Val
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Val is a variant of the feminine given name Valerie
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Val may refer to:
Valerie (given name)
Valerie is almost always a feminine given name in English, derived directly from the French Valérie and ultimately from the Latin Valeria. Valerie is also used as a nickname for Valeria...
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Val may refer to:
Given name
- Val AckermanVal AckermanValerie B. "Val" Ackerman was born on November 7, 1959 in Lakewood Township, New Jersey but grew up in Pennington, New Jersey, United States. She is an attorney, sports executive, and former basketball player...
(born 1959), American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association - Val A. BrowningVal A. BrowningVal Allen Browning was a noted Utah industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator. His grandfather, Jonathan Browning, opened a gun shop in Ogden, Utah in 1852 and his father, John Browning, is considered by many to be the most important gun inventor in history.-Life:Born in...
(1895–1994), American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator - Val DoonicanVal DoonicanVal Doonican is an Irish singer. From 1965 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC Television's schedule with The Val Doonican Show, which featured his own singing performances and a variety of guest artists...
(born 1927), Irish singer - Val GielgudVal GielgudVal Henry Gielgud was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television....
(1900-1981), English actor, writer, director and broadcaster - Val GuestVal GuestVal Guest was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.-Early life and career:He was born Valmond Maurice...
(1911-2006), British film director - Val HarrisVal HarrisValentine Harris , commonly referred to as Val Harris, was an Irish footballer who played Gaelic football for Dublin and soccer for, among others Shelbourne, Everton and Ireland...
(1884-?), Irish football and Gaelic football player - Val KilmerVal KilmerVal Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a supporting role in Top Gun and a...
(born 1959), American actor - Val LewtonVal LewtonVal Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.-Early life:...
(1904-1951), American film director - Val MayerikVal MayerikVal Mayerik is an American comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck.-Early life and career:...
(born 1950), American comic-book and commercial artist, co-creator of Marvel Comics' character Howard the Duck - Val McDermidVal McDermidVal McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...
(born 1955), Scottish crime novelist - Val PetersonVal PetersonFrederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson , also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953–1957; as U.S. ambassador to Denmark 1957–1961; and as U.S...
(1903-1983), American politician and 26th Governor of Nebraska - Val ValentinoVal ValentinoVal Valentino is an Italian American illusionist, and actor, who gained fame by starring in four magic specials exposing magic secrets on the Fox network, using the stage name the Masked Magician.-Biography:...
(born 1956), American magician, illusionist, and actor
Other
- Rafael Merry del Val (1865-1930), Spanish Catholic cardinal
- Sean MorleySean MorleySean Allen Morley is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name Val Venis, during his time with World Wrestling Federation, later known as World Wrestling Entertainment...
, Canadian professional wrestler with the ring name Val Venis
Fictional characters
- The title character in the comic strip Prince ValiantPrince ValiantPrince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-run comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 3700 Sunday strips...
- Valerie CooperValerie CooperValerie "Val" Cooper is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe who currently works for the Office of National Emergency. She is most notable for her work as the liaison for mutant affairs in the United States government.-Publication history:...
, in the Marvel Comics universe - Valene EwingValene EwingValene "Val" Ewing is a fictional character in the American television series Dallas and, more prominently, its spin-off series Knots Landing. She was played by Joan Van Ark....
, in the American television series Dallas - Val PollardVal PollardValerie "Val" Pollard is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She is played by Charlie Hardwick...
, in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale - Val Toriello, in the television situation comedy The Nanny
- Val Armorr, a comic book martial artist known as Karate Kid
- Val, a fictional race in ArcanisArcanisArcanis was originally a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game, created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. It is also the name of the fictional world where the setting takes place...
, a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game
In the military
- Aichi D3AAichi D3AThe , Allied reporting name "Val") was a World War II carrier-borne dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy . It was the primary dive bomber in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and participated in almost all actions, including Pearl Harbor....
, a Japanese World War II dive bomber codenamed "Val" by the Allies - AS ValAS ValThe AS "Val" is a Soviet designed assault rifle featuring an integrated suppressor....
, a Soviet assault rifle
Other uses
- Valley girlValley girlValley Girl is a stereotype leveled at a socio-economic and ethnic class of American women who can be described as colloquial English-speaking and materialistic...
or Val, an American stereotype - VálVálVál is a village in Fejér County, Hungary.- External links :*...
, a village in Hungary - an abbreviation of the amino acid valineValineValine is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCHCH2. L-Valine is one of 20 proteinogenic amino acids. Its codons are GUU, GUC, GUA, and GUG. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar...
- a weapon used in the Indian martial art of KalarippayattuKalarippayattuKalaripayattu is a southern Indian martial art originating in Tamil Nadu but also practiced in contiguous parts of Kerala and Karnataka.Kalari payat includes strikes, kicks, grappling, preset forms, weaponry and healing methods...