List of Famous people named Vladimir

Vladimir Yakovlevich Vengerov was a Soviet film director. He directed fourteen films between 1951 and 1985. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978). His 1962 film A Trip Without a Load was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.

Vladimir Olgerdovich was the son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his first wife Maria of Vitebsk. He was Grand Prince of Kiev (Kyiv) from 1362 to 1394. His sons Ivan and Alexander started the Belsky and Olelkovich families.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Troshin was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and singer. In 1951, at the age of 25, for his portrayal of a rural inventor in the play Second Love at the Moscow Art Theater, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Troshin was the original performer of the song "Moscow Nights" that in 1957 brought him fame all over the Soviet Union. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1985.

Vladimír Kobranov was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1949 world championship. In 1950 he was imprisoned with other Czech hockey players by the communist government. His career and careers of his colleagues were ended by the communist regime. In 2009 he was introduced in the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.

Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian Empire and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.

Vladimir Shkurikhin was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Vladimir Orlando Cardoso de Araújo Filho, simply known as Vladimir, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Avaí.

Vladimir Borisovich Belov was Soviet/Russian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Torlopov is a Russian politician, who was the president of the Komi Republic, a federal subject of Russia. In December 2001, he won elections with 40% of the vote, defeating incumbent President Yury Spiridonov resulting in Spiridonov becoming one of few incumbent administrative division leaders in Russia to be defeated between the period 1991-2005 when these leaders were directly elected. Torlopov took office in January 2002 and left on 15 January 2010.

Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley was a Russian aristocrat and poet, who was executed by the Bolsheviks when he was 21 years old.