title: Chalon (surname)
text: # Chalon (surname)
  
  Chalon is a surname, and may refer to:
  
  * Alfred Edward Chalon (1780–1860), Swiss portrait painter
  * Anna Chalon, French singer-songwriter
  * Christina Chalon (1748-1808), Dutch artist
  * Frédéric Chalon (fl. 1801–1821), French musician
  * Henry Bernard Chalon (1770–1849), English painter and lithographer
  * John James Chalon (1778–1854), Swiss painter
  * Jean Chalon (born 1935), French writer, winner of the 1994 Prix Marcel Proust
  
  Chalon's meaning is derived from Old English "chaloun", meaning blanket. The word comes from Châlons-sur-Marne, which was an industrial producer of blankets and is currently called Châlons-en-Champagne
  
  