Family name Vanel (Vanel 
) , across the world, is quite a rare last name. The cognomen Vanel is habitual in France, where it is quite a rare surname, Cameroon, and Belgium, where it is a rare surname. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in France, India, and Cameroon. More prevalently, Vanel is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Vanel | Cameroon, Haiti, India, France, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| claude de vanel French magistrate, FR (b. 1775) |
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charles vanel French actor and director, FR (b. 1892) |
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| jean-baptiste vanel French abbot (1851-1929), FR (b. 1851) |
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| hélène vanel Surrealist dancer, sculpter and painter, FR (b. 1898) |
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bernard vanel French essayist and translator, FR (b. 1951) |
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clyde vanel American politician (born 1974), US (b. 1974) |
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| gabriel vanel French priest and theologian, FR (b. 1925) |
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| joseph vanel FR (b. 1927) |
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| antoine vanel (b. 1934) |
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| jean-paul vanel French politician, FR (b. 1956) |
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| eugène vanel French dramaturge, FR |
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| joseph-luc de vanel French military officer |
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| loic vanel researcher |
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| anaïs vanel French writer, FR (b. 1984) |
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