Valentine

A valentine is a card or gift given on Valentine's Day, or one's sweetheart.

Valentine may also refer to:

• Valentine (name), a personal name

People

• Valentine (writer), pseudonym of Archibald Thomas Pechey
• Pope Valentine (died 827), Pope of the Catholic Church
• Saint Valentine (died 269), the saint that the feast day is named after
• Valentine of Passau (died 475), Italian saint

Places

For buildings, see § Buildings.

United States

• Valentine, Arizona, an unincorporated community
• Valentine, Indiana, an unincorporated town
• Valentine, Kansas City, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri
• Valentine, Nebraska, a city
• Valentine National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska
• Valentine, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Valentine, Texas, a town
• Valentines, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

• Cape Valentine, Elephant Island, Antarctica
• Valentine, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Lake Macquarie
• Valentine Falls, a waterfall in New South Wales
• Valentine, Haute-Garonne, France, a commune
• Valentines, Uruguay, a town

Buildings

• Valentine Theatre, Toledo, Ohio
• The Valentine, a museum of local history in Richmond, Virginia

Arts and media

Film and television

• Valentine (film), a 2001 horror film
• Valentine (TV series), a Canadian show
• "Valentine" (The Secret Circle), a 2012 episode of The Secret Circle

Literature

• Valentine (novel) an 1832 novel by George Sand
• Valentines (short story collection), a 2007 collection of short stories by Olaf Olafsson

Music

Performers and labels

• Valentine Records, an independent British label
• The Valentines (doo-wop band), an American group of the mid-1950s
• The Valentines (rock band), an Australian band active from 1966–1970

Albums

• Valentine (album), an album by Roy Harper
• Valentines (EP), an EP by Mariah Carey

Songs

• "Valentine" (Jim Brickman song) (1997)
• "Valentine" (Maurice Chevalier song) (1925)
• "Valentine" (Delays song) (2006)
• "Valentine" (Lloyd song) (2007)
• "Valentine" (T'Pau song) (1988)
• "Valentine" (Jessie Ware and Sampha song) (2011)
• "Valentine", a song by George Knapper from Love Birds
• "Valentine", a song by Fiona Apple from The Idler Wheel...
• "Valentine", a song by Justice from Cross
• "Valentine", a song by Kina Grannis
• "Valentine", a song by Xandria from Neverworld's End
• "Valentine", a song by XXXTentacion from Revenge
• "Valentine", a song by 5 Seconds of Summer from Youngblood
• "Valentine", a song by Blonde Redhead

Military

• HMS Valentine (1917), a destroyer leader
• HMS Valentine (R03) or HMS Kempenfelt (R03), a destroyer launched in 1943 and transferred to Yugoslavia in 1956
• HMS Valentine (R17) or Kempenfelt (R17), a destroyer launched in 1943 and transferred to Canada in 1944 for service as HMCS Algonquin (R17)
• USS Valentine (AF-47), a 1945 World War II stores ship
• Valentine tank, a British Second World War tank model

Other uses

• 447 Valentine, an asteroid
• Valentine (restaurant), a chain in Quebec, Canada
• Valentine, a racehorse who competed at the 1840 Grand National Steeplechase
• Valentine, a sunflower variety
• Valentine Formation, a geologic unit in Nebraska, USA

See also

• HMS Valentine, a list of ships
• Justice Valentine (disambiguation)
• Valentin
• Valentine Building (disambiguation)
• Valentine House (disambiguation)
• Valentine School (disambiguation)
• Valentiner (disambiguation)
• Valentinian (disambiguation)
• Valentino (disambiguation)
• Valentinus (disambiguation)