Lambert Explained

Lambert may refer to

People

• Lambert (name), a given name and surname
• Lambert, Bishop of Ostia (–1130), became Pope Honorius II
• Lambert, Margrave of Tuscany (fl. 929–931), also count and duke of Lucca
• Lambert (pianist), stage-name of German pianist and composer Paul Lambert
• Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), polymath

Places

United States

• Lambert, Mississippi, a town
• Lambert, Missouri, a village
• St. Louis Lambert International Airport, 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), 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), 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, mathematical definition of a product log named after Johann Heinrich Lambert
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion, a 1952 Disney animated short film directed by Jack Hannah

See also

• Foot-lambert, an American customary unit of luminance named after Johann Heinrich Lambert
• Lambert projection (disambiguation), a series of geographic map projections named after Johann Heinrich Lambert
• Saint-Lambert (disambiguation)
• Lambrecht (disambiguation)