Valentine (name)

Valentine

Pronunciation	/væləntaɪn/
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"strong, healthy"
Other names
Nickname(s)	Vale
Related names	Valentin, Valentina, Valentino, Valentini, Valentinus, Val, Valerie, Valeria, Vincent

Valentine is a unisex given name derived from the Roman family name Valentinus, which was derived from the Latin word valens, which means "strong and healthy." Valentine was the name of several saints of the Roman Catholic Church. St. Valentine's Day was named for a third-century martyr. The usual feminine form of the name is Valentina.

People with the given name

• Saint Valentine, the name of several martyred saints of ancient Rome
• Pope Valentine
• Valentine Abt (1873 - 1942), American composer and mandolin player
• Valentine Ackland (1906 – 1969), poet
• Valentine Berriochoa, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs
• Valentine de Saint-Point (1875 - 1953), French poet, playwright, and painter
• Valentine Dyall (1908 - 1985), British actor.
• Valentine Fleming, father of Ian Fleming, best known for writing the James Bond series
• Valentine Holmes, rugby league player
• Valentine Kipketer (born 1993), Kenyan half marathon and marathon runner
• Valentine Tessier (1892 – 1981), a French actress
• Valentine Warner (born 1972), British television chef
• Val Page, British motorcycle designer
• Valentin Glushko, Soviet designer of rocket engines
• Valentin Zavadskiy, CEO at Rubyroid Labs

People with the surname

Actors

• Anthony Valentine (1939–2015), English actor
• Brooke Valentine, actress
• Gary Valentine, actor
• Judy Valentine, singer/actress
• Karen Valentine, American actress and star of Room 222
• Kym Valentine, actress
• Scott Valentine (actor)
• Stacy Valentine, pornographic actress
• Steve Valentine, actor

Artists

• DeWain Valentine (born 1936), American sculptor
• Edward Valentine, sculptor
• James Valentine (photographer)

Businesspeople

• Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965
• Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, e-commerce Platform, Amazon.com
• Don Valentine, businessman
• Elmer Valentine, nightclub owner

Musicians

• Ann Valentine (1762–1842), English organist and composer
• Dickie Valentine, pop singer
• Gary Valentine, stage name of Gary Lachman, founder member of the band Blondie
• Hilton Valentine, guitarist
• James Valentine (musician)
• James Valentine (Australian musician)
• Kathy Valentine, guitarist
• Kid Thomas Valentine, trumpeter
• Robert Valentine (composer) (c. 1671 – 1747)

Politicians

• Edward K. Valentine, 19th-century politician
• Emery Valentine, Alaskan politician
• John K. Valentine, Iowa politician
• John L. Valentine, Utah politician
• Hugh Valentine (1848–1932), New Zealand Member of Parliament
• Lewis Valentine, Welsh politician and activist
• Rob Valentine, Lord Mayor of Hobart
• Tim Valentine, North Carolina politician

Scientists

• David H. Valentine (1912-1987), British botanist
• James W. Valentine, American evolutionary biologist

Sportspeople

• Alf Valentine, cricketer
• Bobby Valentine, former manager of Japanese baseball team Chiba Lotte Marines and former manager of the MLB team Boston Red Sox
• Bryan Valentine, cricketer
• Carl Valentine, footballer
• Cheryl Valentine, Scottish field hockey midfielder
• Chris Valentine, hockey player
• Darnell Valentine, basketball player
• Dave Valentine Scottish rugby union and rugby league footballer
• Ellis Valentine, baseball player
• Greg Valentine, wrestler
• Howard Valentine, track and field athlete
• John Valentine
• Johnny Valentine, wrestler
• Josh Valentine, rugby footballer
• Rob Valentine Scottish rugby union and rugby league footballer
• Ryan Valentine, footballer
• Scott Valentine (ice hockey)
• Vincent Valentine (cricketer)

