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Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to:

People

Surname

• General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French general and American Revolutionary War general
• Adrienne de La Fayette (1759–1807), wife of the marquis de Lafayette
• Bernard Lafayette (born 1940), American civil rights activist and organizer
• Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779–1849), son of marquis de Lafayette
• Ivan Lafayette (born 1930), longtime member of the New York State Assembly (1977-2008)
• James Armistead Lafayette (circa 1760 – 1830), aka James Armistead, African-American Revolutionary War spy
• Louise de La Fayette (1618–1665), maid-of-honor to Anne of Austria
• Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (1634–1693), French author better known as Madame de La Fayette
• Nathan LaFayette (born 1973), former National Hockey League player

First name

• Lafayette C. Baker (1826-1868), American investigator and Union spy during the American Civil War; promoted to brigadier general for his part in apprehending Lincoln's assassins
• Lafayette Bunnell (1824–1903), American physician, explorer and author
• LaFayette Emmett (1822-1905), American lawyer, second attorney general of the Minnesota Territory and first chief justice of the state supreme court
• Lafayette S. Foster (1806-1880), American senator from Connecticut and Connecticut Supreme Court judge
• Lafayette Guild (1826-1870), United States Army and Confederate States Army surgeon; pioneer in the study of yellow fever
• Lafayette Head (1825-1897), Colorado legislator and first Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
• Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911–1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author and founder of Scientology
• Lafayette Lane (1842-1896), Representative from Oregon
• LaFayette Fayette McMullen (1805-1880), American politician and banker; Virginia state senator, member of both the U.S. and Confederate House of Representatives, and Territorial Governor of Washington
• Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897), Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Lafayette Mendel (1872-1935), American biochemist
• Lafayette Lever, also known as "Fat Lever", former professional basketball player
• Lafayette Russell (1905-1978), college and National Football League running back
• Lafayette Young (1848-1926), newspaper reporter and editor, and briefly Republican Senator from Iowa

Pseudonym

• James Lafayette, pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923), Irish portrait photographer
• "The Great Lafayette," stage name of illusionist Sigmund Neuberger (1871–1911)

Places in the United States

• La Fayette, Alabama, a city
• Lafayette, California, a city
• Lafayette, Colorado, a Home Rule Municipality
• LaFayette, Georgia, a city
• La Fayette, Illinois, a village
• Lafayette, Indiana metropolitan area
• Lafayette, Indiana, a city
• LaFayette, Kentucky, a town
• Lafayette, Louisiana metropolitan area
• Lafayette, Louisiana, a city
  • Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
• Lafayette, Minnesota, a city
• LaFayette, New York, a town
• Lafayette, Ohio, a village
• Lafayette, Madison County, Ohio, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Oregon, a city
• Lafayette, Tennessee, a city
• Lafayette, Virginia, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette River, entirely in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
• Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire
• Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, Rhode Island; on the National Register of Historic Places
• Lafayette Reservoir, Contra Costa County, California
• Lafayette County (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Township (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Hill (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Park (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Square (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

• Lafayette, a Basset Hound in the animated films Aristocats and Aristocats 2
• Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series
• Lafayette O'Leary, the protagonist in four Keith Laumer science fiction novels

Schools

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette, undergraduate and graduate, residential institution
• Lafayette College, private coeducational college in Easton, Pennsylvania
• Lafayette High School (Buffalo), the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building
• Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky), public high school
• Lafayette High School (Louisiana), Lafayette, Louisiana
• Lafayette High School (New York City), in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn
• Lafayette High School (Wildwood), Rockwood School District secondary school in Wildwood, Missouri
• Lafayette High School (Williamsburg, Virginia), public secondary school

Military

• La Fayette (R96), formerly the USS Langley (CVL-27)
• La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
  • La Fayette (F710), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class
• USS Lafayette, three US Navy ships
• Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
• Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots
• Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War I
• Fort Lafayette, a coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor

Transportation

New York City Subway stations

• Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Brooklyn
• Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line), Manhattan

Train stations

• Lafayette, Indiana (Amtrak station)
• Lafayette, Louisiana (Amtrak station)

Businesses

• Galeries Lafayette, a French department store chain
• LaFayette Motors, United States automobile manufacturer from the 1910s to the 1940s
• Lafayette Radio, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981

Buildings

• Lafayette Building (disambiguation), four buildings in the United States
• Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Lafayette Theatre (disambiguation), three theatres in New York

Other

• Lafayette Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota
• La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
• Lafayette Stakes, an annual American Thoroughred horse in Lexington, Kentucky
• Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
• Lafayette meteorite, a nakhlite Martian meteorite
• 23244 Lafayette, a main-belt minor planet

See also

• Fayette (disambiguation)
• Fayette County (disambiguation)
• Fayette Township (disambiguation)
• Fayetteville (disambiguation)
• West Lafayette