Lafayette

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Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 United States geography 3 United States education 4 Military 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] People

• General Lafayette ("initially Marquis de Lafayette until June 1790 when he abolished and permanently renounced nobility 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.

[edit] 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 US)
• 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

See also: Lafayette County and Lafayette Township

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Fayette
• Fayetteville