Valentina – Its Meaning and Background and a List of Famous Names Who Used or Use This Name

The girl's name is Valentina v (a)-Lenti-na, val (s)-tina pronounced Val-de-TEE-nah. It is of Latin origin, derived from the name of Valentinus, meaning "strong, healthy". Valentina is a very common Italian and Slavic female name.
  It is the feminine form of Valentine, a holy name. Valerie is from the same root; Valentia was the earliest form. The custom of loved ones on Valentine's Day cards came from an ancient belief that birds began mating on 14 February, the feast day of Saint Valentine's Day (third century).
  Valentina has 27 different forms: Teena, teina, Tena, Tina, Val, Vale, Valeda, Valen, Valena, Valene, Valencia, Valenteen, Valenteena, Valentia, Valentijn, Valentine, Valencia, Valera, Valida, Valina, Valya, Vallatina , Valli, Vallie, Vally, Valyn and Velora.
  The name is among the top 500 baby names for girls in the U.S. at the moment.
  Famous people with the name Valentina or its variations;
  Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
  Valentina (fashion designer), († 1989)
  Valentina (model) of a Danish West African model
  Valentina (musician), an Australian musician
  Valentina Dimitrova, a Bulgarian singer
  Valentina (wrestler), a professional wrestler
  Valentina Vezzali, an Italian fencer
  Valentina Fedjuschina (born February 10, 1965 in Feodosia, Ukraine) is an Austrian athletics. They initially competed for the Ukraine, but became an Austrian citizen in 1999. She is married to discus Vladimir Zinchenko. Your personal best is placed 21st Reached 08 meters in May 1988 in Leselidze. As an Austrian citizen, it has set a national record for the country with 19th 21 meters in July 1999 in Casablanca.
  Valentina Stepanovna Stepanovna Grisodubowa (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ???????????) (May 10, 1909 in Kharkov – April 28, 1993 Moscow) was one of the first female pilot in the Soviet Union and was awarded title of Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor. On September 24-25, 1938 as commander of the team, she completed the flight of the Rodina (Russian for "homeland"), the ANT-37 airplane, setting a record for an international women's straight line flying. Since March 1942 she participated in the Great Patriotic War. In the 1940s she was the only female member of the "Extraordinary State Commission for the detection and investigation of the crimes of the fascist German invaders and their accomplices and the damage they caused to citizens, collectives, public organizations, state enterprises and institutions the USSR "(Chrezvychainaia gosudarstvennaia komissiia or ???????????? ??????????????? ????????; ChGK), to to investigate Nazi crimes in the Soviet Union. Stepanovna Grisodubowa was a freeman of the city of Penza. It is a monument to them in Moscow.
  Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva (?-April 23 (OS) and 6 May (NS), 1919), recorded their impressions of working in a hospital in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia during the First World War in her diary. Part of the magazine, which were their impressions of the Czarina Alexandra and their daughter Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia included in magazines, published books, and in the memoirs of her son after the war.
  Valentina Kozyr (Russian: ????????? ??????) (born 25 April, 1950) is a Soviet athlete who won the high jump. Kozyr trained at Dynamo Kiev. She competed for the USSR in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico in the high jump, where she won the bronze medal.
  Valentina Mikhailovna Michailovna Leontjewa (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????; 1 August 1923, Petrograd – May 20, 2007, Ulyanovsk) was a famous anchor on Soviet television. She was one of the first TV presenters in the Soviet Union.
  Mikhailovna Leontjewa survived the siege of Leningrad, which claimed the life of her father. After a short stint at the Mendeleev Institute, she attended the Vakhtangov Theater School in Moscow. In 1948, she joined a theater in Tambov.
  As a TV anchor, she was the presentation for her famous heartfelt manner. Among its most popular shows was "Ot VSEI dushi" ( "Of all the soul"), which was known for his honesty and emotional depth have been praised. She toured 54 cities in the Soviet Union with a stage version of the show. She was also the host of the goluboy Ogonyok ( "Blue Light"), show a variety of New Year's Eve, and Spokoinoi Nochi, malyshi ( "Good Night, Little Ones"), a daily program for children. In 1975 Michailovna Leontjewa was awarded the USSR State Prize.
  In the 1980s, she hosted gostyakh V u skazki ( "Visit to Fairy Tales"), a children's show and was popularly known as simply "Aunt Valya" (Russian:? ????). Her popularity with her being the title People's Artist of the USSR (1982), the highest award that could be bestowed on a television presenter led. On 12 March 2004 presented by the Federation Council of Russia to her the Medal "For contributions" from the 19th Century again.
