Vail (surname)

Vail is an

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surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Aaron Vail Aaron Vail (1796–1878) was an American diplomat who served as ''chargé d'affaires'' in the United Kingdom and Spain in the 1830s and 1840s. Biography He was born in Lorient, France, where his father, Aaron Vail (1758–1813), a prominent b ...

(1796–1878), American diplomat *

Alfred Vail Alfred Lewis Vail (September 25, 1807 – January 18, 1859) was an American machinist and inventor. Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American telegraphy between 1837 and 1844. Vail and Morse were the f ...

(1807–1859), American machinist and inventor *

Anna Murray Vail Anna Murray Vail (January 7, 1863 – December 18, 1955) was an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a student of the Columbia University botanist and geologist Nathaniel Lord Britton, with whom she he ...

1863–1955), American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden * Aramenta Dianthe Vail (1820–1888), American painter * Benjamin A. Vail (1844–1924), American jurist and politician * Bob Vail (1881–1942), American baseball pitcher * Calvin Lee Vail (born 1995), American YouTuber known as LeafyIsHere * Charles H. Vail (1866–1924), American Universalist clergyman, Christian socialist, political activist, and writer * Clover Vail (born 1939), Swiss-born American artist *

Edwin Arnold Vail Edwin Arnold Vail (August 19, 1817 – July 31, 1885) was a physician and political figure in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Kings County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1857 to 1866, from 1870 to 18 ...

(1817–1885), Canadian physician and political figure * Eric Vail (born 1953), Canadian ice hockey player * Fred Vail ( 1903–1914), American sports coach *

George Vail George Vail (July 21, 1809 – May 23, 1875) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857. His father Stephen Vail, and his brother Alfred Vail were the driving for ...

(1809–1875), American politician * Harry Vail (died 1928), American rowing coach * Henry Vail (1782–1853), American politician * Ira Vail (1893–1979), American race car driver *

Louis Vail Louis De Pui "Bucker" Vail (September 18, 1870 – December 16, 1948) was an American football player and coach. Vail played football and graduated from Germantown Academy. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving both his A.B. and h ...

( 1894), American football coach * Lester Vail (1899 – 1959), American actor of the stage, screen, and radio *

Melville Vail Melville Arthur "Sparky" Vail (July 5, 1906 in Meaford, Ontario - January 29, 1983) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in t ...

(1906–1983), Canadian ice hockey player *

Mike Vail Michael Lewis Vail (born November 10, 1951) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. St. Louis Cardinals farm system Vail was original drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the seventeenth round of the 1970 Major League Baseball draft as a ...

(born 1951), American baseball player *

Myrtle Vail Myrtle Vail (January 7, 1888 – September 18, 1978), sometimes credited as Myrtle Damerel, was an American vaudevillian, and radio and film actress and writer. She was a radio fixture from 1932 to 1946 thanks to the popular soap opera '' Myrt ...

(also as Myrtle Damerel; 1888–1978), American actress and writer * Nathan R. Vail (1825–1888), American mine operator, landowner, and politician * Jacob G. Vail (1827-1884), American army officer and general after the American Civil War * Patrick Roger Vail (1859-1913), American businessman and politician *

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (August 18, 1925 – March 1, 1967) was a Swiss-born American painter. Her painting combines two different artistic styles: surrealism and naïve art. She was the daughter of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim and the ...

(1925–1967), Swiss-French painter * Peter Vail (born 1930), American geologist and geophysicist * Pyotr Vail (Пётр Львович Вайль; 1949–2009) Latvian-Russian writer, editor, and radio executive * Rachel Vail (born 1966), American children and young adults genre author * Raymond Vail, English environmentalist * Richard B. Vail (1895–1955), American politician * Silas Jones Vail (1818–1883), American hatmaker and hymn composer *

Stephen Vail Stephen Vail (1780–1864) was a founding partner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and the creator of the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey. Biography Stephen Vail was born in Malapardis, New Jersey on June 28, 1780 ...

(1780–1864), American rail and metal forge businessman *

Theodore Newton Vail Theodore Newton Vail (July 16, 1845 – April 16, 1920) was president of American Telephone & Telegraph between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919. Vail saw telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks u ...

(1845–1920), American telephony industrialist *

Theresa Vail Theresa Marie Vail (born October 1, 1990) is Miss Kansas 2013. She subsequently placed in the top ten of the Miss America 2014 pageant, where she became the first contestant to openly display tattoos (during the swimsuit competition) and won the ...

(born 1990), American beauty pageant contestant ("Miss Kansas" 2013) * Thomas Hubbard Vail (1821–1889), American Episcopalian bishop *

Tobi Vail Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20, 1969) is an American independent musician, music critic and feminist activist from Olympia, Washington. She was a central figure in the riot grrl scene—she coined the spelling of "grrl"—and she started the zi ...

(born 1969), American musician, music critic, and feminist activist; formerly of the band Bikini Kill * Walter Vail (1852-1906), American businessman *

William Berrian Vail William Berrian Vail, (December 19, 1823 – April 10, 1904) was a Canadians, Canadian businessman and politician. Vail was born in Sussex Vale, New Brunswick, the son of John Cougle Vail and Charlotte Hannah Arnold. In 1850, he married Ch ...

(1823–1904), Canadian businessman and politician {{surname, Vail English-language surnames