Lafont

Lafont is a Southern French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alban Lafont (born 1999), Ivorian football player
• Bernadette Lafont (1938–2013), French actress, mother of Pauline
• Bruno Lafont (born 1956), French businessman
• Charles Philippe Lafont (1781–1839), French violinist and composer
• Cristina Lafont (born 1963), American philosopher
• Dominique Lafont (born 1961), French businessperson
• Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 1945), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana
• Ernest Lafont (1879–1946), French socialist politician
• Eugène Lafont (1837–1908), Belgian Jesuit, Missionary in Bengal, scientist and founder of the first Scientific Society in India
• Henri Lafont (1902–1944), head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II
• Jean-Philippe Lafont (born 1951), French baritone
• Joseph de La Font (1686-1725), French playwright
• Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont (1825–1908), French naval officer, Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 1879
• Marcelle Lafont (1905–1982) chemist, chemical engineer, member of the French Resistance and politician
• Marie-Zélia Lafont (born 1987), French canoeist
• Maurice Lafont (1927–2005), French football player
• Pauline Lafont (1963–1988), French actress
• Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797–1873), French actor
• Robèrt Lafont (born 1923), French linguist, author, historian, expert in literature, political theoretician
• Sophie de Lafont (1717–1797), Russian educator

See also

• Laffont (disambiguation)
• Fontaine (disambiguation)
• Font (disambiguation)