  After their withdrawal from the Channel One in 1991, lived whales Leontyeva with her sister in the Ulyanovsk Oblast until her death.
  Valentina Lisitsa (Russian: ????????? ??????, Ukrainian: ????????? ??????, translit. Valentyna Lysytsya) is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. She currently lives in the United States and leads the world in many prestigious concert halls. Her husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff is also a pianist, and her partner in a duo-piano playing.
  Valentina Marchei (on 23 May 1986 Born in Milan, Italy) is an Italian skater. She is the 2004 Italian national champion. Her highest finish in an ISU Championship was on the 2007 European Figure Skating Championships in fifth place.
  Valentina Massi (born March 23rd April 1983 Forlimpopoli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is the winner of the Miss Universo Italia 2007 pageant that, at the Teatro Giacosa in Ivrea, Piedmont 21 April 2007 took place. She represented Italy at the Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City parade on 28 May.
  In 2000 she entered the Miss Italia pageant were she was a finalist. In 2006, she entered pageant Miss Mondo Italia (the Italian delegates who are chosen at Miss World competition) as Miss Mondo Romagna. She was a finalist there as well and won the Miss Model national sash.
  Valentina is 5ft 9in (1. 75m). Its sign is Taurus. She speaks English and French.
  Valentina Matvienko (Russian: ?????????? ????????? ??????????, b. 7 April 1949) is a Russian politician. It has the governor of Saint Petersburg since 2003 when they voted in a poll that many observers as unfair because of their overwhelming media coverage. She is currently the only woman to lead a federal subject of Russia.
  Valentina Medina was in March 2000, the country Mausica, Arima, Trinidad aka ière named Carib Queen for life, in an election on Sunday on the Santa Rosa Carib community in Arima Center instead. Medina, 66, was the fifth queen as successor to Justa Werger, the queen in the last 11 years, died in January named.
  Although she embraced the Carib way of life since his childhood, after her marriage with 18 in 1952 to John Medina, she was on by then Queen (Edith Martinez) to be more actively created in the traditional Carib life. She was named Queen for a day three times and her husband became king for the day as well.
  Valentina Mikhailovna Michailovna Leontjewa (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????; 1 August 1923, Petrograd – May 20, 2007, Ulyanovsk) was a famous anchor on Soviet television. She was one of the first TV presenters in the Soviet Union.
  Mikhailovna Leontjewa survived the siege of Leningrad, which claimed the life of her father. After a short stint at the Mendeleev Institute, she attended the Vakhtangov Theater School in Moscow. In 1948, she joined a theater in Tambov.
  As a TV anchor, she was the presentation for her famous heartfelt manner. Among its most popular shows was "Ot VSEI dushi" ( "Of all the soul"), which was known for his honesty and emotional depth have been praised. She toured 54 cities in the Soviet Union with a stage version of the show. She was also the host of the goluboy Ogonyok ( "Blue Light"), show a variety of New Year's Eve, and Spokoinoi Nochi, malyshi ( "Good Night, Little Ones"), a daily program for children. In 1975 Michailovna Leontjewa was awarded the USSR State Prize.
  In the 1980s, she hosted gostyakh V u skazki ( "Visit to Fairy Tales"), a children's show and was popularly known as simply "Aunt Valya" (Russian:? ????). Her popularity with her being the title People's Artist of the USSR (1982), the highest award that could be bestowed on a television presenter led. On 12 March 2004 presented by the Federation Council of Russia to her the Medal "For contributions" from the 19th Century again.
  After their withdrawal from the Channel One in 1991, lived whales Leontyeva with her sister in the Ulyanovsk Oblast until her death.
  Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova, (born 18 September, 1933) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
  In December 1961, the selection of the female cosmonaut was authorized by the Soviet Government to ensure, with the specific intention of the first woman in space was a Russian citizen. In February 1962 Ponomaryova was in a group of five female cosmonauts selected in order to be trained for a flight Vostok. The group spent several months in intensive training, concluding with examinations in November 1962, after which the four remaining candidates were commissioned junior lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force. Ponomaryova established himself as one of the leading candidates, with Valentina Tereshkova and Irina Solovyeva and a common mission profile was developed that two women into space, on solo Vostok flights were seen on consecutive days. The honor was the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova is to be administered, the inclusion of first instance on Vostok 5 while Ponmaryova would follow her into the orbit Vostok 6th But they have not given with standard Soviet clichés in interviews and her feminist opinion, the Soviet leaders uneasy, and attribute this to the fact that the flight profile in March 1963 as amended. Vostok 5 would now carry a male cosmonaut Valery Bykowski under the joint mission, Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963. Tereshkova's back-up was Irina Solovyeva with Ponomaryova in support of the "second back-up role.
