Vail (surname)

Vail is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aaron Vail (1796–1878), American diplomat
• Alfred Vail (1807–1859), American machinist and inventor
• Anna Murray Vail 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
• Edwin Arnold Vail (1817–1885), Canadian physician and political figure
• Eric Vail (born 1953), Canadian ice hockey player
• Fred Vail (fl. 1903–1914), American sports coach
• George Vail (1809–1875), American politician
• Harry Vail (died 1928), American rowing coach
• Henry Vail (1782–1853), American politician
• Ira Vail (1893–1979), Canadian-American race car driver
• Louis Vail (fl. 1894), American 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), American baseball player
• Myrtle Vail (also as Myrtle Damerel; 1888–1978), American actress and writer
• Nathan Russell Vail (1825–1888), American mine operator, landowner, and politician
• Jacob G. Vail (1827-1884), American army officer and general after the American Civil War
• Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925–1967), Swiss-French painter
• Peter Vail (born 1930), Americsn geologist and geophysicist
• Pyotr Vail (Пётр Львович Вайль; 1949–2009) Latvian-Russian writer, editor, and radio executive
• Raymond Harrington Vail (born 1958), British environmentalist and charity worker
• Rachel Vail (born 1966), American children and young adults genre author
• Richard B. Vail (1895–1955), American politician
• Silas Jones Vail (1818–1883), American hatmaker and hymn composer
• Stephen Vail (1780–1864), American rail and metal forge businessman
• Theodore Newton Vail (1845–1920), American telephony industrialist
• Theresa Vail (born 1990), American beauty pageant contestant ("Miss Kansas" 2013)
• Thomas Hubbard Vail (1821–1889), American Episcopalian bishop
• Tobi Vail (born 1969), American 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), American set decorator and actor