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 (1842–1907), French military musician
• Axelle Lemaire (born 1974), French politician
• Bernard Lemaire (1936–2023), Canadian businessman
• Bernard Lemaire (prefect)  [ fr ] (1946-2009), French civil servant (prefect)
• Bruno Le Maire (born 1969), French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing
• Christophe Lemaire (full name Christophe Patrice Lemaire, born 1979), French-born jockey
• Christophe Lemaire (born 1964), French fashion designer
• Charles LeMaire (1897–1985), American costume designer
• Charles Lemaire (explorer), Belgian explorer of the Belgian Congo
• Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), French botanist and botanical author
• Denise Lemaire (born 1956), former Canadian handball player
• Didier Lemaire (born 1975), French politician
• Edward LeMaire (died 1961), American figure skater
• Ghislain Lemaire (born 1972), French judoka
• Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624), merchant for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
• Jacob Le Maire (1585–1616), Dutch explorer and discoverer of Cape Horn
• Jacques Gerard Lemaire (born 1945), former ice hockey centre and former coach of the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League
• Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473–c. 1525), Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France
• Jean-Marie Lemaire (1936–2012), Belgian Olympic rower
• Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928), French painter
• Maximiliaan le Maire (1606–1654), Dutch officer for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
• Paulin Lemaire (1882–1932), French gymnast
• Philema Lemaire (1856–1932), French politician and a Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire
• Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (1798–1880), French sculptor
• Robert Lemaire (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
• Louis Marie Lemaire (1824–1910), French painter

See also

• Lemaire Channel, a strait off Antarctica, named after Charles Lemaire
• Le Maire Strait, a strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados, named after Jacob Le Maire

Surname list

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