People
- Amasio Valence (born 1979), Fijian rugby union player
- Maurice Valency (1903-1996), American playwright, author, critic and professor
- Aymer de Valence (bishop) (c. 1222-1260), Bishop of Winchester
- William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke (3rd Creation) (1225 to 1230-1296), French nobleman who played an important role in English politics
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