Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was a Russian sniper during World War II.

Vasily Ivanovich Zhukov is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and has a Ph.D. in history. Professor Zhukov is the rector of the Russian State Social University.

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

Vasily Pavlovich Zubov was a Russian and Soviet philosopher who wrote on architecture, art, and the history of science based on studies of texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He received a posthumous George Sarton medal from the history of science society in 1963.

Vasily Dmitrievich Zvyagintsev was a Russian science fiction author.

Vasile "Vasko" Popa (Serbian Cyrillic: Васко Попа; 29 June 1922 – 5 January 1991) was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of Romanian ethnicity.

Vaślejĕ Mitta or Vasiliy Yegorovich Mitta was a Soviet Chuvash poet and novelist, translator, essayist and author of the literary-critical articles.

Vassian Patrikeyev, also known as Vassian Kosoy was a Russian ecclesiastic and political figure and writer and an early member of the House of Golitsyn that traced its male-line descent to Duke Patrikas of Korela and to Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Vassilis Alexakis was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.

Vassilis Rotas (1889–1977) was a Greek politician, author and translator of Shakespeare's dramas from English into Greek.