Lafont is a

Southern French Meridional French (), also referred to as Francitan (a portmanteau of and ), is the regional variant of the French language spoken in the area of Marseille, Avignon and Toulouse. It is influenced by the Occitan language. There are speakers of M ...

surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Alban Lafont Alban Marc Lafont (born 23 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos, on loan from club Nantes. Born in Burkina Faso, he represents France at international level. Having progr ...

(born 1999), Burkinabé-born French football player *

Bernadette Lafont Bernadette Lafont (; 28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 feature films. She has been considered "the face of French New Wave". In 1999 she told ''The New York Times'' her work was "the motor of my e ...

(1938–2013), French actress, mother of Pauline *

Bruno Lafont Bruno Lafont (born 8 June 1956) is a French businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of Lafarge from 2006 to 2015, when it merged with Holcim to become LafargeHolcim. He served as the co-chairman of LafargeHolcim from 2015 to April ...

(born 1956), French businessman *

Charles Philippe Lafont Charles Philippe Lafont (1 December 178123 August 1839) was a French violinist and composer. He has been characterized as one of the most eminent violinists of the French school.See Family Tree, under External links Biography Born in Paris, he re ...

(1781–1839), French violinist and composer *

Cristina Lafont Cristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Biography Lafont graduated ‘cum laude' with a Licenciatura in philosophy from the Universidad de Valencia in 1987. From there, she moved to ...

(born 1963), American philosopher *

Dominique Lafont Dominique Lafont (born March 29, 1961), is a French corporate leader. In 2006, he became Managing Director for Africa in the Bolloré Group. On January 1, 2012, he was named President oBolloré Africa Logistics, the Group subsidiary combining all ...

(born 1961), French businessperson * Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 1945), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana * Ernest Lafont (1879–1946), French socialist politician * Eugène Lafont (1837–1908), Belgian Jesuit, Missionary in Bengal, scientist and founder of the first Scientific Society in India *

Henri Lafont Henri Lafont (born Henri Chamberlin, 22 April 1902 – 26 December 1944) was an underworld figure who headed the '' Carlingue'', French auxiliaries for the German security services, during the German occupation of France in World War II. He w ...

(1902–1944), head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II *

Jean-Philippe Lafont Jean-Philippe Lafont (born 11 February 1951) is a French baritone. He studied in his native city of Toulouse and later at the Opéra-Studio in Paris. He made his operatic debut as Papageno in ''The Magic Flute'' at the Salle Favart, Paris in 1974. ...

(born 1951), French baritone *

Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont (24 April 1825 – 31 January 1908) was a French naval officer who was Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 1879. He joined the navy at the age of sixteen, rose steadily through the ranks, and served in Vietnam, ...

(1825–1908), French naval officer, Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 1879 *

Marcelle Lafont Marcelle Lafont (23 November 1905 - 8 October 1982) was a chemist, chemical engineer, member of the French Resistance and later a politician. Born into the successful bourgeois Lafont family (owners of the Adolphe Lafont company) she broke with t ...

(1905–1982) chemist, chemical engineer, member of the French Resistance and politician *

Marie-Zélia Lafont Marie-Zélia Lafont (born 9 January 1987) is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2003. She won two medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, with a gold in 2018 and a bronze ...

(born 1987), French canoeist * Maurice Lafont (1927–2005), French football player *

Pauline Lafont Pauline Lafont (6 April 196311 August 1988) was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, a Hungarian sculptor. Born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking acc ...

(1963–1988), French actress * Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797–1873), French actor *

Robèrt Lafont Robèrt Lafont (; March 16, 1923 in Nîmes – June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robe ...

(born 1923), French linguist, author, historian, expert in literature, political theoretician *

Sophie de Lafont Sophie de Lafont, née ''Dubuisson'', also called ''Sofia Ivanovna Lafont'' (August 1717 – August 1797) was a Russian pedagogue of French descent. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1764–1797. Life Lafont ...

(1717–1797), Russian educator

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