Valiant Explained

Valiant may refer to:

People

See also: List of people known as the Valiant.

• James Valiant (1884–1917), English cricketer
• The Valiant Brothers, a professional wrestling tag team of storyline brothers
  • Jerry Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler John Hill (1941-2010)
  • Jimmy Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler James Harold Fanning (born 1942)
  • Johnny Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler Thomas Sullivan (1946–2018)
• Leslie Valiant (born 1949), British computer scientist and computational theorist
• Valiant Swart, South African Akrifaans folk singer born Pierre Nolte in 1965

Fictional characters

• Valiant (Caminhos do Coração), a character in the Brazilian soap opera Caminhos do Coração
• Valiant, the title character of the comic strip Prince Valiant
• Eddie Valiant, one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Places

• Valiants Memorial, a military memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Military

• , various Royal Navy ships
• , the first fully British class of nuclear fleet submarines
• Valiant-class ship of the line, two Royal Navy sailing ships
• , various United States Navy ships
• , a United States Coast Guard cutter
• Valiant-class harbor tug, a class of US Navy yard tugboats that entered service in 2009
• Valiant tank, a British Second World War tank design
• Vickers 131 Valiant, a British biplane bomber
• Vickers Valiant, a British jet bomber
• Vultee BT-13 Valiant, a World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps
• Project Valiant, a cancelled Indian secret ballistic missile project

Vehicles

• , a customs cutter of the UK Border Agency
• Plymouth Valiant, an automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation from 1960 to 1976
• Chrysler Valiant, an automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1962 to 1981
• Velocette Valiant, a British motorcycle made by Velocette

Fictional vehicles

• USS Valiant, the initial but discarded name of USS Defiant, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series
• USS Valiant, a spaceship in the Star Trek second pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Film

• The Valiant (1929 film), a part-talkie movie starring Paul Muni
• The Valiant (1962 film), directed by Roy Ward Baker
• Valiant (film), a 2005 film about British homing pigeons

Television

• "Valiant" (Merlin), second episode of the British television series Merlin
• "Valiant" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the American television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and a starship in the episode

Music

• Vince Vance & the Valiants, an American country pop and rock and roll musical group
• Valiant Records, a 1960s independent record label acquired in 1965 by Warner Bros.

Literature

• Valiant Comics, a comic book publisher
• Valiant (comics), British comic published between 1962 and 1976
• Valiant (novel), , a 2005 urban fantasy novel by Holly Black

Other uses

• The Valiant (play), a 1924 one-act stage play
• The Valiants, nickname of the British football club Port Vale F.C.
• Los Angeles Valiant, professional esports team of the Overwatch League

See also

• • • The Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker leaders and activists in the latter part of the 17th century