Raoul Le Mat

{{Short description|French-American film director (1875–1947)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Raoul Le Mat

| image = Raoul Le Mat.jpg

| caption = Raoul Le Mat coaching Team Sweden at the 1920 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Antwerp, Belgium

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1875|9|3}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1947|2|15|1875|9|3}}

| death_place = Panama City, Panama

| nationality = American

| other_names =

| occupation = Film director, ice hockey coach

| years_active =

| known_for = Introducing ice hockey to Sweden

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}}

Raoul Le Mat (September 3, 1875 – February 15, 1947){{cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=PERSON&itemid=58215 |title=Raoul Le Mat |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |work=Filmdatabasen |language=Swedish |accessdate=January 17, 2009}} was a French-American film director, and ice hockey coach, most famous for introducing ice hockey in Sweden during the early 1920s.{{cite web | title=A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey – Le | publisher=AZhockey.com | url=http://www.azhockey.com/Le.htm | accessdate=March 17, 2007 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527135902/http://www.azhockey.com/Le.htm | archivedate=May 27, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}

Together with Ernest Viberg and Thomas Cahill, Le Mat introduced ice hockey in Sweden, and coached the Swedish national team in their first international tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. He was also the founding member of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association. When the first Swedish Championship in ice hockey was played in 1922, Le Mat refereed the final game.{{cite web | title=Nu börjar jakten på Le Mat | publisher=Hockeyligan.se | language=Swedish | url=http://www.hockeyligan.se/rinkside.php?nid=10958 | accessdate=March 17, 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070321103244/http://www.hockeyligan.se/rinkside.php?nid=10958 |archivedate = March 21, 2007}}

The Swedish Hockey League's Le Mat Trophy is named after Le Mat and was donated by him, with the monetary support of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in 1926.