesus Christ Superstar” “Pippin” “Wicked”; TV: “Oz” "Roots" "Feast of All Saints" “ Star Trek: The Next Generation” “Tenspeed and Brown Shoe” “ The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” “The Jamie Foxx Show”; 2-Emmy Award nominations; 2-Golden Globes nominations; “The Love Boat”; 2-time award winner Tony Award

• Name: VERHOEVEN, Paul,
  
• Title: film director "RoboCop" "Total Recall" "Basic Instinct"

• Name: VEROLME, Hans,
  
• Title: director of climate change for World Wildlife Fund - United States

• Name: VERSACE, Gianni,
  
• Title: clothing designer

• Name: VERVERS, Vaughn,
  
• Title: editor CBS News blog “Public Eye”

• Name: VESSEY JR., John, W.
  
• Title: General USA; Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 1982-1985

• Name: VICK, Marcus,
  
• Title: Virginia Tech University quarterback; dismissed from team legal transgressions and unsportsman like conduct; 2005 Gator Bowl replays showed VICK stomped on left calf of Louisville All-American defensive end Elvis DUMERVIL; University president Charles STEGER announced the dismissal

• Name: VICKERS DR., Michael,
  
• Title: veterinarian/politican; Republican Party committeeman has joined the Minuteman border patrol; first to identify strain of anthrax implicated in killing five people in 2001

• Name: VIDAL, Eugene "Gore", Luther
  
• Title: author "Myra Breckinridge" "Lincoln"

• Name: VIDMAR, Patricia,
  
• Title: Principal, Stevens Creek School, barred using Declaration of Independence in history class.

• Name: VIGIL, Robert,
  
• Title: state Treasurer New Mexico; Democrat arrested on racketeering charges after FBI investigation into public corruption; allegedly received illegal payments totaling $632000; allegedly threaten investment adviser Kent NELSON with "economic harm" to extort money

• Name: VIGNERON, Allen,
  
• Title: Catholic Bishop Diocese of Oakland CA; announced settlement with victims of priests alleged to have sexually abused 56 minors; Diocese agreed to pay $56 million

• Name: VIGODA, Abe,
  
• Title: actor "Barney Miller" "Fish"

• Name: VIGUERIE, Richard, A.
  
• Title: Chairman, United Conservative of America

• Name: VIKE-FREIBERGA, Vaira,
  
• Title: President, Latvia

• Name: VILA, Anibal, Acevedo
  
• Title: governor Puerto Rico

• Name: VILLARAIGOS, Antonio,
  
• Title: Mayor, Los Angeles; first Hispanic Mayor of L.A. in history

• Name: VILLARAIGOSA, Antonio,
  
• Title: mayor Los Angeles CA; first Hispanic mayor of LA

• Name: VILLASANA, Julio,
  
• Title: Mexican citizen illegal U.S. immigrant; convicted in a fatal drunk driving wreck killing Charlie DERRINGTON a Nashville guitar maker; VILLASANA deported from U.S. three times and allowed to leave voluntarily on eleven other occasions before the fatal accident; VILLASANA 34-yoa; sentenced to 25 years in prison; July-2007

• Name: VILLECHAIZE, Herve,
  
• Title: actor "Fantasy Island"

• Name: VILSACK, Thomas, J.
  
• Title: Governor, D-Iowa; took office 1998

• Name: VINCENT, Jan-Michael,
  
• Title: actor "The Undefeated" "Deliver Us From Evil" "Airwolf"

• Name: VINCENT, Steven,
  
• Title: American freelance journalist murdered in Iraq; contributor to WSJ; NYT

• Name: VINCENT JR., Francis, Thomas
  
• Title: commission MLB

• Name: VINSON, Betty,
  
• Title: former WorldCom accounting manager sentenced five months in prison by Manhattan-U.S. District Judge Barbara JONES in WorldCom*s accounting fraud scheme; Joe HOLLOMON lawyer representing VINSON

• Name: VINSON, Fred, M.
  
• Title: USA Supreme Court chief Justice 1946-1953; nominated President Truman; Secretary of the Treasury TRUMAN Admin.

• Name: VINTON, Bobby,
  
• Title: singer "Lavender Blue"

• Name: VIRDON, William, Charles
  
• Title: baseball player/manager

• Name: VISCARDI, Michael,
  
• Title: 16-yoa home-schooled high school senior from San Diego-California won top individual prize of $100-thousand college scholarship in Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math

• Name: VISCOLSKY, Pete,
  
• Title: USA Congressman, IN, Democrat, District 01

• Name: VIVIAN, Young,
  
• Title: Premier, Niue

• Name: VIVIAN, Young, Mititaigimimene
  
• Title: premier Pacific island state of Niue; defeated sitting premier Hunukitama HUNUKI

• Name: VOHOR, Serge,
  
• Title: Prime Minister, Vanuatu

• Name: VOIGHT, John,
  
• Title: actor "Midnight Cowboy" "Anaconda"

• Name: VOINOVICH, George,
  
• Title: USA Senator, OH, Republican

• Name: VOLANAKIS, Peter,
  
• Title: COO Corning Inc.

