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01	Valmiki	A celebrated Sanskrit poet of ancient India, and author of the Ramayana.
02	Vasco de Gama(1470-1524)	The Porttuguese explorer who made the first voyage from Europe, round Africa to the east and reached Calcutta (India) in 1498.
03	Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1900-90)	Sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the first woman minister of an Indian state (UP). She holds the distinction of being the first woman to become President of the UN General Assembly and the first India woman Ambassador to Moscow.
04	Vivekanand, Swami(1863-1902)	A disciple of Ramakrishna Paranhansa he championded the greatness of the Vedantic philosophy. HIs famous talk at the Chicago Conference of World Religions in 1893 made the Westerners realize the greatness of India for the first time. He established the Ramakrishna Mission, in memory of his guru.
05	Vladimir Lenin(1870-1924)	Also known as Nikolai Lenin, he was a Russian revolutionary leader. He was exiled to Siberia in 1895 where he continued to guide the revolutionary struggle of the Russian people. In 1898 he created a new party-the Bolshevik Party-to bring about a communist revolution in Russia. On November 7, 1917, a new Socialist government was formed under the leadership of Lenin.