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