Victor (name)
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Victor is a masculine given name that has been used for centuries in numerous cultures and parts of the world. Of Latin origin, victor means "(one who) conquers" and may also be spelled Viktor, Vítor or Víctor. The name may refer to:
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- ArabicArabic languageArabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
: فيكتور - AsturianAsturian languageAsturian is a Romance language of the West Iberian group, Astur-Leonese Subgroup, spoken in the Spanish Region of Asturias by the Asturian people...
: Vítor - BasqueBasque languageBasque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
: Iker - BelarusianBelarusian languageThe Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...
: Віктар (Viktar) - BulgarianBulgarian languageBulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
: Виктор (Viktor) - CatalanCatalan languageCatalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
: Víctor - ChineseChinese languageThe Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
: 维克托 - CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
: Viktor - DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
: Viktor, Victor - EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
: Victor - FilipinoFilipino languageThis move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...
: Biktor - FinnishFinnish languageFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
: Vihtori, Viktor - FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
: Victor - GalicianGalician languageGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
: Vítor, - GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: Viktor, Victor - GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
: Βίκτωρας (Viktoras) - HebrewHebrew languageHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
: ויקטור, Victor - HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
: Viktor - IgboIgbo languageIgbo , or Igbo proper, is a native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group primarily located in southeastern Nigeria. There are approximately 20 million speakers that are mostly in Nigeria and are primarily of Igbo descent. Igbo is a national language of Nigeria. It is written in the Latin...
: Ùgò - IrishIrish languageIrish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
: Buadhach - ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
: Vittorio - KoreanKorean languageKorean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
: 빅토르, 빅터 - LithuanianLithuanian languageLithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
: Viktoras - MacedonianMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
- Виктор - PersianPersian languagePersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
: Pirooz - PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
: Wiktor - PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: Vítor, Victor - RomanianRomanian languageRomanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
: Victor - RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Виктор (Viktor) - SerbianSerbian languageSerbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: Viktor - SlovakSlovak languageSlovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
: Viktor - SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Víctor - SwedishSwedish languageSwedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
: Victor, Viktor - TurkishTurkish languageTurkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
: Galip (Ar.), Muzaffer (Ar.) - UkrainianUkrainian languageUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
: Віктор (Viktor) - WelshWelsh languageWelsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
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Given name
- Victor, duc de Broglie (disambiguation), several people
- Victor AgostoVictor AgostoVictor Manuel Agosto is an anti-war activist and a former United States Army Private. He is noted for his direct and public resistance to the War in Afghanistan as an active duty soldier.-Background:...
(born 1985), American anti-war activist - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of SavoyVictor Amadeus I, Duke of SavoyVictor Amadeus I was the Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637. He was also titular King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. He was also known as the Lion of Susa-Biography:...
(1587–1637) - Victor Amadeus II of SardiniaVictor Amadeus II of SardiniaVictor Amadeus II was Duke of Savoy from 1675 to 1730. He also held the titles of marquis of Saluzzo, duke of Montferrat, prince of Piedmont, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nizza. Louis XIV organised his marriage in order to maintain French influence in the Duchy but Victor Amadeus soon broke away...
(1666–1732) - Victor Amadeus III of SardiniaVictor Amadeus III of SardiniaVictor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until declaring war on revolutionary France in 1792...
(1726–1796) - Victor of AveyronVictor of AveyronVictor of Aveyron was a feral child who apparently lived his entire childhood naked and alone in the woods before being found wandering the woods near Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, France, in 1797. He was captured, but soon escaped after being displayed in the town...
(1785–1828), French feral child - Viktor ApostolovViktor ApostolovViktor Apostolov is a retired male hammer thrower from Bulgaria, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He set his personal best on July 28, 1990 in Sofia.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1962), Bulgarian hammer thrower - Victor Emmanuel (disambiguation), regnal name of the House of Savoy
- Victor Emmanuel II of ItalyVictor Emmanuel II of ItalyVictor Emanuel II was king of Sardinia from 1849 and, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878...
