Matryona Vasyukova (1880–1970) – a nurse of mercy and artist. >>

Nikolay Vedernikov (1937) – full member of Latvian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of chemical technology of wood and its components.  >>

Viktor  Vedmedovsky (1939) – Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr. sc. ing.), Associate Professor of the Riga Polytechnic Institute (since 1990 - Riga Technical University). >>

Maria Vedrinskaya (1877–1948) – a theatre actress, working in the Riga Russian Drama Theatre  in the  Inter-War Period . >>

Alexander Veideman (1879–1943) –  a philosopher. >>

Veniamin (1822–1874) – a bishop of Riga and Mitaw from 1867 to 1874. >>

Veniamin (secular name Vasily Kazansky; 1873–1922) – from September 1897 to the summer of 1898 he taught Holy Scripture at the Riga Theological Seminary. Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov from 1917 to 1922. >>

Veniamin (Fedchenkov; 1880–1961) – Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia from 1947 to 1951. >>

Tamara Veresova (1941) – a local historian, journalist and editor. From 1990 tj 1996 lived and worked in Latvia, her mother`s native land. >>

Victoria Verkhovskaya (1945–2015) – a teacher of Russian and Literature. From 1978 to 1991 – principal of Riga High school Nr. 46, from 1991  to 2015 – principal of Riga High school «Rinuzhi». >>