Victor (name)
Victor or Viktor is a given name and a surname. It is Latin in origin, meaning winner or conqueror, and the word “victor” still means this in Modern English.
Victor is an early Christian name, borne by several saints and three popes, symbolizing Jesus' victory over both sin and death.
People with the given name and mononym
Aristocracy
- Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
- Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
- Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
- Victor de Broglie (1756–1794), French soldier and politician, son of the 2nd duc de Broglie
- Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat
- Victor de Broglie (1846–1906), 5th duc de Broglie, French politician and diplomat
- Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia
- Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, King of Sardinia
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King of Italy
Religion
- Pope Victor I, also a saint
- Pope Victor II
- Pope Victor III
- Antipope Victor IV (1138)
- Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)
- Victor of Marseilles, a saint
- Victor Maurus, Victor the Moor or Victor of Milan, a saint
- Viktor of Xanten, a saint
- Victor I (bishop of Chur)
- Victor II (bishop of Chur)
- Victor III (bishop of Chur)
- Victor (bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux), 6th century
- Victor Tinambunan, Indonesian religious leader
Academics
- Victor Babeş, Romanian biologist
- Victor Bright, American electrical engineer
- Victor Dzau, Chinese-American doctor and academic
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist
- Victor Gautier, Swiss physician
- Victor Ginzburg, Russian-American mathematician
- Victor Goldschmidt, Norwegian mineralogist
- Victor Gunnarsson, Swedish teacher who once prosecuted for the assassination of its prime minister
- Victor Kattan, British legal academic
- Victor L. King, American chemist
- Viktor Kokochashvili, Georgian chemist
- Victor Loche, French zoologist
- Victor Ninov, Bulgarian physicist
- Victor A. Pogadaev, Russian historian, orientalist, and translator
- Victor Ricciardi, American professor of business and author
- Victor Scheinman, American robotics pioneer
- Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist
- Victor Slăvescu, Romanian economist
- Victor Sumsky, Russian orientalist and academician
- Victor Vâlcovici, Romanian mechanician and mathematician
Arts and entertainment
- Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator
- Victor Anastasi, Maltese designer and draughtsman
- Víctor Balaguer, Spanish poet and politician
- Victor Borge, Danish-born American musician and comedian
- Victor Buono, American actor
- Victor Assis Brasil, Brazilian jazz saxophonist
- Víctor Català, pen name of the Spanish writer Caterina Albert
- Victor De La Rosa, American visual artist, educator
- Viktor Đerek, Croatian photographer
- Víctor Erice, Spanish film director
- Victor Fonfreide, French painter
- Victor French, American actor
- Victor Garber, Canadian actor
- Victor Hugo, French writer
- Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish painter
- Victor Ivaniv, Russian poet
- Víctor Jara, Chilean musician
- Victor J. Kemper, American cinematographer
- Victor Martinez (author), Mexican American poet and author
- Victor Mature, American actor
- Victor McLaglen, British actor
- Victor Meirelles, Brazilian painter
- Vic Mignogna, American actor
- Víctor Mora (comics), Spanish writer of comic books
- Viktor Preiss, Czech actor
- Victor Rasuk, American actor
- Victor Rathnayake, Sri Lankan Sinhala folk musician
- Victor Richards, British actor, writer and poet
- Victor Silvester, British dancer and bandleader
- Victor Sloan, Irish artist
- Victor Socaciu, Romanian folk singer and composer
- Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
- Víctor Trujillo, Mexican comedian
- Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
- Victor Willis, American musician
- Victor Yerrid, American puppeteer and voice actor
Business
- Victor Chandler, British bookmaker and businessman
- Victor Civita, Brazilian publisher
- Victor Kassir, Lebanese businessman
- Victor Kiam, American entrepreneur
- Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, Hong Kong businessman
- Victor Vargas, Venezuelan entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Victor Vescovo, American financier and undersea explorer
Crime
- Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer
- Víctor Manuel Gerena, American fugitive robber
- Viktor Sayenko, Ukrainian serial killer, part of the group known as Dnepropetrovsk maniacs
Military
- Victor H. Czegka, Austrian-American Marine officer
- Victor Gunasekara, Sri Lankan Sinhala army major and civil servant
- Victor Jones (British Army officer), Second World War British Army officer
- Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov, Russian naval officer
- Viktor Zolotov, Russian military officer
Politics and diplomacy
- Victor Antia, Nigerian politician and administrator
- Victor Backlund, American politician and athlete
- Victor Bădulescu, Romanian economist, lawyer, and diplomat
- Victor Banks, Anguillan politician
- Viktor Laiskodat, Indonesian politician who is the 8th governor of East Nusa Tenggara
- Victor de Broglie (1756–1794), French soldier and politician
- Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat
- Victor de Broglie (1846–1906), 5th duc de Broglie, French politician and diplomat
