Lafayette

Lafayette or La Fayette may refer to:

People

• Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French general and American Revolutionary War general
• Lafayette (name), a list of people with the surname Lafayette or La Fayette or the given name

Places in the United States

• La Fayette, 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, Madison County, Ohio, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Oregon, a city
• Lafayette, Tennessee, a city
• Lafayette, Virginia, a census-designated place
• Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a town
• Lafayette River, entirely in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
• Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire
• Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, Rhode Island; on the National Register of Historic Places
• Lafayette Reservoir, Contra Costa County, California
• Lafayette County (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Township (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Hill (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Park (disambiguation)
• Lafayette Square (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

• Lafayette, a Basset Hound in the animated films Aristocats and Aristocats 2
• 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

Schools

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

Military

• USS Lafayette, three US Navy ships
• Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
• La Fayette (R96), a French aircraft carrier, formerly the USS Langley (CVL-27)
• La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
  • La Fayette (F710), a French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class
• Fort Lafayette, a coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor

Transportation

• Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Brooklyn, a New York City Subway station
• Lafayette, Indiana (Amtrak station)
• Lafayette, Louisiana (Amtrak station)

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

Buildings

• Lafayette Building (disambiguation), four buildings in the United States
• Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Lafayette Theatre (disambiguation), three theatres in New York

Other

• Lafayette Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota
• La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
• "Lafayette" (song), a jazz standard
• Lafayette Stakes, an annual American Thoroughbred horse race in Lexington, Kentucky
• Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
• 23244 Lafayette, a main-belt minor planet
• Lafayette meteorite, a nakhlite Martian meteorite

See also

• 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
• Fayette (disambiguation)
• Fayette County (disambiguation)
• Fayette Township (disambiguation)
• Fayetteville (disambiguation)
• West Lafayette