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In Chrysler:
  • Plymouth Valiant
    Plymouth Valiant
    The Plymouth Valiant is an automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1960 to 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market which was emerging in the late 1950s, and was eventually built and marketed worldwide...

    , automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1960 to 1976
  • Chrysler Valiant
    Chrysler Valiant
    The Chrysler Valiant was a passenger car introduced by Chrysler Australia in 1962 with production ceasing in 1981. Initially a rebadged import of the Plymouth Valiant from the U.S. where production ceased in 1976, the Valiant range was sold throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as South...

    , automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1962 to 1981
  • Chrysler Valiant Charger, automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1971 to 1976


In comics:
  • Prince Valiant
    Prince Valiant
    Prince 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...

    , comic strip
  • Valiant (comic)
    Valiant (comic)
    For the U.S. comic publisher, see Valiant Comics.Valiant was the title of a British boys adventure comic which ran from 1962 to 1976. It was published by IPC Magazines and was one of their major adventure titles throughout the 1960s and early 1970s....

    , British comic published between 1962 and 1976
  • Valiant Comics
    Valiant Comics
    Valiant Comics is a American comic book publishing company founded by former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, writer/artists Bob Layton and a number of financial partners in 1989....

    , comic book publisher


In fiction:
  • Eddie Valiant, Californian private investigator and one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  • USS Valiant, a starship found in the original Star Trek TV series, featured in the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before
    Where no man has gone before
    "Where no man has gone before" is a phrase used in the title sequence of most episodes of the original Star Trek science fiction television series. It refers to the mission of the original starship Enterprise...

  • USS Valiant (NCC-74210), ship in the Star Trek universe featured in the Deep Space Nine episode "Valiant"
  • "Valiant" (DS9 episode)
    Valiant (DS9 episode)
    "Valiant" is a sixth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first broadcast on 6 May 1998.Summary: Jake and Nog, on a visit to Ferenginar, find themselves on board a rogue starship, piloted by a fresh-faced crew of Starfleet cadets. But these aren't just any cadets, they're Red Squad cadets:...

    , episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie
    Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie
    Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, is an 2005 urban fantasy novel by Holly Black. It is a companion to her earlier book Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale, but can also be read as a stand-alone novel.-Plot Summary:...

    , urban fantasy novel by Holly Black
  • Valiant, airborne aircraft carrier controlled by UNIT
    UNIT
    UNIT is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth...

     in Doctor Who
  • Destin Faroda, the Valiant of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
    Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
    is a strategy video game for Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System, directed by Yasumi Matsuno with artwork by Akihiko Yoshida. It is the first installment of an episodic series , and was originally developed by Quest for the Super Famicom system is a strategy video game for Nintendo's...

    video game


In film and television:
  • The Valiant (1929 film), which tells the story of a man condemned to execution
  • The Valiant (1962 film)
    The Valiant (1962 film)
    The Valiant is a 1962 film directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, and Liam Redmond.- See also :*HMS Valiant*Luigi Durand de la Penne...

    , directed by Roy Ward Baker
  • The Valiant
    The Valiant (play)
    The Valiant is a play by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass.- Characters :Referred to on the script *Father Daly - a priest/minister who visits the condemned to get them to repent so they can enter heaven....

    , a stage play
  • Valiant (2005 film), 2005 movie about British homing pigeons
  • "Valiant" (Merlin)
    Valiant (Merlin)
    "Valiant" is the second episode in the British fantasy drama television series Merlin. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 September 2008.-Synopsis:...

    , second episode of the British television series Merlin


In military:
  • BT-13 Valiant
    BT-13 Valiant
    The Vultee BT-13 Valiant was a American World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps, and later US Army Air Forces...

    , World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps
  • HMS Valiant (1863)
    HMS Valiant (1863)
    HMS Valiant was an ironclad battleship of the Hector class, in service with the Royal Navy from 1868 to 1885.Construction was initially undertaken by the firm of Westwood, Baillie and Co. This company went into liquidation during the building of the ship, which was ultimately completed by Thames...

