Lambert may refer to

People

Lambert (name) Lambert is an English and French given name and surname. It is from the Low German form of the Anthroponymy, anthroponymic name ''Landberht'' from the Old High German ''land'' "(home) land" and ''beraht'' "bright". It is one of the most common Fren ...

, a given name and surname * Lambert, Bishop of Ostia (–1130), became Pope Honorius II * Lambert, Margrave of Tuscany (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

929–931), also count and duke of Lucca * Lambert (pianist), stage-name of German pianist and composer Paul Lambert *

Johann Heinrich Lambert Johann Heinrich Lambert (; ; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse, at that time allied to the Switzerland, Swiss Confederacy, who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, phys ...

(1728–1777), polymath

Places

United States

* Lambert, Mississippi, a town * Lambert, Missouri, a village *

St. Louis Lambert International Airport St. Louis Lambert International Airport is the primary international airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in the st ...

, St. Louis, Missouri * Lambert, Montana, a rural town in Montana * Lambert, Oklahoma, a town * Lambert Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota * Lambert Castle, a mansion in Paterson, New Jersey * Lambert Creek, San Mateo County, California

Elsewhere

* Lambert Gravitational Centre, the geographical centre of Australia *

Lambert (lunar crater) Lambert is a lunar impact crater on the southern half of the Mare Imbrium basin. It was named after Swiss polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert. It lies to the east and somewhat south of the slightly larger crater Timocharis. To the south is the sm ...

, named after Johann Heinrich Lambert * Lambert (Martian crater), named after Johann Heinrich Lambert

Transportation

* Lambert (automobile), a defunct American automobile brand * Lambert (cyclecar), British three-wheeled cyclecar *''Lambert'', one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Trafalgar before 1901

Other uses

Lambert (unit) The lambert (symbol L) is a non- SI metric unit of luminance named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer. A related unit of luminance, the foot-lambert, is used in the lighting, cinema and fligh ...

, a non-SI unit of luminance named after Johann Heinrich Lambert * Lambert (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger * ''Lambert'' v. ''California'', court case regarding legal notice *

Lambert W function In mathematics, the Lambert function, also called the omega function or product logarithm, is a multivalued function, namely the Branch point, branches of the converse relation of the function , where is any complex number and is the expone ...

, mathematical definition of a product log named after Johann Heinrich Lambert * ''

Lambert the Sheepish Lion ''Lambert the Sheepish Lion'' is a Disney animated short film that was released in 1952. It was directed by Jack Hannah. Plot A stork (the same stork from '' Dumbo'') delivers a flock of newborn lambs to their expectant mothers, but finds ...