(1820–1878) - Victor Emmanuel III of ItalyVictor Emmanuel III of ItalyVictor Emmanuel III was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy . In addition, he claimed the crowns of Ethiopia and Albania and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Albania , which were unrecognised by the Great Powers...
(1869–1947)
- Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
- Aurelius VictorAurelius VictorSextus Aurelius Victor was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire.Aurelius Victor was the author of a History of Rome from Augustus to Julian , published ca. 361. Julian honoured him and appointed him prefect of Pannonia Secunda...
(320-390), Roman historian and politician - Flavius VictorFlavius VictorFlavius Victor was the son of Magnus Maximus by his wife Elen, allegedly the daughter of Octavius. He was proclaimed an Augustus by his father and ruled nominally from 384 to his death in 388....
(384-388), Roman usurper, son of Magnus Maximus - Prince Albert Victor (1864–1892), British prince
- Victor BabeşVictor BabesVictor Babeș was a Romanian physician, biologist, and one of the earliest bacteriologists. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases....
(1854–1926), Romanian biologist - Vítor BaíaVítor BaíaVítor Manuel Martins Baía, OIH , is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.His career was intimately connected with F.C...
(born 1969), Portuguese football player - Víctor Manuel BauteVíctor Manuel BauteVíctor Manuel Baute Montanez is a former boxer from Spain, who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-External links:...
(born 1972), Spanish boxer - Vitor BelfortVitor BelfortVítor Vieira Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Belfort was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family, namely Carlson Gracie. He received a black belt under Carlson and currently trains with Xtreme Couture, fighting in...
(born 1977), Brazilian mixed martial artist - Viktor BergViktor BergViktor Berg , technically in Estonia and Finland count Viktor Berg de Sangaste, is a Finnish-origin professional male squash player who represented Canada during his career. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No...
(born 1977), Canadian squash player - Víctor BirdVictor BirdVíctor Bird is a volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan...
(born 1982), Puerto Rican volleyball player - Victor BorgeVictor BorgeVictor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...
(1909–2000), Danish-born American musician and comedian - Viktor BoutViktor BoutViktor Anatolyevich Bout is a convicted arms smuggler. A citizen of Russia, he was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and was extradited in 2010 to the United States to stand trial on terrorism charges after being accused of smuggling arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to use against...
(born 1967), Russian arms dealer - Victor Assis BrasilVictor Assis BrasilVictor Assis Brasil was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist. He was the brother of classical pianist João Carlos Assis Brasil. He studied at Berklee College of Music and later taught improvisation technique in Brazil...
(1945–1981), Brazilian jazz saxophonist - Victor CiorbeaVictor CiorbeaVictor Ciorbea is a Romanian politician. He was the Mayor of Bucharest in 1996-1997 and, after his resignation from office, Prime Minister of Romania from 12 December 1996 to 30 March 1998.-Biography:...
(born 1954), Romanian politician - Victor CivitaVictor CivitaVictor Civita was an American businessman, journalist and naturalized Brazilian...
(1907–1990), Brazilian publisher - Victor ChandlerVictor ChandlerVictor Chandler is chairman of the company that bears his name, Victor Chandler International.Frequently styled ‘The Gentleman Bookmaker’, in 2006 The Racing Post described Chandler as "arguably the most famous bookmaker in the world...
(born 1951), British bookmaker and businessman - Victor CorreaVictor CorrêaVictor Correia is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in the category European F3 Open -Career:The young Victor Correa began his career in kart in 1999 in Alfenas Brazil to 9 years old competing regional championships and soon won Champion South Mineiro as Cadet...
(born 1990), Brazilian racecar driver - Victor DavisVictor DavisVictor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, a well known breaststroker from Canada. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.-Biography:...
(1964–1989), Canadian Olympic gold medalist swimmer - Viktor FranklViktor FranklViktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy"...
(1905–1997), Austrian psychiatrist - Victor GarberVictor GarberVictor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
(born 1949), Canadian actor - Víctor GenésVíctor GenésVíctor Genés is a retired football attacking midfielder from Paraguay. He played professional football in Paraguay for Cerro Porteño. After his career he became a football manager.- International :...
