La Perouse

La Perouse, La Pérouse, or Lapérouse may refer to:

Places

• La Pérouse, French exonym for Perugia in Italy
• La Pérouse, old name of city of Tamentfoust, Algiers
• La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
• La Perouse (New Zealand), a mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
• La Perouse Bay, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
• La Perouse Bay, a bay on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in Chile
• La Pérouse Strait, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido

People

• Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788), a French naval officer and explorer

Ships

Named for the comte de Lapérouse:

• CMA CGM Lapérouse, a French cargo ship launched in 2010
• Lapérouse-class cruiser, a group of four wooden-hulled unprotected cruisers of the French Navy built in the mid-1870s and early 1880s
  • French cruiser Lapérouse, a French Navy cruiser launched at Brest in 1877
• Lapérouse-class survey ship, a class of hydrographic survey ships in the French Navy
  • French ship Lapérouse (A791), a French Navy serving ship of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, launched at Brest in 1988

Other uses

• Lapérouse (restaurant), restaurant in Paris
• Lycée Français de San Francisco, previously Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language school based in San Francisco, California