Valentine Explained

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

Valentine or Valentines may also refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Valentine (name), a given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters so named
• Saint Valentine of Rome, the eponym of Valentine's Day
• Valentine (writer), pseudonym of Archibald Thomas Pechey
• Gary Valentine, stage name of Gary Lachman (born 1955), American writer and guitarist, member of the band Blondie
• Funny Valentine, the main villain of Steel Ball Run

Places

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 (ward), a ward of Redbridge London Borough Council, Greater London
• Valentine (river), a river in the Haute-Vienne department, France
• Valentines, Uruguay, a town

Buildings

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

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Valentine (film), a 2001 horror film
• Valentine (2017 film), a documentary by Paul Thomas Anderson about the making of the album Something to Tell You
• Valentine (TV series), an American romantic comedy-drama television 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

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 (Snail Mail album) (2021)
• Valentine (Bill Frisell album) (2020)
• Valentine (Roy Harper album) (1974)
• Valentines (EP), by Mariah Carey (1999)

Songs

• "Valentine" (5 Seconds of Summer song) (2018)
• "Valentine" (Jim Brickman song) (1997), a hit for Martina McBride
• "Valentine" (Maurice Chevalier song) (1925)
• "Valentine" (Delays song) (2006)
• "Valentine" (Lloyd song) (2007)
• "Valentine" (Måneskin song) (2023)
• "Valentine" (T'Pau song) (1988)
• "Valentine" (Jessie Ware and Sampha song) (2011)
• "Valentine", by Fiona Apple from The Idler Wheel...
• "Valentine", by Blonde Redhead
• "Valentine", by Justice from Cross
• "Valentine", by Kina Grannis
• "Valentine", by Laufey from Everything I Know About Love (album)
• "Valentine", by Snail Mail from Valentine
• "Valentine", by Tatiana Okupnik
• "Valentine", by Train from A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat
• "Valentine", by Xandria from Neverworld's End
• "Valentine", by XXXTentacion from Revenge
• "Valentine", by YK Osiris from The Golden Child
• "Valentine", by the Get Up Kids from Something to Write Home About
• "Valentine", by the Replacements from Pleased to Meet Me
• "Valentine", from the musical Love Birds
• "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart from the musical Babes In Arms

Sea vessels

• HMS Valentine, four Royal Navy vessels
• USS Valentine (AF-47), a 1945 World War II stores ship
• Valentine (1780 EIC ship), an East Indiaman

Other uses

• Valentine School (disambiguation)
• Valentine tank, a British Second World War tank model
• 447 Valentine, an asteroid
• Valentine (restaurant), a chain in Quebec, Canada
• Valentine, a racehorse who competed in the 1840 Grand National Steeplechase
• Valentine, a sunflower variety
• Valentine Formation, a geologic unit in Nebraska, United States
• Olivetti Valentine, a typewriter

See also

• Valentin
• Valentine Building (disambiguation)
• Valentine House (disambiguation)
• Valentiner (disambiguation)
• Valentinian (disambiguation)
• Valentin (disambiguation)
• Valentina (disambiguation)
• Valentini (disambiguation)
• Valentino (disambiguation)
• Valentinus (disambiguation)