(born 1961), Paraguayan footballer and football manager - Victor Manuel GerenaVictor Manuel GerenaVíctor Manuel Gerena is an American fugitive wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the armed robbery, in connection with the Los Macheteros group, of a Wells Fargo armored car facility. On May 14, 1984, he became the 386th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted...
(born 1958), American fugitive - Victor GoldschmidtVictor GoldschmidtVictor Moritz Goldschmidt was a mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.-Early life & career:Goldschmidt was born in Zürich...
(1888–1947), Norwegian mineralogist - Víctor Hugo GonzálezVíctor Hugo GonzálezVíctor Hugo González Melo is a male road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:20012002...
(born 1974), Colombian cyclist - Víctor HerreraVíctor HerreraVíctor Hugo Herrera Ramos is a retired male track and road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:19992001...
(born 1970), Colombian cyclist - Victor HortaVictor HortaVictor, Baron Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 means that...
(1861–1947), Belgian architect - Victor Houston (athlete)Victor Houston (athlete)Victor Emmanuel Livingstone Houston is a retired male track and field athlete from Barbados, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000. He competed in the men's decathlon and hurdling events during his career. Since 2011, Houston has been an assistant track and...
(born 1974), Barbadian athlete - Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
(1802–1885), French writer - Victor Honoré JanssensVictor Honoré JanssensVictor Honorius Janssens was a Flemish painter.Janssens was born in Brussels. After seven years in the studio of an obscure painter named Volders, he spent four years in the household of the duke of Holstein...
(1658–1736), Flemish painter - Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
(1932–1973), Chilean musician - Victor KamberVictor KamberVictor Kamber is a labor union activist and political consultant in the United States. A Democrat, he worked for the AFL-CIO in the 1970s before forming The Kamber Group, a public relations firm, in 1980....
(born 1943), American political consultant - Victor KiamVictor KiamVictor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur and the owner of the New England Patriots football team from 1988-1991....
(1926–2001), American entrepreneur - Victor Korchnoi (born 1931), Russian chess player
- Victor KrosVictor KrosVictor Kros is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper. He made his debut in Dutch professional football on 2002-02-20 for Sparta Rotterdam, replacing Frank Kooiman in a game against AZ Alkmaar.-References:**...
(born 1981), Dutch football player - Viktor Kuznetsov (swimmer)Viktor Kuznetsov (swimmer)Viktor Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov is a former backstroke swimmer from the Soviet Union. He won two silver medals at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.-References:**...
(born 1961), Russian swimmer - Victor Leandro BagyVictor Leandro BagyVictor Leandro Bagy, better known as Victor , is a Brazilian footballer, currently playing for Série A club Grêmio.-Club career:...
(born 1983), Brazilian football player - Victor Li Tzar-kuoi (born 1964), Hong Kong businessman
- Victor LocheVictor LocheVictor Loche was a French soldier and naturalist. He was the author of Histoire naturelle des mammifères de l'Algérie and Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Algérie . Loche first described the Sand Cat , which he identified as a distinct species while exploring the North Sahara.-References:...
(1806–1863), French zoologist - Víctor MaldonadoVíctor MaldonadoVíctor Maldonado Flores is a retired track and field athlete from Venezuela. He competed in the hurdling events. Maldonado represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1960....
(born 1939), Venezuelan hurdler - Victor MatfieldVictor MatfieldVictor Matfield is a South African rugby union player. He has played for, and captained the Springbok rugby team as well as the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and the Bulls franchise in the Super 14...
(born 1977), South African rugby player - Victor MatureVictor MatureVictor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,...
(1913–1999), American actor - Victor McLaglenVictor McLaglenVictor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.-Early life:...
(1886–1959), British actor - Victor MeirellesVictor MeirellesVictor Meirelles de Lima was a 19th century painter. He studied art in Paris but painted most of his works in and about his native Brazil. His religious and military paintings helped him become one of the most popular and celebrated Brazilian painters...
