List of Alumni of Jesuit Educational Institutions - V

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  • Peter Vaghi - priest and former politician (Georgetown Prep, College of the Holy Cross, and the Pontifical Gregorian University)
  • Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin - Belgian mathematician (Jesuit College at Mons)
  • Antonio Maria Valsalva - Italian anatomist who coined the term Eustachian tube
  • Jean Vanier - Canadian philanthropist and founder of L'Arche (Loyola High School (Montreal))
  • Adriaan van Roomen - Belgian mathematician (Jesuit school in Cologne)
  • Pierre Varignon - French priest and mathematician (Jesuit College in Caen)
  • Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, S.J. - Slovak Jesuit priest, professor and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (Gregorian University)
  • Ramaswamy Venkataraman - former President of India (Loyola College, Chennai)
  • Josefina Vázquez Mota - Mexican politician Universidad Iberoamericana
  • Giambattista Vico - Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist
  • António Vieira - Portuguese Jesuit and writer (Jesuit college at Bahia in Brazil)
  • Joseph Vijay - Tamil actor (Loyola College, Chennai)
  • Vincenzo Viviani - Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo (Educated at Jesuit schools in his native Florence)
  • Voltaire - French author and skeptical master of the Enlightenment (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France)

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