Lazare Explained

Lazare is the French and Georgian form of the given name Lazarus, which is itself derived from the Hebrew name Eleazar. It is also a surname.

Lazare may refer to:

Given name

• Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547), French diplomat and humanist
• Lazare Bruandet (1755–1803), French landscape painter
• Lazare Carnot (1753–1823), French mathematician, physicist and politician known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (1801–1888), French politician, son of the above
• Lazare Escarguel (1816–1893), French politician and newspaper editor
• Lazare Gianessi (1925–2009), French footballer
• Lazare Hoche (1768–1797), French general
• Lazare Kupatadze (born 1996), Georgian football player
• Lazare Lévy (1882–1964), French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue
• Lazare Ponticelli (1897–2008), last surviving French veteran of the First World War
• Lazare Saminsky (1882–1959), Russian performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music
• Lazare Sèhouéto (born 1963), Beninese politician
• Lazare Weiller (1858–1928), French engineer, industrialist and politician

Surname

• Bernard Lazare (1865–1903), French literary critic, political journalist, anarchist and polemist
• Emmanuel Mzumbo Lazare (1864–1929), African-Trinidadian lawyer and social activist
• Jean Thierry Lazare (born 1998), Ivorian footballer
• Mylène Lazare (born 1987), French swimmer

Stage name

• Lars Nedland (born 1976), known as Lazare, Norwegian musician and co-founder of the metal band Solefald