# Valiant

Valiant may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Film

* The Valiant (1929 film), starring Paul Muni
* The Valiant (1962 film), directed by Roy Ward Baker
* Valiant (film), a 2005 film about British homing pigeons

### Television

* "Valiant" (Merlin), second episode of the British television series Merlin
* "Valiant" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the American television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and a starship in the episode
* USS Valiant, the initial but discarded name of USS Defiant, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series
* USS Valiant, a spaceship in the Star Trek second pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

### Music

* Vince Vance & the Valiants, an American country pop and rock and roll musical group
* Valiant Records, a 1960s independent record label acquired in 1965 by Warner Bros.

### Literature

* Valiant Comics, a comic book publisher
* Valiant (comics), British comic published between 1962 and 1976
* Valiant (novel), Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, a 2005 urban fantasy novel by Holly Black

### Fictional characters

* Valiant (Caminhos do Coração), in the Brazilian soap opera Caminhos do Coração
* Valiant, the title character of the comic strip Prince Valiant
* Eddie Valiant, one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

### Plays

* The Valiant (play), a 1924 one-act stage play

## People

* James Valiant (1884–1917), English cricketer
* The Valiant Brothers, a professional wrestling tag team of storyline brothers
** Jerry Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler John Hill (1941-2010)
** Jimmy Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler James Harold Fanning (born 1942)
** Johnny Valiant, a ring name of professional wrestler Thomas Sullivan (1946–2018)
* Leslie Valiant (born 1949), British computer scientist and computational theorist
* Valiant Swart, South African Akrifaans folk singer born Pierre Nolte in 1965

## Military

* HMS Valiant, various Royal Navy ships
* Valiant-class submarine, the first fully British class of nuclear fleet submarines
* Valiant-class ship of the line, two Royal Navy sailing ships
* USS Valiant, various United States Navy ships
* USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621), a United States Coast Guard cutter
* Valiant-class harbor tug, a class of US Navy yard tugboats that entered service in 2009
* Valiant tank, a British Second World War tank design
* Vickers 131 Valiant, a British biplane bomber
* Vickers Valiant, a British jet bomber
* Vultee BT-13 Valiant, a World War II-era basic trainer aircraft built for the United States Army Air Corps
* Project Valiant, a cancelled Indian secret ballistic missile project
* Valiants Memorial, a military memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

## Vehicles

* HMC Valiant, a customs cutter of the UK Border Agency
* Plymouth Valiant, an automobile manufactured by the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corporation from 1960 to 1976
* Chrysler Valiant, an automobile manufactured by Chrysler Australia from 1962 to 1981
* Velocette Valiant, a British motorcycle made by Velocette

## Other uses

* The Valiants, nickname of the British football club Port Vale F.C.
* Los Angeles Valiant, a professional esports team