Val (given name)

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, American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association
Val Bennett, Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician
Val Bettin, American actor
Val A. Browning, American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator
Val Deakin, New Zealand ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
Val Demings, American politician
Val Doonican, Irish singer
Val Fitch, Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Val Gielgud, English actor, writer, director and broadcaster
Val Guest, British film director
Val Harris, Irish football and Gaelic football player
Val Kilmer, American actor
Val Lehman Australian actress
Val Lewton, American film director
Val Mayerik, American comic-book and commercial artist, co-creator of Marvel Comics' character Howard the Duck
Val McDermid, Scottish crime novelist
Val Peterson, American politician and 26th Governor of Nebraska
Val Valentino, American magician, illusionist, and actor
Val Venis, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler, Sean Morley
Val (sculptor), born Valérie Goutard

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