Lemaître

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
• Delphine Philippe-Lemaître, (1798–1863), French historian, archaeologist, botanist
• 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
• 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

• Le Maistre (surname)
• Maitre (surname)