Lamar (surname)
Lamar, Lamarr or slight variations thereof is a surname of French origins.
Notable people with the name include:
- Adriana Lamar (1908–1946), Mexican film actress
- Ann Hannaford Lamar (born 1952), American judge, Mississippi Supreme Court associate justice
- Barbara La Marr (1896–1926), American actress
- Bill Lamar (1897–1970), American baseball player
- Bo Lamar (1951–2026), American basketball player
- Burney Lamar (born 1980), American race car driver
- Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar (1825–1865), American businessman, investor in the second last slave ship to bring slaves to America, and Confederate officer
- Charles LaMarr, manager of the Chambers Brothers from the late 1960s to early 1970s
- Chuck LaMar (born 1956), American baseball executive, first general manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Dave Lamar (born 1992), Filipino singer, songwriter, record producer, and director
- Dorothy Blount Lamar, conservative American activist
- Dequantes Lamar (1989–2024), American rapper known professionally as Rich Homie Quan
- Gazaway Bugg Lamar (1798–1874), steamboat pioneer, Wall Street banker, Confederate supporter
- Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austrian actress and inventor
- Henry Lamar (American football) (1906–1985), American boxing and football coach
- Henry Graybill Lamar (1798–1861), American politician and judge
- Holly Lamar, American country music singer and songwriter
- Hortensia Lamar (1888–1967), Cuban feminist
- Howard R. Lamar (1923–2023), American historian
- J. Robert Lamar (1866–1923), American politician
- Jason Lamar (born 1978), American football player
- John Basil Lamar (1812–1878), American politician
- Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857–1916), American judge, United States Supreme Court justice
- Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), American hip hop recording artist
- Leah Lamarr (born 1988), American comedian
- Lin Lamar (born 2002), American influencer, streamer, and OnlyFans model known professionally as Pinkchyu
- Lindsey Lamar (born 1990), American football player
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar I (1797–1834), American judge
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (1825–1893), American politician, United States Supreme Court justice
- Luke Short (1854–1893), American Old West gunfighter, cowboy, U.S. Army scout, dispatch rider, gambler
- Mark Lamarr (born 1967), British comedian
- Mary Ann Lamar (1818–1889), American civic leader
- Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), Texan politician, second president of the Republic of Texas
- Phil LaMarr (born 1967), American comedian
- Tillie Lamar (1865–1891), American college football player
- Tre Lamar (born 1996), American football player
- William Bailey Lamar (1853–1928), American politician
- William H. Lamar (1853–1928), American lawyer and government officeholder
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