Lamont (name)

Lamont (/ˈlæmʌnt/ (listen), sometimes listen ),[1] also spelt LaMont (listen ), is a surname with several different origins, one Scottish and Northern Irish, the other in French.

  • In some cases the surname originates in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The name is derived from the medieval personal name Lagman which is from the Old Norse Logmaðr. The Old Norse name Logmaðr is composed to two elements: log which is plural of lag meaning "law" (from leggja meaning "to lay down") + maðr meaning "man."[2]
  • In some cases the surname originates in France. In this case Lamont or LaMont is a habitational name derived from several different places called Amont (meaning upstream or uphill) in Haute-Saône and Haute-Vienne.[2]

People with the last name Lamont or LaMont

People with the given name Lamont or LaMont
  • Lamont Bentley (1973-2005), American actor and rapper
  • Lamont Brightful (born 1979), American football player
  • Lamont Bryan (born 1988), German-born Jamaica international rugby player
  • Lamont Coleman (1974-1999), American rapper known professionally as Big L
  • Lamont Dozier (born 1941), American singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Lamont Gaillard (born 1996), American football player
  • Lamont Hawkins a.k.a. U-God, American rapper and member of New York hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan
  • Lamont Hollinquest (born 1970), American football player
  • Lamont Johnson (1922-2010), American actor and film director
  • LaMont Johnson (1941-1999), American jazz pianist
  • LaMont Jordan (born 1978), American football player and coach
  • Lamont Pearson (born 1971), American boxer
  • Lamont Peterson (born 1984), American boxer
  • Lamont Reese (1977-2006), American convicted murderer
  • Lamont Reid (born 1982), American football player
  • Lamont Sanford, fictional character portrayed by Redd Foxx on the 1972-1977 sitcom Sanford and Son
  • LaMont Smith (born 1972), American Olympic athlete
  • Lamont Strothers (born 1968), American basketball player
  • Lamont Thompson (born 1978), American football player
  • Lamont Warren (born 1973), American football player
  • Lamont Young (1851-1880), Australian assistant geological surveyor for the New South Wales Mines Department
  • Lamont Young (Naples) (1851-1929), Italian architect and urban planner
  • Duncan Lamont Clinch (1787-1849), American army officer
  • Harold Lamont Otey (1951-1994), American convicted murderer
  • Marianne Lamont Horinko (born 1961), worked in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the first term of George W. Bush

Fictional characters
  • Lamont Cranston, mysterious hero of the popular 1930s radio drama The Shadow

See also
  • Lamonte (disambiguation)

References
  1. Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland (1993 ed.). Edinburgh: New York Public Library/Birlinn. p. 413. ISBN 1-874744-07-6. In the belief that the name (Lamond, Lammond, Lamont) is of French origin it is commonly mispronounced Lamont' in the United States. Lam'ont is the correct way.
  2. Lamont Name Meaning and Origin Retrieved on 2008-01-25
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