- Victor Ciorbea, Romanian politician
- Victor Corea, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician and lawyer
- Victor Deleu, Romanian politician
- Victor Gram, Danish politician
- Viktor Grishin, Soviet politician and member of the Politburo of the CPSU
- Viktor Gutić, Croatian politician and war criminal
- Victor Kamber, American political consultant
- Viktor Klima, Austrian politician
- Víctor Hipólito Martínez, former Vice President of Argentina
- Victor A. Nicholas, second Sri Lankan to hold post of Postmaster General of Sri Lanka
- Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
- Victor Owusu, Ghanaian lawyer and politician
- Victor Perera, Sri Lankan governor
- Victor Ponta, Romanian politician
- Victor Rădulescu-Pogoneanu, Romanian diplomat
- Victor Garvin Weerawardana Ratnayake, Sri Lankan politician
- Victor Rutgers, Dutch legal scholar and politician
- Vico Sotto, Filipino politician
- Victor Mailangkay, Indonesian politician who has served as Deputy Governor of North Sulawesi since 2025
- Victor Stănculescu, Romanian general officer and politician
- Victor Stern, Austrian philosopher and politician
- Victor L. Tomseth, American former diplomat
- Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politician
- Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian politician
Sports
- Viktor (wrestler), Canadian professional wrestler
- Viktor Apostolov, Bulgarian hammer thrower
- Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
- Victor Leandro Bagy, Brazilian football player known simply as Victor
- Víctor Baute, Spanish boxer
- Vic Bellamy, American football player
- Viktor Berg, Canadian squash player
- Víctor Bird, Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Victor Boniface, Nigerian football player
- Víctor Blasco, Spanish footballer
- Victor Corrêa, Brazilian race car driver
- Victor Cruz (American football), American football player
- Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic champion swimmer
- Victor Dimukeje, American football player
- Victor Eklund, Swedish ice hockey player
- Viktor Fischer, Danish footballer
- Víctor Genes, Paraguayan footballer and football manager
- Viktor Gyökeres, Swedish football player
- Víctor Hugo González, Colombian cyclist
- Victor Hedman, National Hockey League player from Sweden
- Victor Heflin, American football player
- Víctor Herrera (cyclist), Colombian cyclist
- Víctor Herrera Piggott, Panamanian footballer
- Victor Hicks, American football player
- Victor Houston (athlete), Barbadian track and field athlete
- Victor Jones (cricketer), Australian cricketer
- Victor Jones (linebacker), American football player
- Victor Jones (running back), American football player
- Viktor Karlsson, Swedish bandy player
- Viktor Kassai, Hungarian football referee
- Victor Kros, Dutch football player
- Viktor Kuznetsov (swimmer), Russian swimmer
- Victor Lindelöf Swedish football player
- Victor Loturi, Canadian soccer player
- Víctor Maldonado, Venezuelan hurdler
- Víctor Martínez (athlete), Andorran middle-distance runner
- Víctor Martínez (baseball), Venezuelan-born Major League Baseball player
- Víctor Martínez (bodybuilder), Dominican professional bodybuilder
- Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
- Viktor Mazin, Soviet weightlifter
- Viktor Mitrou, Greek weightlifter
- Victor Montalvo, American breakdancer
- Víctor Mora (athlete), Colombian retired long-distance runner
- Victor Moses, Nigerian football player
- Víctor Hugo Mora, Mexican football manager
- Víctor Moreno, Venezuelan baseball player
- Víctor Moreno (cyclist), Venezuelan cyclist
- Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football coach and player
- Victor Nelsson, Danish football player
- Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
- Viktor Olsen, Norwegian long-distance runner
- Viktor Onopko, Russian football coach and former player
- Victor Ortíz, American boxer
- Victor Osimhen, Nigerian professional footballer
- Victor Perez, Tunisian world champion flyweight boxer
- Viktor Podloucký, Czechoslovak sprint canoer
- Victor Quintana, Paraguayan football player
- Víctor Rivera (football manager), Peruvian football manager
- Victor Rivera (volleyball), Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Víctor Robles, Dominican baseball player
- Victor Ross, American lacrosse player
- Víctor Sánchez, Spanish footballer
- Victor Scott, American football player
- Victor Scott II, American baseball player
- Victor "Vic" Seixas, American tennis player
- Victor Simões, Brazilian footballer
- Viktor Solmunde, Danish skateboarder
- Viktor Spasov, Soviet pole vaulter
- Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
- Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer
- Victor Wembanyama, French basketball Player
- Víctor Valdés, Spanish football goalkeeper
- Viktor Zaitsev, Uzbekistani javelin thrower
- Chick Zamick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Viktor Zhurba, Soviet discus thrower
Other people
- Victor Agosto, American anti-war activist
- Victor of Aveyron, French feral child
- Victor Chang, Australian–Chinese cardiac surgeon
- Victor Horta, Belgian architect
- Victor Korchnoi, Soviet-born Swiss chess player
- Víctor Martínez (disambiguation)
- Victor Rivera (bishop), American Episcopalian bishop
- Victor Rivera Gonzalez, Puerto Rican police chief and lawyer
- Viktor Schauberger, Austrian forester and inventor
- Victor Ukpolo, Nigerian-born American university administrator
