Valentin

Valentin
Pronunciation	French: [valɑ̃tɛ̃] German: [ˈvaləntiːn]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Other names
Related names	Valentín, Valentinus

Valentin (French, German, Romanian, also Russian and other Slavic) or Valentín (Spanish) is a masculine given name. It comes from the Latin name Valentinus as in Saint Valentine. Valentín is also a German and Spanish surname, again a form of Valentinus.

Valentin or Valentín may refer to:

Valentin

• Valentin Taifun, biplane of the modern German Valentin Flugzeug company
• Valentin (grape), another name for the Austrian wine grape Roter Veltliner
  • Vermentino, another wine grape with Valentin as a synonym
• The Nazi Germany code name for the Valentin submarine pens

Given name

• Valentin Pantus Aurelian, Romanian physicist
• Valentin Blass, German basketball player
• Valentin Chmerkovskiy Ukrainian American Ballroom Dancer
• Valentin Friedland (born 1490), German scholar
• Valentin Gjokaj (born 1993), Swiss association football player
• Valentin Parnakh, Russian jazz musician
• Valentin Plătăreanu, Romanian actor

Valentín

• Valentín, a 2002 Argentine film

Surname

• José Valentín (born 1969), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Javier Valentín (born 1975), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Lidia Valentín (born 1985), Spanish weightlifter

See also

• Valentinus (disambiguation)
• Valentine (disambiguation)
• Valentino (disambiguation)