# 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
* Sigmund Neuberger (1871–1911), German-born American illusionist under the stage name "The Great Lafayette"

## 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 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)

## 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