Valentine

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A valentine is a

or gift given on Valentine's Day.

It may refer to:

People

• Saint Valentine the saint that the day is named after
• Valentine (writer), the pseudonym of Archibald Thomas Pechey

As a name

• Valentine (name), people and fictional characters with the given name or surname

Places

United States

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

Elsewhere

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

Buildings

• Valentine Building (disambiguation)
• Valentine House (disambiguation)
• Valentine Theatre, Toledo, Ohio

In the military

• HMS Valentine, various ships
• USS Valentine (AF-47), a World War II stores ship
• Valentine tank, a British Second World War tank
• British occupation of the Faroe Islands in the Second World War, also known as Operation Valentine

Arts and entertainment

Music

• The Valentines (rock band), an Australian band active from 1966–1970
• The Valentines (doo-wop band), an American group of the mid-1950s
• Valentine, a Dutch musical group led by Robby Valentine
• Valentine Records, an independent British label
• Valentine (album), by Roy Harper
• Valentines (EP), by Mariah Carey
• "Valentine" (Delays song), 2006
• "Valentine" (Jessie Ware and Sampha song), 2011
• "Valentine" (Lloyd song), 2007
• "Valentine" (Jim Brickman song)
• "Valentine" (T'Pau song), 1988
• "Valentine", a French song by Henri Christiné, popularized by Maurice Chevalier
• "Valentine", a song from the 2015 musical Love Birds sung by George Knapper.
• "Valentine", a song by Justice (band)
• "Valentine", a song by Kina Grannis
• "Valentine", a song by Nils Lofgren
• "Valentine", a song by Tatiana Okupnik
• "Valentine", a song by Xandria

Other

• Valentine (novel) (1832), by George Sand
• Valentines (book) (2007), a collection of short stories by Olaf Olafsson
• Valentine (film), a 2001 horror film
• Valentine (TV series), a short-lived Canadian show
• "Valentine" (The Secret Circle), an episode of the television series The Secret Circle
• The Valentine, a museum of local history in Richmond, Virginia

Other uses

• Valentine School (disambiguation)
• Valentine (restaurant), a chain in Quebec, Canada
• Valentine, a racehorse who competed at the 1840 Grand National Steeplechase
• a sunflower variety

See also

• Valentin (disambiguation)
• Valentinian (disambiguation)
• Valentino (disambiguation)
• Valentinus (disambiguation)