Vitali Georgyevich Smirnov is a former athlete from the Soviet Union and longtime sports administrator.

Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.

Vitaliy Havrylovych Borovyk was a Ukrainian opinion writer and ethnographer. His real surname is Borovikov. He is a victim of Stalinist repressions.

Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki was a popular Russian children’s writer and a prolific author of books on nature.

Vitaly Dmitrievich Bubenin was a Soviet Border Troops major general and recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Vitaly Bugrov was a notable Russian science fiction editor, critic, and bibliographer, one of the founders of the Soviet science-fiction fandom.

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."

Vitaly Korotich is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian writer and journalist. Born in 1936 in Kyiv, he graduated from the Kyiv Medical University in 1959 and worked as a doctor between 1959 and 1966. Later, he became a full-time writer, and served as an officer of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Vitaliy Vyacheslavovich Naumkin ; born 21 May 1945) is a Russian scholar of Central Asia and Middle East. Naumkin graduated with honors from Moscow State University from the Institute of Asia and Africa, where he studied Arabic and Arab culture. He then served in the Soviet army from 1968-70 as an officer and Arabic teacher.

Vitaly Portnikov is a Ukrainian editor and journalist.