(1832–1903), Brazilian painter - Vic MignognaVic MignognaVictor Joseph "Vic" Mignogna is an American Anime Award winning voice actor and musician who has done voice work for many anime series, movies, and video games...
(born 1962), American actor - Viktor MitrouViktor MitrouViktor Mitrou is a retired male weightlifter from Albania. He became an Olympic medalist for Greece during the 2000 Summer Olympics when he claimed the silver medal in the men's – 77 kg class....
(born 1973), Greek weightlifter - Vic MizzyVic MizzyVic Mizzy was an American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family. He also penned top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s.-Biography:Vic Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended New York...
(1916–2009), American composer - Víctor Mora (athlete)Víctor Mora (athlete)Víctor Manuel Mora García is a retired long-distance runner from Colombia. He won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres event at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 .-References:*...
(born 1944), Colombian runner - Víctor Moreno (cyclist)Víctor Moreno (cyclist)Víctor Cecilio Moreno Sevilla is a male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:2006Víctor Cecilio Moreno Sevilla is a male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:2006Víctor Cecilio Moreno Sevilla is a male professional road racing...
(born 1985), Venezuelan cyclist - Víctor Muñoz (born 1957), Spanish football coach and player
- Viktor OlsenViktor OlsenViktor Olaf Olsen is a former Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon race. He represented Charlottenlunds SK in Trondheim....
(born 1924), Norwegian long-distance runner - Viktor OnopkoViktor OnopkoViktor Savelyevich Onopko is an association football coach and a former defender and holds the record for most international appearances for the Russian national team...
(born 1969), Russian football player - Viktor OrbánViktor OrbánViktor Orbán is a Hungarian populist and conservative politician and current Prime Minister of Hungary...
(born 1963), Hungarian politician - Victor OrtízVictor OrtízVictor Ortiz is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent and the former WBC welterweight champion.He was previously in the light welterweight division, where he held the USBA & NABO title....
(born 1987), American boxer - Victor PerezVictor PerezVictor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis...
("Young"; 1911-45), Tunisian world champion flyweight boxer - Victor QuintanaVictor QuintanaVictor Quintana is a retired Paraguayan football player, who played as a defensive midfielder.Quintana started his career by playing for Club San Miguel de Misiones and then moved to Olimpia, where he won the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Paraguayan League...
(born 1976), Paraguayan football player - Victor RasukVictor RasukVictor Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas....
(born 1984), American actor - Victor Rivera (volleyball) (born 1976), Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Victor Rivera GonzalezVictor Rivera GonzalezVictor Manuel Rivera Gonzalez is a Puerto Rican attorney and former Secretary of Corrections and Chief of Police, known in Puerto Rico, especially among prisoners and police officers, for his work during Sila María Calderón's administration.After receiving an Education and later a Law degree from...
(born 1948), Puerto Rican police chief and lawyer - Victor RossVictor Ross-Early life:Ross was Jewish, and was born in Kiszalo, Hungary.He graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1918. He then attended Syracuse University, where he played on both the soccer and lacrosse teams. He subsequently attended Syracuse Law School, where he earned an LLB degree in 1924...
(1900–74), American lacrosse player - Víctor SánchezVictor SanchezVictor Sanchez is a Mexican author. He was initially inspired by the writings of Carlos Castaneda and by his own studies among the Wirrarika, said to be cultural descendants of the Pre-Columbian Native American Toltecs....
(born 1976), Spanish footballer - Viktor SchaubergerViktor SchaubergerViktor Schauberger was an Austrian forester/forest warden, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and Biomimicry experimenter....
(1885–1958), Austrian forester and inventor - Vitor Silva Assis de Oliveira JúniorVitor Silva Assis de Oliveira JúniorVitor Silva Assis de Oliveira Jr. known as Vitor Júnior or just Júnior , is a Brazilian attacking midfielder who currently plays for Atlético Goianiense....
(born 1986), Brazilian football player - Victor SimõesVictor SimõesVictor Simões, full name Victor Simões de Oliveira is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Al-Ahli.-Career:His previous clubs include Figueirense Futebol Clube, Club Brugge K.V., K.F.C...
