Delaunay

Delaunay is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

 * Catherine Delaunay (born 1969), French jazz clarinet player and composer
 * Charles Delaunay (1911–1988), French author and jazz expert
 * Joseph-Charles Delaunay (d. 1802), French actor, father of Marie Dorval
 * Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891), French painter
 * Louis Arsene Delaunay (1826–1903), French actor
 * Louis Delaunay (1854–1937), French actor
 * Nicolas Delaunay (1739-1792), French engraver
 * Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), French artist
 * Rose Delaunay (1857–after 1937), French opera ainger
 * Danielle Delaunay, English/Japanese singer
 * Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), Ukrainian-French artist
 * Vadim Delaunay (1947–1983), Russian poet and dissident

Football

 * Henri Delaunay (1883–1955), French football administrator
 * Jean-Pierre Delaunay (born 1966), French footballer
 * Pierre Delaunay, football administrator

Science

 * Boris Delaunay (1890–1980), Soviet/Russian mathematician, inventor of Delaunay triangulation
 * Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872), French astronomer and mathematician
 * Natalya Delaunay (1923-?), Soviet/Russian geneticist
 * Nikolai Delaunay, Senior (1856–1931), Russian/Soviet physicist and mathematician
 * Nikolai Delaunay, Junior (1926–2008), Soviet physicist

Politics

 * Joseph Delaunay (1752–1794), sometimes called Delaunay d'Angers; a revolutionary-era French politician
 * Michèle Delaunay (born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France

Fictional characters

 * Various characters in the fantasy novel Kushiel's Dart (2001):
 * Alcuin nó Delaunay
 * Anafiel Delaunay, spymaster and poet
 * Phèdre nó Delaunay