Lafayette

Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to:

People

• General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French general and American Revolutionary War general
• Adrienne de La Fayette (1759–1807), wife of marquis de Lafayette
• Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779–1849), son of marquis de Lafayette
• Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), French author
• Louise de La Fayette (1618–1665), maid-of-honor to Anne of Austria
• Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911–1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author and founder of Scientology
• James Armistead Lafayette (circa 1760 – 1830), aka James Armistead, African-American Revolutionary War spy
• James Lafayette, pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923), a late Victorian and Edwardian portrait photographer
• Lafayette Lever, also known as "Fat Lever", former professional basketball player
• "The Great Lafayette," stage name of illusionist Sigmund Neuberger (1871–1911)

United States geography

• Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia
• La Fayette, Alabama
• Lafayette, California
• Lafayette, Colorado
• LaFayette, Georgia
• La Fayette, Illinois
• Lafayette, Indiana
• LaFayette, Kentucky
• Lafayette, Louisiana
• Lafayette, Minnesota
• LaFayette, New York
• Lafayette, Ohio, a village in Allen County
• Lafayette, Madison County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Lafayette, Oregon
• Lafayette, Tennessee
• Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
• Lake Lafayette, Missouri
• Mount Lafayette, in New Hampshire
• West Lafayette, Indiana
• West Lafayette, Ohio

See also: Lafayette County (disambiguation), Lafayette Township (disambiguation), Lafayette Hill (disambiguation), Lafayette Park (disambiguation), and Lafayette Square (disambiguation)

Fictional Character

• Lafayette, a Basset Hound in Aristocats and Aristocats 2
• Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood

United States education

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

Military

• La Fayette (R96), 11,000-ton Independence-class aircraft carrier, formerly USS Langley (CVL-27)
• La Fayette (F710), French stealth frigate, lead ship of
  • La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
• USS Lafayette, (disambiguation page)
• Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
• Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron of the French Air Service, during World War I composed largely of American pilots

New York City Subway stations

• Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), in Brooklyn; serving the A C trains
• Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line), Manhattan; serving the B D F M trains

Amtrak stations

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

Other

• Lafayette Apartment Building (Washington, D.C.), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
• Galeries Lafayette, a French department store chain
• LaFayette Motors, United States automobile producer from the 1910s to the 1940s
• Lafayette Radio, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981
• Lafayette Roughnecks, a now-defunct 2001 af2 expansion team
• Lafayette Afro Rock Band, famous French/American funk orchestrer
• Lafayette Blues, a song by The White Stripes
• Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
• Lafayette Reynolds, a character in the TV series True Blood

See also

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