# Comte

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'''''Comte''''' is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word "count" (Latin: ''comes''); '''''comté''''' is the Gallo-Romance form of the word "county" (Latin: ''comitatus'').

'''Comte''' or '''Comté''' may refer to:
* ''Comte'', French for a [count](/source/count) (i.e. the nobleman)
* ''Comté'', a [county](/source/county) in France (territory ruled by a count)
* [La Comté](/source/La_Comt%C3%A9), a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France
* [Comté cheese](/source/Comt%C3%A9_cheese), a cheese from Franche-Comté, eastern France 

==People with the surname==
* [Alfred Comte](/source/Alfred_Comte) (1895–1965), Swiss aviation pioneer
* [Auguste Comte](/source/Auguste_Comte) (1798–1857), French philosopher
* [Charles Comte](/source/Charles_Comte) (1782–1837), French lawyer, journalist and political writer
* [Claudine le Comte](/source/Claudine_le_Comte) (born 1950), Belgian fencer
* [Fabienne Comte](/source/Fabienne_Comte), French statistician
* [Fernando Compte](/source/Fernando_Compte) (1930–2013), founder and first president of the International Sambo Federation
* [Ferran Soriano](/source/Ferran_Soriano) i Compte (born 1967), Spanish CEO of various football clubs, including Manchester City F.C.
* [Harry Comte](/source/Harry_Comte) (1909—1945), Australian rules footballer
* [Louis Comte](/source/Louis_Comte) (1788–1859), French magician
* [Maurice Compte](/source/Maurice_Compte) (born 1969), American actor
* [Pere Compte](/source/Pere_Compte) (died 1506), Spanish Catalan architect
* [Raphaël Comte](/source/Rapha%C3%ABl_Comte) (born 1979), Swiss politician

==See also==
* {{look from}}
* [Vicomte](/source/Vicomte), the French equivalent of a viscount 
* [Franche-Comté](/source/Franche-Comt%C3%A9), a traditional province of eastern France
* [Conde (disambiguation)](/source/Conde_(disambiguation)), the Spanish, Portuguese and Galician term for ''Count''
* [Conte (disambiguation)](/source/Conte_(disambiguation)), the Italian term for ''Count''
* [Le Compte (disambiguation)](/source/Le_Compte_(disambiguation))

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