  Despite this setback, Ponomaryova remained with the program until 1969. It was planned at a certain time on a circumlunar Soyuz mission in 1965, fleeing from significant delays in the Soyuz capsule led to the cancellation of this flight. She was also lead to an all-female crew on a ten-day mission aboard Voskhod 5, but the program was canceled before it had a chance to fly. Ponomaryova into retirement in 1969 when it became clear that there are no plans for a female Soyuz flight.
  She married fellow cosmonaut Yuri Ponomarev in 1972 and the couple had two children, divorced before. How has at Valentina, Yuri does not fly up into space, although he did not serve aboard the Soyuz 18 backup crew.
  Valentina Dmitriyevna Ponomaryova (Russian: ?????????? ??????????? ??????????) (born on 10 June 1939, Moscow), often Ponomareva well written, is a Russian singer, performer of novels (including Gypsies), and a jazz singer.
  She graduated from the Art Institute Khabarovskiy. Over the many years she has performed with the jazz orchestra Anatoliya Krolla and the Gypsy Trio novel. Individual recordings and performances have been with a variety of well-known musicians, including Kuryokhin Sergey, Sergey Letov, the Aquarium and other groups. Songs are performed by her in many films, including one Ruthless Romance.
  In 1988, she said the woman in the cult animated movie, the cat that walked by himself.
  Valentina Schlee was a New York City fashion designer most active in the 1930s until the end of the 1940s.
  She was born in Russia on 1 Valentina Zanina May 1894 (some sources say, 1899 and 1904).
  She was allegedly theater producer George Schlee married, but it is questionable whether they ever formally married. Schlee was famous for having an affair with screen siren Greta Garbo. There is strong evidence that Valentina and Greta Garbo were also lovers, kiss, including photos of the two.
  Valentina started out as a dancer and actress, as a young woman at the Chauve Souris theater in Paris before moving to New York and opened a small couture house, Valentina's smock. In 1950, Valentina, a perfume, "My Own conducted. Valentina was a skilled self-promoter. She modeled her own designs, and rarely let her dramatic, elegant atmosphere of self-control to falter. She was always impeccably turned out to earn her on the International Best Dressed List mentioned. She died in 1989 in New York City.
  Valentina Serova (Russian: ?????????? ??????????? ???????) (December 23, 1917 to December 12, 1975) was a Soviet film and theater actress. Serova Valentina Polovikova (????????? ??????????) was born in 1917 in Kharkov. In 1938 she married her first husband, Anatoly Serov, a Soviet Air Force general, a test and fighter pilot. In 1939, Anatoly Serov died in a crash-test a new level. In the same year, her film "Devushka s harakterom" was a great success, and they became one of the biggest film stars of the Soviet Union. In 1940, she met Konstantin Simonov, a famous Soviet writer, whom she married 1943rd Simonov's poem "Wait for me," is one of the most famous Russian war poems dedicated to her. It has subsequently inspired a series of love poems in the collection "With you and without you" ( "? ???????? ????"). Their relationship was a turbulent one, her 1942-1946 affair with the Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy was generally known. Simonov had them in 1957. Her career went to the 1940s. She died in Moscow in 1975.
  Valentina Shevchenko (born 2 October 1975) is a Ukrainian cross-country competition since 1994. They Fifth in the 30 km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Shevchenko best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth twice (1999: 5 km, 2003: 10 km). It has a total of nine individual victories at various levels at different distances of up to 15 km since 1996, including two World Cup wins (both 2003).
  Valentina Sergyeevna Stenina (Russian: ????????? ????????? ???????) (born December 29, 1934) is a former speed skater, who won for the Soviet Union.
  (Born in Bobruisk Valentina Miloslavova now part of Belarus), she fled to Sverdlovsk – from her mother claimed – in 1941 because of the Second World War. In Sverdlovsk, she was skating, training at VSS Trud and met and married fellow skater Boris Stenin.
  1959 Stenina took place in their first World Allround Championships in her hometown of Sverdlovsk, and she won silver. The next year, 1960 was a very good year for Stenina her husband Boris became Soviet Allround Champion, then Boris won the silver medal at the allround championships, it will itself became World Allround Champion, then Boris was World Allround Champion, and Then click on the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, she won silver over 3,000 m behind Lidia Skoblikova, while Boris won bronze medals in the 1,500 m. In addition, Boris received Oscar Mathisen Award this year. Valentina was not even being for this award since than women not eligible to win it until 1987.
