Famous People with Name Valentin

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov: a football winger/striker, co-leading scorer at the 1962 World Cup and co-1960 European Nations' Cup top scorer. He was known for blistering pace, excellent technique and great dribbling. He could score and create goals equally well. He also took defending seriously and would track back and defend.

Valentin Aleksandrovich Nikolayev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Valentin Aleksandrovich Nikolayev: a retired Soviet football player and coach.Nikolayev made his debut for USSR on July 20, 1952 in a Olympics game against Bulgaria. As a manager, he was in charge of USSR national football team from October 1970 until the end of 1971.

Valentin Stocker            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Valentin Stocker: is a Swiss footballer who currently plays as goalkeeper for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.Oliver Stöckli came through the ranks at FC Basel and signed a professional contract with the club in 1996. Despite looking to have a bright future there, he left for FC Winterthur in January 2000. He found first team opportunities few and far between at Winterthur, however, and joined FC St. Gallen a season later where he became a first team regular at the relatively young age of 24. St. Gallen were relagated from the Swiss Super League in 2002 but Stöckli did not go down with them as he joined newly promoted club AC Lugano.

Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov: was a Soviet/Russian linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology.Written in the late 1920s in the USSR, Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (tr.: Marksizm i Filosofiya Yazyka) attempts to incorporate the field of linguistics into Marxism. The book's main inspiration does not, however, come from previous Marxists, whom Voloshinov saw as largely indifferent towards the study of language.[1] Instead, Voloshinov's theories are built on critical engagement with Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of language as a continuous creative or 'generative' process,[2] and with the view of language as a sign-system posited by Ferdinand de Saussure.[3]To some extent, Voloshinov's linguistic thought was also mediated by the analyses of his Soviet contemporary Nikolai Marr,[4] and by the work of the Crocean linguist Karl Vossler.[5]

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust: was a Jewish French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published i