Carnot

Carnot may refer to:

People

• Carnot Posey (1818–1863), American lawyer and military officer

People with the surname

• Lazare Carnot (1753-1823), French mathematician and politician of the French Revolution
• Louis Carnot (born 2001), French French footballer
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832), French military scientist and physicist; son of Lazare Carnot
• Hippolyte Carnot (1801-1888), French politician; son of Lazare Carnot
• Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), French politician; President of France from 1887 to 1894 and son of Hippolyte Carnot
• Marie-Adolphe Carnot (1839-1920), French mining engineer and chemist; son of Hippolyte Carnot
• Paul Carnot (1869-1957), French physician; son of Marie-Adolphe Carnot
• Stéphane Carnot (born 1972), former French footballer

Places

• Carnot, Central African Republic, a city
• Carnot, Wisconsin, United States
• Carnot-Moon, Pennsylvania, United States

Other uses

• Carnot cycle, in thermodynamics
• Carnot heat engine, an idealised thermodynamic engine based on the Carnot cycle
• Carnot (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
• French battleship Carnot

See also

• Carnot's theorem (disambiguation)
• Carnotite, a mineral
• Lycée Carnot, a school in Paris
• Karnaugh