List of Famous people named Valery

Valery Borisovich Garkalin is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2008), Professor of GITIS.

Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981.

Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is now mainly remembered for his work as the chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster.

Valery Fyodorovich Rashkin is a Russian politician who is a deputy for the Communist Party in the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, songwriter and occasional 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 Vladimirovich Obodzinsky was a Soviet and Russian singer (tenor), a holder of the title of Meritorious Artist Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1973). He gained wide popularity all over the Soviet Union when in 1964 Oleg Lundstrem invited the popular provincial singer to work as a soloist with his Moscow-based orchestra. A year and a half later, having recorded a number of big hits, Obodzinsky decided to split and continue his career independently. In the 1970s, in part because he only performed lyrical songs and his repertoire was therefore limited, he started experiencing an artistic crisis. He periodically fell into depression and eventually abandoned the stage for over 10 years.

Valery Alexandrovich Kipelov is a Russian musician and composer who was the vocalist and a founding member of heavy metal band Aria. Since 2002, Kipelov leads his own metal band, Kipelov.

Valeriy Shotayevich Meladze is a Russian singer of Georgian descent and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. He is the brother of composer and producer Konstantin Meladze, who writes songs for him.

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).

Valery Petrovich Todorovsky is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer whose best known film is Hipsters (2008). He is the son of Pyotr Todorovsky.