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Valters and Kaža, known internationally as Walters and Kazha, were a Latvian music duo consisting of Valters Frīdenbergs and Kārlis Būmeisters. They were best known for representing Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "The War Is Not Over", written by Mārtiņš Freimanis, finishing in fifth place with 153 points.
Valdis Valters is a retired Latvian professional basketball player. He played at the point guard position for the senior USSR national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest players to have played the game in Europe in the 1980s. Considering his lengthy work and deep connection to the sport, Valters has been one of the most influential people in Latvian basketball history. He became a FIBA Hall of Fame player in 2017.
The Latvia men's national basketball team represents Latvia in international basketball. They are organized and run by the Latvian Basketball Association. Latvia has reached the European Basketball Championship 15 times, with their ultimate success occurring during the inter-war period, when they became the first team to win the tournament in 1935. Four years later, they had another impressive run to come away with the silver in 1939. Although after 1939, Latvia were forced to suspend their national team operations, due to the Occupation of the Baltic states during World War II. Latvia regained independence in 1991, with their national team taking part in international competition once again a year later.
Miķelis Valters was the first Latvian Minister of the Interior (1918—1919), member of the New Current intellectual movement, lawyer, politician, diplomat, social activist, and one of the authors of the Latvian Constitution. He was the first social activist who publicly advocated for a sovereign Latvian state. In the 1903 journal "Proletārietis" he wrote the article "Patvaldību nost! Krieviju nost!" Recipient of the Order of the Three Stars Commander Grand Cross.
Valter Birsa is a retired Slovenian footballer who played as a winger.
Valter Matošević is a former Croatian team handball player who was at the goalkeeper position. He played for professional teams in Croatia, Germany, Spain, Denmark and Italy. He is current handball coach.
VEF Rīga is a Latvian professional basketball team that is based in Riga, Latvia. VEF Rīga is a ten-time Latvian Basketball League champion.
Schytt Glacier is a broad glacier about 60 miles (100 km) long, flowing northward between Giaever and Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land to the Jelbart Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949–1952) and named for Valter Schytt, second in command and glaciologist of NBSAE.
Sandis Valters is a retired professional basketball shooting guard, who last played for BK Ventspils. He is member of Latvia national basketball team. His father is a former Soviet basketball star, Valdis Valters, and his younger brother, Kristaps Valters, also plays professional basketball.
Kristaps Valters is a Latvian former professional basketball player. After retiring he became a coach, and is currently working as a head coach for Valmiera/ORDO.
Valter Alessandro Salvioni, best known as Sandro Salvioni, is an Italian football manager, and a former player, last in charge as head coach of Lugano.
Valter Molea is an Italian rower.
Valter D. Longo is an Italian-American biogerontologist and cell biologist known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms in many eukaryotes. He is currently a professor at the USC Davis School of Gerontology with a joint appointment in the department of Biological Sciences as well as serving as the director of the USC Longevity Institute.
Difebarbamate (INN) is a tranquilizer of the barbiturate and carbamate families which is used in Europe as a component of a combination drug formulation referred to as tetrabamate.
RK Zamet is a handball club from Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 1957. The club currently competes in the Croatian Premier Handball League and the Croatian Handball Cup. Although the club has not won any mayor trophies, it has produced four Olympic gold medalists: Valter Matošević, Alvaro Načinović, Valner Franković and Mirza Džomba. Four additional Olympic gold medalists played for the club, including Irfan Smajlagić, Vladimir Šujster, Zlatko Saračević and Božidar Jović, and Jakov Gojun, who has a bronze medal.
BK Skonto is the name of a former professional basketball club that was based in Riga, Latvia.
Valter Skarsgård is a Swedish actor.
Valter Mutt is a Swedish politician and former parliamentarian. He served in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018, representing the Green Party.
Attila Valter is a Hungarian cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. In 2019 Valter joined the CCC Development Team, having ridden for the Pannon Cycling Team the previous year. At the 2019 Tour de l'Avenir he won the ninth stage to Tignes. For the 2020 season Valter turned professional for the senior CCC Team. That year he won the Tour of Hungary, having finished third in the general classification the previous year. Valter was the first Hungarian winner of the race since 2005. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia, making his Grand Tour debut. Valter joined Groupama–FDJ for the 2021 season. At the 2021 Giro d'Italia, he took the overall lead after the sixth stage to San Giacomo, becoming the first Hungarian rider to wear the pink jersey.
Sven Erland Valter Sköld was a Swedish footballer who played as a defender. He made eight appearances for the Sweden national team from 1935 to 1938. He was also part of Sweden's squad for the football tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.
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