Val (given name)

Val is a variant of the feminine given name Valerie, Valeria or Valmai, or the masculine given names Valeri, Valene, Valentine, Valen, or Valens.

Val is also a variant of the Old Norse names Vald and Valdr.

Notable people

• 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 Bennett (died 1991), Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician
• Val Bettin (1923–2021), American actor
• Val Demings (born 1957), American politician (US representative from Florida)
• Val Doonican (1927–2015), Irish singer
• Val Fitch (1923-2015), Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
• 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 Lehman (born 1943) Australian actress
• 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
• Val Venis, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler, Sean Morley
• Val (sculptor), born Valérie Goutard

Fictional characters

• Val Armorr, a comic book martial artist known as Karate Kid
• Val Pollard, in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
• Val Toriello, in the television situation comedy The Nanny
• Val Cooper, in the Marvel Comics universe
• Valene Ewing, in the American television series Dallas
• Val Resnick, in the 1999 movie Payback
• Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, an espionage agent in the Marvel Comics universe
• Darryl's love interest on the U.S. TV series The Office
• The title character in the comic strip Prince Valiant
• A fictional race in Arcanis, a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game
• A character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the sister of the wife of Mance Rayder
• Val Bilzerian, in the adult animated sitcom Big Mouth
• Val Thundershock, a character from Trolls: TrollsTopia
• Val Little, a character from Monsters at Work
• Val Ortiz, a character from Inside Out 2

See also

• Val (disambiguation)
• Vali (disambiguation)
• Valerie (given name)
• Valery
• Valeria (given name)