(born 1981), Brazilian football player - Victor SloanVictor SloanVictor Sloan MBE is an Irish photographer and artist.Victor Sloan studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland...
(born 1945), Irish artist - Viktor SpasovViktor SpasovViktor Spasov is a retired pole vaulter, who represented the Soviet Union during his career. He set his personal best on 7 March 1982 at the European Indoor Championships in Milan, earning him the gold medal.-Achievements:...
(born 1957), Soviet pole vaulter - Victor SpinettiVictor SpinettiVictor Spinetti is a Welsh comic actor.-Early life:Spinetti was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales of Welsh and Italian heritage from a grandfather who was said to have walked from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner...
(born 1933), Welsh actor - Viktor TroickiViktor TroickiViktor Troicki is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has Serb and Russian ethnic roots. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Tver and Rostov-on-Don to Serbia in 1917. His career-high ranking is no. 12, achieved on 6 June 2011. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup,...
(born 1986), Serbian tennis player - Víctor TrujilloVíctor TrujilloVíctor Trujillo , is a Mexican host, comedian and political commentator. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso , a green-haired, unkempt, obscene and aggressive clown ....
(born 1961), Mexican comedian - Victor TrumperVictor TrumperVictor Thomas Trumper was an Australian cricketer known as the most stylish and versatile batsman of the Golden Age of cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets his contemporaries found unplayable. Archie MacLaren said of him, "Compared to Victor I was a cab-horse to a Derby...
(1877–1915), Australian cricketer - Victor Tsoi (1962–1990), Russian musician
- Victor UkpoloVictor UkpoloDr Victor O. Ukpolo is chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans, also known as SUNO.Ukpolo is most known for his successful efforts in restoring SUNO to operation after Hurricane Katrina, specifically his role in obtaining funds for SUNO's recovery, including $44 million for student...
(born 1950), Nigerian-born American university administrator - Victor WillisVictor WillisVictor Edward Willis is a singer, songwriter, actor; and most known as the original lead singer of the disco group Village People. His persona was the Cop and Naval Officer....
(born 1951), American musician - Viktor YanukovychViktor YanukovychViktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
(born 1950), Ukrainian politician - Viktor YushchenkoViktor YushchenkoViktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...
(born 1954), Ukrainian politician - Viktor ZaitsevViktor ZaitsevViktor Zaytsev is a retired javelin thrower from Uzbekistan, who competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he did not reach the final, after having won the silver medal two years earlier, at the European Championships in Split,...
(born 1966), Uzbekistani javelin thrower - Viktor ZhurbaViktor ZhurbaViktor Zhurba is a retired male discus thrower. He represented the Soviet Union during his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Zhurba is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's discus event at the 1973 Summer Universiade in Moscow....
(born 1950), Soviet discus thrower
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- Alexander Victor, founder of the Victor Animatograph CorporationVictor Animatograph CorporationThe Victor Animatograph Corporation was a maker of projection equipment founded in 1910 in Davenport, Iowa.The firm made its first 16 mm camera and movie projector in 1923, the same year Eastman Kodak introduced the Cine-Kodak and Kodascope...
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de BellunoClaude Victor-Perrin, duc de BellunoClaude Victor-Perrin, First Duc de Belluno was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
(1764–1841), marshal of France - Jaclyn VictorJaclyn VictorJaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor is a singer and actress, popularly known as Jac, who won the inaugural Malaysian Idol and Ikon Malaysia. For being the winner of Malaysian Idol, she won a recording contract under Sony BMG Entertainment. She is under the management of The 8 Unit. She represented...
(born 1978), Malaysian musician - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-VictorPaul Bins, comte de Saint-VictorPaul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor , known as Paul de Saint-Victor, French author, was born in Paris. His father Jacques BM Bins, comte de Saint-Victor , is remembered by his poem L'Espérance, and by an excellent verse translation of Anacreon.Saint-Victor, who ceased to use the title of count as...