    , ironclad battleship of the Hector class
  • HMS Valiant (1914)
    HMS Valiant (1914)
    HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at the Fairfield shipyards, Govan on 31 January 1913 and launched on 4 November 1914. She was completed in February 1916.- World War I :...

    , Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy
  • HMS Valiant (S102)
    HMS Valiant (S102)
    The sixth, and most recent HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two-unit Valiant class...

    , the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines
  • Project Valiant
    Project Valiant
    Project Valiant was one of two early liquid-fueled missile projects developed by India, along with Project Devil in the 1970s. The goal of Project Valiant was to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile...

    , Indian cancelled Secret Ballistic Misssile Project
  • USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621)
    USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621)
    USCGC Valiant is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She was laid down February 28, 1966 at American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio and launched January 14, 1967...

    , United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter
  • USS Valiant
    USS Valiant
    USS Valiant has been the name of two United States Navy ships.* USS Valiant , a motor patrol boat used during World War I.* USS Valiant , a submarine chaser that operated during World War II....

    , two United States Navy ships
  • Valiant class submarine
    Valiant class submarine
    The Valiant class was the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine, as the first nuclear submarine, , used an American nuclear reactor. There were only two boats of the class, the first boat, Valiant being commissioned just three years after Dreadnought in 1966, while Warspite commissioned the...

    , the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine
  • Valiant tank
    Valiant tank
    The Tank, Infantry, Valiant was a British tank design of the Second World War that only reached the prototype stage. The design was so infamously bad that the sole example was retained by the School of Tank Technology post-war as a dire lesson to its students.- Origins :The A38 Valiant began as a...

    , British tank design of the Second World War
  • Vickers 131 Valiant
    Vickers 131 Valiant
    The Vickers Type 131 Valiant was a British general-purpose biplane produced by Vickers in 1927, with the intention of replacing the Royal Air Force's Airco DH.9As, but was unsuccessful, with only a single example built, which was sold to Chile....

    , British biplane bomber
  • Vickers Valiant
    Vickers Valiant
    The Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant was a British four-jet bomber, once part of the Royal Air Force's V bomber force.The Valiant was originally developed for use as high-level strategic bomber. When the other V-bombers came into use it was also used as a tanker. However, when the RAF moved to low-level...

    , British jet bomber

In other fields:
  • HMCC Valiant
    HMCC Valiant
    HMCC Valiant is a customs cutter of the United Kingdom. She was launched by Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands in 2003 and is one of four cutters operated by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.-Prefix:...

    , a customs cutter of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
    Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
    HM Customs and Excise was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government in the UK. It was responsible for the collection of Value added tax , Customs Duties, Excise Duties, and other indirect taxes such as Air Passenger Duty, Climate Change Levy, Insurance Premium Tax, Landfill Tax and...

  • Valiant Records
    Valiant Records
    Valiant Records was an independent record company co-owned by Four Star Television which was sold in 1967 to Warner Bros. Records.Valiant Records was never fully independent, for most of its existence, its distributor was Warner Bros. Records...

    , independent record label which was acquired in 1965 by Warner Bros
  • The Valiants is the nickname of the British football club Port Vale F.C.
    Port Vale F.C.
    Port Vale Football Club are an English football club currently playing in Football League Two. They are based in Burslem, Staffordshire — one of six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent...

  • The Valiant Sixty
    Valiant Sixty
    The Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends . They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth...

     were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the latter part of the 17th century


People named Valiant:
  • Jimmy Valiant
    Jimmy Valiant
    James Harold Fanning is a former professional wrestler better known as Jimmy Valiant.-Career:Jimmy Valiant was born in Franklin County, Tennessee, near Tullahoma...

    , professional wrestler
  • Leslie Valiant
    Leslie Valiant
    Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is...

    , British computer scientist and computational theorist