Valiant
Encyclopedia
Vehicles
- Plymouth ValiantPlymouth ValiantThe Plymouth Valiant is an automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1960 to 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market emerging in the late 1950s...
, automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation from 1960 to 1976 - Chrysler ValiantChrysler ValiantThe Chrysler Valiant is a passenger car which was introduced by Chrysler Australia in 1962 with production ceasing in 1981. Initially a rebadged locally assembled Plymouth Valiant from the U.S., the Valiant range was sold throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as South Africa...
, automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1962 to 1981 - Chrysler Valiant Charger, automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1971 to 1976
- Velocette ValiantVelocette ValiantThe Velocette Valiant is a British motorcycle made by Velocette. Launched at the 1956 Earl’s Court Motorcycle Show, the Valiant had a 192 cc engine but was expensive and criticized for its underpowered engine.-Development:...
, a British motorcycle made by Velocette
Comics
- Prince ValiantPrince ValiantPrince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-run comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 3700 Sunday strips...
, comic strip - Valiant (comics), British comic published between 1962 and 1976
- Valiant ComicsValiant ComicsValiant Comics is a comic book imprint published by various publishers since its inception with Voyager Communications, Inc. in 1989, later Acclaim Comics, Inc. Its assets were purchased from the bankruptcy of the Acclaim Entertaintment by Valiant Entertainment, Inc. in 2007.-Voyager...
, comic book publisher
Fiction
- Eddie Valiant, one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- USS Valiant, a starship found in the original Star Trek TV series, featured in the episode "Where No Man Has Gone BeforeWhere No Man Has Gone Before"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the second pilot episode of the television series Star Trek: The Original Series. It was produced in 1965 after the first pilot, "The Cage", had been rejected by NBC. The episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence on September 22, 1966, and was re-aired on...
" - USS Valiant (NCC-74210), ship in the Star Trek universe featured in the Deep Space Nine episode "Valiant"
- "Valiant" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Valiant : A Modern Tale of FaerieValiant : A Modern Tale of FaerieValiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, is an 2005 urban fantasy novel by Holly Black. It is a companion to her earlier book Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale, but can also be read as a stand-alone novel.-Plot Summary:...
, urban fantasy novel by Holly Black - Valiant (Doctor Who), airborne aircraft carrier controlled by UNIT in Doctor Who
- Destin Faroda, the Valiant of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black QueenOgre Battle: The March of the Black Queenis a 1993 real-time strategy role-playing video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, directed by Yasumi Matsuno with artwork by Akihiko Yoshida...
video game
Film and television
- The Valiant (1929 film), which tells the story of a man condemned to execution
- The Valiant (1962 film)The Valiant (1962 film)The Valiant is a 1962 film directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, and Liam Redmond. Based on the Italian manned torpedo attack against two British battleships at the port of Alexandria in December 1941.- See also :*HMS Valiant*Luigi Durand de...
, directed by Roy Ward Baker - The Valiant (play), a 1924 stage play
- Valiant (2005 film), 2005 movie about British homing pigeons
- "Valiant" (Merlin), second episode of the British television series Merlin
- Valiant (Caminhos do Coração), a character in the Brazilian soap opera Caminhos do Coração
Military
- HMS Valiant (1863)HMS Valiant (1863)HMS Valiant was the second ship of the armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Her builders went bankrupt shortly after she was laid down, which significantly delayed her completion. After being launched in 1863, she waited a further five years to receive her guns due to supply issues...
, ironclad battleship of the Hector class - HMS Valiant (1914)HMS Valiant (1914)HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the British Royal Navy. She was laid down at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan on 31 January 1913 and launched on 4 November 1914...
, Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy - HMS Valiant (S102)HMS Valiant (S102)The sixth, and most recent HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two-unit Valiant class...
, the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines - Project ValiantProject ValiantProject Valiant was one of two early liquid-fueled missile projects developed by India, along with Project Devil in the 1970s. The goal of Project Valiant was to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile...
, cancelled Indian secret ballistic missile project - USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621)USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621)USCGC Valiant is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She was laid down February 28, 1966 at American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio and launched January 14, 1967...
, United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter - USS ValiantUSS ValiantUSS Valiant has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:, a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919, ex-USS PC-509, a submarine chaser, later coastal patrol yacht, in commission from 1941 to 1944...
, two United States Navy ships - Valiant class submarineValiant class submarineThe Valiant class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the mid 1960s until 1994. They were the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine; the earlier used an American nuclear reactor...
, the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine - Valiant tankValiant tankThe Tank, Infantry, Valiant was a British tank design of the Second World War that only reached the prototype stage. The design was so infamously bad that the sole example was retained by the School of Tank Technology post-war as a dire lesson to its students.- Origins :The A38 Valiant began as a...
, British tank design of the Second World War - Vickers 131 Valiant, British biplane bomber
- Vickers ValiantVickers ValiantThe Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant was a British four-jet bomber, once part of the Royal Air Force's V bomber nuclear force in the 1950s and 1960s...
, British jet bomber - BT-13 ValiantBT-13 ValiantThe Vultee BT-13 Valiant was an American World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps, and later US Army Air Forces...
, World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps
Other uses
- HMS Valiant, a customs cutter of the UK Border Agency
- Valiant RecordsValiant RecordsValiant Records was an independent record company co-owned by Four Star Television which was sold in 1967 to Warner Bros. Records.Valiant Records was never fully independent, for most of its existence, its distributor was ABC Records before Warners took it over distribution in 1965 and then...
, independent record label which was acquired in 1965 by Warner Bros. - The Valiants, nickname of the British football club Port Vale F.C.Port Vale F.C.Port Vale Football Club is an English football club currently playing in Football League Two. They are based in Burslem, Staffordshire — one of six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The club's traditional rivals in the city are Stoke City, and games between the two clubs are known as...
People named Valiant
- Jimmy ValiantJimmy ValiantJames Harold Fanning is a former professional wrestler and author better known as Jimmy Valiant.-Personal life:...
(born 1942), professional wrestler - Leslie ValiantLeslie ValiantLeslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is...
(born 1949), British computer scientist and computational theorist - Valiant SwartValiant SwartValiant swart is an Afrikaans folk/rock singer from Stellenbosch, South Africa.-Albums:*Die Mystic Boer *Dorpstraat Revisited *Kopskoot *Roekeloos *Deur die Donker Vallei *Boland Punk *Maanhare...
, a Akrifaans folk singer
See also
- The Valiant SixtyValiant SixtyThe Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends . They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth...
, a group of early Quaker leaders and activists in the latter part of the 17th century