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Lambert is an incorporated town in Alfalfa County in north-central Oklahoma, named after Ambrose Lambert, who owned the original townsite.

Lambert lies in the Cherokee Outlet, opened to settlement by land run in 1893; it was part of Woods County until Alfalfa County was created at statehood in 1907.

The Choctaw Northern Railway, later part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, reached Lambert in 1901 as the first railroad built in the county, and Lambert's post office opened on November 21, 1901.

By 1909 Lambert had 127 inhabitants and boasted four churches, a hotel, a bank, a grain elevator, two grain buyers, and about a half-dozen stores.

Lambert's population peaked at 130 in the 1920 census and then declined in nearly every decade that followed.

The 2020 census counted just 5 residents in Lambert, making it one of the smallest incorporated towns in Oklahoma.

The town covers only about 0.1 square mile and sits directly beside the similar tiny community of Yewed, which adjoins it on the east.

In the 2000 census, Lambert's entire population of nine people lived in four households, all of them families.

Harold Keith, who won the 1958 Newbery Medal and was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 after a long career as the University of Oklahoma's sports director, was born in Lambert on April 8, 1903.

Lambert remained an incorporated town into the twenty-first century even as its population fell into single digits.