• Name: VOLCKER, Paul,
  
• Title: investigator UN Oil-for-Food-Program. former USA FED Chairman

• Name: VOLPE, Joe,
  
• Title: Canadian Immigration Minister

• Name: VON BISMARCK, Otto,
  
• Title: German Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia; unified Germany by initiating several wars; defeated France decisively 1870 Franco-Prussian war; created German Empire

• Name: VON BLOMBERG, Peter,
  
• Title: deputy chairman of German chapter of Transparency International

• Name: VON BRAUN, Wernher,
  
• Title: rocket scientist;crucial in founding American rocket development; NASA Deputy Associate Administrator; VP Fairchild Industries

• Name: VON CHOLTITZ, Dietrich,
  
• Title: German Nazi General in charge of Paris WWII; refused to carry out Alpolph HITLER*s command to burn Paris to keep it out of Allied hands

• Name: VON CLAUSEWITZ, Karl,
  
• Title: soldier/Prussian Military strategist/author; "On War" Quote "Politics is the art of the possible"

• Name: VON ESCHENBACH, Andrew,
  
• Title: nominated by Pres. George W. BUSH (43) commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration March 2006

• Name: VON ESCHENBACH DR., Andrew, C.
  
• Title: acting commissioner Food and Drug Administration; appointed by President George Bush (43)

• Name: VON FRESE, Ralph,
  
• Title: geologist Ohio State University; announced find of crater the size of Ohio in Antarctica which may caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth about 250 million years ago known as Permian-Triassic extinction; located in Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica south of Australia; may have begun breakup of the Gondwana super-continent which pushed Australia northward

• Name: VON GOETHE, Johann, Wolfgang
  
• Title: German writer/scientist/philosopher “The Sorrows of Young Werther” “Götz von Berlichingenepic”; wrote epic poem “Faust” (plot: "selling one*s soul to the devil")

• Name: VON HAYEK, Friedrich,
  
• Title: August.Austria economist; noted for defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist tide in 20th century; authored: “The Road to Serfdom”; socialism requires central planning leading to totalitarianism; shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics with ideological collectivist rival Gunnar MYRDAL; shared ideas of the Swedish economist Knut WICKSELL

• Name: VON HUMBOLDT, Friedrich, Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr
  
• Title: foreign diplomat/philosopher/ founder Humboldt Universität Berlin-Germany; his concepts formed foundations of Noam Chomsky*s theory of language; Socrates and Plato on the Divine; greatest work considered ancient Kawi language of Java

• Name: VON JOUANNE, Annette,
  
• Title: an Oregon State electrical engineering professor claims 10-square-mile ocean wave power plant could supply entire state of Oregon with electricity

• Name: VON STERNBERG PhD, Richard,
  
• Title: scientist Smithsonian Institution; PhDs in biology-theoretical biology/molecular evolution; U.S. Office of Special Counsel found other IS scientists created hostile work environment to force VON STERNBERG out of SI for his evaluation of intelligent design speculations; Darwin*s theory questioned with the Cambrian Explosion 530 million years ago

• Name: VON THURN UND TAXIS, Albert, Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel
  
• Title: World's youngest billionaire, Germany, family established a postal service in Europe

• Name: VON TRIER, Lars,
  
• Title: film producer, anti-Americanist, referred to Pres. Bush (43) as an "ass hole"

• Name: VON ZITZEWITZ, Andreas,
  
• Title: Infineon executive director for memory chips Germany resigned over allegations he took €259000 without authorization to sponsoring motor-sports

• Name: VONNEGUT JR., Kurt,
  
• Title: author "Cat*s Cradle" "Slaughterhouse Five"

• Name: VOTRUBA, James,
  
• Title: president Northern Kentucky University; put Sally JACOBSEN on leave for suggesting to her student to destroy an anti-abortion display at NKU; he said: “we cannot condone infringement of the rights of others to express themselves in an orderly manner”

• Name: VRIJENHOEK, Robert,
  
• Title: diving expedition leader ocean diver Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California; discovered a new crustacean in South Pacific 900 miles south of Easter Island 2005 that resembles lobster covered with what appears to be silky-blond fur; Michel SEGONZAC French Institute for Sea Exploration made announcement; animal named Kiwa hirsuta: distinct new family and genus created for crustacean