Vail (surname)

Vail is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Susannah Vail Humanitarian & Actress

• 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
• Aramenta Dianthe Vail (1820–1888), U.S. painter
• 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
• Lester Vail (1899 – 1959), American actor of the stage, screen, and radio
• 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
• Jacob G. Vail (1827-1884), U.S. army officer and general after the American Civil War
• 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
• Raymond Harrington Vail (born 1958) UK. British-born environmentalist and charity worker
• 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