Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996. He is known as one of the most prominent artists of Soviet and Russian music. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has recorded more than 30 albums, many of which sold millions of copies. The media refers to Leontiev as a megastar and a legend of the Russian stage.

Valery Yakovlevich Levental was a Russian theatrical scenic designer. He was named People's Artist of the USSR and was a member-correspondent of the Academy of Art.

Valery Marakou was a Belarusian poet and translator.

Valery Pereleshin, pseudonym of Valery Frantsevich Salatko-Petrishche was a Russian-Brazilian poet and translator.

Valery Valentinovich Polienko is a Russian director, poet, composer and producer.

Valery Georgievich Popov is a Russian writer, "one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of fiction." He has written about twenty books for adults and children as well as poems and screenplays.

Valery Senderov was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism.

Valery Petrovich Shibaev is a Soviet, Russian chemist and professor at Moscow State University. He is a specialist in the field of physical chemistry of macromolecular compounds and elected member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Valery Nikolayevich Soyfer, born in 1936 in Gorky is a Russian-American biophysicist, molecular geneticist, historian of science, human rights advocate, and humanitarian.

Valery Ivanovich Taliev was a Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist, best known for the concept of the role of man in the spreading of plants during the Holocene and for his evolutionary ideas. He is considered as one of the first natural scientists who explored the importance of anthropogenic factors in the evolution and geographic distribution of higher plants.