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

People

Arts

* Catherine Delaunay (born 1969), French jazz clarinet player and composer *

Charles Delaunay Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911 – 16 February 1988) was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France. Biography Born in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise, the son of painters Robert Delaunay and Sonia D ...

(1911–1988), French author and jazz expert * Joseph-Charles Delaunay (d. 1802), French actor, father of

Marie Dorval Marie Dorval (6 January 1798, Lorient, Morbihan – 20 May 1849) was a French actress in the Romantic style. Early life and first marriage Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney was born on 6 January 1798 to Marie Bourdais, who was sixteen yea ...

* 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 Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstra ...

(1885–1941), French artist * Rose Delaunay (born 1857), French opera ainger *

Danielle Delaunay Danielle is a modern French female variant of the male name Daniel, meaning "God is my judge" in the Hebrew language. Variants *Dana – Czech, German, Romanian Polish *Danette – English *Daniela – Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, English, Germ ...

, English/Japanese singer *

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...

(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 (born 1923), Soviet/Russian geneticist * Nikolai Delaunay, Senior (1856–1931), Russian/Soviet physicist and mathematician * Nikolai Delaunay, Junior (1926–2008), Soviet physicist

Politics

Joseph Delaunay Joseph Delaunay (24 December 1752, Angers – 5 April 1794, Paris) was a French deputy. He was national commissar at the Tribunal of Angers and, in 1791, he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly by the département of Maine-et-Lo ...

(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