  Successfully the following year (1961), Stenina their World Champion title in a grand way with victories in three distances and a second place in the fourth. Later this month, she won the Soviet National Championships – a title she would win a total of four times in her career (1961, 1965, 1966 and 1967). Stenina not compete, but in 1962 and again in 1963, the bronze medal at the World Championships. At the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, she won another silver medal on the 3,000 m, again behind Skoblikova. Followed by a further silver medal at the World Championships in 1965 and they won the world championship would be the third and last time in 1966, this time not winning one of four routes.
  For its achievements Stenina was the title of honorary citizen of the Sverdlovsk region in 1967 – the year she won her third consecutive (and fourth overall) Soviet National Championships titles. In 1968 she finished her career as a speed skater. Stenina currently lives in Yekaterinburg (the name was changed to Sverdlovsk back in 1991). Her husband, Boris died 2,001th
  Valentina Suzukei is now one of the leading ethnomusicologist Tuva's after Theordore Levin, but as a student she had pursued different goals. While she was a "student growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s, their passion to dance." [1]. Suzukei also "studied conducting at the Moscow Institute of Culture.". During her time at the Moscow Institute of Culture, who worked for Moscow Suzukei conductor Alexei Kovalev and studied black from their teacher, Mr. Muggs "orchestration, composition and music theory and conducting.". After her graduation Suzukei returned home from Tuva, where they are "the conductor of the orchestra in folk music Kyzyl's High School."
  Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: ?????????? ????????????? ??????????; born on March 6, 1937), is a Former Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
  She was born in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast. After school, she worked in a coat factory, and then studied mechanical engineering. She also trained in parachuting at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. In 1961 she became secretary of the local Komsomol (Communist Youth) and later a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  Valentina Georgiyevna Tsaryova (Russian: ?????????? ??????????? ??????; was born in 1926) a former Soviet cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. She received a gold medal in the 3×5 km at the 1954 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun.
  Valentina Tsybulskaya (Belarusian: ????????? ??????????; born 9 February 1968 in Rostov, Russia) is a White Russian race walker. She has won World Championship silver and bronze medals, but no Olympic medals involved, although in 2000 and 2004.
  Valentina Uccheddu (born on October 26, 1966 in Oristano) is a retired Italian long jumper. She briefly the Italian record with 6 80 meters of Sestriere in 1994, but in the same year, Fiona May was an Italian citizen. Later in May to improve the Italian record to 7 11 m.
  Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean-born actress who developed most of her career in France, where she grew up.
  Valentina Vassilyevna was the mother of Robertovich Viktor Tsoi (June 21, 1962 to August 15, 1990) was a famous Soviet artist and leader of the rock group Kino. Tsoi was to a Korean father and Russian mother on 21st June 1962 Born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Tsoi's mother, Valentina Vasilyevna, was a teacher and his father, Robert Maximovich, was an engineer. Tsoi's Korean family name is usually transliterated in English as Choi or Choe. He married Marianna Tsoi in 1985 and had a son with her – Alexander (Sasha).
  He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and has a huge following in the countries of the former Soviet Union today, as in 2007. Few musicians in the history of Russian music have become more popular and have more influence on their genre than Victor Tsoi and his band had cinema. Any discussion of cinema must necessarily begin and end with the creator, writer and singer of the band, a man who once considered the "last hero of Russian rock" and a "legend." The band was born when he was alive when he did, and with him died in a tragic accident. The life of Victor Tsoi is the life of cinema.
  Unfortunately contributes to a variety of musical and artistic works, including ten albums, he died in a car accident on 15 August 1990.
  Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer, the four Olympic gold medals in foil competitions won. She also won the silver medal in the foil at the Fencing World Cup 2006. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca, Giovanna Trillini and Margherita Granbassi.
  Valentina Visconti († December 4, 1408) was the wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of Charles VI of France.
  She was born in Milan and was the daughter of Giangaleazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan, and his first wife, Isabelle de Valois (daughter of John the Good). Because of the intrigues at the court of Charles VI and the enmity of Queen Isabeau de Bavière, Valentina had been banished from the court in St. Pol, leaving Paris.
  The patron of Eustache Deschamps, who wrote poems in her honor, she was the mother of one of the most famous poets of France, Charles of Orleans.
