Victor

Victor (sometimes spelled Viktor) is a male given name.

People

Main article: Victor (name)

Roman Catholics

Popes:

• Saint Pope Victor I (died 199)
• Pope Victor II (c. 1018-1057)
• Blessed Pope Victor III (c. 1026-1087)

Antipopes:

• Antipope Victor IV (1138)
• Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)

Bishops of Chur:

• Victor I, Bishop of Chur, seventh century
• Victor II, Bishop of Chur, eighth century
• Victor III, Bishop of Chur (died on or before 836)

Saints:

• Victor Maurus (died c. 303), also known as Victor the Moor and Victor of Milan
• Victor of Marseilles (died c. 290)
• Viktor of Xanten (died in the fourth century)

Places

• Several towns in the United States:
  • Victor, Colorado, a near-ghost town near Cripple Creek
  • Victor, Idaho
  • Victor, Iowa
  • Victor, Montana
  • Victor, New York
  • Victor, South Dakota
• Vítor, Peru, a village in Arequipa Region, Peru

Fiction

Films

• Victor Victoria, a 1982 musical comedy about a woman masquerading as man impersonating a woman
• Victor (film), a 1993 French short movie by François Ozon
• Victor (2008 film), a 2008 television film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis

Characters

• Victor Frankenstein, title character of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein
• Viktor (Underworld), from the Underworld film series
• Victor, a Hispanic Engine from Thomas and Friends
• Victor (mascot), the logo and mascot for the Just for Laughs comedy festival
• Victor Sullivan, a character from the Uncharted video game series
• Victor Von Doom, a Fantastic Four supervillain
• Victor Mancha, an android and protagonist of the Runaways comic book series
• Victor Triumph, an ancient robot and protagonist in John C. Wright's Children of Chaos trilogy
• Victor Stone, a cyborg and long standing member of the Teen Titans
• Victor (Dollhouse), from Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
• Victor Criss, a bully in Steven King's Novel It.
• Victor, an underling of criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring in the series Breaking Bad
• Victor von Gerdenheim, from the Darkstalkers video game series
• Viktor Reznov, from the Call of Duty: World At War and Call of Duty: Black Ops video games
• Victor, a goat from Ed, Edd n Eddy
• Victor (gargoyle), one of the supporting characters from Disney's 1996 animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Viktor Krum, Bulgarian Wizard from Harry Potter
• Victor "Vector" Perkins, the main antagonist of the 2010 animated film Despicable Me
• Victor the Cleaner, a professional killer and evidence remover in the film Nikita

Military

• The Victor class submarine, NATO designation of a class of submarines of the Soviet Union
• The Handley Page Victor aircraft
• Pobednik ("The Victor"), a monument in Belgrade dedicated to Serbian soldiers in World War I

Music

• Victor (album), a solo album by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson
• "Victor", a song from the 1979 album Eat to the Beat by American New Wave group Blondie

Businesses

• Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company
• Victor Entertainment, Japanese record label, JVC subsidiary
• Victor Interactive Software, the video game development branch of Victor Entertainment
• Victor Technologies (formerly Sirius Systems Technology), a computer manufacturer in the early 1980s
• Victor Technology, a U.S.-based supplier of calculators

Other

Vítor from Salamanca.

• Vitor, a symbol of the victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War^{[citation needed]}
• Victor, a motorcycle from TVS Motors, India
• Victor, the letter "V" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Victor (formerly Empire Ben), a tugboat in service in Australia from 1951 to 1985 when she was preserved in Geelong

See also

• Victoria (disambiguation)
• Victorinus (disambiguation)
• Saint-Victor (disambiguation), various places in France
• Victory (disambiguation)