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
• Elie Delaunay (1828–1891), French painter
• Joseph-Charles Delaunay (d. 1802), French actor, father of Marie Dorval
• Louis Arsene Delaunay (1826–1903), French actor
• 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

• Henri Delaunay (1883–1955), French football administrator
• Jean-Pierre Delaunay (born 1966), French footballer
• Pierre Delaunay, football administrator

Mathematics

• Boris Delaunay (1890–1980), Soviet/Russian mathematician
• Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872), French astronomer and mathematician

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

Characters

• Alcuin nó Delaunay, a fictional character
• Anafiel Delaunay, a fictional spymaster and poet
• Phèdre nó Delaunay, a fictional character

See also

• Delaunay-Belleville, a French luxury automobile
• Delaunay (crater), a lunar crater
• Delaunay triangulation, a way to divide a plane into triangles
• Delannoy