{{Infobox given name | origin = Latin nomen Valentinus or Valerius, Old Norse Valdr or Vald | region = Italy, Sweden }} '''Val''' is a variant of the feminine names Valerie, Valeria, Valmai, Valentina, or Valene; as well as the masculine names Valeri, Valentine, Valen, Valentino, 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 Bennett (died 1991), Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician * Val Bettin (1923–2021), American actor * Val A. Browning (1895–1994), American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator * Val Deakin, New Zealand ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher * 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 (1884–1963), Irish football and Gaelic football player * Val Kilmer (1959–2025), American actor * Val Lehman (born 1943) Australian actress * 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 * Val Venis, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler, Sean Morley * Val (sculptor), born Valérie Goutard
===Fictional characters===<!-- Val (comics) redirects here --> * 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)
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