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

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* 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

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* Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990), French sprinter
* Pierre Lemaitre (born 1951), a French author and a screenwriter
* Rafael Lemaitre, French carcinologist

## LeMaitre/Le Maitre

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* 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

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* Lemaitre (band), Norwegian indie electronic duo

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