Victor Rochon (March 23, 1843 - November 15, 1892) was a merchant, public official, and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives representing St. Martin Parish from 1872 to 1874 and briefly in 1875 and from 1888 to…
Victoria Clay Haley (January 1, 1877 – after 1940), later Victoria Clay Roland, was an American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser based in St. Louis, Missouri and later in Chicago.
Victoria Hernández (March 23, 1897 – April 11, 1998) was an Afro-Puerto Rican music entrepreneur. Though a talented musician, she devoted her career to the business aspects of the music industry. In 1927, she opened the first Latin music store in New York…
Victoria Omobuwajo (born 7 April 1993) is a British-Nigerian businesswoman and television personality, who won the first season of the Gordon Ramsay reality television series broadcast on BBC One, Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars.
Vincent Bernard Orange Sr. (born April 11, 1957) is an American former politician from Washington, D.C.. A lawyer and a certified public accountant, Orange represented Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007, and was an at-large…
In 1946, businesswoman Viola Desmond refused to leave a whites-only section of a New Glasgow cinema. Her arrest and conviction helped energize Canada’s civil-rights movement.
Violet T. Lewis (May 27, 1897 – March 23, 1968) was an American businesswoman and educator who founded the Lewis College of Business in 1928, the only historically black college in Michigan.
Violette Neatley Anderson (July 16, 1882 – December 24, 1937) became the first African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. She was one of the most prominent advocates of a landmark piece of legislation…
Virgil Abloh (; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the…
Dame Vivian Yvonne Hunt (born July 1967) is a business executive. She previously served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group.