Lafayette

Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to:

People

* General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette ("initially Marquis de Lafayette until June 1790 when he abolished and permanently renounced his noble title"), French general and revolutionary
* Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette ("Madame de Lafayette"), French author
* James Lafayette was the pseudonym of James Stack Lauder, a Victorian society and royal photographer.
* L. Ron Hubbard (full name Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) founder of the Church of Scientology, as well as author of Dianetics and the body of works comprising Scientology doctrine.
*“The Great Lafayette”, the stage name of illusionist Sigmund Neuberger

United States geography

* Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia
* La Fayette, Alabama
* La Fayette, Illinois
* LaFayette, Georgia
* LaFayette, Kentucky
* LaFayette, New York
* Lafayette, California
* Lafayette Square, Los Angeles, California
* Lafayette, Colorado
* Lafayette, Indiana
* Lafayette, Louisiana (The largest Lafayette in the United States)
* Lafayette, Minnesota
* Lafayette, Ohio
* Lafayette, Oregon
* Lafayette, Tennessee
* Lafayette, Wisconsin
* Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania
* Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
* Lake Lafayette, Missouri
* Mount Lafayette, in New Hampshire
* West Lafayette, Indiana
* West Lafayette, Ohio

United States education

* Lafayette College, independent, undergraduate, coeducational, residential institution
* Lafayette High School (Buffalo), the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building
* Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky), public high school located in Lexington, Kentucky
* Lafayette High School (Louisiana), high school located in Lafayette, Louisiana
* Lafayette High School (New York City), large secondary school located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York
* Lafayette High School (Red Lake Falls, Minnesota), high school located in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota.
* Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Missouri), Rockwood School District secondary school in Wildwood, Missouri
* Lafayette High School (Williamsburg, Virginia), public secondary school in James City County, Virginia
* University of Louisiana at Lafayette, undergraduate and graduate, residential institution

Military

* "La Fayette" (R96), 11,000-ton "Independence"-class aircraft carrier (formerly USS "Langley")
* "La Fayette" (F710), French stealth frigate, lead ship of
** "La Fayette"-class frigate, a class of French frigates
* USS "Lafayette" (SSBN-616), a US submarine, lead ship of
** "Lafayette"-class submarine, a class of US submarine
* Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron of the French Air Service, during World War I composed largely of American pilots

Other

* "La Fayette" (film), also known as "Lafayette", a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
* Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, Starfleet officer and the main character of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
* Galeries Lafayette, a French department store
* LaFayette Motors, United States automobile producer from the 1910s to the 1940s
* Lafayette Radio, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981
* Lafayette Roughnecks, a now-defunct 2001 af2 expansion team
* Lafayette Afro Rock Band, famous French/American funk orchestrer
* Lafayette Blues, a song by The White Stripes.
* Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
* Lafayette (band), an instrumental post-rock band based in Denver, Colorado
* Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, creator of Scientology.

ee also

* Fayette
* Fayetteville