Val is a variant of the feminine given name Valerie / Valeria or the masculine given names Valeri, Valene, Valentine, Valen, or Valens.
Val is also a variant of the Old Norse names Vald and Valdr.
Notable people
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Val Ackerman (born 1959), American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association
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Val A. Browning
Val Allen Browning (August 20, 1895 – May 16, 1994) was an American industrialist, philanthropist and third-generation gunmaker. His grandfather, Jonathan Browning, opened a gun shop in Ogden, Utah in 1852, and his father, John Browning, i ...
(1895–1994), American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator
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Val Bennett
Val Bennett (born Lovall Bennett, ?, died 1991) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician who began his career in the 1940s. He made a number of releases on the Island Records and Crab Records labels.
Biography
In the ...
(died 1991), Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician
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Val Demings (born 1957), American politician (US representative from Florida)
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Val Doonican (1927–2015), Irish singer
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Val Gielgud (1900–1981), English actor, writer, director and broadcaster
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Val Guest (1911–2006), British film director
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Val Harris (1884–?), Irish football and Gaelic football player
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Val Kilmer (born 1959), American actor
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Val Lewton (1904–1951), American film director
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Val Lehman (born 1943) Australian actress
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Val Mayerik (born 1950), American comic-book and commercial artist, co-creator of Marvel Comics' character Howard the Duck
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Val McDermid (born 1955), Scottish crime novelist
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Val Peterson (1903–1983), American politician and 26th Governor of Nebraska
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Val Valentino (born 1956), American magician, illusionist, and actor
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Val Venis, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler, Sean Morley
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Val (sculptor), born Valérie Goutard
Fictional characters
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Val Armorr
Karate Kid (Val Armorr) is a fictional superhero in the future of the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He is a master of every form of martial arts to have been developed by the 31st century. The extent of his sk ...
, a comic book martial artist known as Karate Kid
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Val Pollard, in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''
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Val Toriello, in the television situation comedy ''The Nanny''
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Val Cooper, in the Marvel Comics universe
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Valene Ewing, in the American television series ''Dallas''
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Val Resnick, in the 1999 movie ''
Payback''
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Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, an espionage agent in the Marvel Comics universe
* Darryl's love interest on the U.S. TV series ''
The Office''
* The title character in the comic strip ''
Prince Valiant''
* A fictional race in
Arcanis, a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game
* A character in the
A Song of Ice and Fire
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who init ...
series, the sister of the wife of
Mance Rayder
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Val Bilzerian
''Big Mouth'' is an American adult animated coming-of-age sitcom created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett provided by Netflix. The series centers on teens based on Kroll and Goldberg's upbringing in sub ...
, in the adult animated sitcom ''
Big Mouth''
See also
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Val (disambiguation)
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Vali (disambiguation)
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Valerie (given name)
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Valery
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Valeria (given name)
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English unisex given names
English feminine given names
English masculine given names