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


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