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Val Guest
Val Guest (Valmond Maurice Grossman, 1911-2006), English film director and screenwriter; wrote 70+ films, directed 50+, known for Hammer's Quatermass films, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and Expresso Bongo.
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer (1959–2025), American actor of Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever; Juilliard-trained, throat cancer in 2014 cost his voice, died of pneumonia at 65.
Val McDermid
Val McDermid (born 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan, Lindsay Gordon, and Allie Burns series, a CWA Gold Dagger winner associated with Tartan Noir.
Vala: Story of a Bangle
Vala: Story of a Bangle (വള) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Muhashin, written by Harshad, produced by Fairbay Films, starring Lukman Avaran and Dhyan Sreenivasan; released 19 September 2025, streaming on Saina Play from 13 November 2025.
Valar Dohaeris
Valar Dohaeris is the season 3 premiere of Game of Thrones, episode 21 overall, written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Daniel Minahan, aired March 31, 2013; title means "all men must serve" in High Valyrian, answering "Valar Morghulis"; drew a then-record 4.4 million viewers.
Valar Morghulis
Valar Morghulis, a High Valyrian phrase from A Song of Ice and Fire meaning "all men must die"; answered by valar dohaeris and used as a Faceless Men password in Braavos.
Valarie Pettiford
Valarie Pettiford (born 1960, Queens, New York) is an American actor, dancer, and singer. A Bob Fosse Broadway dancer, Tony-nominated for Fosse (1999), known as Big Dee Dee on Half & Half and Emily Mather in A Discovery of Witches, and a founding Verdon Fosse Legacy reconstructeur.
Valathu Vashathe Kallan
Valathu Vashathe Kallan (വലതു വശത്തെ കള്ളൻ) is a 2026 Malayalam crime thriller directed by Jeethu Joseph, written by Dinu Thomas Eelan, starring Biju Menon and Joju George; released 30 January 2026, UA 13+, biblical title reference.
Valayapathi
Valayapathi (வளையாபதி) is one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature, a Jain narrative poem, probably from the 9th century, of which only fragments survive.
Vald
Vald, the stage name of Valentin Le Du, is a French rapper from Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris, known for absurdist humor and dense wordplay; his albums Agartha (2017) and Pandemonium (2025) both reached number one in France.
Valdemar Rørdam
Valdemar Rørdam (1872–1946) was a Danish poet and novelist, a leading singer of the Danish land and people until a 1941 poem urging support for Hitler's war destroyed his reputation.
Valene Kane
Valene Kane, Northern Irish actress born 1987 in Newry, County Down; known as Rose Stagg in The Fall and Lyra Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Valentin Campagne
Valentin Campagne (born 2003) is a French actor trained at Cours Florent, known for Dossier 137 and La Venue de l'avenir, who shared the 2026 Cannes Best Actor prize with Emmanuel Macchia for playing Francis in Lukas Dhont's Coward.
Valentin Chmerkovskiy
Valentin (Val) Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American ballroom dancer born 1986 in Odesa, three-time Dancing with the Stars champion (seasons 20, 23, 32), brother of Maksim, Dance With Me co-founder, husband of Jenna Johnson.
Valentín Elizalde
Valentín Elizalde Valencia, 'El Gallo de Oro' (1979–2006), Mexican banda and corrido singer from Sonora; 12 studio albums, killed after a Reynosa concert, legacy kept alive by posthumous releases.
Valentin Rasputin
Valentin Rasputin, born Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, was a Soviet and Russian writer, a leading figure of village prose whose novellas include Live and Remember and Farewell to Matyora.
Valentin Serov (Валентин Александрович Серов)
Valentin Serov, also known as Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, was a Russian painter and stage designer who became a leading portraitist of Russia's Silver Age. He taught modernists like Saryan.
Valentin Vodnik
Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) was a Slovene poet, priest, and journalist of the Enlightenment, regarded as the first Slovene secular poet and author of the first Slovene poetry collection, newspaper, and grammar.
Valentina (drag queen)
Valentina (James Andrew Leyva, born 1991, Bell, California) is an American drag performer of Mexican heritage, a RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 and All Stars 4 contestant, Rent: Live's Angel, Drag Race Mexico co-host, and 2026 Broadway Columbia.
Valentina Alekseeva (Валентина Андреевна Алексеева)
Valentina Andreevna Alekseeva (Валентина Андреевна Алексеева), born 2006 in Cheboksary, is a Russian model and medical student crowned Miss Russia 2024, a Miss Universe 2024 top-12 finalist, and winner of the first Miss BRICS contest in 2026.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (the Contessa, Val) is a Marvel Comics super spy debuting in Strange Tales #159 (August 1967), created around Jim Steranko's Nick Fury stories; revealed as a Leviathan mole and Madame Hydra. In the MCU, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays her as CIA director and antagonist of Thunderbolts.
Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese (1923–2019), Italian film and stage actress, Oscar-nominated for Truffaut's Day for Night, Nastro d'Argento winner for Le amiche, and leading actress of Milan's Piccolo Teatro under Giorgio Strehler.
Valentina Lisitsa
Valentina Lisitsa (Валентина Лисица, born 1973, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian-born pianist who built her career through YouTube, debuted at the Royal Albert Hall in 2012, recorded the complete Rachmaninov concertos with the LSO for Decca, and drew controversy in 2015 over pro-insurgency tweets.
Valentina Nappi
Valentina Nappi, Italian adult film performer born 1990 in Scafati, launched by Rocco Siffredi in 2011, AVN and XBIZ award winner, mainstream actor (Pensati Sexy), TEDx speaker, and campaigner against Italy's tassa etica.
Valentina Sampaio
Valentina Sampaio, Brazilian model born 1996 in Aquiraz, Ceará; first transgender Vogue cover model (Vogue Paris 2017), first trans Victoria's Secret model (2019) and runway walker (2024), first trans Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model (2020), and trans-rights activist.
Valentina Tolkunova
Valentina Tolkunova (Валентина Толкунова; 1946–2010) was a Soviet and Russian estrada singer, named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987, who performed more than 800 songs over 44 years.
Valentine
Valentine: a third-century Christian martyr commemorated February 14, the love token exchanged on his feast day, and Valentine's Day itself, the holiday Chaucer first linked to romantic love and that now drives billions in annual spending.
Valentine (film)
Valentine is a 2001 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, based on Tom Savage's novel, about young women stalked by a killer sending Valentine's Day cards.
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, or St. Valentine's Day, is a 14 February holiday of romantic love named for third-century martyrs named Valentine. Its love association began with Chaucer around 1382; Lupercalia links are disputed; it is now a major commercial holiday.
Valentine's Day (2010 film)
Valentine's Day is a 2010 American ensemble romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall, following intertwining love stories in Los Angeles, released by Warner Bros. in February 2010.