List of Famous people named Vera
Vera Zimmerman
Vera Alice Santos Zimmermann is a Brazilian actress.
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Igorevna Zvonareva is a Russian tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career-high ranking is world No. 2 by the WTA. Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles including 2009 Indian Wells Masters and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open. She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In doubles, she has won five Grand Slam titles. Three of the titles came in women's doubles, the first two at the 2006 US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy, and the 2012 Australian Open, with Svetlana Kuznetsova. Following her return to tennis, Zvonareva won her third women's doubles Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open, partnering Laura Siegemund. Her other two titles came in mixed doubles, the first at the 2004 US Open, partnering Bob Bryan, and her second at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, alongside Andy Ram.
Vera Voloshina
Vera Danilovna Voloshina was a Russian partisan who after joining the Red Army took part in subversive activities against the Nazis in World War II. After being ambushed by the Germans in November 1941, she was brutally hanged near the village of Golovkovo in the Naro-Fominsky District to the southwest of Moscow. According to legend, she was also the model behind Ivan Shadr's Girl with an Oar sculpture in Moscow's Gorky Park. In 1994, Voloshina was honoured posthumously as a Heroine of the Russian Federation.
Vera von Schalburg
Vera Schalburg was a Soviet, German and British agent and sister of Christian Frederik von Schalburg.
Vera Setta
Vera Lúcia Setta is a Brazilian actress of cinema and theater and theatrical producer.
Véra Belmont
Véra Belmont is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. Since 1960, she has produced 45 films, directed 5 films, and written 8 films. Her films were greatly inspired by François Truffaut and other members of the New Wave movement. Her 1985 film Red Kiss was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where Charlotte Valandrey won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Vera Kobalia
Vera Kobalia is a Georgian politician who has served in the Cabinet of Georgia as the country's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development from 2 July 2010 to 25 October 2012.
Vera Oelschlegel
Vera Oelschlegel has worked as a German singer, actress, artistic director, drama director and professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a celebrity in the German Democratic Republic before 1989. After that, from 1990 till 2013, she headed up the Theater des Ostens touring theatre company.
Vera Lúcia Pereira da Silva Salgado
Vera Lúcia Pereira da Silva Salgado better known as Vera Lúcia is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Unified Workers' Socialist Party. She has contested elections many times, including the 2018 Brazilian presidential election, but has not been elected to public office.
Vera Brandes
Vera Brandes is a German music producer and researcher in music and media effects.