Valter

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) and Romance (Italian, Portuguese).

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Vanderson Válter de Almeida (born 1978), Brazilian football player
• Valter Birsa (born 1986), Slovenian football player
• Valter Borges (born 1988), Cape Verdean football player
• Valter Chifu (born 1952), Romanian volleyball player
• Valter Costa (born 1949), Portuguese football player
• Ricardo Valter da Costa (born 1981), Brazilian football player
• Valter Dešpalj (born 1947), Croatian cellist
• Valter Di Salvo (born 1963), Italian fitness coach
• Valter Ever (1902–1981), Estonian track and field athlete
• Valter Gabrielsen (1921–1999), Norwegian politician
• Valter Giuliani (born 1960), Italian astronomer
• Valter Guchua (born 1975), Georgian football player
• 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 Palm (1905–1994), Estonian boxer
• Valter Perić (1919–1945), Yugoslav partisan
• Daniel Valter Rogelim (born 1972), Brazilian racing cyclist
• Valter Roman (1913–1983), Romanian communist activist and soldier
• Edgar Valter Saks (1910–1984), Estonian statesman, amateur historian and author
• Valter Tomaz Junior (born 1978), Brazilian football player
• Valter Wredberg, Swedish sprint canoer

Surname

• Edgar Valter (1929–2006), Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books

Fictional characters

• Valter, character from a tactical role-playing game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

See also

• Walter (name)
• Walters (disambiguation)

References