People with the surname
- Aglailson Victor, Brazilian politician
- Alexander F. Victor, founder of the Victor Animatograph Corporation
- Benjamin Victor, multiple people
- Binjimen Victor, American football player
- Carol Victor, Hereditary Prince of Albania
- Charles Victor, English actor
- Daniel Victor, Canadian musician and producer
- Diane Victor, South African artist and printmaker
- Divya Victor, India-born Tamil American poet
- Eva Victor, American actor, writer and director
- Frances Fuller Victor, American historian, poet, and journalist
- Gary Victor, Haitian novelist, playwright and screenwriter, 2001 recipient of France's Ordre national du Mérite
- Henry Victor, England-born American silent film actor
- Idara Victor,, American actress
- Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian musician
- Jacob Nash Victor, American civil engineer, namesake of Victorville, California
- James Victor, multiple people
- John Victor, multiple people
- Jonathan David Victor, American neuroscientist
- Lina Iris Viktor, British-Liberian visual artist
- Lincoln Victor, American football player
- Lindon Victor, Grenadian 2024 Summer Olympics men's decathlon bronze medalist
- Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano
- Lucien Victor Belgian road racing cyclist 1952 Summer Olympics gold medalist
- Mark Victor, American screenwriter
- Pau Víctor, Spanish football player
- Paul-Émile Victor, French ethnographer, polar explorer and author, and namesake of Mount Victor in Antarctica
- Paulo Victor, multiple people
- Renée Victor, American actress
- Sally Victor. American milliner to celebrities, First Ladies, and British royalty
- Teva Victor, French Polynesian sculptor
Fictional characters
- Victor Baxter, in the television series That's So Raven and Cory in the House
- Victor Borin, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
- Victor Borkowski, in the X-Men comics, also known as Anole
- Victor Chevalier, a character in Tekken series
- Victor Coste, friend of Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell series of videogames
- Victor Creed, the real name of Sabretooth, a character from the X-Men series
- Victor Donovan, a character in Dead or Alive series
- Victor Frankenstein, in the 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Victor Florescu, a character in the 1934 American romantic musical movie The Cat and the Fiddle
- Victor Fries, a villain in the Batman series, also known as Mr. Freeze
- "Count Victor Grazinski", alias of Victoria Grant, protagonist of the 1982 film Victor/Victoria
- Victor Grantz, a survivor in the video game Identity V
- Viktor Hargreeves, a character from The Umbrella Academy
- Victor Joseph, a character in the 1998 Canadian-American independent film Smoke Signals
- Victor Kiriakis, in the television series Days of Our Lives
- Viktor Krum, in the Harry Potter series
- Vic Mackey, on the television series The Shield
- Victor Magtanggol, the titular character of the 2018 Philippine drama series Victor Magtanggol
- Victor Mancha, in the Runaways comic book
- Victor Meldrew, in the television series One Foot in the Grave
- Viktor Navorski, in the 2004 film The Terminal
- Victor Newman, in the television series The Young and the Restless
- Victor Nikiforov, in the Japanese television series Yuri on Ice
- Victor Quartermaine, in the television series Wallace and Gromit
- Victor Shade, alias for the Marvel superhero Vision
- Victor Stone, DC Comics superhero better known as Cyborg
- Victor "Sully" Sullivan, from the Uncharted series
- Victor Timely, from the Avengers comics, a divergent variant of Kang the Conqueror
- Victor Van Dort, in the 2005 animated film Corpse Bride
- Victor Vance, protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Victor Von Doom, in the Fantastic Four comics
- Victor von Gerdenheim, in the Darkstalkers video game series
- Viktor (Suikoden), in the Suikoden video game series
- Victor Zsasz, a serial killer featured in the Batman series
- Victor (mascot), the logo and mascot for the Just for Laughs comedy festival
- Victor (Dollhouse), from Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
- Viktor (Underworld), from the Underworld film series
- Victor (Breaking Bad), an underling of criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring in the series Breaking Bad
- Victor, elder brother of Hugo in the Chinese television show Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime and head of Naughtiness International
- Victor, a gargoyle supporting character from the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Victor Best, the brother of Victoria Best in WordGirl
- Victor Wexlar, the evil villain in Starflyers
- Victor, the main character in Victor and Valentino
- Victor, the dock worker in Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Victor, the ice rink janitor in Spy Fox 2: "Some Assembly Required"
- Victor, a character from the movie Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires
- Victor Li, a main character in female oriented visual novel phone game Mr Love: Queen's Choice
- Victor Creel, a recurring character in Stranger Things (season 4).
- Victor, narrow gauge engine at the steam works in “Thomas and Friends”
- Victor "Vic" Vasquez, a character from Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Victor Volt, a character in the British animated television series The Secret Show
- Viktor, a main character in Arcane (TV series).