Sports Person Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is a retired Soviet Russian professional football player.

Is a retired Soviet Russian professional football player.

Is a Jewish-Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972. His career first b

Is a Jewish-Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972. His career first blossomed when he helped and then led the USSR to consecutive wins of the World Student Team Championship from 1966 to 1972, bagging nine gold medals along the way.

Is a Montenegrin football midfielder. He currently plays for Rapid Bucharest.Vladimir Božovic was t

Is a Montenegrin football midfielder. He currently plays for Rapid Bucharest.Vladimir Božovic was the founding member of Montenegro national team, against Hungary, March 2007. He is the most capped montenegrin player with 14 appearances for his national s

Is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for FK Sevojno, on a 6-month loan from FK Partizan.As of

Is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for FK Sevojno, on a 6-month loan from FK Partizan.As of September 20, 2008, he had appeared for Partizan twice.

Is a retied ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow.

Is a retied ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow.

Is a Serbian football striker. He stands at 1.79m and weighs 74 kg.Vladimir Buac has played for Novi

Is a Serbian football striker. He stands at 1.79m and weighs 74 kg.Vladimir Buac has played for Novi Sad clubs FK Index and FK Kabel, before coming to FK Vojvodina in 2001, playing for their youth team, eventually breaking into the first team in 2005.

Is a Georgian footballer who currently plays as a defender for FC Zorya Luhansk. He has been capped

Is a Georgian footballer who currently plays as a defender for FC Zorya Luhansk. He has been capped 22 times for the national team, scoring 2 goals.

A Russian football player, who was once regarded as one of the most promising players in Europe.At 1

A Russian football player, who was once regarded as one of the most promising players in Europe.At 16, But joined Borussia Dortmund from Chernomorets Novorossiysk. During his first season with the German club, But won the Champions League, but left the club after falling out with Matthias Sammer. In 2000, But joined Freiburg, where he stayed for the next three seasons, but yet again fell out with the coach and left Freiburg for Hannover 96.

A Russian football right winger who currently plays for Spartak Moscow and Russia. Before that, he p

A Russian football right winger who currently plays for Spartak Moscow and Russia. Before that, he played for Zenit Saint Petersburg. He is renowned for his electrifying pace being one of the fastest players in Europe (interesting that his last name translates to "fast" in English). Bystrov is the most fouled upon player in the Russian Premier League largely due to how hard he is to stop.

Is a Bolivian football striker currently playing for Club Aurora in Bolivia.Castellón was singled o

Is a Bolivian football striker currently playing for Club Aurora in Bolivia.Castellón was singled out as a star in 2008 when he helped Aurora win their first ever title in the club's history by scoring 12 times in the championship. He is a physical striker despite his nonthreatening appearance.

Is a former Croatian footballer. He played for several clubs from Zagreb, including Gradanski, NK Po

Is a former Croatian footballer. He played for several clubs from Zagreb, including Gradanski, NK Poštar and Lokomotiva, but is best remembered for his eight-year spell with Dinamo Zagreb where he played from 1953 to 1961.

Was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1912 Summer

Was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He is 6'10" (2.08 m) in height and he plays as both

Is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He is 6'10" (2.08 m) in height and he plays as both a small forward and a power forward. Dašic won the gold medal at the 2005 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship while playing the Serbia's junior national tea

Is a retired football defender from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1982 FIFA World

Is a retired football defender from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number four jersey. He played for several clubs in Chile, including Universidad Católica. After his active football career Bigorra became a football manager.

Was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in three events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in three events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

A Belarusian ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack. During the 20

A Belarusian ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack. During the 2006-07 NHL Season, Denisov played in the Russian Hockey Super League for HC Lada Togliatti.

Was a Bulgarian Colonel General, diplomat and horse rider. In the interwar period, Stoychev represen

Was a Bulgarian Colonel General, diplomat and horse rider. In the interwar period, Stoychev represented Bulgaria in the equestrian events at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, among other competitions. From 1930 t

Is an Macedonian football player whose position is left back. He plays for KVC Westerlo in Belgium a

Is an Macedonian football player whose position is left back. He plays for KVC Westerlo in Belgium and is a member of the U-21 national team of Macedonia.

Is a Serbian footballer currently playing for Metalurh Donetsk. He plays as a Goalkeeper. He also re

Is a Serbian footballer currently playing for Metalurh Donetsk. He plays as a Goalkeeper. He also represents the Serbia national football team.

Was a Russian water polo player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960 Summer Olympics.In 196

Was a Russian water polo player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960 Summer Olympics.In 1960 he was a member of the Soviet team which won the silver medal in the Olympic water polo tournament. He played one match.

A former Belarusian discus thrower who won the Olympic silver medal in 1996. He is also the 1994 Eur

A former Belarusian discus thrower who won the Olympic silver medal in 1996. He is also the 1994 European champion and 1995 World Championships silver medallist, and he finished fourth at the 1997 World Championships. In 2000 he set his personal best throw with 69.28 metres. He retired after the 2001 season.

Is a Georgian footballer who plays for Maccabi Haifa F.C.Dvalishvili made his debut on 2009–10 UEF

Is a Georgian footballer who plays for Maccabi Haifa F.C.Dvalishvili made his debut on 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round, 15 July 2009, against Glentoran F.C.. He scored two goals.

Is a Russian chess grandmaster with an Elo-rating of 2598. He was one of the assistants (seconds) to

Is a Russian chess grandmaster with an Elo-rating of 2598. He was one of the assistants (seconds) to Anatoly Karpov during the late stages of Karpov's career (from 1987 to 1996).

Is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer.

Is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer.

A former Soviet football striker who holds all-time record of caps for CSKA Moscow. Son of famous So

A former Soviet football striker who holds all-time record of caps for CSKA Moscow. Son of famous Soviet football and ice hockey player, Grigory Fedotov. He currently works as FC Moscow sporting director.His only professional club was CSKA (1960-1975, 382 caps and 92 goals in the Soviet Top League), also he made 22 appearances for USSR national football team between 1970 and 1975, scoring 4 goals. After Fedotov ended his playing career, he became a manager.