Lemaître

Lemaître, Lemaitre, Le Maitre, or variation, is a French surname meaning "the master" – derived from the Latin word "magister".

Notable people with the surname include:

Lemaître

 * Anne Lemaître (born 1957) Belgian applied mathematician
 * Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), French actor and playwright
 * Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer, who formulated the "Big Bang" theory of cosmologic origin of the physical universe.
 * 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 uncrewed spacecraft
 * Jules Lemaître (1853–1914), French critic and dramatist
 * Maurice Lemaître (1928-2018), French painter
 * Jean Lemaître (mechanical engineer) (1898-1974), Belgian mechanical engineer, who developed a steam locomotive exhaust

Lemaitre

 * Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990), French sprinter
 * Pierre Lemaitre (born 1951), a French author and a screenwriter
 * Rafael Lemaitre, French carcinologist

LeMaitre/Le Maitre

 * George D. LeMaitre (1933–2018), American vascular surgeon
 * LeMaitre Vascular, company founded by the surgeon in 1986
 * Jade Le Maître (fl. 2010s), a roboticist