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Victor (sometimes spelled Viktor) is a male given name.

People[link]

Roman Catholics[link]

Popes:

• Saint Pope Victor I (died 199)
• Pope Victor II (c. 1018-1057)
• Blessed Pope Victor III (c. 1026-1087)

Antipopes:

• Antipope Victor IV (1138)
• Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)

Bishops of Chur:

• Victor I, Bishop of Chur, seventh century
• Victor II, Bishop of Chur, eighth century
• Victor III, Bishop of Chur (died on or before 836)

Saints:

• Victor Maurus (died c. 303), also known as Victor the Moor and Victor of Milan
• Victor of Marseilles (died c. 290)
• Viktor of Xanten (died in the fourth century)

Places[link]

• Several towns in the United States:
  • Victor, Colorado, a near-ghost town near Cripple Creek
  • Victor, Idaho
  • Victor, Iowa
  • Victor, Montana
  • Victor, New York
  • Victor, South Dakota
• Vítor, Peru, a village in Arequipa Region, Peru

Fiction[link]

Films[link]

• Victor Victoria, a 1982 musical comedy about a woman masquerading as man impersonating a woman
• Victor (film), a 1993 French short movie by François Ozon
• Victor (2008 film), a 2008 television film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis

Characters[link]

• Victor Frankenstein, title character of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein
• Viktor (Underworld), from the Underworld film series
• Victor, a Hispanic Engine from Thomas and Friends
• Victor (mascot), the logo and mascot for the Just for Laughs comedy festival
• Victor Sullivan, a character from the Uncharted video game series
• Victor Von Doom, a Fantastic Four supervillain
• Victor Mancha, an android and protagonist of the Runaways comic book series
• Victor Triumph, an ancient robot and protagonist in John C. Wright's Children of Chaos trilogy
• Victor Stone, a cyborg and long standing member of the Teen Titans
• Victor (Dollhouse), from Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
• Victor Criss, a bully in Steven King's Novel It.
• Victor, an underling of criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring in the series Breaking Bad
• Victor von Gerdenheim, from the Darkstalkers video game series
• Viktor Reznov, from the Call of Duty: World At War and Call of Duty: Black Ops video games
• Victor, a goat from Ed, Edd n Eddy
• Victor (gargoyle), one of the supporting characters from Disney's 1996 animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Viktor Krum, Bulgarian Wizard from Harry Potter
• Victor "Vector" Perkins, the main antagonist of the 2010 animated film Despicable Me
• Victor the Cleaner, a professional killer and evidence remover in the film Nikita

Military[link]

• The Victor class submarine, NATO designation of a class of submarines of the Soviet Union
• The Handley Page Victor aircraft
• Pobednik ("The Victor"), a monument in Belgrade dedicated to Serbian soldiers in World War I

Music[link]

• Victor (album), a solo album by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson
• "Victor", a song from the 1979 album Eat to the Beat by American New Wave group Blondie

Businesses[link]

• Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company
• Victor Entertainment, Japanese record label, JVC subsidiary
• Victor Interactive Software, the video game development branch of Victor Entertainment
• Victor Technologies (formerly Sirius Systems Technology), a computer manufacturer in the early 1980s
• Victor Technology, a U.S.-based supplier of calculators

Other[link]

Vítor from Salamanca.

• Vitor, a symbol of the victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War^{[citation needed]}
• Victor, a motorcycle from TVS Motors, India
• Victor, the letter "V" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Victor (formerly Empire Ben), a tugboat in service in Australia from 1951 to 1985 when she was preserved in Geelong

See also[link]

• Victoria (disambiguation)
• Victorinus (disambiguation)
• Saint-Victor (disambiguation), various places in France
• Victory (disambiguation)

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Victor Wooten
Wooten playing at the Belly Up in 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Victor Lemonte Wooten
Born	(1964-09-11) September 11, 1964 (age 47) Mountain Home, Idaho, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, funk
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, producer, author
Instruments	Electric bass, upright bass, fiddle, cello, banjo
Years active	1980–present
Associated acts	Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Steve Bailey, Vital Tech Tones, SMV, Greg Howe, Dave Matthews Band, Chick Corea Elektric Band
Website	www.victorwooten.com
Notable instruments
Fodera Monarch Fodera Monarch Yin-Yang (4 string) Steinberger bass guitars

Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards.^[1]

Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once.^[1] In addition to a solo career and collaborations with various artists, Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988.

In 2008, Wooten joined Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record an album. The trio of bassists, under the name SMV, released Thunder in August 2008 and began a supporting tour the same month.^[2]

Wooten was also a judge for the 4th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.^[3]

Early life[link]

Born to Dorothy and Pete Wooten, Victor is the youngest of the five Wooten Brothers, the other four being Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph Wooten, all of whom are musicians. His brother Regi began to teach Victor to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six, Victor was playing in front of crowds with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band, and toured supporting Curtis Mayfield, among others.^[1] When his family moved east, they continued to hone their skills. His brothers began a residency at Busch Gardens. When his brother Roy asked if Victor could learn the fiddle to play with them on quick notice, he complied, adding another instrument to his repertoire.

Instruments[link]

Wooten playing his Steinberger headless bass guitar at the Belly Up in 2006.

Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model.^[4] His most famous Fodera, a 1983 Monarch Deluxe he refers to as "number 1," sports a Kahler Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera's "Yin Yang" basses (co-designed by and created for Wooten) incorporates the Yin Yang symbol—which Wooten uses in various media—as a focal point of the top's design and construction. The symbol is created from two pieces of naturally finished wood (Ebony and Holly, for example), fitted together to create the Yin-Yang pattern.^[5]

Though Wooten's basses receive much attention, his most frequent and consistent response when asked by his fans about his equipment (or equipment in general) is that "the instrument doesn't make the music ... you do".^{[citation needed]} He'll often go on to state that the most important features to look for in a bass are comfort and playability. During a question and answer session at a 1998 concert, Wooten stated that "If you take a newborn baby and put them on the instrument, they're going to get sounds out of it that I can't get out of it, so we're all the best."^[6] This philosophy seems closely related to Wooten's approach to music in general, which is that music is a language. According to Wooten, while speaking or listening, one doesn't focus on the mouth as it is forming words; similarly, when a musician is playing or performing the focus shouldn't be on the instrument.

As well as playing electric bass (both fretted and fretless) and the double bass, Victor also played the cello in high school. He still plays cello occasionally with the Flecktones. This is the instrument to which he attributes his musical training.

Discography[link]

Religious beliefs[link]

While Wooten considers himself a spiritual individual, he is not a part of any particular religion. He believes that, "God is too big for any one religion."^[7]

Bibliography[link]

• The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music, ISBN 978-0-425-22093-1, Penguin Group, 2008

References[link]

External links[link]

• Victor Lemonte Wooten - official website
• Victor Lemonte Wooten Intervew with Anil Prasad of Innerviews
• Live performance photographs
• Interview from honesttune.com
• The Music Lesson website
• The Bass Vault
• Bass/Nature Camp
• Victor Wooten artist page at Guitar Video Channel