  She survived her husband, who by his cousin John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, assassinated in 1407, just a little over a year die in Blois in the age of 38.
  Their children were: Charles, Duke of Orléans (1391-1465), father of King Louis XII of France, Philip, Count of Vertus (1396-1420), Johann, Count of Angouleme (1400-1467), grandfather of King Francis I of France, Margaret, Countess of Vertus (1406-1466), married Richard of Brittany, Count of Etampes, and four boys and two girls who died in childhood.
  Valentina Vostok (alternately written Vostock Valentina) is a fictional character from DC Comics. They first appeared in Showcase # 94 (August 1977) and was created by Paul Kupperberg and Jim Aparo.
  Valentina Yegorova (born February 16, 1964) is a distance runner from Russia, which competed in the women's marathon for the Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she won the gold medal against Japan's Yuko Arimori athletes in seconds.
  It was held in Russia in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta to compete, the U.S., where she won a silver medal in the women's marathon, back to Yuko Arimori this time in the third.
  Valentina Zelyaeva (Zeliaeva) (born October 11, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a supermodel.
  Valentina is in runway shows for Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gucci and Valentino, among many others published [1].
  Valentina has been in print ads for Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, featured, Victoria's Secret and Calvin Klein. It has a seven-year deal was signed with Ralph Lauren, appearing in several high-profile campaigns for the designer. She's appeared on the covers of Elle, Vogue (magazine) and Harper's Bazaar.
  Valentina Nikolaevna Zhuravleva (????????? ?????????) is a Russian science-fiction writer.
  Valentina Zhuravleva was the wife of Genrich Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ and science-fiction writer himself. They have written many stories together, but because of anti-Semitic restrictions, they were published under the joint name of Valentina Zhuravleva.
  Valentina Zimina (January 1, 1899 to December 3, 1928) was a silent screenplay actress. Russian-born, the daughter of a Moscow actress Zimina served with the Women's Battalion of Death for three years. They had fled in a Siberian prison from which her and made her way across Asia and Hollywood. The rest of her family in the Russian civil war killed. She had made her film debut opposite Bessie Love and Warner Baxter in A followed by Victor Fleming's son of his father, five other 1920 romantic melodrama. Zimina died of the flu, was published shortly before her last film.
  Valentinian III 419-55, Roman emperor of the West (425-55). Two years after the death of his uncle, Honorius (384-423, Roman emperor of the West (395-423). After the death (395) of Theodosius divided the Roman Empire, Arcadius, the elder son, received the East and Honorius, the younger son received the West.), he was on the throne by his cousin Theodosius II, who deposed the usurper John placed. Valentinian's mother, Galla Placidia (c. 388-450, Roman empress of the West, the daughter of Theodosius I), held the regency during his minority, but 433 to 454 the general Aetius (c. 396-454, Roman general. On the first unfriendly to Valentinian III, and later he made his peace with Valentinian's mother, Galla Placidia, and was given a command in Gaul.)
  was the real ruler in the West. In Africa, Boniface († 432, Roman general. He defended (413) Marseilles against the Visigoths under Athaulf.)
  was defeated (430) by the Vandals under Gaiseric; by 442 Aetius was obliged to acknowledge Vandal independence. The empire was also disturbed by the war between Aetius and Boniface, by general barbarian unrest, and by peasant revolts. Valentinian proved slow and ineffective ruler despite the efforts of Pope Leo I (Leo I, St. (Saint Leo the Great), c. 400-461, pope (440-61), an Italian, successor of St. Sixtus III support. A doctor of the church, he was one of the greatest popes of the early years of the church. He took a firm campaign against schism and heresy.) to enforce ecclesiastical order in the West. The terrible invasions of the Huns under Attila († 453, King of the Huns (445-53).)
  441 started, although defeated (451) in Gaul by Aetius, Attila briefly invaded N Italy in 452. In 454, Valentinian murdered Aetius, and shortly afterward Valentinian murdered himself. He was succeeded by Maximus.
  Other uses of the name are:
  • Valentina (comic), an Italian comic book by Guido Crepax
  • Valentina (Darna), a supervillain in the Philippine comic Darna
  • Valentina (Database), a post-relational database technology from Paradigma Software
  • Valentina (sauce), a Mexican hot sauce
  • Valentina (telenovela), a Mexican telenovela
  Surveys conducted in the United States says that girls are rarely teased with that name at school or in companies for their names. In addition, they receive many compliments on her name. In general, more than 80% of people who said the name Valentina, they love their names.