Motte (surname)

Motte, la Motte, de la Motte, and LaMotte are French surnames. The Portuguese and Spanish version is Mota, and the Italian version is Motta. Notable people with the surname include:

• Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731), French author
• August de la Motte (1713–1788), Hanoverian general
• Benjamin Motte (1693–1738), English publisher
• Benjamin Motte Sr. (died 1710), English publisher
• Bernard Lamotte (1903–1983), French artist
• Camille du Bois de la Motte (fl. 1789), French marchioness
• Capucine Motte (born 1971), Belgian writer
• Clarence Petersen de la Motte (1892–?), Australian sailor
• Diether de la Motte (1928–2010), German musician, composer, music theorist, and academic teacher
• Edme Joachim Bourdois de La Motte (1754–1835), French doctor
• Ellen N. La Motte (1873–1961), American nurse, journalist and author
• Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983), Belgian priest and indologist
• François Henri de la Motte (died 1781), French army officer
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), German writer
• Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1698–1774), French-Prussian lieutenant general
• Henri-Paul Motte (1846–1922), French painter
• Isaac Motte (1738–1795), American statesman
• Jason Motte (born 1982), American baseball player
• Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (1648–1717), French mystic
• Lisa de la Motte (born 1985), Swazi swimmer
• Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), American actress
• Nathaniel Motte (born 1984), American recording artist
• Nicholas de la Motte (1755–1831), French nobleman
• Pierre Lambert de la Motte (1624–1679), French bishop
• Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720–1791), French admiral
• Tyler Motte (born 1995), American ice hockey player