City

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

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 Hill, Pennsylvania
  • 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)
  • Lafayette Renaissance Charter High

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
  • Fayette (disambiguation)
  • Fayette County (disambiguation)
  • Fayette Township (disambiguation)
  • West Lafayette
  • Sigmund Neuberger (1871–1911) illusionist under the stage name "The Great Lafayette"
  • Fayetteville (disambiguation)
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