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Victor
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Victor is a Latin name that means "conqueror". It is a given name normally attached to males.

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Fiction

  • Victor (comic), a British comic book
  • 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
  • Victor Meldrew, character in the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave
  • 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
  • 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
  • Viktor (Suikoden), a recurring character in the Suikoden series
  • Viktor (Underworld), a character in the Underworld film series
  • Viktor Krum, a character in the Harry Potter series

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Vítor from Salamanca.
Pope Saint Victor I was a Pope (from 189 to 199 (the Vatican cites 186 or 189 to 197 or 201).[1]

Victor I was the first African bishop of Rome, having been born in the province of Africa, and later went to Rome. He was later canonized.
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Victor II (c. 1018–July 28, 1057), born Gebhard, Count of Calw, Tollenstein, and Hirschberg, Pope from 1055 to 1057, kinsman of Emperor Henry III (1039–56). One of the series of German Popes during the Gregorian Reform reform movement (c.
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Pope Victor III (Benevento, 1026?–September 16, 1087), born Dauferio Epifanio, Latinized Dauferius or Dauphar, Pope (May 24, 1086 until his death), was the successor of Pope Gregory VII (1073–85), yet his pontificate is a far less impressive in
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An antipope is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful Pope, in opposition to the Pope recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Two antipopes have claimed the name Victor IV.
  • Antipope Victor IV (1138)
  • Antipope Victor IV (1159-1164)

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Victor IV, born Gregorio Conti was chosen by a party in succession to the antipope Anacletus II (1130–38) on March 13, 1138, but through the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux was induced two months afterwards to make his submission to Pope Innocent II (1130–43).
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Victor I was an seventh-century bishop of Chur, the first of the Victorid family which was to control the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia until the early ninth century.

On 10 October 614 he signed the canons of the Fifth Council of Paris on church discipline.
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Victor II was an eighth-century bishop of Chur of the Victorid family which had controlled the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia since the early seventh century.

He is mentioned in an inscription on the tomb of his predecessor Paschal in the monastery of Cazis.
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Victor III (died 7 January before 836) was the Bishop of Chur from after 800 until his death. He was the last member of the Victorid family to hold the bishopric of Chur and the secular power in Rhaetia concurrently.

He succeeded the bishop Remedius.
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Victor the Moor (in Latin: Victor Maurus) (born 3rd century in Mauretania; died ca. 303 in Milan) was a Christian martyr and is venerated as a saint. Victor, born into a Christian family, was a soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard.
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Pope Saint Victor I was a Pope (from 189 to 199 (the Vatican cites 186 or 189 to 197 or 201).[1]

Victor I was the first African bishop of Rome, having been born in the province of Africa, and later went to Rome. He was later canonized.
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Victor of Marseilles was a Christian martyr. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

He is said to have been a Roman army officer in Marseilles, who publicly denounced the worship of idols.
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Saint Victorinus of Poetovio (died 303 or 304) was a Catholic ecclesiastical writer who flourished about 270, and who was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian.
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Victor of Xanten or Saint Victor is a martyr and saint of the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church. His presumed bones are kept in a shrine since the 12th century that today is embedded into the high altar of the Xanten Cathedral. His feast day is October 10.
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Saint Victorian can refer to:
  • Victorian and Aquilinus, martyrs at Isauria, Asia Minor
  • Victorian, Frumentius and Companions, 5th century North African martyrs
  • Victorian of Asan, 6th century Spanish saint
  • Victorian, Simplicius, and Constantius

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Hugh of St Victor (c. 1078 - February 11, 1141), mystic philosopher, was probably born at Hartingam, in Saxony.

After spending some time in a house of canons regular at Hamersleben, in Saxony, where he completed his studies, he removed to the abbey of St Victor at Marseille,
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Richard of St. Victor (died 1173), was one of the most important mystical theologicans of 12th century Paris, then the intellectual center of Europe. Richard, a Scot, was prior of the famous Augustinian abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris from 1162 until his death in 1173.
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Adam of St. Victor (d. 1146)[1] was a prolific poet and composer of Latin Hymns and sequences. He is believed to have sparked the expansion of the poetic and musical repertoire in the Notre Dame school with his strongly rhythmic and imagery-filled poetry.
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Real Name: Victor De Leon III
Birthday: May 6th 1998
Hobbies: Gaming, Swimming, Golf, Drawing, Reading, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Soccer
Accomplishment: Enrolled in the Guinness Book of World Record 2008 and Guinness Gaming Edition 2008.
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This refers to several notable French aristocrats in the de Broglie family:
  • Victor François, Duc de Broglie (1718-1804)
  • Achille Léonce Victor Charles, duc de Broglie (1785-1870)

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Victor Emmanuel may mean:
  • Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
  • Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
  • Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
  • Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples
  • Víctor Manuel is a Spanish singer

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Vittorio Emanuele II
King of Italy

Reign March 17, 1861 - January 9, 1878
Coronation March 17, 1861
Born March 14, 1820
Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died January 9, 1878
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Predecessor
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Victor Emanuel III
King of Italy, Caesar of Ethiopia, King of Albania

Reign July 29, 1900 - May 9, 1946
Coronation July 29, 1900
Born November 11, 1869
Naples, Italy
Died December 28, 1947
Alexandria, Egypt

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Flavius Victor
Usurper of the Western Roman Empire

Flavius Victor, presented as "Hope of the Romans" (Spes Romanorum) on this coin.
Reign 384 - August 28 388 (as Augustus
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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark.
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Víctor Manuel Baute Montanez (born March 23, 1972) is a former boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight division (– 67 kg) by American Pepe Reilly after
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Victor Borge (January 3 1909 – December 23 2000) was a Danish-American humorist, entertainer and pianist, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane.
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Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (born January 13, 1967) is a Russian former Soviet major and arms dealer, nicknamed "the Merchant of Death."[1] He is the subject of a book by that name written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun[2]
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Victor Garber

Birth name Victor Joseph Garber
Born March 16 1949 (1949--) (age 58)
London, Ontario, Canada
Died

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Victor-Marie Hugo

Born: 26 February 1802

Died: 22 May 1885

Literary movement: Romanticism
Debut works: Nouvelles Odes et Poésies Diverses (New Odes and Various Poems) (1824)
Influences: Walter Scott
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