Lemaître, Lemaitre, Le Maitre, or variation, is a French surname meaning "the master" – derived from the Latin word "magister".
Notable people with the surname include:
Lemaître
- Anne Lemaître (born 1957) Belgian applied mathematician
- Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), French actor and playwright
- Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer, who formulated the "Big Bang" theory of cosmologic origin of the physical universe.
- Named for Georges Lemaître:
- Lemaître (crater), an impact crater on the Moon
- 1565 Lemaître, a minor planet
- the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
- the Lemaître metric
- the Lemaître–Tolman metric
- Lemaitre (band), Norwegian indie electronic band
- Georges Lemaître ATV, an uncrewed spacecraft
- Named for Georges Lemaître:
- Jules Lemaître (1853–1914), French critic and dramatist
- Maurice Lemaître (1928–2018), French painter
- Jean Lemaître (mechanical engineer) (1898–1974), Belgian mechanical engineer, who developed a steam locomotive exhaust
Lemaitre
- Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990), French sprinter
- Pierre Lemaitre (born 1951), a French author and a screenwriter
- Rafael Lemaitre, French carcinologist
LeMaitre/Le Maitre
- George D. LeMaitre (1933–2018), American vascular surgeon
- LeMaitre Vascular, company founded by the surgeon in 1986
- Jade Le Maître (fl. 2010s), a roboticist
See also
- Lemaitre (band), Norwegian indie electronic duo
Look up lemaître in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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- Maitre (surname)
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