Vavasseur

Vavasseur, a surname of French origin, once characterised a "vassal of a vassal", i.e., a sub-vassal - someone holding land not from the Crown directly but from a vassal of the Crown (cf. Vavasseur). Notable people with the surname include:

• Didier Vavasseur (born 1961), French sprint canoer
• François Vavasseur (1605–1681), French Jesuit humanist and controversialist
• Henry Vavasseur, British entrepreneur who discovered how to make desiccated coconut in 1888
• Josiah Vavasseur (1834–1908), English industrialist
• Sophie Vavasseur (born 1992), Irish actress

• Vavasseur mounting, for artillery and machine guns
• Vavasour (disambiguation)
• Vavasour (surname)