| Lestrade-et-Thouels | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Arrondissement: | Millau |
| Canton: | Raspes et Lévezou |
| Insee: | 12129 |
| Postal Code: | 12430 |
| Party: | LR |
| Mayor: | Bernard Castanier[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Coordinates: | 44.0603°N 2.6603°W |
| Elevation M: | 720 |
| Elevation Min M: | 315 |
| Elevation Max M: | 803 |
| Area Km2: | 42.27 |
Lestrade-et-Thouels (in French pronounced as /lɛstʁad e twɛl/; Occitan (post 1500);: L'Estrada e Toels) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.
The village of Lestrade-et-Thouels is considered as a possible origin of the family name "Lestrade", made famous through the character Inspector Lestrade who appears in numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle is known to have given the fictional inspector the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. The ancestry of Joseph Lestrade is not sufficiently known to establish a certain link between him and the French village.