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:

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* Valter (Brazilian footballer) (born 1975), Brazilian football striker * Valter Birsa (born 1986), Slovenian football player *

Valter Bonča Valter Bonča (born 17 March 1968) is a Slovenian former racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, representing Yugoslavia, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics, rep ...

(born 1968), Slovenian racing cyclist *

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 *

Valter Chifu Valter Corneliu Chifu (born September 2, 1952) is a Romanian former volleyball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was part of the Romanian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played five ma ...

(born 1952), Romanian volleyball player * Valter Costa (born 1949), Portuguese football player *

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 * Valter Dešpalj (born 1947), Croatian cellist *

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 * Valter Ever (1902–1981), Estonian track and field athlete * Valter Gabrielsen (1921–1999), Norwegian politician *

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 *

Valter Guchua Valter Guchua (born 6 June 1975) is a Georgia (country), Georgian association football, footballer who plays for FC Baia Zugdidi. Guchua played for FC Samtredia in UEFA Cup 1995-96, FC Dinamo Tbilisi in UEFA Champions League 1998-99, FC Torpedo ...

(born 1975), Georgian football player *

Valter Heuer Valter Heuer (14 July 1928, Elva, Estonia – 2 March 2006, Jämejala, Estonia) was an Estonian writer and chess player, who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1960. Chess career In 1960 Valter Heuer ...

(1928–2006), Estonian chess player, chess journalist and chess historian * Lars Valter Hörmander (born 1931), Swedish mathematician * Valter Matošević (born 1970), Croatian team handball player * Valter Neeris (1915–1942), Estonian footballer *

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 concer ...

(1923–2016), Estonian composer, instrumentalist and author *

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. ...

(1905–1994), Estonian boxer *

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 Germanic) ...

(1919–1945), Yugoslav partisan *

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) ;1999 ...

(born 1972), Brazilian racing cyclist *

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 C ...

(1913–1983), Romanian communist activist and soldier * Edgar Valter Saks (1910–1984), Estonian statesman, amateur historian and author *

Valter Skarsgård Valter Skarsgård (; born 25 October 1995) is a Swedish actor. Personal life Skarsgård is the youngest son of actor Stellan Skarsgård and My Skarsgård, a physician. He has seven siblings, five of whom are from his father's first marriage: Al ...

(born 1995), Swedish actor *

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 Theatr ...

(1903–1969), Estonian actor, theatre director and theatre historian *

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 Germanic) ...

(born 1978), Brazilian football player *

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 in Mâcon Mâcon (), historically anglicised as Mascon, is a cit ...

, Swedish sprint canoer

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* Attila Valter (1998), Hungarian cyclist *

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

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''

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