What is "calmette"

Calmette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette (1752–1803), Danish governor and landscape architect
• Albert Calmette ForMemRS (1863–1933), French physician, bacteriologist, immunologist, officer of the Pasteur Institute
• Gaston Calmette (1858–1914), French journalist
• Jean Calmette (1692–1740), French Jesuit missionary in South India, Indologist