Vaillant (surname)

Vaillant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Artists of the Dutch Golden Age

* Andries Vaillant (1655–1693), engraver and painter
* Bernard Vaillant (1632–1698), painter
* Jacques Vaillant (1643–1691), painter
* Jan Vaillant (1627–1668), painter
* Wallerant Vaillant (1623–1667), painter

Politics

* Auguste Vaillant (1861–1894), French anarchist
* Cornelis Vaillant (1781–1849), Dutch judge and governor of Suriname
* Daniel Vaillant (born 1949), French socialist politician
* Édouard Vaillant (1840–1915), prominent French socialist

Science and medicine

* François Le Vaillant (1753–1824), French explorer and ornithologist
* George Clapp Vaillant (1901–1945), American anthropologist
* George Eman Vaillant (born 1934), American psychiatrist
* Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), French zoologist
* Louis Vaillant (1876–1963), French doctor, naturalist, explorer and soldier
* Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722), French botanist

Other

* André Vaillant (1890–1977), French linguist and Slavist
* Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (1793–1858), French naval officer
* François Vaillant de Gueslis (1646–1718), French Jesuit missionary
* George Clapp Vaillant (1901–1945), American anthropologist
* Greta Vaillant (1942–2000), French actress
* Jean Alexandre Vaillant (1804–1886), French and Romanian historian and schoolteacher
* Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant (1790–1872), French soldier
* Jehan Vaillant (fl. 1360–1390), French composer
* Johann Vaillant (1851-1920) German coppersmith, founder of the Vaillant Group
* John Vaillant (born 1962), American writer and journalist
* Marguerite Vaillant (1855–1930), French opera singer
* Nigel Le Vaillant (born 1958), British actor
* Pierre Henri Vaillant (1878–1939), French painter
* Raymond Vaillant (1935–2006), French composer

Fictional characters:

* Michel Vaillant, a comic book character

Surname list

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