Delaunay

Delaunay is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

Arts
  • Catherine Delaunay (born 1969), French jazz clarinet player and composer
  • Charles Delaunay (1911–1988), French author and jazz expert
  • Joseph-Charles Delaunay (d. 1802), French actor, father of Marie Dorval
  • Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891), French painter
  • Louis Arsene Delaunay (1826–1903), French actor
  • Nicolas Delaunay (1739-1792), French engraver
  • Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), French artist
  • Danielle Delaunay, English/Japanese singer
  • Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), Ukrainian-French artist
  • Vadim Delaunay (1947–1983), Russian poet and dissident

Football

Science
  • Boris Delaunay (1890–1980), Soviet/Russian mathematician, inventor of Delaunay triangulation
  • Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872), French astronomer and mathematician
  • Natalya Delaunay (born 1923), Soviet/Russian geneticist
  • Nikolai Delaunay, Senior (1856–1931), Russian/Soviet physicist and mathematician
  • Nikolai Delaunay, Junior (1926–2008), Soviet physicist

Politics
  • Joseph Delaunay (1752–1794), sometimes called Delaunay d'Angers; a revolutionary-era French politician
  • Michèle Delaunay (born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France

Fictional characters
  • Various characters in the fantasy novel Kushiel's Dart (2001):
    • Alcuin nó Delaunay
    • Anafiel Delaunay, spymaster and poet
    • Phèdre nó Delaunay

See also
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