Others

• Helen Valentine (1893-1986), founder of Seventeen (magazine)
• Jean Valentine, poet
• Jean Valentine (bombe operator)
• Jo Valentine, pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong
• Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine
• Lewis J. Valentine, Police Commissioner of New York City
• Penny Valentine, music critic
• Phil Valentine, radio host
• Robert M. Valentine, partner of Rowland Hussey Macy
• Tsakane Valentine, soprano
• William Orison Valentine, missionary

Fictional characters

• Aubrey Valentine, minor character from the British Soap Opera EastEnders portrayed by Joseph Marcell
• Beka Valentine, Andromeda
• Billy Ray Valentine, character from the film Trading Places
• Calvin Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Carmel Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Cat Valentine, character from the television series Victorious
• Cat Valentine, character from the television series Sam & Cat
• Charity Hope Valentine, Sweet Charity
• Diane Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Elphelt Valentine, playable character in the video game Guilty Gear Xrd
• Emily Valentine, character on Beverly Hills 90210 portrayed by Christine Elise
• Esther Valentine, The Young and the Restless
• Funny Valentine, character in "Steel Ball Run", the 7th arc of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
• Dick Valentine, fictional radio call-in show host, National Lampoon
• Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop
• Harpy Valentine, a character from the manga and anime of Saint Seiya
• Isabella "Ivy" Valentine, character from the videogame Soul Calibur
• Jill Valentine, 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, vampire in the game Shadow Hearts
• Kenneth Valentine, protagonist of The Golden Globe by John Varley
• Lucy Valentine, a female android heroine from the Korean visual novel Lucy the Eternity She Wished For
• 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!
• Nick Valentine, a synth private detective and available companion in Fallout 4
• PC Roger Valentine, The Bill
• Ramlethal Valentine, playable character in the video game Guilty Gear Xrd
• Richmond Valentine, antagonist of Kingsman: The Secret Service
• Sasha Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Scarlet Valentine, character in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
• Shirley Valentine, from the play of the same name by Willy Russel; a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife
• Skeeter Valentine, from the Nickelodeon cartoon Doug
• Sonny Valentine, Hollyoaks
• Thaddeus Valentine, in the book Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
• Vincent Valentine, character from the video games Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
• Valentine D'Artagnan, protagonist of La Femme Musketeer
• Valentine Michael Smith, Man from Mars in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
• Valentine Wiggin, Ender's Game book series by Orson Scott Card
• Valentine Warleggan, Poldark novels by Winston Graham
• Valentine is one of the "Macaw Sisters" played by Ruth Betteridge in the original 2015 Edinburgh cast of Love Birds: the musical
• Valentine Wannop, character in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy
• Valentine, in the medieval romance Valentine and Orson
• Valentine, in William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Valentine, gentleman of Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
• Valentine, the protagonist of Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle
• Valentine, juggler and character from Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's film MirrorMask
• Valentine Morgenstern, the primary antagonist in Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments (series)
• Valentine de Villefort, in The Count of Monte Cristo
• Valentine, in the video game Guilty Gear 2: Overture
• Valentine, a playable character in the video game Skullgirls
• Valentine Coverly in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (play)

Name variants

• Balendin (Basque)
• Валентин Valentìn, Валю Valyu, Вальо Valyo, Валедин Vàledin (Bulgarian)
• Bálint (Hungarian)
• Folant (Welsh)
• Valentino, Tino (Italian)
• Ualan (Scottish Gaelic)
• Val (English)
• Βαλεντίνος (Valentinos) (male), Βαλεντίνα (Valentina) (female) (Greek)
• Valentijn (Dutch)
• Valentín (Slovakian), Spanish
• Valentin (Bulgarian), (Croatian), (Czech), (French), (German), (Romanian), (Russian), (Scandinavian), (Slovenian)
• Valentino (Italian)
• Vali, Valentin (Romanian)
• Walenty (Polish)
• Valentim, Valentina (Portuguese)