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Default vlookup question

Hello,
I have a spreadsheet. that has 2 columns A and B
In the A column there are numbers. and in the B column there are people
initials.
the people can be in multiple columns
can i use vlookup to add up all the numbers by a persons initals?
so:

A B
4 xx
5 xx
2 yy
8 xx
7 yy

I see I could do somthing like this
but it is an error
= VLOOKUP("xx", A11:B14, 1, FALSE)

can anyone help?
thanks