Laure Hayman (12 June 1851 - 22 April 1940) was a French sculptor, salonnière, and demi-mondaine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Paris.

[2] She had Belgian, French, Creole and English ancestry,[2] and was descended from the painter Francis Hayman (1708–1776),[3] Thomas Gainsborough's teacher.

[10] The following month, Laure Hayman and her partner, living at the same address, had a second son out of wedlock, named Jean Baptiste Albert Henri.

[14] The only one she was said to have really loved was Prince Alexis Karageorgevich,[14] head of the senior branch of the House of Karađorđević and pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Eugénie Buffet stated that Hayman spent "a good part of her time and leisure getting angry and making up with her most fervent adorer".

Under the name Laure Eymann, she is described by the vice squad detectives as: It is said that she is not without infidelities with M. de Pansey, and that she is even trying at the moment to have intimate relations with the Duke Hamilton, in order to obtain from him a rather large sum of money which she needs.

"[18] Hayman held a salon at her small Parisian town house at 4, rue La Pérouse, which was considered one of the most brilliant of the time.

[22] Proust's last letter to Laure Hayman, "considered to be a unique document provided by the writer on [...] Odette de Crécy", was sold for 4,000 francs.

[23] To coincide with the sale, the collection Lettres et vers à Mesdames Laure Hayman et Louisa de Mornand was published.

[25] In October 1888, Laure Hayman gave a copy to Marcel Proust, bound in the silk of one of her petticoats and inscribed with a warning: "Never meet a Gladys Harvey.

[30] In 1936, at an auction at the Hôtel Drouot, Laure Hayman sold off part of her estate, which included some of her sculptures, as well as furniture and objets d'art.