List of Famous people named Viktor

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth President of Ukraine. After rejecting the Ukrainian-European Association Agreement, Yanukovych was ousted from office in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. He currently lives in exile in Russia.

Viktor Borisovich Khristenko is a Russian politician who was Chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission from 1 February 2012 to 1 February 2016. He was First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 31 May 1999 to 10 January 2000 and Minister of Industry from 9 March 2004 to 31 January 2012.

Victor Vasilievich Mokhov is a Russian criminal who in 2000 kidnapped two girls, then 14 and 17 years old, kept them in a basement and raped them for almost four years.

Viktor Hermann Brack was a German Nazi war criminal, an organiser of the euthanasia programme Action T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered over 70,000 disabled German and Austrian people. Following this, Brack was one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps, and he conferred with Odilo Globočnik about the practical implementation of the Final Solution. Brack was sentenced to death in 1947 and executed by hanging in 1948.

Viktor Ivanovich Belenko is an American aerospace engineer and former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer.

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov was a high-level Soviet security official from 1943 to 1946, the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 Minister of State Security or MGB (ex-NKGB). He was removed from office and arrested in 1951 on fabricated charges of failing to investigate the Doctors' Plot. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Abakumov was tried for fabricating the Leningrad Affair, sentenced to death and executed in 1954.

Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and business oligarch. People's Deputy of Ukraine from 29 August 2019.

Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev, was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. Hero of Socialist Labour (1989).

Viktor Vasilyevich Zolotov is the current Director of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) and a member of the Security Council of Russia. Generalissimo is his nickname.

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who was the third President of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.