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Valentine

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, derived from a Latin name, Valentinus, meaning "strong, whole, healthy."

Places

United States

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

Australia

Valentine, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie

Christian saints and popes

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

As a family name

Alf Valentine
Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965
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

As a sole name

Valentine, the pseudonym often used by lyricist Archibald Thomas Pechey

Animals

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

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

Film and television

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

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

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

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Valentine" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Japanese: バレンタイン, Romanian: Valentin, Russian: Валентин, Thai: วาเลนไทน์.


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