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