(1827–1881), French author - Semyon Viktorovich Belits-Geiman, Soviet Olympic swimmer
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Fiction
- Vegas VicVegas VicVegas Vic is the unofficial, yet most widely used name for the Las Vegas, Nevada neon sign that resembles a cowboy that was erected on the exterior of The Pioneer Club in Las Vegas in 1951. The sign was a departure in graphic design from typeface based neon signs, to a friendly and welcoming human...
, a robot from the video game Fallout: New Vegas - Victor Baxter, fictional character in the television series That's So Raven and Cory in the House
- Victor CreedSabretooth (comics)Sabretooth is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne. The character first appeared in Iron Fist #14...
, fictional character in the Marvel Universe - Victor FrankensteinVictor FrankensteinVictor Frankenstein was born in Napoli, is a Swiss fictional character and the protagonist of the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley...
, fictional scientist in the 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Victor Fries, fictional villain in the Batman series, also known as Mr. Freeze
- Viktor Krum, fictional character in the Harry Potter series
- Vic MackeyVic MackeyDetective Victor Samuel "Vic" Mackey, portrayed by Michael Chiklis, was the antihero and main protagonist of the FX crime drama series The Shield. Mackey was a corrupt and brutal Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department; he stole from drug dealers, routinely beat suspects and committed murder...
, fictional character in the television series The Shield - Victor ManchaVictor ManchaVictor Mancha is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics award-winning series, Runaways. He was created by author Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona, and debuted in Runaways vol. 2 #1 . Like the original runaways, Victor has a supervillain for a parent; his father is the robot Ultron...
, fictional character in the Runaways comic book - Victor MeldrewVictor MeldrewVictor Meldrew was a fictional character in the popular BBC One sitcom One Foot in the Grave. Created by David Renwick and played by Richard Wilson, the character was the archetypal grumpy old man...
, fictional character in the television series One Foot in the Grave - Viktor Navorski, fictional character in the 2004 film The TerminalThe TerminalThe Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It is about a man trapped in a terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot...
- Victor NewmanVictor NewmanVictor Newman is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless played by actor Eric Braeden from February 1980 through November 2, 2009 and again from January 15, 2010 to present. The character briefly appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999...
, fictional character in the television series The Young and the Restless - Victor Quartermaine, fictional character in the television series Wallace and Gromit
- Victor Steiner-Davion, fictional character in the Battletech and Mechwarrior universes
- Victor Van Dort, fictional character in the 2005 film Corpse Bride
- Victor Vance, fictional protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Vic Vega, fictional character in the film Reservoir Dogs, also known as Mr. Blonde
- Victor Von Doom, fictional character in the Fantastic Four comics
- Victor von Gerdenheim, fictional character in the Darkstalkers video game series
- Viktor (Suikoden), fictional character in the Suikoden video game series
- Viktor (Underworld), fictional character in the Underworld film series
- Vittorio, fictional character in the 1977 novel and 1983 mini-series The Thorn BirdsThe Thorn BirdsThe Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author.In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run 27–30 March, became the United States' second highest rated mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by...
- Victor, fictional servant in the 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilder
- Victor Regalis VI, fictional character in the novel The Kingship of Victor Regalis by Chance Jett
People with given name Vittorio
- Vittorio BrambillaVittorio BrambillaVittorio Brambilla was a Formula One driver from Italy who raced for the March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo teams. Particularly adept at driving in wet conditions, his nickname was "The Monza Gorilla", due to his often overly aggressive driving style and sense of machismo.-Career:Born in the town of...
(1937 - 2001) Italian Formula One driver - Vittorio Cecchi GoriVittorio Cecchi GoriVittorio Cecchi Gori is an Italian film producer and politician.Born in Florence, he is the son of Mario Cecchi Gori. He has produced numerous films, most notably Il Postino , which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.He was also senator from the Italian People's Party.He owned...
(born 1942), Italian film producer and politician - Vittorio De SicaVittorio de SicaVittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
(1902 – 1974), Italian director and actor
See also
- Victor (disambiguation)
- Saint Victorian (disambiguation)
- St. Victor (disambiguation)
- Victoria (disambiguation)
- Victory (disambiguation)