Delaunay

Delaunay is a French surname. Variant: de Launay. 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
• Constance Delaunay (1922-2013), French translator, playwright, novelist and short stories writer
• Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891), French painter
• Louis Arsene Delaunay (1826–1903), French actor
• Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), French artist
• Rose Delaunay (1857–after 1937), French opera ainger
• 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

Science

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

See also

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