Val

Val is a variant of the feminine given name Valerie.

Val may refer to:

People

Given name

• Val Ackerman (born 1959), American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association
• Val A. Browning (1895–1994), American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator
• Val Doonican (born 1927), Irish singer
• Val Gielgud (1900-1981), English actor, writer, director and broadcaster
• Val Guest (1911-2006), British film director
• Val Harris (1884-?), Irish football and Gaelic football player
• Val Kilmer (born 1959), American actor
• Val Lewton (1904-1951), American film director
• Val Mayerik (born 1950), American comic-book and commercial artist, co-creator of Marvel Comics' character Howard the Duck
• Val McDermid (born 1955), Scottish crime novelist
• Val Peterson (1903-1983), American politician and 26th Governor of Nebraska
• Val Valentino (born 1956), American magician, illusionist, and actor

Other

• Rafael Merry del Val (1865-1930), Spanish Catholic cardinal
• Sean Morley, Canadian professional wrestler with the ring name Val Venis

Fictional characters

• The title character in the comic strip Prince Valiant
• Valerie Cooper, in the Marvel Comics universe
• Valene Ewing, in the American television series Dallas
• Val Pollard, 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 Arcanis, a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game

In the military

• Aichi D3A, a Japanese World War II dive bomber codenamed "Val" by the Allies
• AS Val, a Soviet assault rifle

Other uses

• Valley girl or Val, an American stereotype
• Vál, a village in Hungary
• an abbreviation of the amino acid valine
• a weapon used in the Indian martial art of Kalarippayattu

See also

• VAL (disambiguation)