Top Celebrity Names Starting With Vladimir

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   Vladimir Putin

   Age 59 Male
   

   Politician, Director, Prime Minister

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   Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin also serves as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move.… read more

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   Vladimir Guerrero

   Age 37 Male
   

   Right Fielder

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   Vladimir Alvino Guerrero is a free agent Major League Baseball right fielder and designated hitter. In 2004, he was voted the American League MVP. He helped lead the Angels to five American League West championships, and was voted as one of the most feared hitters in baseball in a 2008 poll of all 30 major league managers.… read more

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   Vladimir Vysotsky

   1938 - 1980 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Poet

   
   

   Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street jargon. He was also a prominent stage and screen actor.… read more

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   Vladimir Tismăneanu

   Age 60 Male
   

   Romanian-american Academic

   
   

   Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, having served as chairman of the editorial committee (2004–2008) and editor (1998–2004) of the East European Politics and Societies academic review.… read more

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   Vladimir Kulich

   Age 55 Male
   

   Actor, Page

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   Vladimir Cosma

   Age 72 Male
   

   Musician, Pianist, Conductor

   
   

   Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferrucio Busoni.… read more

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   Vladimir Lenin

   1870 - 1924 Male
   

   Politician, Led October Revolution

   
   

   Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years, as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.… read more

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   Vladimir Zhirinovsky

   Age 66 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, colonel of the Russian Army, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Zhirinovsky is often viewed as "a showman of Russian politics, blending populist and nationalist rhetoric, anti-Western invective and a brash, confrontational style".… read more

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   Vladimir Kozlov

   Age 33 Male
   

   Professional Wrestler

   
   

   Oleg Aleksandrovich Prudius is an Ukrainian American professional wrestler currently signed to Inoki Genome Federation, a Wrestling Promotion in Japan. He also known by his ring name Vladimir Kozlov. when competing for WWE, he won the WWE Tag Team Championships with Santino Marella on one occasion. He is trained in freestyle wrestling, rugby, football, sambo, kickboxing, judo, and mixed martial arts.… read more

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    Vladimir Rosing

    1890 - 1963 Male
    

    Russian-born Operatic Tenor and Stage Director

    
    

    Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing, aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States. In his formative years he experienced the last gasp of the Golden Age of Opera, and subsequently dedicated himself through his singing and directing into breathing new life into opera's outworn mannerisms and methods. Rosing was considered by many to rank as a singer and performer of the quality of Feodor Chaliapin.… read more

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    Vladimir Gustov

    Age 50 Male
    

    Guitarist, Composer, Producer

    
    

    Vladimir Gustov is a Russian guitar player, an arranger, a composer, and a sound producer. Currently - the Max Leonidov and Hippoband leader.

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    Vladimir Nabokov

    1899 - 1977 Male
    

    Russian-american Novelist, Lepidopterist, Professor

    
    

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist, poet and short story writer. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.… read more

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    Vladimir Voronin

    Age 71 Male
    

    Politician, Economist, Engineer

    
    

    Vladimir Nicolaevici Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the First Secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova since 1994. He was Europe's first democratically elected Communist Party head of state after the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc.… read more

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    Vladimir Stojković

    Age 28 Male
    

    Footballer

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    Vladimir Stojković is a Serbian football goalkeeper who plays for FK Partizan and for the Serbian national team.

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    Vladimir Kvachkov

    Age 63 Male
    

    Politician, Colonel, Businessman

    
    

    Vladimir Vasilievich Kvachkov is an ex-colonel of Russian Military Intelligence service GRU, author and politician. He came to prominence after he was arrested and charged with an attempt to murder Russian politician and businessman Anatoly Chubais. After three years of imprisonment he was acquitted by the court on 5 June 2008.… read more

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    Vladimir Kramnik

    1975 - 4712 BC Male
    

    Chess Grandmaster

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    Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has also won the two strongest tournaments in chess history: the 2009 Mikhail Tal Memorial and the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.… read more

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    Vladimir Plahotniuc

    Age 46 Male
    

    Politician, Businessman

    
    

    Vladimir Plahotniuc is a politician, businessman and philanthropist from the Republic of Moldova, who also used the name Vlad Ulinici.

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    Vladimír Mečiar

    Age 69 Male
    

    Politician, Campaigner, Prime Minister

    
    

    Vladimír Mečiar is a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998. He is the leader of the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS). Mečiar led Slovakia to disengagement from the Czech Republic in January 1993 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004.… read more

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    Vladimir Colin

    1921 - 1991 Male
    

    Writer, Novelist, Poet

    
    

    Vladimir Colin was a Romanian short story writer and novelist. One of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Romanian literature, whose main works are known on several continents, he was also a noted poet, essayist, translator, journalist and comic book author.… read more

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    Vladimir Horowitz

    1903 - 1989 Male
    

    Virtuoso, Pianist, Composer

    
    

    Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.… read more

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    Vladimir Shamanov

    Age 55 Male
    

    Politician, Lieutenant General, Superintendent

    
    

    Vladimir Anatolyevich Shamanov is a Lieutenant General in the Russian Army, the commander of the Russian Airborne Troops since May 2009 and a former Russian politician. He has an image of a "super-hawk" among Russian military leaders.… read more

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    Vladimir Tretchikoff

    1913 - 2006 Male
    

    Painter

    
    

    Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff was one of the most commercially successful artists of all time - his painting Chinese Girl (popularly known as "The Green Lady") is one of the best selling art prints ever. Tretchikoff was a self-taught artist who painted realistic figures, portraits, still life and animals, with subjects often inspired by his early life in China and Malaysia, and later life in South Africa.… read more

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    Vladimir Luxuria

    Age 46 Female
    

    Politician, Writer, Communist

    
    

    Vladimir Luxuria born Wladimiro Guadagno in Foggia, Apulia is an Italian actress, writer, politician and television presenter. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party member of the Italian parliament, belonging to Romano Prodi's L'Unione coalition. She was the first openly transgender member of Parliament in Europe, and the world's second openly transgender MP after New Zealander Georgina Beyer. She lost her seat in the election of April, 2008.… read more

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    Vladimir Romanov

    Age 65 Male
    

    Businessman, President, Stockholder

    
    

    Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union. He is chairman of UBIG Investments which is the majority shareholder in Scottish Premier League football club Hearts and Lithuanian Basketball League club Žalgiris.… read more

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    Vladimir Komarov

    1927 - 1967 Male
    

    Cosmonaut

    
    

    Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in the first group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He was one of the most highly experienced and well-qualified candidates accepted into "Air Force Group One".… read more