Valentina (given name)
Valentina is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the Roman name Valentinus, which is derived from the Latin word "valens" meaning "healthy, strong".
It is used in Italian, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Romanian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and Spanish languages. It is a name particularly popular for Hispanic girls.
List of notable people
- Valentina Acosta, Colombian actress
- Valentina Ananina, Soviet actress
- Valentina de Angelis, American actress
- Valentina Aniballi, Italian discus thrower
- Valentina Aracil, Argentine retired swimmer
- Valentina Arrighetti, Italian volleyball player
- Valentina Artamonova, Russian politician
- Valentina Ramírez Avitia, Mexican revolutionary and soldadera
- Valentina Azarova, Russian athlete
- Valentina Babor, German classical pianist
- Valentina Barron, Australian actress
- Valentina Bassi, Argentine actress
- Valentina Bastianelli, Italian cyclist
- Valentina Battler, Russian poet
- Valentina Bellè, Italian actress
- Valentina Belotti, Italian mountain runner
- Valentina Bergamaschi, Italian footballer
- Valentina Blažević, Croatian handball player
- Valentina Bonariva, Italian dancer
- Valentina Boni, Italian footballer
- Valentina Braconi, Italian field hockey player
- Valentina Bronevich, Russian politician
- Valentina Cámara, Argentine footballer
- Valentina Caniglia, American cinematographer
- Valentina Carnelutti, Italian actress
- Valentina Carretta, Italian cyclist
- Valentina Cenni, Italian artist and actress
- Valentina Centeno, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician
- Valentina Cernoia, Italian footballer
- Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
- Valentina Chebotareva, Russian figure skating coach
- Valentina Chepiga, Ukrainian IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Valentina Cortese, Italian film actress
- Valentina Costa Biondi, Argentine field hockey player
- Valentina Crespi, Italian-American violinist
- Valentina Cuppi, Italian politician
- Valentina Cușnir, Moldovan politician
- Valentina De Poli, Italian journalist
- Valentina Díaz, Chilean footballer
- Valentina Dimitrieva, Russian farm worker
- Valentina D'Urbano, Italian writer
- Valentina Domenig-Ozimic, Austrian rhythmic gymnast
- Valentina Espinosa, Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Valentina Favazza, Italian voice actress
- Valentina Ferrer, Argentine model
- Valentina Grizodubova, Soviet aviator
- Valentina Martínez Ferro, Spanish politician
- Valentina Figuera, Venezuelan model
- Valentina Fiorin, Italian volleyball player
- Valentina Fluchaire, Mexican transgender model and beauty queen
- Valentina Gaganova, Russian textile worker and politician
- Valentina Gardellin, Italian basketball player
- Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina, wife of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
- Valentina L. Garza, Cuban writer
- Valentina Georgieva, Bulgarian artistic gymnast
- Valentina Gestro de Pozzo, Argentine reporter
- Valentina Giacinti, Italian footballer
- Valentina Giovagnini, Italian singer
- Valentina Acosta Giraldo, Colombian archer
- Valentina Golubenko, Russian-born chess player playing for Estonia and Croatia
- Valentina Gorbachuk, Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician
- Valentina Gorinevskaya, Russian military surgeon
- Valentina Grizodubova, Soviet pilot
- Valentina Gunina, Russian chess grandmaster
- Valentina Höll, Austrian cyclist
- Valentina Igoshina, Russian pianist
- Valentina Ivakhnenko, Russian tennis player
- Valentina Ivashova, Soviet actress
- Valentina Kevliyan, Bulgarian gymnast
- Valentina Khmel, Russian painter-plasterer and politician
- Valentina Kobe, Slovenian academic and anatomist
- Valentina Kogan, Argentine handball player
- Valentina Kozlova, Soviet-born Russian American ballerina
- Valentina Kulagina, Russian artist
- Valentina Legkostupova, Russian singer
- Valentina Leskaj, Albanian politician and political economist
- Valentina Linkova, Russian winter archery biathlete and run archer
- Valentina Lisitsa, Ukrainian pianist
- Valentina Lituyeva, Soviet track and field athlete
- Valentina Lodovini, Italian actress
- Valentina Malyavina, Russian actress
- Valentina Marcucci, Argentine field hockey player
- Valentina Marocchi, Italian diver
- Valentina Massi, Italian pageant winner
- Valentina Matos, Spanish figure skater
- Valentina Matviyenko, Russian politician
- Valentina Maureira, Chilean teen
- Elizabeth Miklosi aka Valentina, American professional wrestler
- Valentina Miranda, Chilean activist and politician
- Valentina Moncada, Italian historian
- Valentina Monetta, Sammarinese singer
- Valentina Mora, Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Valentina Moscatt, Italian judoka
- Valentina Naforniță, Moldovan soprano
- Valentina Nappi, Italian pornographic film actress
- Valentina Parshina, Russian and Soviet agronomist and politician
- Valentina Pedicini, Italian screenwriter and film director
- Valentina Petrillo, Italian Paralympic athlete
- Valentina Picca, Italian cyclist
- Valentina Pivnenko, Russian politician
- Valentina Polkhanova, Russian cyclist
- Valentina Ponomaryova (singer), Russian singer
- Valentina Ponomaryova, Soviet cosmonaut
- Valentina Quintero, Venezuelan journalist, environmental activist, radio and television hostess.
- Valentina Quiroga, Chilean civil engineer and politician
- Valentina Radinska, Bulgarian poet
- Valentina Raposo, Argentine field hockey player
- Valentina Rodini, Italian rower
- Valentina Romani, Italian actress
- Valentina Romeo, Italian cartoonist, illustrator, billiards player
- Valentina Rubtsova, Ukrainian-born Russian actress and singer
- Valentina Ruiz Lizárraga, Mexican politician
- Valentina Ryser, Swiss tennis player
- Valentina Safronova, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Valentina Sampaio, Brazilian actress
- Valentina Sanina-Schlee, Russian-American fashion designer
- Valentina Sanseverino, know professionally as Vale LP, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper
- Valentina Sassi, Italian tennis coach
- Valentina Scandolara, Italian bicycler
- Valentina Serena, Italian volleyball player
- Valentina Serova, Soviet actress
- Valentina Shevchenko, Russian-Peruvian kickboxer and mixed martial artist
- Valentina Stupina, Soviet pilot
- Valentina Sturza, Moldovan activist
- Valentina Sulpizio, Italian tennis player
- Valentina Talyzina, Soviet actress
- Valentina Tăzlăuanu, Moldovan essayist, journalist, and theatre critic
- Valentina Terekhova, Russian rower
- Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut and first woman in space
- Valentina Titova, Russian actress
- Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet singer
- Valentina Tronel, French child singer
- Valentina Turchetto, know professionally as Mew, Italian singer-songwriter
- Valentina Turisini, Italian sports shooter
- Valentina Uccheddu, Italian long jumper
- Valentina Vargas, Chilean actress
- Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer
- Valentina Lizana Wallner, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner
- Valentina Yermolova, Soviet-Ukrainian writer and screenwriter
- Valentina Zenere, Argentine actress
- Valentina Zelyaeva, Russian-American supermodel
- Valentina Zhuravlyova, Russian writer
- Valentina and others, Christian martyrs in Palestine c. 308 AD
- Valentina Schnell, Peruvian.
- Claudia Valentina, British singer and songwriter
- Giovanni Valentina, Brazilian rower