People
- Amadeo Vives, a Spanish musical composer
- Carlos Vives (born 1961), Colombian singer, composer and actor
- Gilberto Calvillo Vives (born 1945), President of the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI)
- Giuseppe Vives (born 1980), Italian football midfielder
- Joan Lluís Vives, a famous Valencian scholar and humanist
- Jaume Vicens i Vives (born 1910), Spanish historian
- Josep Manyanet i Vives (1833 - 1901), Catalan priest who is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church
- Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540), Valencian scholar and humanist
- Nuria Llagostera Vives (born 1980), Spanish female tennis player
- Peter Vives, Spanish actor, singer and classical pianist
- Salvador de Vives, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1840-42 and 1844-45
- T. Edward Vives, trombonist and composer
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