Vail (surname)
Vail is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Vail (1796–1878), U.S. diplomat
- Alfred Vail (1807–1859), U.S. machinist and inventor
- Anna Murray Vail 1863–1955), U.S. botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden
- Benjamin A. Vail (1844–1924), U.S. jurist and politician
- Bob Vail (1881–1942), U.S. baseball pitcher
- Charles H. Vail (1866–1924), U.S. Universalist clergyman, Christian socialist, political activist, and writer
- Edwin Arnold Vail (1817–1885), Canadian physician and political figure
- Eric Vail (born 1953), Canadian ice hockey player
- Fred Vail (fl. 1903–1914), U.S. sports coach
- George Vail (1809–1875), U.S. New Jersey politician
- Harry Vail (died 1928), U.S. rowing coach
- Henry Vail (1782–1853), U.S. New York State politician
- Ira Vail (1893–1979), Canadian-born U.S. race car driver
- Louis Vail (fl. 1894), U.S. football coach
- Melville Vail (1906–1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Mike Vail (born 1951), U.S. baseball player
- Myrtle Vail (also as Myrtle Damerel; 1888–1978), U.S. actress and writer
- Nathan Russell Vail (1825–1888), U.S. mine operator, landowner, and politician
- Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925–1967), Swiss-born French painter
- Peter Vail (born 1930), U.S. geologist and geophysicist
- Pyotr Vail (Пётр Львович Вайль; 1949–2009) Latvian-born Russian writer, editor, and radio executive
- Rachel Vail (born 1966), U.S. children and young adults genre author
- Richard B. Vail (1895–1955), U.S. Illinois politician
- Silas Jones Vail (1818–1883), U.S. hatmaker and hymn composer
- Stephen Vail (1780–1864), U.S. rail and metal forge businessman
- Theodore Newton Vail (1845–1920), U.S. telephony industrialist
- Theresa Vail (born 1990), U.S. beauty pageant contestant ("Miss Kansas" 2013)
- Thomas Hubbard Vail (1821–1889), U.S. Episcopalian bishop
- Tobi Vail (born 1969), U.S. musician, music critic, and feminist activist; formerly of the band Bikini Kill
- William Berrian Vail (1823–1904), Canadian businessman and politician
- William Vail (born 1950), U.S. set decorator and actor
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