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