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.