Valentine

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Valentine may refer to:

• One of 3 recognized (until 1969) Catholic Saint Valentines or one of 11 recognized martyrs named Valentine.
• The legendary Saint Valentine as particularly associated with Valentine's Day.
• A card or gift given on Valentine's Day.
• A person who gives or receives such an item.
• A lover or a loved one of somebody.
• A proper name for a place or person, such as the ones listed below.

Contents 1 Places 1.1 United States 1.2 Australia 2 People 2.1 Christian saints and popes 2.2 As a given name 2.3 As a family name 2.4 As a sole name 3 Animals 4 Fictional characters 5 Film and television 6 Music 7 Others 8 See also

[edit] Places

[edit] United States

• Valentine, Arizona
• Valentine, Indiana
• Valentine, Nebraska
• Valentine, Texas

[edit] Australia

• Valentine, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie

[edit] People

[edit] Christian saints and popes

• Pope Valentine
• Saint Valentine
• Saint Valentine Berriochoa, of the Vietnamese Martyrs

[edit] As a given name

• Valentine Baker
• Valentine Cunningham
• Valentine Dencausse, French chiromancer in the first half of the twentieth century
• Valentine Dyall
• Valentine McGillycuddy
• Valentine Warner, TV Chef
• Valentine Hollingsworth, pioneer and member of the Hollingworth family

[edit] As a family name

• Alf Valentine
• Anthony Valentine
• Bobby Valentine, manager of Japanese baseball team Chiba Lotte Marines
• Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform, Amazon.com
• Bryan Valentine
• Brooke Valentine
• Carl Valentine
• Cheryl Valentine, Scottish field hockey midfielder
• Chris Valentine
• Darnell Valentine
• Dave Valentine Scottish rugby union and rugby league footballer
• DeWain Valentine (born 1936), an American sculptor
• Dickie Valentine
• Don Valentine
• Edward Valentine
• Edward K. Valentine
• Ellis Valentine, baseball player
• Elmer Valentine
• Emery Valentine
• Gary Valentine
• Gary Valentine Lachman, author and founder member of the band Blondie (then known as Gary Valentine)
• Greg Valentine
• Hilton Valentine
• Howard Valentine
• James Valentine (photographer)
• James Valentine (musician)
• James Valentine (Australian musician)
• James W. Valentine, American evolutionary biologist
• Jean Valentine
• Jo Valentine, pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong
• Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine
• John Valentine
• Johnny Valentine
• Josh Valentine
• Judy Valentine
• Karen Valentine, American actress and star of Room 222
• Kathy Valentine
• Kid Thomas Valentine
• Kym Valentine
• Lewis Valentine
• Lewis J. Valentine, Police Commissioner of New York City
• Penny Valentine
• Phil Valentine
• Rob Valentine
• Rob Valentine Scottish rugby union and rugby league footballer
• Robert M. Valentine, partner of Rowland Hussey Macy
• Ryan Valentine
• Scott Valentine
• Stacy Valentine
• Steve Valentine
• Tim Valentine
• Tsakane Valentine
• Vincent Valentine (cricketer)
• William Orison Valentine

[edit] As a sole name

• Valentine, the pseudonym often used by lyricist Archibald Thomas Pechey

[edit] Animals

• Valentine (racehorse), a competitor who finished third in the 1840 Grand National and has a fence on the course named in his honour

[edit] Fictional characters

• Aubrey Valentine, EastEnders
• Beka Valentine, Andromeda
• Calvin Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Charity Hope Valentine, Sweet Charity
• Diane Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Esther Valentine, The Young and the Restless
• Dick Valentine, fictional radio call-in show host, National Lampoon
• Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop
• Isabella "Ivy" Valentine, a character from the videogame Soul Calibur
• Jill Valentine, a character from the videogame and film Resident Evil
• Jimmy Valentine, the main character in O._Henry's short story "A Retrieved Reformation" and a number of movies based on it
• Keith Valentine, a vampire in the game Shadow Hearts
• Luke and Jan Valentine, characters of the Hellsing (TV series) anime
• Leo Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Mai Valentine, alternative name of Mai Kujaku, character of Yu-Gi-Oh!
• PC Roger Valentine, The Bill
• Sasha Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Skeeter Valentine, from the Nickelodeon cartoon Doug
• Sonny Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Thaddeus Valentine, in the book Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
• Vincent Valentine, a character from the video games Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
• Valentine D'Artagnan, protagonist of La Femme Musketeer.
• Valentine Wiggin, Ender's Game book series by Orson Scott Card
• Valentine, in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Valentine, Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle (see Majipoor series)
• Valentine, in Neil Gaiman's film MirrorMask
• Valentine Morgenstern, in Cassandra Clare's novel series Mortal Instruments

[edit] Film and television

• Valentine (film), the 2001 horror movie
• Valentine (TV series), the 2008 television series on The CW

[edit] Music

• Valentine, a rock band led by Robby Valentine
• "Valentine" (Delays song)
• "Valentine" (Tatiana Okupnik song)
• "Valentine", a song by Martina McBride
• Valentine (album), an album by Roy Harper
• "Be My Valentine", a song by Svetlana Loboda

[edit] Others

• Valentine tank
• Valentine (Restaurant), a chain of restaurants operating in Quebec
• Singing Valentines, a fundraising program for barbershop chapters in the U.S.
• Bloody Valentine War, a war in the Gundam metaseries

[edit] See also

• Valentinus (Gnostic), a Gnostic religious writer
• Valentinian, the name of a several Roman emperors

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