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{{Infobox surname
| name = Carpentier
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| pronunciation = Kar' pen ti ar
| meaning = worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
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| variant = [[Carpenter (surname)]], [[Zimmermann (disambiguation)|Zimmermann]], [[Zimerman]], [[Zimmerman (disambiguation)|Zimmerman]], [[Charpentier]]
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}}

'''Carpentier''' is a [[Normandy|Norman]]-[[Picardy|Picard]] surname,<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Carpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Carpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref> variant form of French [[Charpentier]]<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Charpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Charpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref> and is similar to the English [[Carpenter]], that is borrowed from Norman. In [[Basse Normandie]], the most common form is Lecarpentier.<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Lecarpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Lecarpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref>

The words ''carpentier, charpentier, carpenter'' are ultimately from [[Late Latin]]; ''{{lang|la|carpentarius}}'' "artifex" or "wainwright", equivalent to [[Latin]] ''{{lang|la|carpent(um)}}'' "two wheeled carriage" ( < Celtic (Gaulish) ''*{{lang|cel-x-proto|carbanton}}''; cf. OIr ''{{lang|sga|carpad}}'' "chariot") + suffix ''-arius'' - ARY; see ER2.<ref>Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.</ref>

Carpentier may refer to:

==Notable people==
* [[Alain Carpentier]] (born 1933), French heart surgeon
* [[Alejo Carpentier]] (1904–1980), Cuban writer and musicologist
* [[Alexandra Carpentier]] (born 1987), French mathematical statistician
* [[Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier]] (1709–1773), French architect
* [[Brett Carpentier]] (born 1975), Canadian snowboarder
* [[Charles Francis Carpentier]] (1896–1964), American politician
* [[Donald Dee Carpentier]] (1931–1982), American businessman and politician
* [[Édouard Carpentier]] (1926–2010), French wrestler
* [[Évariste Carpentier]] (1845–1922), Belgian painter
* [[Georges Carpentier]] (1894–1975), French boxer
* [[Gervais Carpentier]], Canadian brigadier general
* [[Horace Carpentier]] (1824–1918), American lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, California
* [[Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier]] (1719–1829) French political activist from Normandy
* [[Jean Carpentier]] (1933–2018), French historian
* [[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), French TV producer couple
* [[Patrice Carpentier]] (born 1950), French sailor
* [[Patrick Carpentier]] (born 1971), Canadian race car driver
* [[Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier]] (1787–1877), French portrait, genre, history painter and author
* [[Pieter de Carpentier]] (c. 1586–1659), Dutch or Flemish administrator of the Dutch East India Company
* [[Prudent Carpentier]] (1922–2019), Canadian politician
* [[William Carpentier]] (born 1935/36), Canadian-American physician

==Fictional characters==
* Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's ''[[Inferno (Niven and Pournelle novel)|Inferno (novel)]]''

==See also==
{{Wiktionary|carpentier}}
* {{lookfrom|Carpentier}}
* {{intitle|Carpentier}}
{{Carpenter-surname}}
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==References==
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