Dumont (surname)

Dumont is a French surname, which may refer to:

People

• Allen B. DuMont, American inventor, industrialist, and pioneer in the early years of television
• Bruno Dumont (born 1958), French motion picture director (of polemic La Vie de Jésus fame)
• Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix (1758–1830), French zoologist
• Ebenezer Dumont (1814-1871), U.S. Representative from Indiana; general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Éric Dumont (sailor) (born 1961), French yachtsman
• Fernand Dumont (1927–1997), sociologist, poet and writer from Québec, Canada
• Gabriel Dumont (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
• Gabriel Dumont (Métis leader) (1837–1906), Canadian indigenous leader of the Métis people
• Henri Dumont (1610–1684), French musician and composer
• Ivy Dumont (born 1930), governor-general of the Bahamas
• Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian professional ice hockey forward
• José Dumont (born 1950), Brazilian TV and movie actor
• Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), French naval officer and explorer
• Julia Louisa Dumont (1794-1857), American educator and writer
• Léon Dumont (1837-1877), French psychologist and philosopher
• Louis Dumont (anthropologist) (1911–1998), French sociologist and anthropologist
• Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), American actress
• Mario Dumont (born 1970), Canadian politician from Québec
• Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (1759–1829), French/Swiss political writer
• René Dumont (1904–2001), French agronomist, sociologist and scientist
• Stéphane Dumont (born 1982), French footballer
• Tom Dumont, lead guitarist of third wave ska band No Doubt
• Yvon Dumont (born 1951], Former Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.(1993-1999)

See also

• Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer and inventor
• Éric Dumont-Baltet, French horticulturalist

In fiction

• Jethro Dumont, pulp magazine character as The Green Lama
• Giles Dumont, boy who turns into a 'werefox' in The Werefox