Valerian may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* a fictional character in ''
Valérian and Laureline
''Valérian and Laureline'' (french: Valérian et Laureline), also known as ''Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent'' (french: Valérian, agent spatio-temporel) or just ''Valérian'', is a French science fiction comics series, created by writer Pie ...
'', a comics series
**''
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'', a film adaptation of the comic series
* an early pseudonym for
Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician. He entered the music industry as frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, he released his d ...
(b. 1958), a musician
* a fictional race in
"Dramatis Personae" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'')
* an arms manufacturer in ''
On the Frontier
''On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts'', by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938.
The play tells the story of the outbreak of war between the f ...
'', a play published in 1938
People
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Valerian (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname
*
Valerian (emperor)
Valerian (; la, Publius Licinius Valerianus; c. 199 – 260 or 264) was Roman emperor from 253 to spring 260 AD. He persecuted Christians and was later taken captive by the Persian emperor Shapur I after the Battle of Edessa, becoming the fir ...
, Roman emperor from 253 to 260
Plants
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Valerian (herb), ''Valeriana officinalis'', a medicinal plant, and the namesake for other valerians.
** other plants in the genus ''
Valeriana
''Valeriana'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, members of which may by commonly known as valerians. It contains many species, including the garden valerian, ''Valeriana officinalis''. Species are native to all continen ...
''
* ''
Centranthus'', a genus containing plants closely related to ''Valeriana''
Ships
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HMS ''Valerian'' (1916)
See also
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Valeria (disambiguation)
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Valerianus (disambiguation)
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Valérien (disambiguation)
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Valyrian languages, in the fiction of George R. R. Martin
* ''
Sweet Valerian
is a series of manga and five-minute anime episodes. The anime is produced by Madhouse Production and originally conceptualized by Clamp, who also designed the characters.
The series features three girls, Kanoko, Kate, and Pop, who live in ...
'', a series of manga and anime episodes
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