Valter is a spelling variant of the
German name ''Walter'', ''Walther'', from
Old High German ''walt'' "rule" and ''her'' "army". The spelling variant in ''V-'' is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (North Germanic), Finnic (Finnish, Estonian), Slavic (Slovenian, Croatian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian) and Romance (Italian, Portuguese).
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
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Valter (Brazilian footballer) (born 1975), Brazilian football striker
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Valter Birsa (born 1986), Slovenian football player
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Valter Bonča (born 1968), Slovenian racing cyclist
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Valter Borges
Valter Gazalanas Borges (born 9 November 1988) is a Cape Verdean international footballer who plays professionally as a midfielder.
Career
Borges began his career for Batuque in the Cape Verde, before spending two seasons in Portugal with Santa ...
(born 1988), Cape Verdean football player
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Valter Chifu (born 1952), Romanian volleyball player
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Valter Costa
Valter Manuel Pereira da Costa (born 25 November 1949, in Barreiro Municipality, Barreiro) is a former Portugal, Portuguese Association football, footballer who played as Midfielder (association football), midfielder.
Football career
Costa gai ...
(born 1949), Portuguese football player
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Ricardo Valter da Costa
Ricardo Valter da Costa (born 1 May 1981 in Goiânia) is a Brazilian football player, who currently plays for Polet Pribislavec in Croatia.
Career
Ricardo played for Atlético Goianiense before joined Zrinjski Mostar in summer 2003. In 2005 he ...
(born 1981), Brazilian football player
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Valter Dešpalj (born 1947), Croatian cellist
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Valter Di Salvo
Valter Di Salvo (born 2 July 1963) is the director of football performance & science at the ASPIRE Academy and Qatar Football Association; he is also the executive director of the Aspire in the World Fellows program and the annual Aspire Academy G ...
(born 1963), Italian fitness coach
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Valter Ever (1902–1981), Estonian track and field athlete
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Valter Gabrielsen (1921–1999), Norwegian politician
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Valter Giuliani
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 nu ...
(born 1960), Italian astronomer
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Valter Guchua (born 1975), Georgian football player
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Valter Heuer (1928–2006), Estonian chess player, chess journalist and chess historian
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Lars Valter Hörmander (born 1931), Swedish mathematician
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Valter Matošević (born 1970), Croatian team handball player
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Valter Neeris (1915–1942), Estonian footballer
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Valter Ojakäär
Valter Ojakäär (10 March 1923 Pärnu – 27 October 2016 Tallinn) was an Estonian composer, instrumentalist, music publicist and author.
In 1956 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in composition specialty.
1945–1970 he was a co ...
(1923–2016), Estonian composer, instrumentalist and author
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Valter Palm
Valter Palm (alias Walter Palm) (23 December 1905 – 3 November 1994) was an Estonian welterweight professional boxer, born in Tallinn, who competed in the 1930s. In the 1920s he took part 1924 Summer Olympics and 1928 Summer Olympics
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(1905–1994), Estonian boxer
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Valter Perić
Valter is a spelling variant of the German name ''Walter'', ''Walther'', from Old High German ''walt'' "rule" and ''her'' "army". The spelling variant in ''V-'' is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (North Germani ...
(1919–1945), Yugoslav partisan
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Daniel Valter Rogelim
Daniel Valter Rogelim (born October 13, 1972) is a Brazilian professional racing cyclist for the Scott–Marcondes Cesar–São José dos Campos team.
Career highlights
;1996 –
: 1st overall GC – Tour de Santa Catarina (BRA)
;199 ...
(born 1972), Brazilian racing cyclist
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Valter Roman
Valter or Walter Roman (October 9, 1913 – November 11, 1983), born Ernst or Ernő Neuländer, was a Romanian communist activist and soldier. During his lifetime, Roman was active inside the Romanian, Czechoslovakian, French, and Spanish Comm ...
(1913–1983), Romanian communist activist and soldier
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Edgar Valter Saks (1910–1984), Estonian statesman, amateur historian and author
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Valter Skarsgård (born 1995), Swedish actor
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Valter Soosõrv
Valter Soosõrv (also Sooserv; 3 April 1903 in Vahastu – 26 June 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor, director and theatre historian.
In 1927 he graduated from the Drama Studio theatre school. 1922-1925 he was a choir singer at Estonia Thea ...
(1903–1969), Estonian actor, theatre director and theatre historian
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Valter Tomaz Junior
Valter is a spelling variant of the German name ''Walter'', ''Walther'', from Old High German ''walt'' "rule" and ''her'' "army". The spelling variant in ''V-'' is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (North Germani ...
(born 1978), Brazilian football player
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Valter Wredberg
Valter Wredberg is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1950s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mâcon, Fran ...
, Swedish sprint canoer
Surname
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Attila Valter (1998), Hungarian cyclist
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Edgar Valter
Edgar Valter (21 September 1929, Tallinn – 4 March 2006, Tartu) was an Estonian graphic artist, caricaturist, writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950–2005). His most fa ...
(1929–2006), Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books
Fictional characters
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Valter
Valter is a spelling variant of the German name Walter (name), ''Walter'', ''Walther'', from Old High German ''walt'' "rule" and ''her'' "army". The spelling variant in ''V-'' is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (N ...
, a character from a tactical role-playing game ''
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones''
See also
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Walter (name)
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Walters (disambiguation)
References
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Scandinavian masculine given names
German masculine given names
Estonian masculine given names
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