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Victor Given Name
Gender	Male
Meaning	"Conqueror"
Origin	Latin
Related names	Viktor; Vítor
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Victor

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Victor (also spelled Viktor or Vítor) is a male name that has been used for centuries in numerous cultures and parts of the world. The name is of Latin origin (victoris) meaning "conqueror". It is a masculine given name.

1 Translations
2 People named Victor
3 Places
4 Fiction
5 Military
6 Music
7 Other
8 See also

Translations

English, French, Spanish, etc: Victor
Portuguese: Vítor (formerly Víctor)
Dutch, German: Viktor, Victor
Italian: Vittorio
Belarusian: Віктар (Viktar)
Russian: Виктор (Víktor)
Welsh: Gwythyr
Basque: Iker
Hungarian: Viktor
Albanian: Viktor

People named Victor

Roman Catholic religious figures

Three Popes:
- Saint Pope Victor I
- Pope Victor II
- Blessed Pope Victor III

Two Antipopes named Victor IV:
- Antipope Victor IV (1138)
- Antipope Victor IV (1159-1164)

Three bishops of Chur:

Saints:
- Saint Victor Maurus or Victor the Moor, Victor of Milan.
- Saint Pope Victor I
- Saint Victor of Marseilles
- Saint Victorinus of Pettau
- Saint Victor of Xanten
- See also Saint Victorian

Other figures

Given name

Victor Asiasi I, regal prince of Masvingo
Victor, duc de Broglie, several people
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587-1637)
Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (1666-1732)
Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia (1726-1796)
Victor of Aveyron, a feral child
Victor Emmanuel, regnal name of the House of Savoy
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Aurelius Victor, (c.320-c.390 CE), historian and politician of the Roman Empire
Flavius Victor, Roman usurper, son of Magnus Maximus
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
victor manuel Baute, Spanish boxer
Victor Bird, Puerto Rican volleyball player
Victor Borge, musician and comedian
Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer
Victor Cloet, Belgian historian
Viktor Frankl, Austrian Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor.
victor garber, Canadian actor
Victor Gerena, fugitive
Victor Hugo, French writer, widely recognized as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century
Victor Honorius Janssens, Flemish painter
victor jara, Chilean Nueva Canción musician, died in the coup of 1973
Victor Horta, Belgian architect, a key player in European Art Nouveau
Victor Kamber, veteran Washington DC Democratic strategist
Victor Kiam, Entrepreneur and former President and CEO of Remington Products
Viktor Kuznetsov (swimmer), Soviet backstroke swimmer
Victor Li, Chinese writer best known for the novel I Will Shoot You!
Víctor Maldonado, Venezuelan hurdler
Victor McLaglen, English actor
Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
Víctor Mora, Colombian long-distance runner
Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football coach and player
Viktor Onopko, Russian football player
Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister
Victor Rivera, Puerto Rican volleyball player
Victor Rojas, radio sports announcer
Víctor Sánchez, Spanish footballer
Victor Sloan, Irish artist
Victor Spinetti, Welsh Comedian
Victor Tsoi, Russian musician, died 1990
Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
Victor Trujillo, Mexican comedian, host and political commentator, best known for his character Brozo the Clown
Victor Willis, former lead singer for the band Village People
Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politician
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
Viktor Zaitsev, Uzbekistani javelin thrower

Last name

Alexander F. Victor, founder of the Victor Animatograph Corporation
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764–1841), marshal of France
Jaclyn Victor, Malaysia's first Idol winner
Joseph Victor, mayor of Courbevoie from October 1920 to May 1925
Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, French author

Places

Vítor, Peru, a village in Arequipa Region, Peru
Several towns in the United States:
- Victor, California
- Victor, Colorado, a near-ghost town near Cripple Creek
- Victor, Idaho
- Victor, Iowa
- Victor, Montana
- Victor, New York
A number of places in France containing the element Saint-Victor

Fiction

Victor (comic), a British comic book
Victor (film), a 1993 French short movie by François Ozon
Victor Baxter, from That's So Raven and Cory in the House
Victor Frankenstein, fictional scientist from Frankenstein, the novel of Mary Shelley
Victor Fries, a villain in the Batman series; also known as Mr. Freeze
Viktor Krum, a character in the Harry Potter series
Victor Mancha, a character in the Runaways comic book
Victor Meldrew, character in the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave
Viktor Navorski, a character in the 2004 film The Terminal.
Victor Newman, a character in The Young and the Restless
Victor Steiner-Davion, a character in the Battletech and Mechwarrior universes
Victor Van Dort, a main character in the Tim Burton movie Corpse Bride
Victor Vance, the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Vic Vega, a character in the film Reservoir Dogs, also known as Mr. Blonde
Victor Von Doom, a character in the Fantastic Four comics published by Marvel Comics
Victor von Gerdenheim, a character from the Darkstalkers video game series from Capcom
Victor/Victoria, a musical comedy film about a woman playing a man playing a woman, in order to get work
Viktor (Suikoden), a recurring character in the Suikoden series
Viktor (Underworld), a character in the Underworld film series
Victor Volt, a main character in The Secret Show

Military

Pobednik ("The Victor"), a monument in Belgrade dedicated to Serbian soldiers who brought Allies their first victory in WWI
The Victor class submarine, NATO designation of a class of submarines of the Soviet Union
The Handley Page Victor aircraft

Music

Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company
- RCA Records (and RCA Victor Records), its descendant
Japan Victor Company, or JVC
- Victor Entertainment, Japanese record label, JVC subsidiary
Victor (album), a solo album by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson

Other

Victor Technologies (formerly Sirius Systems Technology), a computer manufacturer in the early 1980s
Victor Technology, a U.S. based supplier of calculators

Vítor from Salamanca.

A vítor, a monogram of the letters VITOR painted on the wall of the University of Salamanca and other Spanish universities to celebrate the degree of a student or the visit of a personality; also used as a symbol of the victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War
Victor (bike), a motorcycle from TVS Motors, India
Victor, the letter V in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Victor Entertainment (formerly known as Victor Music Industries), a Japanese media publishing company and subsidiary of Japan Victor Company (JVC).
Victor Interactive Software, the video game development branch of Victor Entertainment.