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:

Translations

  • Arabic
    Arabic language
    Arabic 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
  • Asturian
    Asturian language
    Asturian is a Romance language of the West Iberian group, Astur-Leonese Subgroup, spoken in the Spanish Region of Asturias by the Asturian people...

    : Vítor
  • Basque
    Basque language
    Basque 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
  • Belarusian
    Belarusian language
    The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

    : Віктар (Viktar)
  • Bulgarian
    Bulgarian language
    Bulgarian 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)
  • Catalan
    Catalan language
    Catalan 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
  • Chinese
    Chinese language
    The 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
  • Czech
    Czech language
    Czech 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
  • Dutch
    Dutch language
    Dutch 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
  • English
    English language
    English 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
  • Filipino
    Filipino language
    This 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
  • Finnish
    Finnish language
    Finnish 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
  • French
    French language
    French 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
  • Galician
    Galician language
    Galician 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,
  • German
    German language
    German 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
  • Greek
    Greek language
    Greek 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)
  • Hebrew
    Hebrew language
    Hebrew 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
  • Hungarian
    Hungarian language
    Hungarian 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
  • Igbo
    Igbo language
    Igbo , 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
  • Irish
    Irish language
    Irish , 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
  • Italian
    Italian language
    Italian 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
  • Korean
    Korean language
    Korean 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
  • Lithuanian
    Lithuanian language
    Lithuanian 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
  • Macedonian
    Macedonian language
    Macedonian 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
  • Persian
    Persian language
    Persian 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
  • Polish
    Polish language
    Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

    : Wiktor
  • Portuguese
    Portuguese language
    Portuguese 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
  • Romanian
    Romanian language
    Romanian 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
  • Russian
    Russian language
    Russian 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)
  • Serbian
    Serbian language
    Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

    : Viktor
  • Slovak
    Slovak language
    Slovak , 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
  • Spanish
    Spanish language
    Spanish , 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
  • Swedish
    Swedish language
    Swedish 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
  • Turkish
    Turkish language
    Turkish 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.)
  • Ukrainian
    Ukrainian language
    Ukrainian 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)
  • Welsh
    Welsh language
    Welsh 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...

    : Gwythyr

Given name

  • Victor, duc de Broglie (disambiguation), several people
  • Victor Agosto
    Victor Agosto
    Victor 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 Savoy
    Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
    Victor 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 Sardinia
    Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
    Victor 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 Sardinia
    Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
    Victor 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 Aveyron
    Victor of Aveyron
    Victor 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 Apostolov
    Viktor Apostolov
    Viktor 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 Italy
      Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
      Victor 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 Italy
      Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
      Victor 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)
  • Aurelius Victor
    Aurelius Victor
    Sextus 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 Victor
    Flavius Victor
    Flavius 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 Babeş
    Victor Babes
    Victor 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 Baía
    Vítor Baía
    Vítor 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 Baute
    Víctor Manuel Baute
    Víctor 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 Belfort
    Vitor Belfort
    Vítor 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 Berg
    Viktor Berg
    Viktor 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 Bird
    Victor Bird
    Víctor 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 Borge
    Victor Borge
    Victor 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 Bout
    Viktor Bout
    Viktor 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 Brasil
    Victor Assis Brasil
    Victor 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 Ciorbea
    Victor Ciorbea
    Victor 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 Civita
    Victor Civita
    Victor Civita was an American businessman, journalist and naturalized Brazilian...

     (1907–1990), Brazilian publisher
  • Victor Chandler
    Victor Chandler
    Victor 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 Correa
    Victor Corrêa
    Victor 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 Davis
    Victor Davis
    Victor 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 Frankl
    Viktor Frankl
    Viktor 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 Garber
    Victor Garber
    Victor 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 Genés
    Víctor Genés
    Víctor 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 Gerena
    Victor Manuel Gerena
    Víctor 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 Goldschmidt
    Victor Goldschmidt
    Victor 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 González
    Víctor Hugo González
    Víctor Hugo González Melo is a male road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:20012002...

     (born 1974), Colombian cyclist
  • Víctor Herrera
    Víctor Herrera
    Víctor Hugo Herrera Ramos is a retired male track and road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:19992001...

     (born 1970), Colombian cyclist
  • Victor Horta
    Victor Horta
    Victor, 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 Hugo
    Victor Hugo
    Victor-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 Janssens
    Victor Honoré Janssens
    Victor 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 Jara
    Víctor Jara
    Víctor 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 Kamber
    Victor Kamber
    Victor 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 Kiam
    Victor Kiam
    Victor 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 Kros
    Victor Kros
    Victor 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 Bagy
    Victor Leandro Bagy
    Victor 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 Loche
    Victor Loche
    Victor 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 Maldonado
    Víctor Maldonado
    Víctor 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 Matfield
    Victor Matfield
    Victor 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 Mature
    Victor Mature
    Victor 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 McLaglen
    Victor McLaglen
    Victor 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 Meirelles
    Victor Meirelles
    Victor 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 Mignogna
    Vic Mignogna
    Victor 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 Mitrou
    Viktor Mitrou
    Viktor 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 Mizzy
    Vic Mizzy
    Vic 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 Olsen
    Viktor Olsen
    Viktor 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 Onopko
    Viktor Onopko
    Viktor 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 Orbán
    Viktor Orbán
    Viktor Orbán is a Hungarian populist and conservative politician and current Prime Minister of Hungary...

