Lemaître

Lemaître or Lemaitre is a French surname meaning "the master" – derived from the Latin word "magister". Notable people with the surname include:

Lemaître:

• Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), French actor and playwright
• Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer.
  • 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 unmanned spacecraft
• Jules Lemaître (1853–1914), French critic and dramatist
• Jean Lemaître, Belgian mechanical engineer, who developed a steam locomotive exhaust

Lemaitre:

• Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990), French sprinter
• Rafael Lemaitre, French carcinologist