Vail (surname)
Vail is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Vail, American diplomat
- Alfred Vail, American machinist and inventor
- Anna Murray Vail 1863–1955), American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden
- Aramenta Dianthe Vail, American painter
- Benjamin A. Vail, American jurist and politician
- Bob Vail, American baseball pitcher
- Calvin Lee Vail, American YouTuber known as LeafyIsHere
- Charles H. Vail, American Universalist clergyman, Christian socialist, political activist, and writer
- Clover Vail, Swiss-born American artist
- Edwin Arnold Vail, Canadian physician and political figure
- Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- Fred Vail, American sports coach
- George Vail, American politician
- Harry Vail, American rowing coach
- Henry Vail, American politician
- Ira Vail, American race car driver
- Louis Vail, American football coach
- Lester Vail, American actor of the stage, screen, and radio
- Melville Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- Mike Vail, American baseball player
- Myrtle Vail, American actress and writer
- Nathan R. Vail, American mine operator, landowner, and politician
- Jacob G. Vail, American army officer and general after the American Civil War
- Patrick Roger Vail, American businessman and politician
- Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-French painter
- Peter Vail, American geologist and geophysicist
- Pyotr Vail Latvian-Russian writer, editor, and radio executive
- Rachel Vail, American children and young adults genre author
- Richard B. Vail, American politician
- Silas Jones Vail, American hatmaker and hymn composer
- Stephen Vail, American rail and metal forge businessman
- Theodore Newton Vail, American telephony industrialist
- Theresa Vail, American beauty pageant contestant
- Thomas Hubbard Vail, American Episcopalian bishop
- Tobi Vail, American musician, music critic, and feminist activist; formerly of the band Bikini Kill
- Walter Vail, American businessman
- William Berrian Vail, Canadian businessman and politician