     (born 1963), Hungarian politician
  • Victor Ortíz
    Victor Ortíz
    Victor 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 Perez
    Victor Perez
    Victor "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 Quintana
    Victor Quintana
    Victor 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 Rasuk
    Victor Rasuk
    Victor 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 Gonzalez
    Victor Rivera Gonzalez
    Victor 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 Ross
    Victor 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 Sánchez
    Victor Sanchez
    Victor 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 Schauberger
    Viktor Schauberger
    Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian forester/forest warden, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and Biomimicry experimenter....

     (1885–1958), Austrian forester and inventor
  • Vitor Silva Assis de Oliveira Júnior
    Vitor Silva Assis de Oliveira Júnior
    Vitor 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 Simões
    Victor Simões
    Victor 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 Sloan
    Victor Sloan
    Victor 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 Spasov
    Viktor Spasov
    Viktor 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 Spinetti
    Victor Spinetti
    Victor 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 Troicki
    Viktor Troicki
    Viktor 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 Trujillo
    Víctor Trujillo
    Víctor 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 Trumper
    Victor Trumper
    Victor 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 Ukpolo
    Victor Ukpolo
    Dr 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 Willis
    Victor Willis
    Victor 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 Yanukovych
    Viktor Yanukovych
    Viktor 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 Yushchenko
    Viktor Yushchenko
    Viktor 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 Zaitsev
    Viktor Zaitsev
    Viktor 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 Zhurba
    Viktor Zhurba
    Viktor 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

Surname

  • Alexander Victor, founder of the Victor Animatograph Corporation
    Victor Animatograph Corporation
    The 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 Belluno
    Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno
    Claude 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 Victor
    Jaclyn Victor
    Jaclyn 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-Victor
    Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
    Paul 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

Roman Catholic religious figures

  • Three Popes:
    • Saint Pope Victor I
      Pope Victor I
      Pope Saint Victor I was Pope from 189 to 199 .Pope Victor I was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa: probably he was born in Leptis Magna . He was later canonized...

    • Pope Victor II
      Pope Victor II
      Pope Victor II , born Gebhard, Count of Calw, Tollenstein, and Hirschberg, was Pope from 1055 to 1057. He was one of a series of German reform Popes.-Life:...

    • Blessed Pope Victor III
      Pope Victor III
      Pope Blessed Victor III , born Daufer , Latinised Dauferius, was the Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.-Early life and abbacy:He was born in 1026 or 1027 of a non-regnant...


  • Two Antipope
    Antipope
    An antipope is a person who opposes a legitimately elected or sitting Pope and makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church. At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were typically those supported by a...

    s named Victor IV:
    • Antipope Victor IV (1138)
      Antipope Victor IV (1138)
      Victor IV , antipope for a short time in 1138.He was born in Ceccano as Gregorio Conti. Pope Paschal II created him cardinal-priest of SS. XII Apostoli ca. 1102, but in 1112 deposed him and replaced in his title, because he had severely criticised Victor IV (died after April 1139), antipope for a...

    • Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)

  • Three bishops of Chur:
    • Victor I, Bishop of Chur
      Victor I, Bishop of Chur
      Victor I was an 7th-century bishop of Chur, the first of the Victorid family which was to control the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia until the early ninth century.On 10 October 614 he signed the canons of the Fifth Council of Paris on church discipline...

    • Victor II, Bishop of Chur
      Victor II, Bishop of Chur
      Victor II was an 8th-century bishop of Chur of the Victorid family which had controlled the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia since the early seventh century....

    • Victor III, Bishop of Chur
      Victor III, Bishop of Chur
      Victor III was the Bishop of Chur from after 800 until his death. He was the last member of the Victorid family to hold the bishopric of Chur and the secular power in Rhaetia concurrently....

  • Saints:
    • Saint Victor Maurus
      Victor Maurus
      Victor the Moor was a Christian martyr and is venerated as a saint. Victor, born into a Christian family, was a soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard...

       or Victor the Moor, Victor of Milan.
    • Saint Pope Victor I
      Pope Victor I
      Pope Saint Victor I was Pope from 189 to 199 .Pope Victor I was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa: probably he was born in Leptis Magna . He was later canonized...

    • Saint Victor of Marseilles
      Victor of Marseilles
      Saint Victor of Marseilles was a Christian Martyr. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.Saint Victor is said to have been a Roman army officer in Marseilles, who publicly denounced the worship of idols. For that, he was brought before the Roman...

    • Saint Victorinus of Pettau
    • Saint Victor of Xanten

  • Fiction

    • Vegas Vic
      Vegas Vic
      Vegas 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 Creed
      Sabretooth (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 Frankenstein
      Victor Frankenstein
      Victor 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 Mackey
      Vic Mackey
      Detective 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 Mancha
      Victor Mancha
      Victor 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 Meldrew
      Victor Meldrew
      Victor 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 Terminal
      The Terminal
      The 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 Newman
      Victor Newman
      Victor 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 Birds
      The Thorn Birds
      The 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 Brambilla
      Vittorio Brambilla
      Vittorio 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 Gori
      Vittorio Cecchi Gori
      Vittorio 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 Sica
      Vittorio de Sica
      Vittorio 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)
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