Lefebvre

Lefebvre is a common northern French surname. Other variations include Lefèbvre, Lefèvre, Lefeuvre (western France) and Lefébure (northern France and Normandy).

In the Occitan and Arpitan extension area, the variation is Fabre, Favre, Faure, Favret, Favrette or Dufaure and in Corsica Fabri (cf. Italian Fabbri, Fabri). In Celtic-speaking Brittany, the corresponding name is Le Goff(ic), with the article le to translate Breton ar.

For Anglophone pronunciation purposes, the name has evolved, especially in the United States and Anglophone regions of Canada mainly by Acadians, among whom it is also a common surname, to LaFave, LeFave, Lefever and Lafevre, as well as other variant spellings. The English surname Feaver is also derived from Lefebvre. (See Lefèvre for more.)

The name derives from faber, the Latin word for "craftsman", "worker"; used in Late Latin in Gaul to mean smith. Many northern French surnames (especially in Normandy) are used with the definite masculine article as a prefix (Lefebvre, Lefèvre; a more archaic spelling is Le Febvre), with the contracted masculine article as a prefix (Dufaure) in the south of France, or without article/prefix (Favre, Faure) in the south of France, but the meaning is the same.

Lefebvre

 * Alain Lefebvre (born 1947), French journalist
 * Arlette Lefebvre (born 1947), Canadian child psychologist
 * Arthur H. Lefebvre (1923–2003), research engineer and scientist
 * Benny Lefebvre (1912–1994), American athlete and sports coach
 * Bernard Lefebvre (1929-1999), Canadian surgeon and director of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
 * Bill Lefebvre (1915–2007), American baseball player, coach, and scout
 * Camille Lefebvre (1831–1895), French Catholic missionary
 * Catherine Lefebvre (curler) (born 1959), French curler
 * Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843–1917), French composer
 * Claude Lefebvre (artist) (1633–1675), French painter and engraver
 * Claude Lefebvre (handballer) (born 1952), former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
 * Claude Lefebvre (ice hockey) (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Canadian politician from Quebec
 * Émile Lefebvre, French playwright
 * Éric Lefebvre (born 1971), Canadian politician from Quebec
 * Eugène Lefebvre (1878–1909), French aviator, second person to be killed in an airplane crash
 * François Joseph Lefebvre (1755–1820), French marshal during Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Gdańsk
 * Frédéric Lefebvre (born 1963), French politician
 * Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French historian
 * Germaine Lefebvre (1933–1990), French actress professionally known as Capucine
 * Guillaume Lefebvre (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Gustave Lefebvre (1879–1957), French Egyptologist
 * Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French philosopher, sociologist, and intellectual
 * Jean Lefebvre (1922–2004), French actor
 * Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (1732-1809), French physician, philologist, and translator
 * Jim Lefebvre (born 1942), American baseball player
 * Joe Lefebvre (born 1956), American baseball player
 * Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), French painter
 * Kristine Lefebvre, American lawyer and contestant on The Apprentice
 * Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (1751–1821), French actress, dancer, and singer
 * Ludo Lefebvre (born 1971), French chef
 * Loïc Lefebvre (born 1976), French chef
 * Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991), French Catholic archbishop
 * René Lefebvre (1879–1944), French factory owner, active in the Resistance, father of Marcel
 * Roland Lefebvre (born 1963), Dutch cricket player
 * Sébastien Lefebvre, French-Canadian musician
 * Ségolène Lefebvre (born 1993), French boxer
 * Stéphane Lefebvre (born 1992), French rally driver
 * Sylvain Lefebvre (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Tim Lefebvre (born 1968), American musician
 * Vladimir Lefebvre, American mathematician

Lefèbvre

 * André Lefèbvre (1894–1964), French automobile engineer
 * Hippolyte-Jules Lefèbvre (1863–1935), French sculptor
 * Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (1892–1973), French Catholic archbishop

Le Febvre

 * Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc (1698–1772), French playwright

Combined with other surnames

 * Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes (or Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes; 1773–1822), French peer and general