Lemaire

Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname which may refer to:

• Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire, a French military musician
• Bernard Lemaire (born 1936), a Canadian businessman
• Bruno Le Maire (born 1969), French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing.
• Christophe Lemaire (full name Christophe Patrice Lemaire, born 1979), a French-born jockey
• Charles LeMaire (1897–1985), an American costume designer
• Charles Lemaire (explorer), a Belgian explorer of the Belgian Congo.
• Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), a French botanist and botanical author
• Denise Lemaire (born 1956), a former Canadian handball player
• Edward LeMaire (died 1961), an American figure skater
• Géry Lemaire Belgian orchestra conductor
• Ghislain Lemaire (born 1972), a French judoka
• Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624), merchant for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie.
• Jacob Le Maire (1585–1616), Dutch explorer and discoverer of Cape Horn.
• Jacques Gerard Lemaire (born 1945), a former ice hockey centre and former coach of the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League
• Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473 – c. 1525), a Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France
• Maximiliaan le Maire (1606–1654), Dutch officer for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
• Paulin Lemaire (born 1882 - died ?) a French gymnast
• Philema Lemaire (1856–1932), a French politician and a Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire
• Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (1798–1880), French sculptor

• Aimée Bologne-Lemaire (1904–1998), a Belgian feminist, member of the Resistance, and Walloon activist
• Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (1789–1861), French journalist

See also

• Lemaire Channel, a strait off Antarctica, named after Charles Lemaire (explorer)
• Le Maire Strait, a strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados, named after Jacob Le Maire