Lefebvre ([ləfɛvʁ]) is a common northern French surname. Other variations include Lefèbvre, Lefèvre, Lefeuvre (western France) and Lefébure (northern France and Normandy).
In the Occitan and Arpitan extension area, the variation is Fabre, Favre, Faure, Favret, Favrette or Dufaure and in Corsica Fabri (cf. Italian Fabbri, Fabri). In Celtic speaking Britanny, the name is Le Goff(ic), with the article le to translate Breton ar.
For Anglophone pronunciation purposes, the name has evolved, especially in the United States and Anglophone regions of Canada mainly by Acadians, among whom it is also a common surname, to LaFave, LeFave, Lefever and Lafevre, as well as other variant spellings. The English surname Feaver is also derived from Lefebvre. (See Lefèvre for more.)
The name derives from faber, the Latin word for "craftsman", "worker" used in Late Latin in Gaul to mean smith. Many northern French surnames (especially in Normandy) are used with the definite masculine article as a prefix (Lefebvre, Lefèvre; a more archaic spelling is Le Febvre), with the partitive article as a prefix (Dufaure) in the south of France, or without article/prefix (Favre, Faure) in the south of France, but the meaning is the same.
It may refer to:
Alain Lefebvre (born 1947), French journalist
Arlette Lefebvre (born 1947), Canadian child psychologist
Arthur H. Lefebvre (1923–2003), research engineer and scientist
Bill Lefebvre (1915–2007), American baseball player, coach, and scout
Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843–1917), French composer
Claude Lefebvre (artist) (1633–1675), French painter and engraver
Claude Lefebvre (handballer) (born 1952), former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
Claude Lefebvre (ice hockey) (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Clement Lefebvre, founder of Linux Mint
Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
Émile Lefebvre, French playwright
Eugène Lefebvre (1878–1909), French aviator, the second person ever to be killed in airplane crash
François Joseph Lefebvre (1755–1820), French marshal during Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Gdańsk
Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French historian
Germaine Lefebvre (1933–1990), French actress professionally known as Capucine
Guillaume Lefebvre (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
Gustave Lefebvre (1879–1957), French Egyptologist
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French philosopher, sociologist, and intellectual
Jean Lefebvre (1922–2004), French actor
Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (1732-1809), French physician, philologist, and translator
Jim Lefebvre (born 1942), American baseball player
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), French painter
Kristine Lefebvre, American lawyer and contestant on The Apprentice
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (1751–1821), French actress, dancer, and singer
Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991), excommunicated French Catholic archbishop
René Lefebvre (1879–1944), French factory-owner, active in the French Resistance
Roland Lefebvre (born 1963), Dutch cricket player
Sébastien Lefebvre, French-Canadian musician
Sylvain Lefebvre (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
Vladimir Lefebvre, American mathematician
André Lefèbvre (1894–1964), French automobile engineer
Hippolyte-Jules Lefèbvre (1863–1935), French sculptor
Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc (1698–1772), French playwright
Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes (or Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes; 1773–1822), French peer and general
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