Vaillant (surname)

Vaillant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ;Artists of the Dutch Golden Age *

Andries Vaillant Andries Vaillant (1655 in Amsterdam – 1693 in Berlin), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and artist. According to Houbraken he learned to draw from his oldest brother Wallerant Vaillant and then travelled to Paris to learn engraving.

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

Wallerant Vaillant Wallerant Vaillant (30 May 1623 – 28 August 1677) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the first artists to use the mezzotint technique, which he probably helped to develop. Family Wallerant Vaillant was born in Lille, the o ...

(1623–1667), painter ;Politics *

Auguste Vaillant Auguste Vaillant (; 27 December 1861 – 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist known for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893. The French government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous rep ...

(1861–1894), French anarchist * Cornelis Vaillant (1781–1849), Dutch judge and governor of Suriname *

Daniel Vaillant Daniel Vaillant (born 19 July 1949) is a French Socialist politician. Biography Close to Lionel Jospin, Vaillant held several ministerial portfolios in his cabinets: Minister of the Relations with Parliament from 1997 to 2000 and Interior Mi ...

(born 1949), French socialist politician *

Édouard Vaillant Marie Édouard Vaillant (26 January 1840 – 18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in Vierzon, Cher, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then l ...

(1840–1915), prominent French socialist ;Science and medicine *

François Le Vaillant François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; ...

(1753–1824), French explorer and ornithologist *

George Clapp Vaillant George Clapp Vaillant (April 5, 1901 – May 13, 1945) was an American anthropologist. George Clapp Vaillant was born 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Noble and Greenough School in his hometown. After finishing his secondary education ...

(1901–1945), American anthropologist *

George Eman Vaillant George Eman Vaillant (; born June 16, 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Vaillant has spent his research career charting ...

(born 1934), American psychiatrist *

Léon Vaillant Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoology, zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the Arras College, College d'Ar ...

(1834–1914), French zoologist *

Louis Vaillant Louis Vaillant (full name Louis Auguste André Marie Vaillant) (26 November 1876 – 1963) was a French army doctor, naturalist, and explorer. He was the second son of Léon Louis Vaillant, professor of zoology at the French National Museum of Nat ...

(1876–1963), French doctor, naturalist, explorer and soldier *

Sébastien Vaillant Sébastien Vaillant (; May 26, 1669 – May 20, 1722) was a French botanist who was born at Vigny, Val-d'Oise, Vigny in present-day Val d'Oise. Early years Vaillant went to school at the age of four and by the age of five, he was collecting p ...

(1669–1722), French botanist ;Other *

André Vaillant André Vaillant (November 3, 1890 – April 23, 1977), was a French linguist, philologist and grammarian who also specialized in Slavic languages. He was born in Soissons. After studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he became profes ...

(1890–1977), French linguist and Slavist *

Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (2 July 1793 – 1 November 1858) was a French sailor who worked his way up through the ranks from common seaman to rear-admiral. In 1836–37 he captained a 21-month voyage round the globe in which the scientists made man ...

(1793–1858), French naval officer *

François Vaillant de Gueslis François Vaillant de Gueslis (20 July 1646 – 24 September 1718) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Orléans. He entered the Society of Jesus, on 10 November 1665, and went to Canada in 1670; and was ordained priest at Quebec, on 1 December 1675.

(1646–1718), French Jesuit missionary *

(1901–1945), American anthropologist *

Greta Vaillant Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France; 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont. Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actr ...

(1942–2000), French actress *

Jean Alexandre Vaillant Jean Alexandre Vaillant (1804 – 21 March 1886) was a French and Romanian teacher, political activist, historian, linguist and translator, who was noted for his activities in Wallachia and his support for the Wallachian Revolution of 1848, 1848 Wal ...

(1804–1886), French and Romanian historian and schoolteacher *

Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, 1st Comte Vaillant (6 December 1790 – 4 June 1872), born in Dijon, was a Marshal of France. Biography Vaillant entered the French army in 1809 in the corps of engineers. He served in the French invasion of ...

(1790–1872), French soldier * Jehan Vaillant (fl. 1360–1390), French composer *Johann Vaillant (1851-1920) German coppersmith, founder of the

Vaillant Group The Vaillant Group is a company that develops products for heating, cooling and hot water. The company employs ~17,000 people worldwide and generates an annual turnover of approximately 3.7 billion euros. This makes the Vaillant Group one of th ...

John Vaillant John Vaillant (born 1962) is an American Canadians, American Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in ''The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic'', and ''Outside (magazine), Outside''. He has written both non-fiction an ...

(born 1962), American writer and journalist * Marguerite Vaillant (1855–1930), French opera singer *

Nigel Le Vaillant Nigel Le Vaillant (born 11 June 1958) is a British former actor who worked in BBC television drama during the 1990s. He rose to fame as Dr. Julian Chapman in ''Casualty'' and starred as Dr. Paul Dangerfield in '' Dangerfield''. Early life Le Vail ...

(born 1958), British actor *

Pierre Henri Vaillant Pierre Henri Vaillant (30 January 1878, in Paris – 8 May 1939, in Chartres) was a French painter and engraver. He specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Biography His father, Charles Émile Vaillant, was the Departmental Architect f ...

(1878–1939), French painter *

Raymond Vaillant Raymond Vaillant (21 January 1935 – 18 February 2006) was a French composer. Life Born in Moncontour (Vienne), from 2 April 1962 until 1995, Vaillant held the position of librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and at the music d ...

(1935–2006), French composer Fictional characters: *

Michel Vaillant ''Michel Vaillant'' is a French car racing comics series created in 1957 by French cartoonist Jean Graton and published originally by Le Lombard. Later, Graton published the albums by himself when he founded Graton éditeur in 1982. Michel Vai ...

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