Lafayette

Lafayette or La Fayette may refer to:

People

• Lafayette (name), a list of people with the surname Lafayette or La Fayette or the given name Lafayette
• House of La Fayette, a French noble family
  • Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French general and American Revolutionary War general also prominent in the French Revolution
• Sigmund Neuberger (1871–1911), German-born American illusionist under the stage name "The Great Lafayette"

Places

United States

• LaFayette, Alabama, a city
• Lafayette, California, a city
• Lafayette, Colorado, a home rule municipality
• LaFayette, Georgia, a city
• La Fayette, Illinois, a village
• Lafayette, Indiana metropolitan area
• Lafayette, Indiana, a city
• LaFayette, Kentucky, a town
• Lafayette, Louisiana metropolitan area
• Lafayette, Louisiana, a city
  • Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
• Lafayette, Minnesota, a city
• LaFayette, New York, a town
• Lafayette, Ohio, a village
• Lafayette, Madison County, Ohio, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Oregon, a city
• Lafayette, Tennessee, a city
• Lafayette, Virginia, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
• Faubourg Lafayette, Louisiana, a division in the city of New Orleans
• Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire
• Lafayette County (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Park (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Reservoir, Contra Costa County, California
• Lafayette River, entirely in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
• Lafayette Square (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Township (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, Rhode Island; on the National Register of Historic Places

Other countries

• Lafayette (Tunis), a district of Tunis, Tunisia

Arts and entertainment

• La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian co-production starring Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
• "Lafayette (We Hear You Calling)", a 1918 World War I song composed by Mary Earl (Robert A. King)
• Lafayette, a Basset Hound in the animated film Aristocats
• Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series
• Lafayette O'Leary, the protagonist in four Keith Laumer science fiction novels

Buildings

• Lafayette Building (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Hotel (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Theatre (disambiguation)

Businesses

• Galeries Lafayette, a French department store chain
• LaFayette Motors, United States automobile manufacturer from the 1910s to the 1940s
• Lafayette Radio Electronics, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981
• Lafayette (restaurant), a former French restaurant in New York City

Military

• USS Lafayette, three US Navy ships
• Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
• French aircraft carrier La Fayette, a French aircraft carrier, formerly USS Langley (CVL-27)
• La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
  • French frigate La Fayette, a French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class
• Fort Lafayette, a coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor
• Brigade La Fayette, also named Task Force La Fayette, a joint unit of the French forces in Afghanistan
• Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots
• Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War I

Schools

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Lafayette College, a private coeducational college in Easton, Pennsylvania
  • Lafayette Leopards, Lafayette College's sports teams
• Lafayette High School (disambiguation)

Transportation

• Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Brooklyn, a New York City Subway station
• Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street (New York City Subway) Manhattan
• Lafayette station (Indiana), an Amtrak station in Lafayette, Indiana
• Lafayette station (Louisiana), an Amtrak station in Lafayette, Louisiana
• Lafayette station (BART) is BART station in Lafayette, California
• Lafayette Square station, Buffalo, New York, Metro Rail station
• Lafayette Regional Airport Lafayette, Louisiana
• Lafayette Street a street in lower Manhattan, New York City
• Lafayette Boulevard a street in Detroit, Michigan
• Lafayette Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in St Paul, Minnesota
• Rue La Fayette a street in Paris, France
• SS Lafayette, a shipwreck in Lake Superior, United States
• SS Mexique, a French ocean liner that was called Lafayette from 1915 until 1928

Other uses

• Lafayette Cemetery, a defunct cemetery in Philadelphia
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, a cemetery in New Orleans
• Lafayette Stakes, an annual American Thoroughbred horse race in Lexington, Kentucky
• 23244 Lafayette, a main-belt minor planet
• Lafayette meteorite, a nakhlite Martian meteorite

See also

• Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
• West Lafayette
• Fayette (disambiguation)