Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Adrien Lemaire Adrien Lemaire (23 October 1852, in Senones – 23 October 1902, in Nancy) was a French botanist. He received his medical doctorate in March 1882 and his degree in natural sciences in July 1886. In 1887 he became a professor of natural history at ...

(1852–1902), French botanist *

Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire Alfred Jean-Baptiste Lemaire (15 January 1842 – 24 February 1907) was a French military musician and composer. He is known for teaching in the music department of Dar ul-Funun during the reign of King Nasser-al-Din Shah, and for composing the f ...

, French military musician *

Axelle Lemaire Axelle Lemaire (born 18 October 1974) is a French former Socialist politician who served as a Deputy for the Third constituency for French overseas residents in the National Assembly of the French Parliament, for which she was elected in 2012. ...

, (born 1974), French politician *

Bernard Lemaire Bernard Lemaire (May 6, 1936 – November 8, 2023) was a Canadian businessman. He was the Chairman of the Board of Cascades Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of packaging products, tissue products, and fine papers products. Biography Born in Dru ...

(born 1936), Canadian businessman * (1946-2009), French civil servant (prefect) *

Bruno Le Maire Bruno Le Maire (; born 15 April 1969) is a French politician and former diplomat who has served as Minister of the Economy and Finance since 2017 under President Emmanuel Macron. A former member of The Republicans (LR), which he left in 2017 to ...

(born 1969), French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing *

Christophe Lemaire Christophe Patrice Lemaire (Japanese:, born 20 May 1979) is a French-born jockey. He has enjoyed much of his success on the Japanese flat racing circuit, with the most wins at Japan Racing Association racetracks for five consecutive years sinc ...

(full name Christophe Patrice Lemaire, born 1979), French-born jockey *

Charles LeMaire Charles LeMaire (April 22, 1897 – June 8, 1985) was an American costume designer. He was born in Chicago. LeMaire's early career was as a vaudeville performer, but he became a costume designer for such Broadway productions as ''Ziegfeld Folli ...

(1897–1985), American costume designer *

Charles Lemaire (explorer) Charles Lemaire (26 March 1863 – 21 January 1926) was a Belgian officer and explorer of Central Africa. He was known for his voyages of discovery and the detailed reports he wrote of his expeditions and his time as an official in the Congo Free ...

, Belgian explorer of the

Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo (french: Congo belge, ; nl, Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964. Colo ...

Charles Antoine Lemaire Charles Antoine Lemaire (1 November 1800, in Paris – 22 June 1871, in Paris), was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae. Education Born the son of Antoine Charles Lemaire and Marie Jeanne Davio, he ha ...

(1800–1871), French botanist and botanical author * Denise Lemaire (born 1956), former Canadian handball player *

Edward LeMaire Edward LeMaire (October 26, 1924 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater who competed in pairs and men's singles. In pairs, he won the junior title at the United States Figure Skating Championships in 1942 and won a bronze medal in se ...

(died 1961), American figure skater * Géry Lemaire (1928-2013), Belgian orchestra conductor and orthodox priest *

Ghislain Lemaire Ghislain Lemaire (born 7 August 1972 in Lure, Haute-Saône Lure () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. At 8,207 inhabitants (2017), Lure is the third most populous town in t ...

(born 1972), French judoka * Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624), merchant for the

Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock co ...

Jacob Le Maire Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controvers ...

(1585–1616), Dutch explorer and discoverer of

Cape Horn Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez ...

Jacques Gerard Lemaire Jacques Gerard Lemaire (born September 7, 1945) is a Canadians, Canadian former ice hockey Forward (ice hockey), forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey League ...

(born 1945), former ice hockey centre and former coach of the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League *

Jean Lemaire de Belges Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473c. 1525) was a Walloon poet and historian, and pamphleteer who, writing in French, was the last and one of the best of the school of poetic 'rhétoriqueurs' (“rhetoricians”) and the chief forerunner, both in style ...

(c. 1473 – c. 1525), Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France *

Jean-Marie Lemaire Jean-Marie Lemaire (born 15 June 1936) is a retired Belgian rower. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della ...

(born 1936), Belgian Olympic rower *

Madeleine Lemaire Madeleine Lemaire, ''née'' Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was ''The Empress of the Roses''. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to ...

(1845–1928), French painter *

Maximiliaan le Maire Maximiliaan le Maire (February 28, 1606 in Amsterdam – c. 1654 in prob. Batavia) was a merchant/trader and official of the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' or VOC).Historigraphical Institute (Shiryō hensan-jo), Uni ...

(1606–1654), Dutch officer for the

Paulin Lemaire Paulin Alexandre Lemaire (18 December 1882 in Maubeuge – 17 October 1932) was a French gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication ...

(born 1882 - died ?), French gymnast *

Philema Lemaire Philema Lemaire (7 July 1856 in Verberie, Oise, France – 6 May 1932 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France) was a French politician. He was Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire. Philema Lemaire, a member of Art ...

(1856–1932), French politician and a Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire *

Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (9 January 1798, Valenciennes - 2 August 1880, Paris) was a French sculptor, working in a neoclassical academic style. Life and career He was a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, and won the Prix de Rome for sculpture i ...

(1798–1880), French sculptor *

Robert Lemaire Robert Lemaire (23 July 1916 – 27 June 1994) was a Belgian chess player, Belgian Chess Championships winner (1950). Biography From the mid-1940s to end of 1950s Robert Lemaire was one of Belgium's leading chess players. He was a multiple medal ...

(1916–1994), Belgian chess master *

Tabitha Lemaire Tabitha () is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Saint Tabitha, mentioned in the New Testament. In the Bible Tabitha or Dorcas is a woman mentioned in the New Testament. The English name is derived from an ...

(born 1977), French-Canadian singer *

Aimée Bologne-Lemaire Aimée Bologne-Lemaire (6 January 1904 – 20 December 1998) was a Belgian feminist, member of the resistance, and Walloon activist. Estelle Aimée Lemaire was born into a middle-class family in Saint-Gilles, Belgium. Her father was a lawyer ...

(1904–1998), Belgian feminist, member of the Resistance, and Walloon activist *

Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (August 28, 1789 in Paris – August 9, 1861 in Paris) was a French journalist. Biography Towards the end of the First French Empire, First Empire he was proprietor of the ''Journal de la littérature et d ...

(1789–1861), French journalist

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