Carpentier

For other uses, see Carpentier (disambiguation).

Carpentier
Family name
Pronunciation	Kar' pen ti ar
Meaning	worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Related names	Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Charpentier

Carpentier is a surname from the old French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter.

Origin: [900-1000] Charpentier - Old French < Late Latin; carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2. Carpentier was a surname in France at least as early as 1549, when Marin Carpentier of Brix, France was mentioned in Gilles, Sire de Gouberville's journal of country life in Normandy.

• A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.

Carpentier may refer to:

Real people

• Alain Carpentier (born 1933) French heart surgeon
• Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) Cuban writer and musicologist
• Charles F. Carpentier (1896-1964), American politician
• Édouard Carpentier (1926-2010) French professional wrestler
• Évariste Carpentier (1845-1922) Belgian painter
• Georges Carpentier (1894–1975) French boxer
• Horace Carpentier (1824–1918) lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, California
• Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1719-1829) French political activist from Normandy
• Jules Carpentier (1851–1921) French engineer and inventor
• Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977) French military officer
• Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (1886–1965) French painter and sculptor
• Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier (Maritie 1922–2002, Gilbert 1920–2000), married French TV producers
• Patrick Carpentier (born 1971) Canadian race car driver
• Pieter de Carpentier (c. 1586–1659) Dutch or Flemish administrator of the Dutch East India Company
• Prudent Carpentier (born 1922) Canadian politician

Fictional characters

• Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Carpentier"
• All pages with titles containing Carpentier