Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrien Lemaire (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 at the music department of Dar ul-Funun (Persia), Dar ul-Funun during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, an ...

(1842–1907), 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 ...

(1936–2023), Canadian businessman * (1946-2009), French civil servant (prefect) *

Bruno Le Maire Bruno Le Maire (; born 15 April 1969) is a French politician, writer, and former diplomat who served as Economy and Finance Minister from 2017 to 2024 under President Emmanuel Macron. A former member of The Republicans (LR), which he left in ...

(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 sin ...

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

(born 1964), French fashion designer *

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 Fol ...

(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 (, ; ) was a Belgian colonial empire, Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Repu ...

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 *

Didier Lemaire Didier Lemaire (born 23 July 1975) is a French politician. As a member of Horizons, he was elected member of parliament for Haut-Rhin's 3rd constituency in the 2022 French legislative election. References External links Pageat the Fr ...

(born 1975), French politician * Edward LeMaire (died 1961), American figure skater *

Ghislain Lemaire Ghislain Lemaire (born 7 August 1972 in Lure, Haute-Saône) is a French judoka is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed inter ...

(born 1972), French judoka *

Isaac Le Maire Isaac Le Maire (c. 1558 in Antwerp – September 20, 1624 in Egmond aan den Hoef) was a Dutch entrepreneur, investor, and a sizeable shareholder of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He is best known for his constant strife with the VOC, ...

(1558–1624), merchant for the

Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie The United East India Company ( ; VOC ), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Neth ...

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 contro ...

(1585–1616), Dutch explorer and discoverer of

Cape Horn Cape Horn (, ) 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 is Águila Islet), Cape Horn marks the nor ...

Jacques Gerard Lemaire Jacques Gérard 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 Leagu ...

(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, 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 a ...

(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 in the double sculls event, with Gérard Higny Gérard Higny (20 August 1931 – 7 February 1997) was a Belgian rower. He compete ...

(1936–2012), 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 (28 February 1606 in Amsterdam – c. 1654 in prob. Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia) was a merchant/trader and official of the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' or VOC).Historigraphical Institu ...

(1606–1654), Dutch officer for the

Paulin Lemaire Paulin Alexandre Lemaire (18 December 1882 – 17 October 1932) was a French gymnast who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1908 Summer Olympics, and the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of ...

(1882–1932), French gymnast *

Philema Lemaire Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, also known as 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 Co ...

(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 ...

(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 meda ...

(1916–1994), Belgian chess master * Aimée Bologne-Lemaire (1904–1998), Belgian feminist, member of the Resistance, and Walloon activist * Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (1789–1861), French journalist

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