Val (given name)
Val is a variant of the feminine given name Valerie or the masculine given names Valene, Valentine, Valen, or Valens.Notable people
- Val Ackerman, American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association
- Val A. Browning, American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator
- Val Bennett, Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician
- Val Doonican, Irish singer
- 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 Lewton, American film director
- Val Lehman Australian actress
- 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, 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
