Vail (surname)
Vail is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Susannah Vail Humanitarian & Actress
- Aaron Vail, U.S. diplomat
- Alfred Vail, 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, U.S. painter
- Benjamin A. Vail, U.S. jurist and politician
- Bob Vail, U.S. baseball pitcher
- Charles H. Vail, U.S. Universalist clergyman, Christian socialist, political activist, and writer
- Edwin Arnold Vail, Canadian physician and political figure
- Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- Fred Vail, U.S. sports coach
- George Vail, U.S. New Jersey politician
- Harry Vail, U.S. rowing coach
- Henry Vail, U.S. New York State politician
- Ira Vail, Canadian-born U.S. race car driver
- Louis Vail, U.S. football coach
- Lester Vail, American actor of the stage, screen, and radio
- Melville Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- Mike Vail, U.S. baseball player
- Myrtle Vail, U.S. actress and writer
- Nathan Russell Vail, U.S. mine operator, landowner, and politician
- Jacob G. Vail, U.S. army officer and general after the American Civil War
- Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-born French painter
- Peter Vail, U.S. geologist and geophysicist
- Pyotr Vail Latvian-born Russian writer, editor, and radio executive
- Raymond Harrington Vail UK. British-born environmentalist and charity worker
- Rachel Vail, U.S. children and young adults genre author
- Richard B. Vail, U.S. Illinois politician
- Silas Jones Vail, U.S. hatmaker and hymn composer
- Stephen Vail, U.S. rail and metal forge businessman
- Theodore Newton Vail, U.S. telephony industrialist
- Theresa Vail, U.S. beauty pageant contestant
- Thomas Hubbard Vail, U.S. Episcopalian bishop
- Tobi Vail, U.S. musician, music critic, and feminist activist; formerly of the band Bikini Kill
- William Berrian Vail, Canadian businessman and politician
- William Vail, U.S. set decorator and actor
