Malet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Albert Malet (historian) Albert Malet (3 May 1864, Clermont-Ferrand – 25 September 1915, Battle of Thélus, Pas de Calais) was a French historian and writer of scholarly textbooks, killed during the First World War. Career Malet failed the entrance exam at Saint-Cyr, Ho ...

(1864–1915), French historian and author of scholarly manuals * Albert Malet (painter) (1912–1986), French painter * Alexander Malet (1800–1886), English diplomat and writer * André Malet (abbot) (1862–1936), abbot of the Trappist abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert at Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie *

André Malet (philosopher) André Malet (1920-1989) was a French Catholic priest and Philosophy, philosopher who became a Unitarianism, Unitarian Protestant. Specialising in Martin Heidegger, he translated Rudolf Bultmann into French. He married Nicole Maya-Malet, another p ...

(died 1989), Catholic priest who became a Unitarian Protestant *

Antoine de Malet, Marquis de Coupigny Antoine de Malet (in Spanish, Antonio Malet), Marquis of Coupigny (1761–1825) was a French-born Spanish military officer. Early career Having obtained Spanish nationality, Coupigny joined the Spanish Royal Guard as a cadet in 1776 and was prom ...

, French-born Spanish military officer *

Antoni Malet Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of history of science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research interests are mostly in the history of mathematics and optics in the sixteent ...

, Catalan historian of mathematics and professor of history of science *

Arthur Malet Arthur Malet (24 September 1927 – 18 May 2013) was an English actor. He was known for his films '' Mary Poppins'' (1964), ''Halloween'' (1978), '' The Secret of NIMH'' (1982), and ''Hook'' (1991). His last film role was '' The Secret of NIM ...

(1927–2013), British actor *

Claude François de Malet Claude François de Malet (28 June 1754 – 31 October 1812) was born in Dole to an aristocratic family. He was executed by firing squad, six days after staging a failed republican coup d'état as Napoleon I returned from the disastrous Russia ...

(1754–1812), general of the First French Empire, organiser of coup d'état against Napoleon * Elizabeth Malet (1651–1681), English heiress, Countess of Rochester *

Frederick de Carteret Malet Frederick de Carteret Malet (26 October 1843 – 21 March 1912) was a leader in business, church, and educational matters in Christchurch, New Zealand. Early life Malet was born in 1837 at Saint Helier, Jersey. He came to Auckland, New Zealand, ...

(1837–1912), New Zealand leader in business, church, and educational matters *

Guy Seymour Warre Malet Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973) was an English landscape and figure engraver, printmaker, watercolourist and oil painter. He spent a large portion of his life on the island of Sark and many of his images are of the Channel Islands. He was ...

(1900–1973), English artist * Jean-Roland Malet (1675–1736), French historian and economist * Joan Malet (c.1510–1549), Catalan witch-hunter *

John Malet Sir John Malet (1623–1686) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1666 and 1685. Malet was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Malet of Poyntington and his wife Jane Mylles, daughter of Francis Mylles. His fat ...

(1623–1686), English lawyer, MP for Minehead and Bridgwater, son of Thomas * John Malet (died 1570), English landowner, MP for Plymouth and Bodmin * John Malet (died 1644), English landowner, MP for Bath *

Laurent Malet Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet (born 3 September 1955, in Bayonne) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet. Life Malet's stage debut came in ''The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'' as Troilus ...

(born 1955), French actor *

Léo Malet Léo Malet (1909–1996) was a French crime novelist and surrealist. He was known for creating the Parisian private eye Nestor Burma. Biography Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. In the 1930s, he was closely aligned with the Surrealists, and ...

(1909–1996), French writer *

Lucas Malet Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 — 27 October 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, ''The Wages of Sin'' (1891) and ''The History of Sir Richard Calmady'' (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar ...

, pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852–1931), English novelist *

Michael Malet Michael Malet (c 1632 - after 1683) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. He was a zealous Protestant and opponent of the court and appears to have lost his reason. Malet was the son of Sir Tho ...

(c.1632 – after 1683), English lawyer and politician, son of Thomas *

Oriel Malet Lady Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan (20 January 1923 – 14 October 2014) was a Welsh-born author of literary fiction and biographies, who wrote under the name of Oriel Malet.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volum ...

, pseudonym of Welsh author Lady Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan (1923–2014) *

Pierre Antoine Anselme Malet Comte Pierre Antoine Anselme Jean Laurent Malet (; 14 August 1773 – 9 August 1815) was a maréchal de camp, and général de brigade. He commanded the 3e régiment de chasseurs à pied (Middle Guard) at Waterloo; mortally wounded in this battl ...

(1778–1815), soldier, ''maréchal de camp'' and ''général de brigade'' *

Pierre Malet Pierre Malet (born 3 September 1955 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French actor. He is the twin brother of Laurent Malet. Filmography * 1976 : '' Le Siècle des lumières'' (TV) : ''A page'' * 1976 : '' Comme un boomerang'' : ''Othe ...

(born 1955), French actor *

Robert Malet Robert Malet (c. 1050 – by 1130) was a Norman- English baron and a close advisor of Henry I. Early life Malet was the son of William Malet, and inherited his father's great honour of Eye in 1071. This made him one of the dozen or so g ...

, 12th-century Norman-English baron *

Rosa Maria Malet Rosa Maria Malet i Ybern (born 1948) is an art historian who directed the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona from 1980 until she retired in 2017. Biography She was born in Badalona. In 1975 she graduated in Philosophy and Letters, specializing in ...

(born 1948), Spanish art historian and museum director *

Thierry Malet Thierry Malet, is a French composer of film music. He is also the designer of the very first MIDI guitars and a new 3D spatialization system for feature film music. Life and career Thierry Malet started to study the piano at the age of 7 at ...

, French composer of film music *

Thomas Malet Sir Thomas Malet (1582–1665) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1628. He was Solicitor general to Queen Henrietta Maria. Life Malet was of Poyntington, Somerset and also inherited lands in So ...

(1582–1665), English judge and politician *

William Malet (companion of William the Conqueror) William Malet ( Anglo-Norman: Willame Malet de Graville, died 1071) held senior positions within the Norman forces that occupied England from 1066. He was appointed the second High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1068. Of the so-called companions of ...

(died 1071), Norman lord who fought in the Battle of Hastings *

William Malet (exile) William Malet (died c. 1121) was the third of his family to hold the honour of Eye and the lordship of in Normandy. He was either the younger brother, son, or nephew of Robert Malet – in other words, either a son or grandson of the first Willi ...

(died c. 1121), Norman lord who forfeited his English lands and was banished from England *

William Malet (Magna Carta baron) William Malet (born before 1175–1215), Feudal barony of Curry Mallet, feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, was one of the guarantors of Magna Carta. In 1190, he accompanied King Richard the Lionheart on third crusade.Nigel Saul, Magna Carta ...

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1195–1215), a guarantor of ''Magna Carta'' * The

Malet baronets The Malet Baronetcy, of Wilbury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 24 February 1791 for Charles Malet, for diplomatic services in India. The second Baronet was Minister to the German C ...

, including: **

Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Warre Malet, 1st Baronet (30 December 1752 – 24 January 1815) was a British Empire, British diplomat who served in the British East India Company as a Resident (title), Resident in the court of the Peshwa Marathas. He was the old ...

(1752–1815), British East India Company official **

Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet (1800–1886) was an English diplomat and writer. Life The eldest son of Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, born at Hartham Park, Wiltshire in June 1800, he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815. He was educated at ...

(1800–1886), diplomat and writer ** Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet (1837–1908), diplomat

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